Programmers 2013 Moderator Elections

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1:21 AM

he already is a mod as far as anyone from the outside can tell

If anybody want's to participate as much as he does you basically have mod powers just by using non-mod powers to such exhaustion heh

psr

1:45 AM

If gnat becomes a mod we will have to elect a new mod because we really won't be getting any more moderation. Plus a second mod to make up for gnat's newly reduced workload.

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gnat

5:48 AM

@Deco no, not this year. Thanks for asking by the way :)

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Manishearth

7:08 AM

@gnat why not?

(aside from the "nobody will flag anymore" aspect) :P

@Rachel I disagree. As a mod on both a beta and non-beta site, I end up helping guide the site/community a lot. While you aren't the "voice of the site", you should be active on meta and help formulate policies.

And your voice carries more weight in the eyes of the community. Generally.

gnat

8:00 AM

@Manishearth my personal circumstances this year are too stressed to commit for regular site maintenance. Per my observations, at Programmers it's rather important fopr someone of mods to be available for help 24x7: since I can't help mod team with this, it's better to leave it to someone who can

aside from a natural desire to increase helpful flag count to 1000 (at current 800+, it feels certainly doable:)

Manishearth

@gnat you can still get helpful flags as a mod

Spam-bombing!

gnat

@Manishearth sure, I was just kidding about that :)

Manishearth

I know

Though if you are comfortable on your side of the fence, that's quite good too :)

The last Physics.SE mod election, both of the winners (me and Qmechanic) were the folks who would be active in close voting/etc

Which meant that there were very few non-mod active CVers left

And on Physics we try not to binding-close (we're moving towards a hands-off approach for closing wrt mods), we wait for a few votes. Caused a problem :P

user20683

@Manishearth I tend to be careful with close votes myself despite the number that I cast. Most of mine are done via review rather than "off the cuff"

user20683

I do think a better job needs to be done with explaining the hows and whys of closing questions, particularly to new users and it's something that I want do what I can to spearhead.

Manishearth

8:13 AM

@WorldEngineer Don't know much, but SE is working on that. Stay tuned for some awesome stuff

user20683

@Manishearth I'm firmly in favor of Roosevelt's maxim: "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Manishearth

@WorldEngineer true

user20683

or to put it in code: for(;;){ iterate();}

Jimmy Hoffa

4:14 PM

@WorldEngineer with code like that you'll never get elected around here. yeesh.

Jimmy Hoffa

4:33 PM

damn college kid, you stayed up practically all night

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