Ok, well now I don't feel bad saying it -- I was quite worried that Rook would somehow win the election, as I'm pretty sure he would be the worst mod of all time. Now that he's at -11, I'm less worried
This is hard. On SU it was fairly clear cut whether I thought someone deserved and up vote or a down vote. On SO I think there's going to be a fair few I don't vote for at all.
But in my opinion, someone like @MichaelMrozek or @LasseVKarlsen has a great sense of what the community is because of their excellent participation in meta. Not that you don't, but they so clearly do
I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea.
When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a mod...
@Josh Why is the voting information useful to you? :P
It has purpose on the rest of the site which would be hindered by any attempts at not showing the vote count, but here it doesn't, really, except as an end result.
Mumble is a free, open-source, cross-platform voice over IP application. Its primary users are gamers, and it is similar to programs such as TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. It uses a client–server architecture where users who want to talk connect to the same server.
Mumble has a very simple administrative interface and most of the engineering effort is put into sound quality and low latency.
As of version 1.1, all communication is encrypted to ensure user privacy.
As of version 1.1.7 Mumble has native support for Logitech G15 keyboard LCD display.
Channel hierarchy
A Mumble server (called Mur...
FOSS; low latency; excellent quality. Inbuilt recording for versions 1.2.3+ (currently only an rc2 is out)
one thing I want to warn candidates about is burnout -- we have seen, often due to OUR mistakes as "park rangers" in not spreading the moderation load equitably -- moderators who get overwhelmed and no longer view participating as enjoyable. How would you avoid this, and help identify it so we can avoid it for your fellow mods?
Avoiding burnout is assisted by my spouse. Also, there are some things that can be done as 10K users and as we get more of those it's easier to rally the troops as it were.
"Avoiding burnout is assisted by my spouse." -- LOL
Oh yes, brush up on your fundamentals. Phone interviews are used as weed out because they are easy to perform and usually only involves one person instead of three of four. They don't have to use a lot of company resources either.
@JacobRelkin The basics should be good. For example, runtime for a binary search, searching for an element in a binary tree, looking up an item in a map, etc. Just demonstrate that you are aware of the fundamentals
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Robert Harvey 102
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Jjinguy 99
Tim Post 77
Kev 55
George Stocker 48
Brad Larson 47
Paul Dixon 41
Karim79 30
Dave Delong 30
Jacob Relkin 25
bmargulies 12
Martin York 10
Gordon 10
CasperOne 10
ChrisJesterYoung 6
Lennart Regebro 2
Mitchel Sellers 0
codaddict -2
Matt Ball -10
Peter Lawrey -12
David Thomas -23
DeadMG -35
Rook -61
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@drachenstern Well, I led the primary last time and finished fifth overall (third after Jason Cohen withdrew). But that was when the primary was on Meta, so the sample size was a lot smaller.
Hi,
I want to contact a Stack Overflow user - is there anyway to send them a message or request access to there contact details?
The reason is a particular user has a lot of experience in a field in which we are looking to hire someone so we would like to contact them initially to see if they w...
There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting them to do something. Are there any plans to allow this to happen in the future?
@badp No, of course not. I was just saying that they'll have to merge their accounts into mine, and with @RebeccaChernoff's account we'll have enough to for me to reach 10K :P
@Josh ....No, not at all. SO is boring, don't go there.
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Robert Harvey 118
Jjinguy 114
LasseVKarlsen 113
Tim Post 90
Kev 66
Brad Larson 57
George Stocker 56
Paul Dixon 46
Dave Delong 42
Jacob Relkin 34
Karim79 31
Gordon 14
Martin York 13
CasperOne 13
ChrisJesterYoung 9
bmargulies 8
Lennart Regebro 4
codaddict 2
Mitchel Sellers 0
Peter Lawrey -15
Matt Ball -16
David Thomas -28
DeadMG -42
Rook -68
(and, we try to make the tools great and continue to improve them, so you have more time for the enjoyable stuff.. we also want your input on that any time)