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Esperanto Language

2024 Moderator Election

nomination began
Sep 24 at 20:00
election began
Oct 8 at 20:00
election cancelled
Oct 8 at 20:07
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On Stack Exchange, we believe the core moderators should come from the community, and be elected by the community itself through popular vote. We hold regular elections to determine who these community moderators will be.

Community moderators are accorded the highest level of privilege on our community, and should themselves be exemplars of positive behavior and leaders within the community.

Our general criteria for moderators is as follows:

  • patient and fair
  • leads by example
  • shows respect for their fellow community members in their actions and words
  • open to some light but firm moderation to keep the community on track and resolve (hopefully) uncommon disputes and exceptions

Full elections have three phases and an optional fourth phase (Primary):

  1. Question Collection
  2. Nomination
  3. Primary
  4. Election

Please participate in the moderator elections by voting, and perhaps even by nominating yourself to be a community moderator!

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Questionnaire
The community team has compiled questions from meta for the candidates to answer.
  1. How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

[Answer 1 here]

  1. How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?

[Answer 2 here]

  1. In your opinion, what do moderators do?

[Answer 3 here]

  1. A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?

[Answer 4 here]

  1. In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching enough reputation to access moderator tools or become a trusted user?

[Answer 5 here]

2 Candidates

Nomination Primary Election

Joop Eggen

Esperanto is a jewel of a language. Many aspects involved, base for reflection on language, objectivism hard to find. I consider myself objective on the language and lingual notions involved.

I am able to moderate, thanks to the not so time intensive requirements.

Questionnaire
  1. How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

In contrast to other forums, other topics, Esperanto might often have some need of elaborate discussion. Either one learns to discourse, or one is too rigid. The latter I have not really encountered.

  1. How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?

I would feel free to contact the other. I might get active.

  1. In your opinion, what do moderators do?

I am a bad moderator myself. Because I like answering. A moderator should wait a bit, to allow visitors to provide their insights before possibly answer too. I like commenting to widen the discussion, point to additional aspects. True moderation like deleting spam/abuse is obvious.

  1. A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?

Like a teaching position, one needs some mild attitude - which I always had. One must be careful.

  1. In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching enough reputation to access moderator tools or become a trusted user?

I do not want to moderate too much. Do not expect much - sorry.

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avpaderno

I would like to nominate myself for the position of moderator.

I am a 25k user on Drupal Answers and Meta Stack Exchange, and a 20k user on English Language Learners, English Language & Usage, and Stack Overflow. I am moderator on Drupal Answers.

In those sites, I have the Deputy badge (for raising 50 helpful flags) in all of them, and the Marshal badge (for raising 500 helpful flags) in three of them. For the same sites, I have the Reviewer badge (for completing 250 review tasks) in five of them, and the Steward badge (for completing 1000 review tasks) in two of them.

Aside from a period where I was not active for personal reasons, I have always been active on Stack Exchange, and I plan to continue so.

Questionnaire
  1. How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

If the arguments are not offensive, I would leave them. Otherwise, I would consult with other moderators and decide what can be done.

  1. How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?

I would ask in the private chat for moderators why the question has been closed/deleted, if that is a recent question without any raised flag.

  1. In your opinion, what do moderators do?

They moderate a site, by handling the raised flags, deleting spam accounts, and checking any situation for which the system alert them (via automatic flags, for example).

  1. A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?

I have been moderator for another site since March, 2011. Having a diamond attached to every comment I post did not change what I posted, except that, as moderator, I could need to post comments to remind people to keep the discourse civil and constructive.

  1. In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching enough reputation to access moderator tools or become a trusted user?

There are actions only moderators can take, like deleting posts as spam with a single spam flag, delete spammer accounts, lock a question that keeps getting defaced, deleting offensive comments, or moving off-topic comments in a chat room.

I will take any of those actions when necessary to keep the site safe and friendly to new users.

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reviews | meta posts

This election is over.