Timeline for 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:49 | comment | added | Valorum | Some of our moderator candidates have been kind enough to answer in chat; chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27143469#27143469 | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 20:48 | comment | added | Valorum | Some of our moderator candidates have been kind enough to answer in chat; chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/27144045#27144045 | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 19:00 | comment | added | Valorum | @Hamlet - My concern is that we have a situation where high-rep members are going dark (leaving/not contributing to the main site in any meaningful sense) with alarming regularity. I was hoping to determine whether our new mods feel this is a problem at all, and if so, what they felt should be done about it or, if not, why not. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:50 | comment | added | user1807 | @Richard I'm not quite sure why their answer would be any different. The policy changes that you don't like are policy changes the community felt were necessary. The policy changes are still necessary even though 2-4 respected community members left. You're issue is with the policy changes, but you can't ask a question about the policy changes because that debate has been resolved, so you are asking questions about the 2-4 users who have left. The answer to this question is that the debate about the policy changes is over, and it's counterproductive to keep bringing it up. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:21 | comment | added | Valorum | @Hamlet - As I said, it would have been nice to hear what our would-be mods think on this, rather than hearing what those that were responsible think. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | user1807 | What this answer essentially asks is: can we rehash policy decisions that were made months ago now that 2-4 high-rep users have left. And the answer is no: the policy decisions were decided to be necessary 2-4 months ago, and the loss of a few (admittedly valuable members of the community) doesn't change that. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:07 | comment | added | user1807 | ...It would be nice to avoid having users leave. But if the community feels that these policy changes are necessary (which seems to be the case here), then the loss of a few community members is the price the community has to pay. The point the community manager makes in the linked answer is that the lose isn't irreparable: new users will step up and replace the old users who left. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | user1807 | @Richard the link I posted above contains an answer from a community manager (i.e. it's canonical) essentially says: people come and go for all sorts of reasons, whether it's because they have kids or want to spend time with their family, or because they don't like the direction a community is heading. If the community is healthy, new users will step up and become the experts. I agree with the community manager. The community (or the mods, or Stack Exchange, or whoever) has implemented some policies that, assuming you're answer is right, have caused 2-4 high-rep users to leave... | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 15:43 | comment | added | Valorum | @MikeEdenfield - I think my mistake was in assuming that more than a handful of people cared. I think it's a very serious problem, but evidently that view isn't shared by the populace. I also should have asked it through a proxy account, to avoid people downvoting because of who asked it. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 17:14 | comment | added | Valorum | @hamlet - It seems that users are more interested in how our new mod/s will deal with chatty comments than with the flight of our top talent. | |
| Jan 22, 2016 at 0:50 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Richard Don't forget Darth Melkor! | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 21:31 | comment | added | user1807 | See How do we move past the absence of our top contributor? | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 21:11 | comment | added | Valorum | @Keen - Well, Slytherincess, Tango and Thaddeus certainly fit the criteria. DVK has just quit the site, Jeff hasn't been around for a while either. That's certainly more than "1-2 users". | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 21:03 | comment | added | user1027 | @ryan The question has at least one flaw though. 1-2 users isn't much of a trend. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:26 | comment | added | Ryan | Let's consider the question here people, not the user that posted it. However you may feel, this is a valid question. Without a stable core of users that put out highly valued content the site looses a lot of its attractiveness as a place you can have an "expert" potentially answer your question. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 17:17 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |