Super User Election: Town Hall Chat

@RebeccaChernoff final thought? good luck to all of the candidates and may the best nominees win! :-)

Alright, that brings us to the top of the hour, so let's let the candidates finish up answering, and then we can get a quick final thought from each candidate.

@Moshe It really depends on the type of attack. If it was obviously a coordinated attack (especially if we could find posts elsewhere indicating that), I'd consider banning IPs, esp. if many are coming from the same IP or IP range

To add to @TomWij's question - would you ban/suspend the users? IP addresses?

@TomWij Get some extra coffee and start the humdrum task :D

Fun question: A group of annoying anonymous internet users has invaded Super User during a time that wasn't covered by moderators, there are a lot of weird questions, comment and answers popping up everywhere. What would you do?

If the answer is more than @IvoFlipse, I advise you to resign your nomination ;)

@Josh personally, I feel that suspensions should be reserved for the worst offensive cases, where a user is refusing to listen to any and all other attempts to talk to him.

@RebeccaChernoff judging by how much I've seen @IvoFlipse and @Diago moderating... I pretty much know that most of my Q/A will be obliterated when/if I become a mod

> You have fully used your vote allowance for today.

@RebeccaChernoff 6-8 weeks :P

@IvoFlipse Though I've had access to 10k tools for a while, I don't think I'll be moderate right away. The first week or so will be a watch-and-learn-phase - which I've done for 3k & 10k stages

@IvoFlipse I think we're all able to read and discover like we did with the rest of the tools we earned by rep count

@IvoFlipse I feel that I am ready to moderate in general, but at the same time, I feel there will be a "breaking in" period, learning the policy on various things, like deleting low quality posts or what is the meaning behind suspension. etc. I learn quickly, so hopefully the process will go smoothly.

@IvoFlipse I absolutely thing I am ready to start becoming a moderator. I've been actively using the available tools (closing, editing, etc.) ever since I got them, and frequently discuss things with the existing moderators. I wouldn't start laying down my power everywhere, but do think I'd be able to learn quickly how to judiciously apply moderator abilities

@studiohack Suspensions. suspensions IMO should be done as a last-ditch attempt. Ofcourse, if the user makes no attempt to change their ways, what must be done, must be done

@IvoFlipse And no, I definitely do not see myself do better than @studiohack or @Sathya

Wow this is already half way done!? time flew!

@RandolphPotter Haha! type faster ;)!

@studiohack, I like your idea of discussing with other moderators. Discussion amongst the mods would be good to ensure that troublesome users get consistent treatment and aren't sent conflicting messages

@MichaelMrozek The user should be monitored of course, but the thing is, users don't posess qualities on all levels, and neither do moderators. Everyone contributes to the community in their own way. As long as the user isn't getting too rude/disturbing, I'd be more than happy to clean up his comments in order to maintain his steady stream of high quality answers. Of course, this doesn't mean the user shouldn't be made clear some behaviour is unwanted.

@Josh I also agree with @KronoS, in that a queue of some sort with the pending edits would be nice.

@Josh Initially I was doubtful of how well it would work out, but it's turned out to be a good feature I think. They need to add pending edits to /review so we can more easily see them - I can't go around to every question looking for edit(1). It makes a bit more work for mods/high-rep users, but at the end of the day, will probably improve content

@Josh I think that it's a great thing actually. It helps us 3k+ user a lot. However I do want to see a 3k+ option that will show pending edits so that we can be more useful... Also I don't like the fact (correct me if I'm wrong) that anonymous edits can be made... I believe registered users should only be able to make the edits

@nhinkle Let's say the question is either slated for off-topic or dupe, but doesn't fit either and can stand on its own and is otherwise valid and (most important) sensical

@random that really depends on the quality of the question, which if it's being closed there more than likely will need to be closed. However if a quick edit can bring clarity to the question that I would go that route first

As I've stated before, I like to edit questions to bring them within compliance/make them so they won't need to be closed, whenever possible

@BloodPhilia =)) none taken :P that's why I mentioned too long :P

Fun fact: I work with kids a lot (camp counselor, educational outreach events at the university, etc.) which is part of why I'm good at being patient and know what to say to get people to cooperate without getting upset

Intro: I'm Sathyajith Bhat ( too long, most call me Sathya/SJ), working as an Oracle Forms & PL/SQL Developer, Laptop addict, blogger, the-dude-everyone-runs-for-help-guy, gadget-maniac and most of all, SUPER USER!!!!!

@BloodPhilia whois fruityjuice.nl doesn't reveal your real name, so you'll have to enlighten me.

Why bother? Just use HTCPCP over IPoAC.

hands out virtual coffee to all the silly people that like the nasty stuff

It's cold outside!

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