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Carrie Kendall
Carrie Kendall
17:36
@jimirings @Ӎσᶎ @nhinkle I'm very interested in your answers to the Questionnaire :)
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@jimirings @nhinkle @ӎσᶎ We totally need some answers from you. :)
@CarrieKendall Yes, I repeated you, but I used magical mod superping powers to make sure the candidates that don't pop into chat very often see it, too.
nhinkle
nhinkle
18:17
Will do today!
 
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Ӎσᶎ
Ӎσᶎ
23:31
OK, some answers.
"How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?"
A lot depends on the circumstances, if I thought they were in a bad mood or the question pushed their buttons I'd be more inclined to try contacting them offline. But unless it was an egregiously awful call I'd be inclined to take it to chat or ask a meta question.
"a) What is, in your opinion as a potential future moderator, the biggest problem that bicycles.SE currently faces? b) If you were to get elected, what actions would you take towards resolving these issues?"

Lack of users and especially voters. It's rare to get even 10 votes for a good question/good answer. I've had answers that take an hour or more of research still sitting on 4 or 5 votes plus the accept flag a week later. By comparison, a similar answer on the Sustainability beta got 10 votes in a couple of days, so it's not just a number of users issue, it's people not voting. While r…
"How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?"

I'm inclined to delete most of those comments and paste them into chat, replacing them with a "this is contentious, take it to chat". IME it's often that there's disagreement about either the question or the answer, and the solution is either editing the question or for the disagreeing folk to write better answers. I've seen a number of those, and invariably the summary is "I think a different answer would be better but I'm too lazy to wr…
In your opinion, what do moderators do?

They exist to accept my suggested edits. More broadly, they try to drag the tone and habits of the forum towards civility and support. Also, correct spelig and grammer, evn whn just lazy ppl cant be bothrd typing.
FWIW, I'm deliberately doing this in chat because I'm not wild about using meta for this. It seems like a miuse of the system.

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