I'm back

Wish I hadn't commited to asking 10 questions here. I only had the one when I signed up for the beta.

@alan2here I think it might be questions and answers...

@BenBrocka ty :¬)

@alan2here it's kept intentionally (and frustratingly) vauge so people can't "game" their commitment, but just keep asking/answering and you'll hit your commitment. I do know that the requirements are larger if you don't ask/answer around...5? posts during the private beta stage

I liked this meta post on crypto:

If it lead to greater community moderating it might lessen some of the "over moderating" worries

How many users do we have that can cast close votes?

is it 500+ rep or 750+ rep?

We only have 12 users that have enough rep to cast close votes

and 2 of those are mods already

so that leaves 10 users

It';s still enough for a few close votes, and seeing 3/4 names in the close vote list makes it look a LOT more like community moderating than just having a single mod close everything

and with cooperation 10 people with close vote power is plenty; the problem is there's almost no cooperation since few use meta or chat

The chat on cogsci is much more used than any of the other SEs I frequent

or at least, I use it much more

some sites totally neglect it, but I think it's an invaluable tool regardless of the site. It just seems some communities (gaming) have more interest in a chat or are more open to using chat

@JoshGitlin @StevenJeuris should we appropriate/liberate/steal that cogsci post for our meta? meta.crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/129/…