Timeline for Community poll: Time for moderator elections?
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| Jul 12, 2018 at 10:00 | comment | added | avpaderno Mod | Stack Exchange stopped from doing regular moderation elections time ago. Now they are going to start a moderation election where there is the urge of having a moderator more. On Stack Overflow, that still happens regularly, but only because the number of moderators is not sufficient for the number of posts and users the site have. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 20:08 | history | edited | leymannx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2018 at 13:02 | comment | added | Clive Mod | And your earlier query about question templates is actually being discussed network-wide at the moment I think, or at least something very similar is. I'll try to dig out a link for you later | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 12:05 | comment | added | Clive Mod | ...of term limits either: once you're a mod, you're a mod until you quit, or you do something so terrible they throw you out. So I'm afraid I'm going to have disagree with your thoughts here, as they don't marry with the SE philosophy of moderation and elections. See meta.stackexchange.com/questions/121142 and meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135749 for some network-wide thoughts on the subject | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 12:04 | comment | added | Clive Mod | The need for moderators (and subsequently an election) is based on the workload that mods have to get through. Having elections for the sake of it, as in one election every year, even if there's no problem with how the current moderation is being performed, isn't the philosophy, and I doubt would happen. Reviewing it each year to see if it's necessary, however, would be normal. But elections are only caused by a real-world necessity for new bodies in moderation, there's no point taking on however many new moderators every year without a demonstrable need for it. We don't have the concept... | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 11:37 | comment | added | No Sssweat | I agree, I know some other SE Communities hold them every year or 2 years. 6 years for DA seems like a long time and it's well overdue for one. | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 11:36 | history | answered | leymannx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |