Timeline for 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Feb 2, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | user Mod | @nitsua60 No, SO isn't really a great comparison, and I used that particular one almost as a reductio in absurdum argument. The point remains, though, in my opinion, that even if someone were to keep track, the fraction of posts that they read does not, at least by itself, determine whether or not they would be a good moderator. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 19:12 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @MichaelKjörling Is SO really a useful comparison? For comparison, this site is just coming out of beta, and perhaps it'd be nice to have some words from a mod/prospective mod on how much they've experienced the scope of the site and its users. Your comment-before-last is a nice answer--I'd like to see each candidate's response, not just yours. (But no one agrees, so voting's working.) | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 17:44 | comment | added | user Mod | For comparison, I'm pretty certain that no Stack Overflow moderator reads more than a tiny fraction of what gets posted and not flagged. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 17:34 | comment | added | user Mod | Moderation is about being a "human exception handler". Much is handled by the community through up/down voting, close/reopen voting, editing, etc.; as a moderator, you really only need to study posts in detail if an issue comes up that the community is unable to handle on its own, and such issues almost always generate flags of various kinds to draw mods' attention to them. That's not to say a moderator shouldn't be active on the site, but it does say that it doesn't really matter all that much if you in-depth read 25%, 50%, 90% or 100% of what gets posted in your daily browsing the site. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | nitsua60 | I certainly get that this may be hard to measure, but I thought hearing how prospective mods answer it might be insightful. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 14:21 | comment | added | nitsua60 | @MonicaCellio RPGSE, about 1K questions+answers per month. That mod/site may be an outlier, but I thought I'd throw it out there. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 14:19 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @nitsua60 how large a site? I've participated on small, slow betas where I read every post (whether I was a mod or an ordinary user), but as a site grows that becomes less practical. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | nitsua60 | just a thought--I recently overheard a mod on another stack assert that he reads every single question and answer that come through, and wondered how widespread that level of attention might be.... | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 11:53 | comment | added | user Mod | @TimB "Currently" mostly takes care of that, but doesn't make it easier, at least for me, to determine the answer to this. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 8:55 | comment | added | Tim B Mod | It also changes over time. 18 month ago I read every question and answer on this site. As volume grows that proportion drops though. | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 8:35 | comment | added | user Mod | I think this one is going to be awfully hard to answer in anything but extremely broad terms. I certainly don't keep track of how many of each that I read, or how that relates to the totals. Also, it often happens that one reads some answers to a question in depth and skims others; how would those count? | |
| Feb 2, 2016 at 3:14 | history | answered | nitsua60 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |