2013 Moderator Election

nomination began

Feb 18, 2013 at 20:00

election began

Feb 25, 2013 at 20:00

election ended

Mar 5, 2013 at 20:00

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Election Phase

In the election phase, the candidates who made it through the nomination phase or primary phase (if required) advance to final community voting. Candidates are displayed in random order.

Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election. Please make your selections in order of preference, with the most desirable candidate as first choice. You do not need to rank all candidates.

We will calculate the winners using OpaVote with the Meek STV method, which automatically weights users' votes in the way that does the most good for the candidates they have selected, in order of preference.

When the election is complete, the ballot file will be freely downloadable from this page for the life of the site. Individual users' voting choices are always private; only the aggregated tally will be made public.

On Stack Exchange, we believe the core moderators should come from the community, and be elected by the community itself through popular vote. We hold regular elections to determine who these community moderators will be.

Community moderators are accorded the highest level of privilege on our community, and should themselves be exemplars of positive behavior and leaders within the community.

Our general criteria for moderators is as follows:

patient and fair
leads by example
shows respect for their fellow community members in their actions and words
open to some light but firm moderation to keep the community on track and resolve (hopefully) uncommon disputes and exceptions

Every election has three phases:

Nomination
Primary
Election

Please participate in the moderator elections by voting, and perhaps even by nominating yourself to be a community moderator!

2 Candidates

Nomination Primary Election

Hello everyone, I'd like to nominate myself as a moderator for this community which I hold dearly. As a frequent user, I am very much in touch with the community. I'm not a heavy meta participant (except when I see questions that prompt insightful responses getting closed to quickly). In a few cases, I've been able to convince mods that a question can be salvaged via an edit that makes the question more clear and/or aligned it better with the community.

Like some of my fellow nominees, I do believe that there has been some heavy handed abuse of the close button. And would use discretion on whether or not a question should be reopened (such as upvotes on the question itself and even if the question isn't that great but has provided some insightful answers judged via upvotes).

I believe that the programmers community is more ephemeral and conceptual than stackoverflow. For me it has been a place to think more about my profession and to not just get on a soapbox and profess my thoughts but also listen to others thoughts on the topic. That is my view of the community. If you agree, vote for me.

posted Feb 21, 2013 at 23:03

Michael Brown
member for 13 years

candidate score 26/40

reputation >= 20k
moderation badges: 1/8
editing badges: 2/6
participation badges: 3/6

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Hey everybody!

I'm Dynamic, and I would like to nominate myself for the position of moderator on the site. Since I started using this site, I have been trying to help the site in any way I can whether it be asking and answering questions, editing posts, voting, and more!

Some of the things I do on a regular basis include editing, closing, and reopening posts. I'm an owner of the blog and "Whiteboard" chat rooms. I help run the blog along with World Engineer. I also played a major role in kicking off and organizing Programmers first contest!

On meta and in chat, I sometimes see complaining about moderation that was too harsh such as a question being closed too quickly. I will strive to limit this event. We've lost great users because the site was not run the way they thought it should be, and they didn't think they had enough say. I understand that decisions have to be made, but the general community should have just as much, if not more, say as the moderators. My goal is to please the majority of users, but to keep others from getting angry.

Please consider me in your vote for moderator, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

posted Feb 19, 2013 at 22:01

Dynamic
member for 13 years

candidate score 20/40

reputation 5k
moderation badges: 5/8
editing badges: 4/6
participation badges: 6/6

reviews | meta posts

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2013 Moderator Election

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