For all the candidate, in what country do you live? I think we need to know this, to find the moderator active time. We have to avoid choosing moderators in the same time regions.
I think it'd be nice to know, and some members have their locations on their profiles. But I don't think you should outright ignore nominees based off their time zones.
@JamalSenjaya If you invested 1 minute of your time to click on all 6 candidates' profiles you would see that everyone has a location added to it. Also, location should not be among the most important criteria for electing a moderator. Moderators (as a group) should not be on alert 24h/day and take turns sleeping just so they can watch over the "kids" that MAY not behave. This is not a police state. It's a website destined for fun.
Moderators should intervene only when it is needed and it is the whole community's job to keep the website clean. Yes it would be nice to cover somehow as many timezones as possible, but this should be the last criterion in the list. I think that previous user behavior and proper English (or at least good English) are way more important that the place a user lives.
Oh and sorry...ALMOST everyone has a location attached to their profile. Well, technically everyone, but @Mithrandir is from a "different" timezone.
@JamalSenjaya To expand a bit on @Marius' good reply, since moderation is so community-driven on Stack Exchange, moderators don't need to be active at all times of the day. We don't perform the same role that moderators do in many other places, where such a thing is effectively required.
I've a question for candidates and current mod's - Is it a good practice to edit a very old question which has been already answered and has an accepted answer? How do you decide to deal with that - @Emrakul @Marius @Mithrandir @Glorfindel @stackreader @Deusovi @GentlePurpleRain Like for e.g. this was edited to correct a single word. I'm not sure sure if that's required or not (continue..)
though. But, would like to know if any action needs to be taken over them like we limit the modification (if not hugely relevant) to a few weeks or something like that?
I don't think we need to worry about it if it's infrequent. I agree that the edit is probably not necessary, but it's just one occurrence on one question.
Now seriously.... There is no silver bullet answer for this. It is always a good idea to edit typos, but it's not a good idea to edit a post just so you can move it up in the list
Yesterday, some user went on to modify 4-5 questions.. just to make http related changes(which might be a bot or something) but the edits were serially done..which buried the newer/recent puzzles
Nope, not a bot. And we talked to that user about it in TSL. ("We" as in the community, not the mods in particular, though we would if it became necessary.)
@Marius Edits purely for bumping are frowned upon.
@Techidiot I actually don't see any problem, as long as you aren't flooding. Constructive edits are good; just don't flood everything. You also get some new eyes on old puzzles, that people might find interesting.
yes, someone went on a http->https edit spree so I alerted the mod and he got warned yesterday.... but when it's just the casual edit, not much can be done. Especially during the hat event where people go nuts on edits for hats.
from your comments in here about the "troubles" caused on PSE, I conclude that PSE doens't have enough problems. You should see the tech sites. Spam, stupid questions, stupid answers, stupid questions in the answers area. A few edits (wrong or right) don't mean that much.
We are lucky we even have such tiny flooding problems when you compare with the big communities that flood good questions with more new questions at an unbelievable speed.
Yeah - if we were bigger, the site would be essentially unusable because the good puzzles wouldn't get much recognition without being advertised in chat.
@Deusovi from my nomination Puzzling is a small but healthy site, and I'd like it to stay healthy. I didn't mention growth, because growth by itself isn't a good thing.
@n_palum If everyone had the attitude of "I won't bother, because I don't think I'll win," we wouldn't have very many nominations. Make your decision based on whether you would like to be a moderator and think you would do a good job; not on anybody else.
I feel like you @BrentHackers but I won't give up. when I saw the election post I got a sudden surge of ambition and motivation for doing something... more. I won't give up until the end.
@Deusovi It's kind of charity. Working for a good cause with no ROI is considered as a charity work. I am a mod on very small forum and people tell me that I spend time doing charity work..
@BrentHackers Every football team manager in Spain except Real, Barca and Atletico: "Guys, we don't stand a chance in winning the championship. Let's all stay home". How would that be?
@Marius I feel the same about you. You're one of the better options that I was referring to but I don't like people with an 'in it to win it' mentality, as opposed to someone who just wants to see Puzzling do well as a site.
I have a question for the candidates running in Non-US time zone..What happens if we have a situation to deal at this time of the day? Will you wait for other mods to arrive or will you solely take the decision? The situation needs immediate attention :)
@BrentHackers let me put it this way : "You get an award you don't deserve, you don't give it back. You live up to it". Anyway, I respect your decision but I don't understand it and don't condone it.
@Techidiot Should've put it into the questionnaire. Seriously, though, Deus is virtually always around no matter what time it is except for when he was in hospital.
If it needs immediate attention, then it's what it will get. If it is a very serious matter that really should be discussed first, then maybe take some temporary actions like put on hold instead of delete etc...
Now that we have a permission to let users use private room to collaborate on making puzzles. What if something goes wrong in that room? Also, we have an additional room for a game called contact which belongs to PSE. Are you going to spare some time monitoring those rooms as well? In case if a mod attention is required there?
@Techidiot in chat, every mod on the network is a mod - as can be seen, I. I'm blue. If you raise a chat mod flag, one of several hundred mods will arrive.
One or more of the following things happened to me on a Stack Exchange site:
My post(s) were wrongly deleted or locked by a moderator
A moderator posted a wrong comment to one of my posts
I was suspended, but did not do anything wrong
I asked a meta-question, but the question was closed and/or ...
Well, there are times when we are disappointed due to personal issues, and may perform an unethical/unwanted action. So, I think it will be better to resolve it internally
Okay. I am done with my questions for now. Thanks all for answering them. Will come up with other questions in case I have any. All the best till then :)
@BrentHackers. From this chat I conclude that you would handle most of the issues, like I would. Does this mean I should pull put of the moderator's election also, or that you have to get back in? :D
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e.g. What would candidates do if they were kidnapped and held in the port town of a group of Andorran pirates, and as such they were unable to access the interned to moderate the site?
@BrentHackers I would calmly and rationally explain the the pirates that I need to hit the moderator vacation button, and create a puzzle so that you can find me ^.^
We were recently having a problem with a user in chat. Now, imagine that neither Deus nor GPR nor any of the ROs are present at that time, How would you deal with a user who is being a pain in the ... for other people especially when you are not sure if it is the same guy?
@Sid if they're bothering a user, they can be kicked, even if it's not the same guy. As mods, we would also have access to the same tools that GPR and Deus have at the moment on the main site.
@n_palum I didn't realize that was a problem. The last election I watched closely (on Stack Overflow) it more or less served as an indication for the primary; you upvote the candidates with which you largely agree and downvote if you don't. FWIW, I abstained from voting on the questionnaire because I'm taking part in it.
A reminder to everyone: the nomination phase is not a voting phase. Let's try to keep the votes even on all nominations. When it comes to voting, you can pick your candidate(s).
The pin on the right, I asked GPR about it yesterday and as far as I am aware we are supposed to keep them even so they stay in a somewhat random order.
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Puzzling 2017 Moderator Election Chat
Puzzling 2017 Moderator Election Chat