Timeline for Do Meta questions count in Beta site stats?
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| Feb 8, 2018 at 4:04 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @aparente001 no. Meta is important, but it's not the main site. SE evaluates sites based on what happens on the main site. | |
| Feb 8, 2018 at 3:44 | vote | accept | aparente001 | ||
| Feb 8, 2018 at 3:43 | comment | added | aparente001 | @MonicaCellio - Oh, I think the Beta site I was thinking of has had lots of positive Meta activity. That's why I was hoping the questions there would add to our count. But I understand now why they don't. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 20:24 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 18:20 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Another way you can have lots of meta activity but not in a bad way is if people are asking about specific posts or tags. One of my sites gets a "why is this question {closed | still open | deleted}?" question every day or two, but it's not because we're full of controversy and churn. Cultivating tags is good to do at almost any point in a site's life and they tend to cluster (hey, as long as we're talking about that tag, how about these others?). | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:35 | comment | added | Catija | Also, the j is a y... so it sounds like "ka-tya". | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | Catija | Much of what we do is behind-the-scenes, unattributed to the regular users... mod messages, flag handling, deleting spam accounts, etc. These are all things moderators do that you can't see. If they're in active on the child meta, that could just be how they moderate. Moderators are not expected to be the voice(s) of meta; sites are communally run, with moderators either cleaning up the trash or being exception handlers, depending on how you look at the job... Moderation teams fall into habits and often some mods will do one job while others do other things. They can look inactive but aren't. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:30 | comment | added | Catija | The Team tends to like there to be at least three active mods on a site but it's ultimately up to the moderators whether they ask for help. If they feel like they have the site under control, they will demur... but if they're struggling and don't realize they can ask for assistance, it might be worth bringing up... but do it once and leave them alone if they say that they're fine :) Based on your sites, it looks like all four mods have been active today. Whether they're actually moderating, that's unclear but moderation doesn't necessarily show up to users in a public way. | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:19 | comment | added | aparente001 | ... who I think could easily morph into a moderator role (not me, by the way), and I think the two active ones need a third person to bolster their efforts and spread out the responsibility a bit. But I don't know how to suggest that another moderator be appointed, and I don't know if a prerequisite is to do some thinning first. I've looked high and low and can't figure this out. This is tricky to ask openly -- I don't want an inactive mod to think I'm targeting them, and I don't want the two active mods to think I don't think they're up to the job. Do you have any suggestions? | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | aparente001 | Thanks a lot, Catija. (How do you pronounce the J in your userid?) I don't think the site I was thinking of is ready to graduate yet, but I was giving some thought today to how we get from Point A to Point B and I wanted to understand the rules better. // "A few sites, recently, have had problems finding users willing to stand up to moderate." About this -- we have two wonderful, relatively recently added moderators. We also have two that were appointed many years ago who are rarely active nowadays. I see several very active participants ... | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:00 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 16:55 | history | answered | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |