Photo Town Hall Chat

A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?

What (if anything) do you think the current moderators should do differently?

How would you deal with someone who has a habit of flagging everything?

Photography has an exceptional answered rate, at 99%. However, it ranks towards the bottom of the list of graduated sites when it comes to total questions asked. How do you think this reflects on the health of the community, and do you feel like anything about the way the site is currently run needs to change to ensure continued growth?

As a moderator, you will be required to sometimes take quick action against undesirable content (e.g. dangerous spam). Do you think you can be online often enough to react?

What do you think the moderator's role is in community building? Should they stick to the janitorial duties, or be actively involved in the decision making process and promotion of the site?

Why do you want to be a moderator (as opposed to having high rep privs)?

New users often are not accustomed to the Stack Exchange system, and sometimes struggle to present themselves properly, either in the way they use the site or their attitude. How willing are you to work with "problematic" users, and at what point do you decide that someone isn't worth the effort?

Two highly respected members of the community get in a comment war on a question. They both flag each other's comments and are cussing and it is clear that this is beyond a heated argument. What do you do, what don't you do?

Final thoughts from the candidates?

Do you think moderators should be active in closing off-topic questions, you do you think the community should be more active in doing so?

What is the main problem (including problems on how users use the site) that you actually see in the site you would be moderating, if you are elected moderator?

How familiar are you with Meta Stack Overflow, and how much (if at all) do you feel policy discussions there should influence the way things work on your site?

Digest will be posted to meta likely later today or tomorrow morning.

@RebeccaChernoff I think I could benefit the community by encouraging community growth aspects with a bit more official capacity. It's not about enforcement to me, which is largely what the high rep tools are - close, delete, respond to flags. That is an important part of moderations, but its also about being a leader and driving the community in the decisions that they make.

@TimStone The second has been deemed offtopic and rightfully so - but we need to encourage the creative questions - that's where we most lack. I think a great way to do that is to encourage questions to come out of our Picture of the Week Contest. "How did this effect come from this PotW picture'. Getting questions that focus on the creative side and less on the technical. We're extremely tech heavy and 'running out of steam' there.

@TimStone Its a weight to bear, for sure. But I've always tried to act and speak responsibly on the site in the past and would in the future as well. We should all act as though there's a diamond on us. Its a community driven site, the mods are just the community with a bit more power. I don't think the way I present myself will change or need to, merely the community's view of me.

The candidates I see here are: @rfusca. And perhaps @MikeW if someone wakes him up and delivers coffee. (;