EL&U Mod Privileges Summit

Anyway, what I'm really saying is: we need a steady influx of new good users. That's really all we need to be more laid-back on the inside and more welcoming on the outside. If for some reason you can't take it anymore, take a break instead; if you can't post a nice comment, don't post any comment at all; someone else will jump in, and the community as a whole will continue to look nice and friendly.

In order to attract more interesting questions, we will have to offload the majority of the kinds of questions we get now.

So here is a preliminary sketch with broad strokes, to define what we mean by basic and advanced.

Prolly superfluous anyway. If it's a dupe it is by definition GR, since we're the handiest reference.

@tchrist Everybody over 6 years old is an expert compared to half our questioners.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I tend to post the "obvious answer" as a comment, then vote to close.

I would like to do that and encourage our high rep users to post one good question every week on EL&U to help boost the impression of the site (as well as the content).

I feel that on ELU I am a sort of mechanical turk doing dictionary, ngram, and COCA searches. And that's only when the answer doesn't meet the arbitrary threshold of "too basic".

People have been added as owners so that they have privileges to add others as necessary. You only need write permission to actually talk in here.

@TimLymington frankly, I can't remember when I last saw a great asker who went on to carry the torch for the old and the tired. Most good users clearly come from the answerer camp. And anyway, in any SE community, it's the answerers whom you have to make happy so they stick around and keep up the job; there is never a shortage of askers on an established site. (I think there's even a blog post or two about that.) So the idea is to be exactly as selective with questions as the answerers wish.

I was used to a different phrase: Modrators are monkeys with guns. ;)

Yes, they think it adds insult to injury to upbraid them on top of the down/close-vote.

@JasperLoy most fascinating of all is when what looks trivial to me turns out not to be so, on closer examination, and when attempting to explain why something is "obvious".

Personally, I am hesitant about closing questions because I find that new users don't know what to do with closed questions. They simply have no idea. I don't know how many times we've had to hold a new user's hand through a laborious tutorial on editing and nominating for re-open.