Timeline for Moderator Job Description
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| Feb 13, 2011 at 9:11 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | As nominations open tomorrow, I took a look at the set that opened last week. Quite interesting: a couple have reached three nominations only: I wonder if this is a deliberate decision? (There are three spaces in each case, so once there are three volunteers is it worth anyone else standing?) | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 9:06 | answer | added | Andrew StaceyMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 17:06 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | We now have an election date: 14th of February. See blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/moderator-messages | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 21:08 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | @Joseph: I think the prior existence of a good community structure through TUG, &c, has been great for this site. | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 20:24 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | @Charles. Useful link: it's worth looking through the nomination threads for the other SO sites just to get a feel for how they operate. For me it's certainly interesting, as it seems that some of the other SO sites must be quite different in 'feel' to {TeX}! | |
| Jan 27, 2011 at 12:32 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | As an aside, Yi Jiang's candidate statistics page will give a summary of the current candidates' measurables when the election primaries begin. Some things to look at: does the candidate vote a lot, and are they active in many tags? Harder to quantify are: how do they handle fragile egos, do they know the tools well, are their opinions as visible on meta a good fit for yours? | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 21:21 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | @Andrew. Looking quickly at some of the election threads for other SO sites, I suspect some of them require a lot more 'active' moderation. So I can see that it's a good idea to summarise what the pro tem team have found has been the case for this site. I do hope I've made a decent stab at it. | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 21:15 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey Mod | @Joseph, Yes, but I'm not sure what! I know that I now have a completely different idea of what "moderating" this site means than what I thought at the start and I know that I wouldn't guess that if I hadn't been a moderator during this period. It may be that it's blindingly obvious to everyone else, but just in case there are others like me I thought I'd ask this. And if I'm wrong, you and the other mods will be able to correct me so everyone gets the best of all possible worlds. Anyway, thanks for starting us off with your answer. | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 21:03 | answer | added | Joseph WrightMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 20:34 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | I guess you want a bit more description than 'turn up on the site every day, read new posts, check mod flags' :-) | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 20:33 | comment | added | Joseph Wright Mod | I see that there are currently 28 potential candidates (i.e. members with rep. over 2k) at the time of writing. | |
| Jan 26, 2011 at 8:29 | history | asked | Andrew StaceyMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |