Timeline for Why is stack overflow asking me to vote for moderators?
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod | I think you already wasted more time complaining about this than you'd spend in your whole life to simply clicking all election notifications away... | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 11:30 | comment | added | Tiago | In a world filled with unnecessary notifications, each additional irrelevant notification adds annoyance. | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 9:03 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Tiago: One per year or so? Not really "clutter". | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 2:55 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | @mbrig That is along the philosophy for sure. Perhaps two semi-mods could close Q&As when vote queues clog up. | |
| Mar 28, 2018 at 16:22 | comment | added | mbrig | @WinEunuuchs2Unix I think what you are referring to is the ability of gold-badge holders for a tag to "dupe-hammer" (immediately close a question as a duplicate) questions. This is the only situation they can bypass the 5 votes requirements, the other types of votes still require 5 users or a mod. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 12:28 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod | @Tiago No, you can not opt-out of election notifications. See meta.stackexchange.com/q/299110/280883 | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 0:36 | comment | added | Tiago | Can we disable these notifications somehow? I love SO but have no interest in spending time choosing moderators. These notifications are just clutter in my eyes. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 4:13 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Elections are as needed. If there's no elections it simply means no top up of mods is needed. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:59 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | That's interesting. You know a lot about this subject. I still can't let myself vote on something I know nothing about. And as apparent parallel of life itself, Stack Exchange doesn't let me vote on the users I know about and respect from their many, many posts I've read :(. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:56 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod | There is no "wrong vote". If anything, there are more and less popular votes. Because for one thing, some quality criteria apply to be allowed to nominate oneself in the first place. Then, during the Primaries, only the 10 best candidates got picked for the real election already, so there should not be any outright "bad" candidate in the list any more (at least on sites like SO with enough candidates). And the other thing, even if you decide to vote using a set of dice, your vote counts, but it still only counts once. If you vote for suboptimal candidates, this doesn't turn around the results. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:44 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | Sorry the "higher standards" was directed at desert's comment and had nothing to do with your answer. Your answer is on-topic to the question, desert's comment is taking the whole thread off-topic to meta SE which was how my comment was structured. Different strokes for different folks. Getting back to your answer and "it's your right not to vote" I contextualize it differently in that if I've never seen a post by any of the candidates (except ArtofCode the lowest ranked) I'm doing a disservice by voting for the only name I've seen before. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:37 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | I think I read somewhere someone with "command line gold" can close command line tagged questions without the normal 5 close votes. That is what I was thinking about when I floated the demi-mods concept. Two demi-mods could close a question or delete an answer for example. Fast tracking the review queues. I realize the phrase sounds too much like demi-gods which is a turn off for many. Just the first title that came to mind. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:36 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod | Btw, I expanded my answer with another part about your concern. I also think 150 points is a fair minimum to filter out candidates with barely any activity, but still let many people vote. Especially as reputation is not exactly a measurement for quality and quantity of your involvement with the community, but mostly for how well you write on-topic questions and answers. One of course affects the other, but they are not the same. To come back to your comparison to politics, what "higher standards" would you want to apply here, a simple web community, over a government election? | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:30 | comment | added | Byte Commander Mod | Established users with high enough rep scores can do a whole lot of moderative actions already, but they can't do most of the things alone. E.g. closing or deleting stuff usually needs several pairs of eyes to pass, which is a good thing. Moderators can do things without approval of anyone else (although they should always try represent the community and the Stack Exchange policies with their actions). That is the main difference, and the source of their power and responsibility. It's a good thing to have not too many of them, and to have them democratically elected. | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:24 | history | edited | Byte CommanderMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:13 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | For example how about voting for demi-mods? ie Yourself, Serge, Zanna, David, Elder, Chili, Muru, etc. can make one mod out of 66% agreement to take a given action. I don't really understand the mod powers but lets say you can gang-up on the review queues to quickly close things when two out of three agree to do so. I'm digressing... sorry :) | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:09 | comment | added | WinEunuuchs2Unix | Thank you for your answer. Of course it is perfectly correct but, I still don't think I should be eligible to vote on Stack Overflow. I'd be comfortable voting here because I've seen the same trusted screen names every day for 18 months or so. I guess my question isn't as much about what the rules are but more a discussion on if they should be changed???? | |
| Mar 24, 2018 at 0:05 | history | answered | Byte CommanderMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |