2015 Workplace Moderator Election

downloaded the program, it says jane S wins

@smci It sounds to me like you have an axe to grind with moderation on academia.se and may be better off making a meta post over there. These are not "canonical issues" on SE, they are very specific nitpicks that can be fixed by the community easily and don't require moderator attention. If they are so common here, then you can easily find examples and ask about them here or on meta if you think they are so important.

I'm surprised more people haven't stepped forward to nominate themselves

As you probably saw, I am one of those silly people who has nominated myself for the moderator election :)

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.

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

@JaneS You definitely have at least one!

@MonicaCellio I'm GMT+10, and both the others are GMT+0 so that would no doubt help. Plus I get to review all tomorrow's problems before you get here ;)

@RoryAlsop I can't remember where I heard the quote, but one I like is "A good leader can tell you to go to hell and make you glad to be on your way." :)

You are the one asking the question and, ah, demanding that the candidates go and research questions on an entirely different Stack Exchange site

@smci perhaps if you used examples from this site you would get better responses. If you can't find any examples here, that too is informative. (I'm sure we've got some, but the community does actually do a really good job with editing, closing, and reopening as needed.)

@smci keep in mind that each community has very different standards and picking questions from here might be a lot more practically relevant

Congratulations @JaneS - an awesome percentage! That's a huge vote if confidence for you by the community!

Congratulations @JaneS and thanks to @yochannah and @RoryAlsop ffor standing!

congrats @JaneS ! its safe to say you had at least one vote

@JaneS by the way, if you don't know about it yet, you might be interested in this SE site: communitybuilding.stackexchange.com

Hello candidates! How do you feel about the current environment of the workplace? What do you want to change about it?

@Malachi On my top one, Security, my answering questions has reduced a wee bit as I've taken on other mod duties. Part of that though is when the site was young I was a very prolific answerer, and now we have a good sized community there, we have a lot of smart folks who provide good answers, so like the other mods there, we often hang back a wee bit - as some people won't answer if they see an answer already there from a high rep user or a mod

I guess some assurance for b) can be taken from the fact that of all the sites I either volunteered for, was voted for, or was asked to look after, I have remained committed

If you just want a general overview of what the candidates have said on question quality, then I suggest taking a look at their meta profiles. That will tell you what they have said on various situations in the past. As a former mod for this site, my answer to your question as-is would be "I would do nothing. They were handled by the community and are on a separate site I don't actively participate on." And I don't think that's what you're looking for.

you don't need to be a mod to participate

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@RoryAlsop @JaneS @yochannah see the above link :)

Everybody else: you've got a few more hours to nominate if you're thinking about it. Thanks to @RoryAlsop, @JaneS, and @yochannah for standing. We've got three candidates with different mixes of experience; should be an interesting election, and even though there's only one seat, I think we'll all benefit from the discussions that'll come from it.

@yochannah thank you for joining in!

Good on you, @yochannah