2019 Biology Moderator Election Chat

Perhaps instead of looking for two very active mods we need ten partly active mods.

I'm still not clear on why you think a mod could help though. Nothing of what you're describing is a mod's job. Even if one of the mods were an expert in all sciences, that wouldn't make any difference to how questions about math would be received on the site.

Aaaand, we're off! Good luck to all candidates!

@anongoodnurse Rep plus you have a very solid review history here. I really hope we all can make/keep Bio.SE a place where people like you feel like contributing is worth their time. I would not expect you to go up for mod even though you'd deserve it, but I hope you can settle in with WYSIWYG as one of our favorite community moderators :)

@TanMath I'm quite confident it will turn out for the best. Otherwise we'll have to discuss. There's some time left.

@DeNovo De Novo. It depends. The problem is that I can share how much time I devote to it,but imo it's not enough. Assuming that with 2 decent mods in place it may become enough, I can tell you it's about, say, less than 15 minutes per day. Maybe even less than that. In the weekends things are quiet for example.

But always keep in mind that this is a site for biology and anything that isn't biology is off topic. That isn't going to change.

This site is about biology. So if you need to know physics to answer a question, then the question is off topic. Stats are different and we do have some users with strong statistics backgrounds.

I think the people who were grinding their teeth a couple days ago about the nominations can relax a bit now

@AliceD @WYSIWYG I've been chewing on the idea myself, but am concerned about the time commitment. I'm semi-retired, but still have periods of time where I'm quite busy. Could you or any of the other mods share how much time you spend per week?

@canadianer But if we take the moderation lightly then we would also see less of good biology.

@AliceD As if you didn’t know you were 40/40 ;)

@BryanKrause You can still argue as a mod. yes, you should take extra care to be polite and yes, you should not abuse the comments to have long back and forth exchanges (but you can always move to chat) but you can certainly still argue!

Believe me, I speak from experience :)

I'm considering nominating, though I'd have to stop arguing with @David in all the comment threads and I'm not sure I want to give that up ;)

I think @BryanKrause @canadianer and @fileunderwater are good candidates for the mod post.

When that is inefficient, shit just piles up!

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