2020 Moderator Election Chatroom

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quid

00:01

That said, I think a goal ought to be to maintain some balance and to keep cohesion in the community. But that's precisely politics.

In another direction, moderators don't do much, according to the post linked to. But they accompany the moderating users in their activities. Again that's a leadership role, though arguably not political.

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user21820

01:46

@ParamanandSingh You realize your remark is ambiguous about which "coming election"? Just kidding. =P

user21820

01:59

@quid 2800.

quid

@user21820 thanks for the participation, I thought you'd guess 2182,0 ;D. I'll have to keep track of them. amWhy: 2146, Xander: 2147, user21820: 2800.

user21820

02:42

@quid Lol! I didn't think it would be so few, with all the meta noise that happened last year.

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Luis Felipe

20:01

I should be the new king :D

Riemann'sPointyNose

Meeee. Pick me. Riemanns nose

quid

Q: 2020 Community Moderator Election

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page at ht...

Terran Swett

Totally out of curiosity, is there a way I can see what my candidate score would be if I were to run? (It's very, very unlikely that I will run.)

TheSimpliFire

A: What are the details on the "candidate score" which shows during an election?

The Candidate Score can range from 0 to 40, and is calculated as follows: 1 point for each 1000 reputation up to 20,000 reputation for a maximum of 20 points. 1 point each for Moderation badges - Civic Duty, Cleanup, Deputy, Electorate, Marshal, Reviewer, Sportsmanship, Steward - for a maximum ...

Terran Swett

So, calculating it myself, it'd be 15. Decent.

José Carlos Santos

20:21

@TerranSwett Yes, 15. You can confirm that here.

VIVID

20:32

@JoséCarlosSantos Is there a way to search by username in that long list?

Aloizio Macedo

@VIVID You can download the CSV and search for your user ID, which you can find in your profile page link. (Yours is 752069, for example.)

user1729

@quid I suppose what I was meaning was: do you think the role of a moderator is to influence opinion, or to follow opinion? (The latter being "above" politics.)

VIVID

@Aloizio Yes thanks, I've just found that. It's 8. I'm fairly new to this site :)

Zacky

@VIVID check here, just put your username there in the field.

Aloizio Macedo

@VIVID Then, welcome!

@Zacky Thanks for providing a quicker alternative.

quid

20:48

@user1729 rather clearly the role includes to guide the community, viz. to influence it.

Differently, a main way, more or less the only way, for the community to actually express an opinion on the direction of the site is in the moderators elections via voting a candidate that embodies its vision.

Obviously individual members can and should express their opinion all the time on meta and via their actions etc.

But the way for the community to express something is in moderator elections.

Participation in this vote exceeds that of voting on most any meta post by at least an order of magnitude, for the most part rather two orders.

user1729

21:05

@quid @AloizioMacedo Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, especially your call to vote just now quid! I appreciate the time and effort you put into this site, so keep up the good work :-)

an4s

21:43

Just out of curiosity, what does CappedRep refer to? Is it 1 point for every 1000 points?

Catija

Hiya! Looks like y'all got this party started long before I showed up! :D If I can be of any assistance, let me know.

Q: 2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we o...