Since we’re about to add community moderators on both Stack Overflow and Server Fault, I need to document what it is, exactly, we expect moderators to do.
The short answer is, as little as possible!
We intended Stack Overflow and Server Fault to be mostly self-regulating, and by that I mean we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.
That’s why, in the faq, we’ve always said that Stack Overflow is designed to be run by the community: …