Timeline for 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 15:12 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @MrHen OK by me :) | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 15:07 | comment | added | MrHen | @Mari-LouA: I turned your first comment into a question since it seems to be well received and I think it makes an interesting topic of discussion for the election. If you want me to remove it, let me know. Also, feel free to edit or improve it. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 6:40 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @KitFox I have limited myself to observing the mods' activity on ELU, which includes posting answers, closing answers, warning and suspending users etc. I did ask in a previous question if the mod(s) was more active in chat, and never got a direct reply. Am I allowed to name names? I don't want to embarrass or point an accusatory finger at anyone, nor am I interested in becoming a mod myself, but I'm not one to make rash assumptions, I usually do a minimum amount of research to check that my impression has some foundation. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 18:26 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox Mod | @Mari There are five mods. Two of us are often in chat. The others communicate with the community as needed. If you haven't heard from them, you haven't needed to hear from them. Don't mistake silence for inaction. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @Mari-LouA I think you do the mute moderators an injustice; they do an enormous amount of essential cleanup work behind the scene. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 3:15 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @FumbleFingers five votes for closing, and/or re-opening questions seems more than fair to me. A mod can make mistakes, however competent he or she may be; an extra pair of eyes is always a bonus. And why is one vote enough to close, but five always necessary to reopen? I don't think I've ever seen a mod reopening a question that is on hold. I believe there are two mods whose voices we never hear; both of whom were once active and whose contributions I greatly admire, but I feel their "silence" do not help the remaining three mods who bear the brunt of the work. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Mari-Lou: But SE itself seems to be heading in the opposite direction! Five of us have just been granted the ability to unilaterally close certain duplicate questions, even though we're not mods. Whatever - if you think the mods are too autocratic (I don't), it's not obvious to me how forcing them to back each other up would change things. Besides which, they normally leave closevoting to us "ordinary" users anyway - we're the ones you should be moaning at. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 22:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I would suggest that two mods need to agree on whether to close a question as being duplicate, off-topic, or POB. All too often this decision appears to be unilateral, and at times, taken in haste. The consensus of two mods would guarantee greater objectivity and hopefully, limit those instances where a question is put on hold based on a question's title and not on its content. | |
| Jun 9, 2014 at 20:00 | history | answered | Grace NoteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |