Stack Overflow Moderator Election

by rob-alarconon 3/8/2013, 10:27 PMwith 48 comments

by throwaway420on 3/8/2013, 10:30 PM

Anybody who promises to stop deleting and locking interesting questions on Stack Overflow gets my vote.

Wikipedia has the same problem.

by antmanon 3/9/2013, 2:36 AM

A moderator that saves me from having to type long queries on google has my vote. I currently have to type: termtosearch site:stackoverflow.com "closed as not".

by wfunctionon 3/8/2013, 10:46 PM

I'll be looking for moderators who won't close "Why?" questions on the basis that knowing "why" doesn't solve an existing problem.

by freeworkon 3/9/2013, 3:33 AM

Why does an upvote/downvote community need moderators? Isn't the whole point of letting users upvote and downvote content to avoid having moderator overlords?

by Encosiaon 3/9/2013, 12:29 AM

Should be closed as not a real question and too localized.

by rebeldeon 3/8/2013, 11:11 PM

A popularity contest to choose moderators? I wouldn't run my forums that way. We would end up with the wrong people in charge.

by singularon 3/8/2013, 11:57 PM

I'd vote for moderators who punish people for answering:-

X. It took me Y seconds to google your problem and find that solution.

It'd save me downvoting every time I see that kind of ridiculous passive aggressive bullshit.