Starred posts

Bradd Szonye

Apr 6, 2015 22:00

I would really like to see @doppelgreener or @SevenSidedDie nominate themselves for the election. They both are well-rounded, level-headed, and diplomatic.

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BESW

Apr 8, 2015 02:37

Lets still be nice, okay. Elections don't mean the Stack policies aren't still in play.

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MadMAxJr

Apr 6, 2015 21:31

Anyway, anybody looking to be moderator, be ready for the torches that will be waved at you over the drop of a hat, be they justified or unjustified.

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MadMAxJr

Apr 6, 2015 21:25

I will vote for any moderator who campaigns with the intent to put a giant note in the Ask Question help, "TRY TALKING TO YOUR PLAYERS." if any social-strife keywords are detected.

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wax eagle

Apr 21, 2015 20:00

 R|SevenSidedDie  |wax eagle      |Joshua Aslan Sm|Exhausted      |Surplus        |Threshold
  |               |               |ith            |               |               |
==================================================================================================
 1|     242.000000|      49.000000|      33.000000|       0.000000|     133.999999|     108.000001
  |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Count of first choices. Candidate SevenSidedDie has reached the threshold and is elected.

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MadMAxJr

Apr 14, 2015 19:27

So, for those of you shooting for moderator here, I guess I just want to say, help us try to be less of knee-jerk reacting enforcers and just try to help people find reasonable solutions. Failing that, help them understand /why/ they're asking the wrong question. We do get a lot of vote-to-close, there's no context why we did that, now without words, we're implying maybe you should go away.

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mxyzplk

Apr 7, 2015 01:29

@C.Ross We love you @C.Ross!

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BESW

Apr 6, 2015 21:51

Yes, well. One thing that any nominee should consider is that becoming a moderator makes everything you say get heard by the citizenry in a GREAT BOOMING VOICE FROM ON HIGH, in addition to taping a big "KICK ME" sign on your back.

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user61230

Apr 13, 2015 04:27

I'm going to feel bad for whoever loses this election, because honestly, any of the three candidates would make a great moderator, and I don't think a loss would truly reflect on them.

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doppelgreener

Apr 11, 2015 04:42

overall it's not appropriate for an election question. all of the above could be a mistaken interpretation, but there is my critique on it.

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MadMAxJr

Apr 6, 2015 21:54

Appoint moderators in secret. Turn the entire site into a game of Salem/Witchhunt!

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Joshua Aslan Smith

Apr 6, 2015 21:31

@Besw I could see what you mean in that last bit, let me say that I fully appreciate all your non-mod activity on the site, you are a wise sage and shall remain so in our chat rooms

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KRyan

Apr 6, 2015 21:25

@thedarkwanderer my worry is that, even if I did win, I would be (unintentionally!) biased, or almost as bad, perceived as such. It's important that all users feel that all moderators have their best interests at heart. This is very, very important to me on a personal level, and I would not want to cause, even accidentally, anyone to feel the site itself was antagonistic towards them.

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MadMAxJr

Apr 17, 2015 16:54

I'd like to use 'Sense Motive' against the candidates.

SevenSidedDie

Apr 14, 2015 22:31

@MadMAxJr I think we handle these pretty well. Working together as a group is something we have direct expertise in, and how to handle group conflict is integral to playing social games like RPGs. I think there are also certain beliefs and attitudes endemic to the RPG community that exacerbates these problems, and we are good at pointing those out. (Like, the 5 Geek Fallacies mentioned already.)

Joshua Aslan Smith

Apr 14, 2015 17:22

@MadMAxJr its a perennial issue that we can answer as good subjective with personal experience. RPGs involve people and people are flawed and a lot of people who play rpgs are especially flawed in their approach to use the system in place of a social contract or mediating via actual social methods. See 5 geek social fallacies. I could count on my hand the few main types of answers we as users (and I myself) give to these questions, but that doesnt mean these questions are without merit.

wax eagle

Apr 14, 2015 17:18

social dynamics are *part* of RPG, even if we're not experts in them. Often enough there are things going on that we can speak to. However, times when there aren't (and this probably needs to be better defined on meta), we need to step in and close these. We already do a pretty good job giving these answers that emphasize communication and don't cut corners by recommending game fixes to social problems (and when answers do, they usually get heavily downvoted).
So, personally, while I want to see us close more of these as "not our subject area", we need to work out where hte line is better a…

Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Apr 14, 2015 03:09

As a general announcement, C.Ross told us he was planning on retiring with lots of notice. The three mods considered this, and to help ease the transition, reached out to the set of community members we thought showed plenty of initiative and good judgement dealing with Stack issues that might want to serve as moderators, and gave them some insight into the job.

Two decided they didn't want to run, but two did, and we worked with them to help prepare for the role. As a result, after this internship, all three incumbent moderators believe @JoshuaAslanSmith and @SevenSidedDie will make excel…

Lord_Gareth

Apr 13, 2015 18:40

And a mod has to be able to represent all of the community

MadMAxJr

Apr 10, 2015 14:48

Cynicism due to lack of people refilling the empty coffee pots in the break room.

Lord_Gareth

Apr 8, 2015 02:51

(I say bitterly, with a bitter expression)

Lord_Gareth

Apr 8, 2015 02:48

Brian used to do that before he ascended to his planar form and became a sapient editing program

BESW

Apr 8, 2015 02:41

Forsooth, me matey, I hasten forthwith to the powow.

BESW

Apr 7, 2015 01:12

Thank you for your service, by the way, and thank you also for having the discipline to step down when you needed to.

BESW

Apr 7, 2015 00:39

Anecdote is not the singular of evidence, but...

MadMAxJr

Apr 6, 2015 21:29

Yes. "I have X rule situation. I am right under Y circumstances. Help me find other ways to say I am right."

KRyan

Apr 6, 2015 21:12

@JoshuaAslanSmith I do not agree in the slightest, I have to go to the main chat page, to the chat-creation page, fill it out, enter that chat room, get the link, and then type up a comment

wax eagle

Apr 6, 2015 21:12

One of the things I'd like to see from our moderators (whoever ends up elected), is more overall visibility and cache in the larger SE community.

KRyan

Apr 6, 2015 21:11

@JoshuaAslanSmith we really need better tools for creating chatrooms if that is to be the stance

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