Science Fiction & Fantasy Town Hall Chat

What are your three favorite scifi/fantasy works, and your three least favorite?

If you had one minute to explain this site to someone, what would you say that it is?

How do you encourage more participation in meta?

Why do you personally want the power and responsibility of being a moderator?

What is your position on story-identification questions? Should they be allowed or banned?

What specifically do you think that the current moderators are doing well, and what do you think could be improved?

In your opinion, what do moderators do?

Speaking of fantasy, how would you approach supporting and encouraging growth in the fantasy genre on SFF.se if it's not your cup of tea or you are hardcare sci-fi?

What would you do to encourage more community self-moderation? That is, high-rep users making use of their moderation powers to close, edit, reopen, and delete posts.

Which tag do you wish to see grown the most on this site?

As a moderator, you will have to moderate on topics that you haven't read/watched. How will you accomplish that?

From @Gilles What was the last SFF book you read, and when was it?

What SFF books have you read in the last month? Please list as many as you can

Related to that, DVK also asks: What is your threshold for binding-voting to close a question? "I would have VTCed it if my vote wasn't binding"? A critical mass of unopposed VTCs and flags? Do you consider NOT voting (and opening a meta discussion) if the comments on the question indicate a clear LACK of consensus on closing and it wasn't discussed on meta yet?

DVK asks: Do you take into account the "Leave open" information from Review queue when applying moderator-binding-close-votes (as opposed to only existing close votes and flags) to obtain a more balanced picture? If such information isn't available, WOULD you have taken it into account if it was?

How would you deal with a user who posts lots of quality content, but also generates a large number of flags?

Gilles asks: A genie grants you a wish: you may change one site policy (e.g. make a type of question on/off topic, change some tagging habits, …) (SE policies remain). What is your wish?

What have you personally done already to help moderate this site?

What SFF TV series/ Movies have you watched in the last month?

Welcome to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Town Hall Chat

DVK's final question of the night: Please provide an example (specific question) of a moderator action that you would have liked to have taken based on your own opinion but would refrain from taking based on meta or comments achieved community consensus.

DVK asks: What is the threshold at which you consider something as a community imposed general (non-question-specific) policy based on Meta Q&A? E.g. if there is a consensus answer with +3 vote margin, do you consider it a policy? +8 vote margin? No specific threshold aside from your own opinion?

This marks the end of our Town Hall. Thank you to all of the candidates for their time, and to all others who came here to ask questions and to support the candidates. Good luck to everyone as this election approaches its close!

Usually, as we get near the close but we still have time, I ask this while candidates still have time to answer before we close, haha. Nevertheless, final thoughts from the candidates?

Pearsonartphoto had this question to ask as well: A high reputation user was accused of harassing a lower ranking user. What do you do?

For candidates, I spy amongst us: @Beofett, @JackBNimble, @DavRob60, @Kevin, @NathanC.Tresch.