Timeline for What would you like to change about the moderator election process?
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| Feb 2 at 12:12 | comment | added | Lundin | ( Particularly true on Electrical Engineering, I would say :) There's lots of grumpy engineers with great knowledge but with the people skills of a zener diode :) ) | |
| Feb 2 at 12:08 | comment | added | Lundin | @JBH "I've not run the test, but I wouldn't be surprised if of the top 15% of respondents on any stack only a fraction participate in Meta" That is certainly true, but just because someone has great domain knowledge or just a lot of time to write answers, doesn't necessarily mean they are good moderator material. And the opposite, we've seen some young moderators who were still students and lacking plenty in pure domain knowledge, yet were great as moderators. It's two separate things. | |
| Feb 1 at 22:32 | comment | added | V2Blast | Yeah, by and large, the elections I ran as CM that had trouble getting enough candidates to proceed were sites that had quiet/inactive communities overall – including Meta and chat. The lack of community participation was the underlying issue; the difficulty finding nominees was just one symptom of that. (Even when the election happened to get enough candidates to proceed, it didn't really solve the underlying issue – it just allowed the situation to remain until the next election.) | |
| Feb 1 at 18:18 | comment | added | JBH | @HelderSepulveda Ah... thanks. That explains your initial comment. Sorry to bother you. | |
| Feb 1 at 17:44 | comment | added | JBH | @HelderSepulveda You're looking at this backwards. It's not the people with the questions who are failing Stack Exchange, it's the people who have plenty of time to type an answer. And another. And another. I've not run the test, but I wouldn't be surprised if of the top 15% of respondents on any stack only a fraction participate in Meta. (Now, getting new users to read the Help Center, pay attention to the Tour, and actually think about what a good question means... that really would be a miracle.) | |
| Jan 31 at 22:58 | comment | added | JBH | @Laurel I remember when the Meta over at Worldbuilding was very active. Policy discussions would have a dozen or more answers promoting ideas. Votes would regularly tally above 50 and could hit triple digits. Then Monica was fired and the community ads went away and many of the original participants left. Today we're hard pressed to get any double-digit voting and more than one or two participating answers. It's tough to act on "community consensus" when the same four people are involved. I'd be curious to know how many <5,000 rep users even know Meta exists. | |
| Jan 31 at 14:45 | comment | added | Laurel | Find a way to encourage users to regularly participate in Meta I'm saddened by the lack of activity I see on Writing Meta. As a mod, I was running writing challenges, but I had to stop when I was the only one participating. There's not much in the way of non-fun activity either, and I have no idea how to stimulate that… | |
| Jan 31 at 8:20 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | I consider good meta skills - and being able to explain your decisions,handling critique and informing users of potential issues and features a essential moderator skill. | |
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| Jan 31 at 1:56 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |