Conversation started Mar 18, 2014 at 12:37.
gnat
gnat
Mar 18, 2014 12:37
@jmac we need to elect moderators ASAP, at least 4 of them. I think part of the problem is we are like regular SE community, but we don't yet have enough guys with explicit community mandate to evaluate content in accordance with community norms and lead/follow/enforce respective meta discussions and decisions. Pressure from hot list remains the same as prior to graduation (curses to SE team) but moderating power hasn't been recovered yet
jmac
jmac
@gnat I sincerely doubt we will get 4 new moderators.
gnat
gnat
@jmac we need 4 total. If these are going to be two new guys, along with be jmort and Jim, that will be okay
jmac
jmac
@gnat We have 4, theoretically speaking I think. Nick C is a mod, right? As is Oded? Or do they not count?
gnat
gnat
@jmac Oded does not count in any way, he does a similar garbage collection at Programmers, using privileges of SE dev (and his knowledge of site topics), but he is not an elected moderator, neither here nor there
he's actually a great help in this regard, we (and Programmers) are just lucky to have an extra guy at our side
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Q: Moderators Pro Tempore, just like mamma used to make 'em

Shog9Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community to act as temporary, provisional Moderators. You can read about the program here: Moderators Pro...

discussion moderation moderators
if memory serves pro-tem mods need to go through elections after graduation
whatever, I think we need 4 fully-involved, elected moderators, enabled by a community "vote" to evaluate content per site community norms, not just slavishly apply bland generic network-wide recipes (that actually work well only on Stack Overflow)
need mods like those at Programmers, who clearly and strongly play by site community rules
 
Conversation ended Mar 18, 2014 at 12:49.