2020 Moderator Election

nomination began

Oct 26, 2020 at 20:00

election began

Nov 2, 2020 at 20:00

election ended

Nov 10, 2020 at 20:00

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Election Phase

In the election phase, the candidates who made it through the nomination phase or primary phase (if required) advance to final community voting. Candidates are displayed in random order.

Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election. Please make your selections in order of preference, with the most desirable candidate as first choice. You do not need to rank all candidates.

We will calculate the winners using OpaVote with the Meek STV method, which automatically weights users' votes in the way that does the most good for the candidates they have selected, in order of preference.

When the election is complete, the ballot file will be freely downloadable from this page for the life of the site. Individual users' voting choices are always private; only the aggregated tally will be made public.

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

Every election has three phases:

Nomination
Primary
Election

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

2 Candidates

Nomination Primary Election

I guess I'll start us off!

I’m Richard, and I am a music theory professor in the United States. Above all, I hope that my activity on this site has been helpful for some of our visitors. And if you’ve found my activity helpful, I hope you’ll consider my candidacy for moderator.

I am one of the most active members of the site; my profile says that I have visited the site for over 1200 consecutive days, and I’ve only missed two days since I became a regular user in May of 2016. (And the two days I missed were due only to extended international travel.)

During my time here I’ve been especially active with the community reviews: looking at the stats now, I see that I’m the top reviewer in every single review queue (close votes, late answers, low-quality posts, re-open votes, and suggested edits) except for one, first posts, which I admit I’ve intentionally stayed away from to give other users the opportunity to get some community review experience.

This place has become very important to me over the past few years, and I would love to have the opportunity to say thanks and give back to the community by serving as a moderator.

posted Oct 27, 2020 at 15:01

Richard
member for 8 years

candidate score 40/40

reputation >= 20k
moderation badges: 8/8
editing badges: 6/6
participation badges: 6/6

reviews | meta posts

Howdy,

I'm luser droog, self-nominating for the moderator election.

Which I'm super impressed with Richard's vitae (and will probably vote for him), for elections to be meaningful there ought to be some competition.

I've been active on the site for a number of years and have spent time in the review queues. I'm also constantly logged in to the chatroom and try to share new music and theory and technique videos I find.

I'm a gen-"X"-er, currently a returning CS student finishing up my first degree after a 20 year hiatus.

I am a bit of an anarchist. While I recognize the need for structures and rules, I am deeply distrustful of pat answers from authority figures and constantly wary of the fallacy of improper appeal to authority. Consensus is better than compromise. Two honest parties with the same information cannot agree to disagree.

I hope I would exercise authority fairly, ever cognizant that there is a real person on the other end of the line.

posted Oct 29, 2020 at 18:57

luser droog
member for 12 years

candidate score 29/40

reputation 15k
moderation badges: 4/8
editing badges: 4/6
participation badges: 6/6

reviews | meta posts

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2020 Moderator Election

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