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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you so much, everyone!
And very special thanks to:
Chris Jester-Young, gnibbler, and dmckee for their invaluable contributions to the site, particularly in its formative years. We wouldn't be ...
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
(Ignoring badge requirements)
I would run. I fundamentally disagree with many of Stack Exchange's policies. And, should I run and on the off-chance, actually get elected, I would not endorse all of ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you all for the votes
I look forward to working for y'all as a moderator here, continuing my on-going efforts to keep the site clean! It is unfortunate that lyxal missed out, as I'm sure they ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you to everybody here! I really enjoyed my last 5 years here, and I'm so glad that PPCG has finally graduated! Our site is in excellent hands, and I look forward to seeing what the dream team ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Congrats to @AlexA. @MartinBüttner @Doorknob and @Dennis !!!
Really it was a forgone conclusion that you guys won and I am very happy with this result - our community remains in the hands of 4 ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I'm PhiNotPi. Nomination post.
A challenge by a new user is posted, and it quickly receives a fair amount of downvotes (and potentially even close votes), because it has some specs that we ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I'm DJMcMayhem. My nomination
A challenge by a new user is posted, and it quickly receives a fair amount of downvotes (and potentially even close votes), because it has some specs that we ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Wheat Wizard
How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?
There are many users who produce ...
Wheat WizardMod
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
What would you do in this situation as moderator?
A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many
answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction that invalidates
most of ...
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Discussion on the upcoming moderator elections (Sep 2020)
I think this is needed
Since the last poll the site seems to have experienced a die off and the start of a rebound. (I believe that)1 we have had moderation issues that are to be expected with one ...
Wheat WizardMod
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
All I can say is
Congratulations to our new moderators!
I‘m sure that you will all do a wonderful job, and I look forward to seeing the site improve under your moderation!
It’s a shame I missed out, ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you very much and congratulations to Wheat Wizard and Jo King as well! I look forward to working with both of you and Doorknob to regulate and improve this site and I am honored to have been ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
A big part of moderation on this site is deleting invalid or non-competitive answers. It easily makes up more than half of the total work that needs to be done. Since this is site specific, none of ...
Wheat WizardMod
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Martin Büttner
A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction that invalidates most of the existing answers. An experienced ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Alex A.
A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction that invalidates most of the existing answers. An experienced user ...
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16
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Moderators must sign an agreement whose terms include:
i. I will abide by the current Code of Conduct (which is a part of this agreement), and enforce it to the best of my ability.
...
iv. I will ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
One of the biggest difficulties for moderators and high-rep users is to distinguish certain posts from being in-scope or not. There are three critical elements of the PPCG.SE scope, namely the three ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Jo King
How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?
Users should be treated the same, ...
Jo KingMod
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14
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
What is the threshold for using your mod-hammer vs. letting the community take care of issues?
In other words, will you be mostly laissez-faire with posts and let the close/delete vote system sort out ...
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14
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January 2020 Moderator Election — Community Interest Check
I would run. However, if I am elected, I'll step down. I don't think it is right to replace Mego and Dennis, who are clearly better candidates than me.
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
A not insignificant portion of the site's active users participate in chat, especially The Nineteenth Byte. While we do have elected Room Owners for TNB, moderators have greater powers in chat than ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Imagine the following scenario:
A challenge by a new user is posted, and it quickly receives a fair amount of downvotes (and potentially even close votes), because it has some specs that we dislike....
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Moderation schedule
How active of a moderator will you be? What times will you generally be around to offer help when a moderator is needed? How much time do you expect you'll be able to spend on ...
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2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Dennis
A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction that invalidates most of the existing answers. An experienced user ...
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11
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Let's say that a new user comes to the site and posts a question with some problems. For example, either a challenge missing some specifications, or overruling default rules that we like to have on ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Community Consensus
Given the recent debates surrounding "baseline" answers, how do you feel you will balance the following, in general?
guiding the community consensus,
building the community ...
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So what happens now?
I think PhiNotPi would make a fantastic mod, but we're a graduated site now so if at some point there arises a need for an extra moderator, I'd be very surprised if that didn't involve an official ...
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