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enderland

Mar 31, 2014 20:05

best of luck to all the candidates!

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CMW

Apr 8, 2014 20:08

Congratulations to Monica, jmort and jmac!

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jmort253

Apr 2, 2014 02:49

just don't be a jerk, and you win in life...

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Shog9

Apr 1, 2014 18:02

@enderland This is true. You should definitely not vote for me.

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Chad

Mar 31, 2014 22:01

@NickC Thank you for helping us get here. I hope we will see you around from time to time. Hopefully with a little more time to chat, and enjoy the site more than working it.

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user55340

Mar 31, 2014 01:15

Now I've gotta go get 150 rep so that I can vote for the only candidate that answered my question...

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gnat

Mar 30, 2014 14:48

Jim is in, woo hoo. Things seems to be getting hot

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RhysW

Mar 29, 2014 08:43

Yay jmorts nominated himself!

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user55340

Mar 28, 2014 23:56

Ok, question for moderator candidates: Can you draw seven perpendicular red lines, some with red ink, some with green ink and some with transparent ink? And maybe... can you make one of the lines look like a kitten?

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Monica Cellio

Mar 28, 2014 15:08

I do hope @jmort253 decides to run too.

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Chad

Mar 27, 2014 14:27

@enderland Disappointing but I understand. Nick has been here since day 1, weathered some pretty troubled times and helped us get here. great respect for all he has done

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Monica Cellio

Mar 25, 2014 16:09

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Q: Current moderators: please tell us about the job

As experienced job-seekers (and regular readers at The Workplace) know, an interview is a two-way street. Just as it's important for the community to ask questions of candidates, it's also important for those candidates to have answers about key parts of the job. Sometimes the best answers come...

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Grace Note

Mar 24, 2014 17:30

Welcome all! This room is intended as a place to converse with candidates, discuss moderator traits, etc. For general discussion related to The Workplace, go here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3060/the-water-cooler

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Shog9

Apr 8, 2014 20:09

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Q: 2014 Community Moderator Election Results

The Workplace's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are: They'll be taking over for the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes! Be sure ...

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RhysW

Apr 2, 2014 18:14

@Jim its ok Jim,size isnt everything, you have the added plus of all that mod work already done building up to help you!

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CMW

Apr 2, 2014 15:43

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A: 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on...

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RhysW

Apr 2, 2014 11:44

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A: 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

What would you do if you found a flagged, positively scored answer where 10 users flagged it as not an answer and 10 users flagged it as invalid? How would you handle a case where the community is clearly divided on what to do with a post, yet the community is also unable to remove the post on...

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jmort253

Mar 29, 2014 17:40

@YannisRizos Had to make it more interesting :)

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Grace Note

Mar 24, 2014 17:31

If you have questions about the election process itself, please ask your question on the Workplace Meta Site. Remember, folks stepping up to lead this community are committing a significant amount of their time, please keep all discourse civil and constructive.

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RhysW

Apr 8, 2014 20:49

The three and a half J's

CMW

Apr 8, 2014 20:46

@MonicaCellio You three will make a great team :) I'm quite content to just go on doing what I'm doing for the site. Delete voting would have been nice, but like this, my next mission will just be getting to 10 k :)

gnat

Apr 2, 2014 17:39

@enderland rep is not very reliable way to recognize commitment to the site. It works more or less when high, but low rep hardly indicates low commitment. Low rep user who frequently visits, reads and votes may be in perfect shape to vote in elections. I think we sort of miss "citizenship level" metric:

RhysW

Apr 2, 2014 13:13

i can see you stroking your cat now, plotting schemes in a swivel chair

jmort253

Apr 2, 2014 03:27

"Don't be a jerk. Even if you're brilliant, don't be a brilliant jerk." - Girish Mathrubootham, CEO/Founder of Freshdesk

Tweeted by fellipeeduardo on February 11, 2014 at 4:44 AM

Monica Cellio

Apr 2, 2014 02:47

We shouldn't be afraid to act on stuff that seems non-controversial -- and hey, if we were wrong about that, we can fix it. But let's not get paralyzed trying to decide if it's ok to edit a tag wiki or a help-center page.

jmac

Apr 2, 2014 02:12

"I see voting people"

jmort253

Apr 2, 2014 02:08

It's quite a turnout when you actually look through the names!

jmac

Apr 2, 2014 02:03

209 users have already voted in the election. There are 356 people who have visited the election page. Interesting stuff, we have a lot of people interested in the outcome it would seem!

Yannis Rizos

Apr 1, 2014 07:53

Candidates, this would be a good time to start bidding for my vote. Starting price is 100 unicoins.

jmort253

Mar 30, 2014 04:21

@MonicaCellio You'll have to post that to the Pets SE Chat room as a pic of your cat LOL

Monica Cellio

Mar 30, 2014 04:15

jmort253

Mar 29, 2014 05:04

> No one can be told what moderation is; you have to see it for yourself..... This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill; the story ends, and you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Monica Cellio

Mar 27, 2014 18:39

@gnat while the hot questions are a problem because of the forum/opinion/inexpert answers they bring in, I really don't see monitoring this 24x7 as either necessary or practical. If a question sits for a few hours until it's morning in the next mod's time zone, what harm is really done?

RhysW

Mar 27, 2014 12:08

@gnat Yeah fairly familiar, been using them for about 5 months now, maybe a little more than that. Though there are a lot i haven't yet had to use

Monica Cellio

Mar 27, 2014 02:47

@jmac right, mods can and IMO should be active on meta. A question for every candidate is: are you going to increase your time on the site, or are you going to reallocate it? If the latter, what won't you be doing as much of now? What is the opportunity cost to the community of you becoming a mod?

jmac

Mar 27, 2014 01:53

@MonicaCellio In my opinion, this is something for the voters to decide. If the voters are okay with that style of moderation, then that is their choice. If not, they aren't. But I think it's a choice our community deserves to have -- I would rather have more people nominate themselves to give the community a choice of what set of mods they want as it will increase variety and choice. Perhaps we want 2 active mods and an exception handler, or 3 exception handlers, or some other combination.

Seth

Mar 26, 2014 23:16

the problem is people with few flags will be bad flag handlers (generally).

Yannis Rizos

Mar 25, 2014 22:08

On a more serious note, I'd consider being in a European timezone a good thing. At least one of the three mods should be in a non-US timezone, to provide almost full coverage throughout the day.

Workplace 2014 Election

Workplace 2014 Election