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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.
Hi, I'd like to serve as a janitor/moderator for Software Engineering!
I've been a very active user for a long time, most of that as a 20k user. As such, I already have access to a lot of community moderation tools and have a good understanding of the site's mechanisms. So far, my favourite “review queue” is the new questions page.
I just want this site to have a steady stream of wonderful questions for people to answer :)
By helping with a bit more active moderation,
I hope this will free community moderation capacity to engage with questions more constructively,
and that we can give more space to the many great questions we receive as well.
I previously engaged in community building efforts such as running the 2017 Question of the Week experiment.
I would like to be a moderator on Software Engineering.
Qualifications:
I have several years experience in the crucible of moderation, Stack Overflow.
I am the top user by reputation on Software Engineering.
I've cast 2,583 helpful moderator flags on Software Engineering. Of those, 1780 were on posts, and 1709 of those were marked Helpful, a ratio of 96%.
I've been very active on meta, and was a key player during Software Engineering's scope change from the Not Programming Related days.
I have a selfish interest in moderating this site: I want a binding vote. I see too many poor questions languish on the front page of this site for hours because there aren't enough close voters to dispatch them quickly. If elected, I'll use my golden hammer judiciously, but firmly, to pull those weeds, while leaving the borderline questions for the community to decide.
In the election phase, up to 10 candidates advance to final community voting. Candidates are displayed in random order.
Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election. Each voter may select up to three candidates. Please make your selections in order of preference, with the most desirable candidate as first choice.
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.
