2019 The Workplace Moderator Election Chat

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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

(Note for transparency: I've pinged the above users directly since they participated in the last election and have not nominated themselves so far. Of course the same warning goes for anyone else who is considering participating in the election: nominations will close shortly.)

Swag is overrated, I got a mug, some stickers, and a t-shirt for hitting 100k, but by the time it got through customs it cost me over $100 and they'd ruined the stickers. Drinking out of the most expensive mug I've ever owned right now.

Hello candidates (and others). Here's a live case to chew over: this question was asked 10 minutes ago and has the potential to be explosive, but the question isn't badly-asked. We get hot-button topics here sometimes. You're experienced high-rep users; take whatever actions you feel appropriate, and I hope you'll pop in here to tell us what you did and why (and what you'd do as a mod, if different).

That is now what I (we?) said, and perhaps I feel you are stretching this a bit too far

Well, let's hope OP comes back eventually and does what they think is better for their question

Here is an interesting question for the moderator candidates: What is your stance on the editing and edit war concerning this question?

like I said, I will run if there are no other (at least 2) users I would vote for

^not afraid of admitting mistakes

@RichardU Listening first is key key key key

I knew from the beginning I was signing up to be examined and questioned and criticised. This also happens when you're a moderator, so if I couldn't stand this heat, I'd probably not be a good candidate for the job

yes

Hard to pick, though. I've done it once or twice.

Also note: those are all things that technically the community can take care of by themselves; enough flags on comments will make them delete, and enough red flags on a post will delete it. There is almost nothing that would require immediate presence by a diamond moderator, so it's alright if a mod can't just drop everything and start deleting comments.