2011 Moderator Election

I bet you aren't interested in reading campaign promises, so I'll give you hard facts instead.

• First off, here's a eagle eye view: my global, Gaming, Meta SO and Stack Overflow valuable flair™. You can see all flair and all profiles from here. Here are my chat profiles too: MSO, SE, SO.

• My nomination has been informally backed by Grace Note, Oak, tzenes and Strixvaria and anonymous upvoters and starrers thereof.

• I have been "moderating" chat for a few months now, bringing grief and joy with my abuse of feeds, migration, pinning, unstarring or lack thereof, privilege granting, events, room naming and absolutely everything else. Oh, and I really do chat too much. I actually won a t-shirt for that. (I haven't claimed it yet, though.)

• I have Gaming's most edits and Gaming's most controversial answer. I have Beta, but lack Precognitive. I have Altruist, but lack Benefactor. I have Disciplined but lack Peer Pressure. I have one tag badge (out of 24), but lack Suffrage. If there was an Unicode badge, I'd probably have that too. I also have a two digits' user ID, if that's worth anything. I also had access to the 10k tools back in beta, but I didn't really use them obsessive compulsively.

• On Meta Gaming, I'd have ~3,410 reputation if Meta had reps, except it doesn't. I also am the only non mod with a tag badge. Obviously some of it comes from being the fastest gun in the west, from posts I'm not sure I agree with any longer and from straight bad ideas.

• On Meta Stack Overflow I have 8.5k reputation and no particular achievements (well, another discussion tag badge and investing 1.5k reps in bounties count I guess), except maybe knowing more about moderation abilities than some other mods do. Some of it comes from being first, from being silly, from regurgitation of others' posts and from freehanded circles.

• I have 25k global reputation, for what it's worth. My one and only gold badge, however, is here at Gaming.

• My moderation "philosophy" is pictured here, if by "philosophy" you mean "How I expect to use the power you do not want to give me because you really want to vote for Grace, Oak and Juan instead, wink wink nudge nudge".

• It's not very relevant either, but I have some knowledge of the internals of the site. I have done apps. I have done skins. I have done bling. I've done lulz. Oh, and I've helped Jin beta test the design for Gaming.

• I'm on my 18th (and last, probably) month of my 6-month-long squad assistant leadership stint for an Allegiance squad, Steel Fury. I'm part of Allegiance's events, training and documentation zones.

• I'm also on Twitter, on Google Reader, on Buzz, on Youtube, on Slashdot, on Steam. I lurk on TASVideos.

• I'm a bad diplomat. I'm stubborn. I'm irritable. I'm easily impressed. I'm a fanboy. I'm voluble. I swear. I've been automatically suspended. I vote light heartedly. I make mistakes. I make horrible puns. I abandon projects midway. I rickroll. I'm a little teapot. I make some people go Oy alarmingly often.

tl;dr: I don't think I'd make an awesome moderator. An average moderator, maybe, but certainly not awesome. If you want awesome, you know who to confirm. ;)

_{PS: Did you know that previous link record on Gaming? Deprecated! :D}

I'm Grace Note, currently acting as one of the pro tem moderators for this site. And I'd like to extend a self-nomination for the elected position.

As a community member, I've been a full part of the Stack Exchange network since April 15th, 2010 when I joined Meta Stack Overflow. Through a combination of research, participation, and personal experimentation I am very familiar with the system on both a community level and on a mechanical level. I've been a part of the Gaming site since its start, riding all of its ups and downs. While I don't get a lot of spotlight in the parent Q&A, I am active on the Meta site in many of the tagging discussions and scope issues that we have gone through. And, of course, I've been serving as a moderator here since the end of July. I am always happy to engage with both this community and the rest of the Stack Exchange Network in order to find better resolutions to any issues that turn up.

As a gamer, I've been playing since the Atari generation with no signs of slowing down in my love. I'm a console gamer primarily but I also spend a lot of time as a niche/indie/import gamer for the PC. I dabble in a very wide variety of genres, with my specialties being in platformers and shoot-em-ups. I'm particularly fond of curtain fire games and thrive on the larger number of bullets, but my #1 favorite series is the Kirby series. I don't quite play a lot of FPS and RTS, and I don't think I've really touched a traditional sports game since the SNES era. But I'm not one to discriminate against them - I even attended and enjoyed a Halo 2 launch party without ever having played the original.

Rather than make promises of what I will do as a moderator, I simply direct you to my history of participation in this site for the past months as your pro tem moderator. My personal policy is "Deliberate when necessary, take action when necessary." The job of the moderator is to make the call for these necessities. I feel that my experience in these past months has helped sharpen my understanding of when to decide and when to discuss to an even greater level. This policy is reflected in all of my judgments and actions to date, and if elected I will continue to moderate in this manner.

To close, I've beaten the Guy.

Good luck to all of the other candidates. ♪

I'm C. Ross and I'm nominating myself for Gaming moderator.

I've been active on the site since it's creation, both asking and answering questions. I have also been involved in meta, and am often found on The Bridge. I've also been active on MSO for a long time.

I have lots of moderation experience, though most of it's in meat space. My real life moderation experience includes

• Leader of a department voice team in a large corporation, representing 90+ people.
• Community council member for my dorm in college.
• Various church leadership roles.

I know how to arbitrate a dispute, and how to deal with problem individuals. I can also deal impartially with people I disagree with. I'm also a pro-temp moderator of RPG.

As for my moderation philosophy, I'm quite moderate. I believe strongly in only taking action on those things the community can't, or those so egregious they cause difficulties for the community. I believe the most important function of a moderator is not to simply be a human exception handler, but guide the community solving it's own problems.

I want to be a moderator on gaming because I enjoy the site, and want to continue to contribute to its success. I look forward to working with you all, regardless what the outcome of this election is.

My responses to the Moderator Q&A can be found here.

My name is Ivo Flipse and I'm hereby submitting a last minute nomination.

While most of you know me as being a moderator on Super User, I'm also the one who proposed Web Apps and sadly wasn't allowed to propose this Gaming though I did propose literally dozens of example questions for it on Area51.

Why did I bore you with these facts? Well, I haven't gathered sufficient rep on Gaming to be able to vote to close or even edit (before the edit proposals were introduced). So, while I might not look active on Gaming, I can assure you that I spend a considerable amount of time on this site. Sadly, the only game I currently play is Starcraft 2 and we all know that's a place between a rock and @tzenes... Regardless of my lack of answering, I did get the Electorate badge which indicates I do read a lot of questions.

I also was very active in the Bridge chatroom during the beta. However, since I became a freelancer I found it too tempting and distracting to hang out there all day long! However, that's not to say I'm not available on chat all day long, just no longer for random chit-chatting with @badp or @Arda Xi.

I also participated a lot on Meta, though mostly indirect, since I'm often humbled by @Grace Note's input. However, I'm sure enough users have heard my opinion in the chatroom regarding those Meta discussions.

Furthermore, I've used my experience from moderating Super User to help guide new pro-temp moderators from all the new SE-sites in our moderator chat room. This is also where my zealous resentment against game-rec and identify-this-game come from. I've seen these questions pop up on every SE-site, only to see them cause problems later on. I pride myself in helping Diago "tighten the rules on Super User so that it has one of the clearest goals in the network" (thank you ChrisF). Which is what I hope to achieve on Gaming as well.

With me, Gaming will get a moderator who has experience with moderating on the network and who cares about the site's functioning and the topic itself. I won't passively watch the community moderate itself, because I feel that I know what the community wants. I'm strict in applying the rules, but open for discussion and fair in my judgement.

Personally, I would prefer if the current mods kept doing their job. I feel like I wasn't needed as much after the beta. However, since @Oak hasn't nominated himself and I know @Juan is quite busy, I hope I can contribute to this site in their place.

I'm FallenAngelEyes and I'd like to nominate myself as a moderator candidate for the site. My activity has been rather low since early December, as I was on vacation visiting family, but I did my best to keep an eye on meta during that time to check for elections beginning.

I've been a member of the Gaming.SE site since committing to the Area 51 proposal. I'm an American living in the Netherlands, which means I'm also available during non-peak US hours to catch stuff like flagged comments. I was active during the private and public betas and have done my best to remain active on the main site and meta. I also participated as editor for Gaming.SE's Wordpress blog. I have tried to remain active in discussions about site policy and community standards, including game-rec and identify-this-game.

I am an avid gamer who enjoys a large range of genres, from FPS to TBS to RPG to rhythm games. I currently balance my time fairly evenly between console and PC gaming, with a smattering of portable gaming in between, though I lack a smartphone so I have no real experience in iPhone/Android gaming. I enjoy delving into the indie game scene as well. I care about gaming a great deal as a part of my life, and I take a lot of pleasure in sharing my experiences and expertise with others in order to help inspire their own passion for gaming.

I believe that it's important to maintain a high standard of quality in the site and its content while still having a community that is enjoyable to be a part of. While knowledge of gaming is important to be a part of this site, I think the most important aspect of a moderator is how well they use their privileges to represent the community and maintain its standards while balancing that with the occasional necessity to make a binding decision. I am committed to helping improve and maintain the site's quality, visibility, and community.

If you have any questions/comments or feel that I am not suited for the position, please let me know via comments and/or chat so I know what areas I can improve in. I'm nearly always available/pingable in the general chat room for the site. I wish the best of luck to all the other nominees!

I'm an active member of this site and I'd like to help out as a moderator to keep the quality of our site high and help it grow further.

I do think that I would make a good moderator for a few reasons, first of all I am very active on this site, as well as in chat (on the Gaming.SE Bridge). I always remain calm, even in controversial discussions. Constructive criticism is welcome, I am always open to new facts and arguments and willing to revisit my actions.

We need clear and consistent rules for our site, I fully support our current stance on game recommendations and similar questions. We need a strict policy and timely enforcement on bad questions, but we should be careful not to become too restrictive and take the fun out of Gaming.SE. We don't want to become heavyhanded in our moderation, but need to be firm and consistent to keep up the quality of the site.

If you have more questions, you're welcome to ask them in the comments here or in chat. I have also answered the Q&A on the Gaming meta and you can find some general information about all nominees on Yi Jiang's election page.

my name is Kevin. I'm a high school student in Vancouver, BC, but that's beside the point. Although I still attend school, I'm also a very active member of Gaming.SE.

As well as asking questions and answering them, I spend a lot of my time on Gaming editing other posts, to improve them. I hold the Strunk & White badge. My theory is that one of a moderator's duties should contribute to the site positively by improving the content already existent. By keeping the content of Gaming as high as possible, more users who come across our site are likely to participate. One of the other things I do on Gaming is frequent /review, assisting our newer users with their first steps on Gaming.

I also go back and revisit many of my older answers, to make sure the information contained in them are still valid, or simply to improve on them. For example, I accidentally edited this answer into community wiki status, and added additional information to these two answers.

Additionally, I have had some experience with moderating on Stack Exchange - back in Gaming's beta stage when accessing moderation tools was a 2k reputation privilege instead of the current 10k.

I'll admit - I am a little fast at jumping to conclusions. However, as a moderator, I would be a voice of the community rather than using my moderator powers for my own opinions. I would also be much more active on Meta, helping the community settle disputes or make decisions about our site's direction. I would continue to do what I have been doing - trying my best to make Gaming a better place (not that it isn't already an amazing site).

Feel free to ask additional questions in the comments (and here are my answers to tzenes' Q&A questions). Best of luck to everybody else running for moderator!

I'm Juan Manuel.

I'm one of the current pro-temp moderators on the site. I'm also the guy that dreamed this could be a reality way before Area 51 existed (meta link pending, was not able to find such an old post), and then proposed it (I was aiming for proposal 1337, but missed by one). I also have very high participation in Area 51 in general.

First of all, I wanted to thank everybody that helped make the site, my dream, what it is today; the community is great and the content is excellent -- I was afraid the site wasn't viable, but we did prove the skeptics wrong!

I've been a member of the network for 2 years and 5 months, ever since stackoverflow's private beta (when we could close questions with one vote!) so I'm fairly knowledgeable with the engine in general.

I'm more of a silent moderator, only stepping in when absolutely necessary, and always respecting what the community wants (reaching consensus via appropriate meta discussion).

You may or may not have noticed I wasn't very active in the last few weeks -- that was due to some complicated personal problems I've been going through that consumed most of my time, but rest assured I read every meta topic there is.

I would love to continue being a moderator to keep helping the site grow as much as I can, to keep the dream alive, although I will respect and understand if you want to choose someone else, there are very good candidates already (and I will cast my votes and support some of them).

Thank you again