Photography 2017 Moderator Election Chat

@Caleb Are you intending to post some answers to the questionnaire? (Apologies if this has been asked already)

@MichaelClark indeed. If anything we're too aggressive on closing something that doesn't seem to fit on the surface, but has a portion of the question that is a good fit that is hiding underneath. More aggressive closing is not generally something the site needs very often from what I've seen.

@PhilipKendall If anything, we tend to close them too fast sometimes.

I just thought of a question to ask potential mods (current mods can chime in too, if you want): what's your opinion on enabling MathJax for Photo.SE? meta discussion: photo.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4770/11924

@scottbb no problem, wouldn't be much of a community building mod if I didn't like discussions about community building :)

most mods are very cautious with their hammer because they want to let the community weigh in first if there's any doubt and I mean any

Of course, I understand there is additional work to make up for that (dealing with flagging, etc.). But in your experience, does it seem like you've taken your "voice" out of the day-to-day actions and "guidance" of the site, to some degree?

Question to any current / former mods (including on other SE's): related to the diamond status and "power", are you aware of any effort by SE to possibly de-escalate the moderation powers, or perhaps turn the mod powers into "sudo" powers? That is, because mod votes to close are immediately binding, it seems being a mod has a natural pressure to actually not participate as much in the day-to-day community guidance that occurs via close voting.

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