@Tim - Well, you can probably count Jez in that group. I'm almost positive that he's one of my downvotes, because I disagreed with both his site and meta questions on closing.
Don't worry about down-votes, you're not alone, somebody just did 4 in a row within a minute across different answers, probably didn't have enough time to read it :)
Opinions: do you think the final sentence of this question should be edited out, as it is more of a statement of opinion? http://health.stackexchange.com/questions/506/how-to-avoid-fatigue-if-i-foresee-irregular-sleeping-time
@NateBarbettini Melatonin (also a sleeping pill) is not harmful for health, as it's hormone which you already have in your body which balance your sleep. Sometimes it's referred as youth hormone.
@NateBarbettini So it could be edited-out. However on the other hand if OP is not interested in taking any pills, it should stay there. So I'm not sure:)
@NateBarbettini It also depends to which pills he's referring to.
@kenorb I guess I'm thinking that just the final part "as I believe those are harmful to health in the long term." is unnecessary
not because I disagree with it, but because it isn't relevant to the question. (In potentially the same way that on SO things like "Thanks in advance for help!" is edited out because it's unnecessary noise)
IMO the question is a good one and stands on its own, whatever the beliefs of the OP about sleeping pills.
@anongoodnurse - Yes, you are having an issue. I made a statement as a broad generality to underscore a point that we need to be aware in the future of knowledge change/decay. You have chosen to take that generality and nitpick the specifics, and focus on a tree when I'm talking about the forest.
However, I edited it to protect against someone seeing that meta post and changing their diet accordingly.
And, a moderator downvote. Gee, wonder who that could be? :) Guess if you disagree with someone that makes you unfit to be a moderator.
Usually (and with good reason), mods are not expected to decide if an answer is incorrect. On some sites, though, the mod will take an action if a trusted user raises a flag.
This occurs on occasion on Biology.SE where a user dispenses bad medical advice in comments. The flag is deemed helpful a...
There's not really any "deserving" to it. Do I think I'd be a good mod? Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have put my name in. Are there other people that might be just as good or better? Sure.
@JohnP - That was rash. Maybe someone saw a nominee arguing in comments and thought it isn't reflective of a good mod. But to blame me as a guess and then call me out for something I didn't even do does show something as well.
@JohnP - in reality, I upvoted most of the nominees.
Under one user's nomination (michaelpri) are some valid comments that might better be answered by a conversation with the users themselves.
I don't know if this is done only for elected mods, but some sites create rooms where users can ask questions to their heart's content without leaving long ...
@michaelpri It doesn't seem the place to have a long thread about your age and expertise, with another mod candidate joining in, in the nomination thread.
@NateBarbettini This has been done on other sites. I think it was a great help.
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (typically, "how" questions)
For situations that a moderator will face, provide information to he...
As an alternative to the other FAQ format being fleshed out here on Meta Stack Exchange, I'd like to propose something far more terse that covers the bare essential mechanics of being a moderator.
Feel free to add more questions, but keep them short: this isn't the place to get into complex mod...
@anongoodnurse - btw, I deleted my comments in the meta thread. I think we were discussing the same thing at different angles and running over each other.
@anongoodnurse - I've been reading a lot. He's 6 months 1 week. Was a month premature, but is already in the 5th percentile for weight on the normal charts, and 15th %ile height/head.
@anongoodnurse I dunno. I am certainly calmer than the average parent because of the education/medical background, and my wife (16 years younger than me) is pretty easy going.
Yeah, a friend of mine just had one, and the OB was furious. Wasn't able to be there, and they let her push in labor for 3.5 hours instead of C-section after 1.
My (limited) experience is that older parents worry more but make better parenting decisions; while younger parents worry less, but tend to default parenting to the way they were raised.
But by younger, I mean late teens, early twenties.