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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year
I am very happy with this. I don't think it's an unreasonable restriction and the net win for the process itself is big. This is supposed to be a fun and exciting time for a site and everyone that ...
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Can a fired moderator be elected as a moderator?
Past events indicate that whatever senior staff thinks is appropriate is what will be allowed or disallowed, regardless of what has gone before, what staff has said on Meta, or what written policy is. ...
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Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who uses and moderates several low-activity beta sites. I agree that it can be, at times, a bit demoralizing to see some sites quickly graduate,1 while ...
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Writing desperately needs moderators!
I’m sorry.
The long-standing repercussions of the fall are something we’re still recovering from. The moderator situation on Writing and a handful of other sites is something we need to address - ...
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Will we really have "democratic" moderator elections?
Moderators who resigned resigned in good standing. I don't think anyone can fault them for choosing the path of action they did, simply because there's no alternative. Outside of seeing that other ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
The first Skeptics election had 64 voters in total.
That's a scary number to me, any lower and I'm not sure the election would mean anything.
The previous stance by SE was always that the ...
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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year
I agree with this. Being a moderator is a higher responsibility than being an ordinary user; it should follow that moderators are held to a higher standard, and that there is an intermediate stage ...
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Is it common or desirable for moderators of one SE site to actively influence moderator elections of another site?
Is it common? Yes. I've been observing these elections for as long as they've existed, and in my experience there are users who will nearly always spark a comment from a moderator when they choose to ...
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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year
To somewhat play devil’s advocate, I am throwing an alternative into the ring that has not been discussed yet (forgive me if I missed something):
TL;DR
Let the voters decide, but steer inform them ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
Should "Moderator For Life" always be automatic… and FOREVER?
This would be a fundamental change in the relationship between the moderators (particularly the elected ones) and the company and, more ...
ChrisFMod
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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year
I tend to agree with this. The reason is, unlike content that you contribute to different Stack Exchange sites, the principles of moderation stay the same between them, for the most part.
These people ...
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Which moderator election was decided with the smallest margin?
It appears that today's results from the Code Review election resulted in 224.05 "votes" for Mast and 224.32 "votes" for Peilonrayz, so a difference of 0.27 out of 767 total ...
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Should Community Managers remain impartial during Moderator elections?
I see no reason why they should stay impartial . . . but they should make it clear who they're speaking for.
Community Managers work for Stack Exchange. Whenever I see one doing something, I ...
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I appealed against a suspension, but the appeal is still pending. Am I going to miss the election?
Even back when the Community Team had twice as many people on it, 7-day suspensions were pretty much never investigated. The standard timeline of events was always as follows:
User is suspended.
User ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
Could we get a yearly check in meta post by the Community user asking if the site would like to have a mod election?
On some sites, a mod election may be necessary while on others the community could ...
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Why aren't moderators moderating but wait for high-rep users to do it?
I always thought that high-rep users with additional privileges only support moderators in their work but it looks like they're actually the ones doing it. If moderators don't care about the queues, ...
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Let's disallow moderator nominations from people who've been suspended in the past year
I agree with this in general. I'd say if you've been so immoderate as to get yourself banned from an SE site, you need time to let bygones be bygones before you can be an undivisive candidate.
There ...
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Let's give a better idea of what moderators do
As this answer says, some of this information will be both site-dependent and time-dependent. I suspect that a high-level "what do moderators do?" post could be written too, but it's ...
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Is it common or desirable for moderators of one SE site to actively influence moderator elections of another site?
Either you want the election process to be open and frank or you want it be about electing those you get along with in the chat room despite whatever personality flaws and misgivings are actually ...
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Is it common or desirable for moderators of one SE site to actively influence moderator elections of another site?
Moderator elections tend to draw some attention across the network, especially among users active on multiple SE sites and interested in the meta aspects of the network. So of course we sometimes talk ...
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By-elections or non-competitive recall of runners-up?
Since the last SO election was less than 6 months ago, we reached out to some of the runners up to see if they were interested. Typically, if an election is within 6 months we'll ask the runners up. ...
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Will we really have "democratic" moderator elections?
How can I make an informed decision, when I'm not allowed to view the information?
That information is public and can be found in the Help Center:
I acknowledge and agree that as a moderator for ...
GlorfindelMod
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Should Community Managers remain impartial during Moderator elections?
No. The community managers are part of the community. They are also uniquely situated to know both problem users and exceptional behavior from users. Their opinions are important.
You mention ...
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Opt out of moderator election notifications
We have a long list of things users would like to be able to ignore, and things that users would like to be notified of instead. But until we develop some way to filter them out without just adding a ...
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Help me opine about a new election system
Consider allowing a long-serving moderator in good standing to have an "Emeritus" role instead of full retirement.
Currently, elected moderators who stop being moderators do so for one of three ...
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Do not allow moderator candidates to change their user names during elections
Name changes during the election should be allowed. Like Makoto I can imagine plenty of innocent reasons to change a username.
I wouldn't object tying username changes during elections to some rules ...
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Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
I've been excited to respond to this question because it gets at one of the biggest deficiencies I see on the network. After the Area 51 process, there are precious few community achievements. ...
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