In my opinion, the moderator should be that who knows everything, like what will be his responsibility and what's the rules of the site. And he will be honest to use them. So before the nomination or during the election there must be a test and who will perform best. He will be the moderators. What you things everyone?
I don't claim to know everything, does that disqualify me (disclaimer: my wife will tell you that I do claim to know everything, but she's misquoting me.)
Why is it that suggestions for building in supplemental links to place like jsFiddle are always responded to with "no, questions and answers must stand on their own", even when adding the supplemental links would not break that rule (ie - the code would still be in the content, regardless of the external link's functionality)?
@Wooble Sure some of the highest voted questions are awful. But they are mostly pretty old. This question had an upvote within minutes of being posted (with very low views). Just makes me wonder if sock-puppet voting was in play.
At most you can leave a polite comment to one of the posts he edited (you can @reply an editor) and ask him not to format things as code when they are not actually code.
@Wooble If it helps, Shog once said that he considers election discussions the sole place in the SE world where it's okay to talk about users' personal failings.
Pops-Perturbing Pedantic Problem of the Day: people who edit/suggest edits to "fix grammer" (and do about as good a job as the edit summary would, ah, suggest).
Moderator elections are the one time where it's ok to straight up criticize another person on SO (vs something specific they've written). You've gotta expect it. Especially when there are other, earlier nominees with less reputation but a much longer or richer history of "moderation" (both meanings) on SO.
I am attempting to create an Android app that has a similar look and feel to the Pinterest and Trello Android apps. Both of these apps create what appears to be an "Action Bar" that has three tabs, with the middle tab being wider than the other two.
Is there a setting an Action Bar configurati...
I'll see if I can't come up w/ something in the meantime... I followed you on G+ I'll post a link to a gist if I come up w/ something workable (I'm just playing around w/ an app)
@RaghavSood and btw good look w/ the moderator election
I'm starting to come around to the idea that moderators should need to be 10k. Nothing talked me out of wanting to be an SO mod faster than seeing the 10k flag numbers at the top of the screen all the time
Heck yeah! Why else would you down-vote? Odd numbers annoy you? You just like clicking things? Ok, those are good reasons too... But strategy is better. And my strategy is, "down-vote everyone I don't want to be a moderator".
Don't forget: these are the primaries - the point is to whittle down ...
@Wooble Many people oppose downvoting for philosophical reasons. Specifically, the philosophy of not losing a rep point just to indicate that an answer is bad.
@MichaelMrozek I would say that 10k isn't required, but strongly encouraged. I am, however, certain that if you're between 20k and 100k you probably will make a better contributor than moderator.
My experience says that most mods tend to contribute less after the diamond.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA And you recognize that Yearling is not a requirement for nominating as a mod on SO? That at this very moment anyone who meets the other requirements but has not been active on SO for a year yet can nominate themselves?
In other words, rather than being limited to a small window of time now months in the past, the post and its resolution actually describe both your current PoV and the current behavior of the system itself?
@mmyers Because it is localized to that one election. Yes elections now allow for users here user a year to nominate themselves, and I agree with it, but that question was localized to when it was not allowed.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA you just admitted that, rather than being localized to one election, it is actually currently in effect. You are convicted by your own words. Drop it.
@Shog9 Oy. The question is localized to that election. If the questions asked "Why is the yearling badge a requirement for election?" then yes I would agree with you, but it isn't... whatever...
After someone opened this question, a decision was made to open up moderator nominations to individuals who have not been members of the site for at least a year.
WHY?
What possible benefit does this have besides allowing marginally qualified people to enter the race and clutter it up?
Do we r...
You can't have it both ways. Either the post is relevant to a situation or point in time that no longer has any bearing on anything in the present, or it's not Too Localized. IOW, so long as Yearling is not a requirement for moderator nominations on SO, the FR that led to that being the case is not TL.
Now, if you'd posted, "I suggest that the Yearling badge requirement apply only to elections in which I am not running for moderator with < 1yr on SO" then yes - that would be too localized.
That would probably also not have been implemented.
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I decided that times that are 1 second or less in the future will show up as
you can foo the bar just now
(e.g. the same as being <= 4 seconds in the past, to account for minor server clock skews.)
times that are 2 to 4 seconds in the future will continue to show up as
you can foo t...
I like to ask you, if you feel ok to have administrator without knowing all read information's about them (like age, real name etc), or what is your opinion on part-anonymous administrators.
@mmyers No, they have a lot of information's, I mean that many provide only a name and a location, or some not even the location, not the age of them, or false age.
@PopularDemand And you can see the Identity Thief - the movie for more fun :)
@mmyers Yes like you. But actually I didn't know you, nether have see your profile before. Nether know if SO stuff know more info's about you, or what is your relationship - you seems to have prove that you are what you are - I mean the new one that ask them to trust them for moderators of us.
Please I am not judge, or suggest anything - I just have that in my mine, and talk with you to see your opinion about. I am not say that I like or not like, anything is cool as it is, just have that on my mine !
And your opinion is something that helps me to think a bit about that...
@Aristos Sure. The issue has probably been raised on Meta multiple times before (not going to dig through right now), but it turns out jcolebrand's right
@mmyers Yes, in a part, the age of the moderator seems that bother many - from the comments on the fist phase. So maybe age is a part of the metric for some to vote.
THE FOLLOWING POST IS NOT A CONDONEMENT OR CONDEMNMENT. YOU ARE NOT IN ANY WAY OBLIGATED TO APPRECIATE THE DETAILS OF THIS POST OR TO VOTE THE WAY I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE VOTED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
@PopularDemand This is may sound mysterious, but this actually happend at a part to me. One person that have the same name with me, register on the IRS one company, the nice young lady there that was bother of their life, is found me and connect me with their company - the town was 200km away. So bill from IRS starts to come to me :) Thanks god I solve it in a day - but I still be connected with that company with a comment from the IRS that they make mistake - but they did not erase me :)
Yes, and any time a user is privately messaged by a moderator, I think. (That is my understanding and why I think I've had one on my profile, though I haven't seen it to confirm.)
I am attempting to create an Android app that has a similar look and feel to the Pinterest and Trello Android apps. Both of these apps create what appears to be an "Action Bar" that has three tabs, with the middle tab being wider than the other two.
Is there a setting an Action Bar configurati...
After someone opened this question, a decision was made to open up moderator nominations to individuals who have not been members of the site for at least a year.
WHY?
What possible benefit does this have besides allowing marginally qualified people to enter the race and clutter it up?
Do we r...
I decided that times that are 1 second or less in the future will show up as
you can foo the bar just now
(e.g. the same as being <= 4 seconds in the past, to account for minor server clock skews.)
times that are 2 to 4 seconds in the future will continue to show up as
you can foo t...
The GEICO gecko as Bill the Lizard
