GIS Town Hall Chat

How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

Are any of the candidates restricted or pressured by their employers to toe a company line with regard to GIS.se participation?

How do we promote GISse for a big community base? more blog, twitter posts - any more ideas?

What do y'all see as the biggest challenge when it comes to moderating GIS-SE?

I am concerned that this forum will become a substitute for other forums that are software specific. What should be done to ensure that the questions and/or answers are platform independent and/or highlight advantages or disadvantages between them?

Newspapers have increased their readership by sensationalizing (if it bleeds, it leads), to what extent should GIS.se be made more sensational (LocationGate? tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/26/locationgate-the-counterattack/… )

Should GIS.se be a forum to announce bugs of Esri, which might motivate them to fix them more quickly (what happened to the bug tag?)

Do you think a market economy helps or hinders innovation in GIS?

How much time do you anticipate spending on the site? How much of that would be "moderating"?

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 can be done to bring more people to the community? Do you feel that's part of your responsibility as a moderator?

How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?

What are your thoughts on company-specific questions (e.g. ESRI)? Allowed, disallowed? With constraints?

For all candidates: what do you think the biggest impediment to the proliferation of GIS technology is today?

What role, if any, would GIS.se play in overcoming what you perceive to be the biggest impediment?

I'll be posting a "digest" version of this chat to Meta -- it got a little crazy and I need a bit of time to sort through the replies, so expect that to appear tomorrow morning.

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

The candidates I see here are: @scw, @whuber, @mattwilkie, @underdark and @Mapperz

Time for me to go pick up kids from school. Be well everyone, and thanks for all the fish.

Would it be appropriate to nominate all the candidates as moderators?

@whuber how about this question: "What is Steve Jobs doing with my location data?"

@scw would you favor the existence of a "bug" tag? @whuber The vendors are often so secretive about bugs, it is difficult to find workarounds quickly when they are encountered.