2018 Moderator Election

nomination began

Feb 26, 2018 at 20:00

election began

Mar 5, 2018 at 20:00

election ended

Mar 13, 2018 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

Moderation has been a passion of mine ever since I delved into it sometime late 90’s moderating a high trafficked WWWBoard.

Then I moved on to moderate phpBB forums with user bases in the thousands.

Nowadays, I work as a moderator on a variety of platforms, including a leading long-form writing platform with an audience of millions. They all share the same source of existence, and that is WordPress.

My model of moderation is divided into three major processes:

Communication: Understand the lingo to connect with the community and master the art of maintaining a positive approach to resolve conflicts.
Collaboration: Engage with fellow upper-tier users/mods and work together to resolve issues and provoke change when encouraged by the community.
Responsibility: Protect the integrity of the community, understand my rights, and never misuse my power.

Being active on WPSE for over five years, all of my knowledge about WordPress comes from growing with this community, and it is only fair that I share my experience of moderation with it.

Read my tale of moderation.

posted Feb 27, 2018 at 10:42

Christine Cooper♦
member for 10 years

candidate score 18/40

reputation 8k
moderation badges: 2/8
editing badges: 3/6
participation badges: 5/6

reviews | meta posts

Hi, I'm Jack! Not the fabulous Captain Jack Sparrow, but a Jack nonetheless.

I've been on this community for about 21 months. I remember the days I was a total newbie, and this community helped my reach further. Now, I guess I have a debt to pay, both by helping questions get answered, and by organizing and improving the quality of this community.

Why would I be a proper moderator?

I spend a lot of time here

I work by my computer ( you don't say ) at home almost all of the day. This actually allows me to be online most of the time. I even have an open tab of WPSE, checking the website every once in a while.
I'm good with responsibilities

With privilege, comes responsibilities, and this is one of the stuff that I'm good with. I don't take any responsibility, Unless I'm sure I can handle it.
Obsession with being tidy.

I confess, I have an obsession with being tidy and organized. Everything should be placed in order, if possible. Seeing a post in a bad state and not being able to do anything about it, is just painful.

posted Feb 27, 2018 at 18:20

Johansson♦
member for 7 years

candidate score 33/40

reputation 15k
moderation badges: 7/8
editing badges: 6/6
participation badges: 5/6

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2018 Moderator Election

2 Candidates

Why would I be a proper moderator?

This election is over.