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The following is a "digest" version of the 2013 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. …

Grace Note asked: In your opinion, what do moderators do? mateo_salta answered: Handle the exceptions. Anna Lear asked for clarification: Can you expand on that? What kind of exceptions do yo …

fossfreedom asked: How much time do you have to devote to janitorial tasks? ObsessiveSSOℲ answered: While I am a student, with events and extracurricular stuff, I can manage one and a half hour …

Tim Stone asked: Do you feel like a representative percentage of the community participates in your site's meta? Based on that, how strongly do you think feedback presented on meta should factor into …

. :) Journeyman Geek answered: As I said in my election pitch, wide experience on how SE as a whole works, and a presense on most of the site. …

Grace Note asked: In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep? Or staying there, if the case may be? ObsessiveSSOℲ ans …

Amith KK asked: 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 …

Caleb asked: A new user comes along and asks several generic scripting questions. Somebody comes along and flags them all for migration to U&L; what do you do? ObsessiveSSOℲ answered: I would ca …

fossfreedom asked: You find out that a well known and highly valued Ask Ubuntu contributor is possibly engaging in questionable behaviour, like having friends upvoting their posts. How do you handle …

Amith KK asked: What will change about Ask Ubuntu after you are elected? ObsessiveSSOℲ answered: There will be a new set of hands helping keep this site operational. While I will avoid changes f …

Marco Ceppi asked: Do you feel you'll use your new super-vote privileges a lot if elected moderator? Marco Ceppi clarified: All votes to close are binding and no longer require 5 votes from comm …

Caleb asked: What, in your opinion, is the purpose of closing questions? What are the positive and negative impacts and, in your opinion, should the measure be taken more or less frequently than the …

Shog9 asked: on Ask Ubuntu, almost anyone can moderate, as gaining reputation provides access to various tools for doing so: flags, commenting, editing, close/reopen, deletion... How much moderating …

Grace Note asked: War has broken out across the Stack Exchange Network. Ask Ubuntu has enough troops that you could deploy them to take down one rival site. Which do you take down: Super User, Arqade …

Amith KK asked: Where there is a will, there is a way: How far would you go to help another user? How far have you gone in the past to ensure a new user does not become discouraged at the first sign …