Nomination

Hi, I'm Nathan Oliver. I would like to become one of your moderators. Stack Overflow has always helped me when learning to program. My early interactions with SO consisted of giving back by answering questions. Once I found out that the users, not just elected moderators, could moderate the site, I realized I could give back even more by helping to improve the quality of posts on SO. I love that we can make this site better just by taking out the trash (voting to close/delete) and editing borderline posts into quality submissions.

I'm a Room Owner of SOCVR, a chat room focused on site moderation. Over the last couple of years, my work with SOCVR has helped me tremendously to become a better site moderator - what to look for, how to handle edge cases, always being responsible to the community for my actions, and more. I get exposed to so many different scenarios to evaluate, which lets me judge new posts faster.

Why me?

• Room owner of a moderation focused chat room
• Active on meta
• Active on SO from 7am to at least 4pm US Central Time (12pm to 9pm UTC)
• Helped moderators hunt for plagiarism
• 13.8K close votes with 3.5K close vote reviews.

Hi, I'm Floern. ^{(with an 'rn', in case your screen tries to convince you otherwise)}

I've been a contributor on Stack Overflow since January 1st 2011, when I started answering PHP questions, although I switched to Android in the meantime.

I'm a member of SOBotics where we program chatbots that help us find non-answers, vandalism, plagiarized content, heated comments and much more, just to keep Stack Overflow a nice place, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Further I'm lurking around in the Charcoal chatroom to help taking down spam.

Up until now I have raised more than 11k helpful flags (99.82% helpful) and completed some 12k reviews.

Why do I want to become a ♦ moderator? Sometimes I hit the limits on the options I have as a normal user. For instance I cannot intervene in an abusive comment thread. The only thing I can do is to flag, watch the fistfight and wait until a mod steps in. Also, instead of filling up the moderator review queue with my flags I can help keeping it short.

My answers to your questions.

Hi, I'm Alexander O'Mara. Read my Questionnaire answer here. Some may know me from recent Winter Bash wrap-up posts.

Why vote for me?

• I am an active member of the community, including Meta and Chat.
• I have a long record of accurate flagging and experience with the moderation tools I currently have available:
  • Active 1141 days, 1094 consecutive
  • 1,474 helpful flags, (~99% success rate)
  • 5,212 review tasks
  • 870 edits
  • 8,432 votes cast
  • Gold tag badge holder and experienced duplicate hammer user
  • ~1,000,000 people reached (whatever that means)
• Even without ♦mod tools, I have uncovered fraudsters and voting rings on several occasions, and ♦mod tools would no doubt help me to uncover more fraud more-often.
• I am often active on off-hours, when other moderators may not be around, and spam is common.
• When I'm online I'm usually available in chat so you can find me, or get my help handling garbage.
• Outside SE, I have years of experience moderating those BB forums many of us used to use.

I have a record of accurate flagging and fair moderation, and hope that I will be one of your new moderators.

I'm Andy. I've answered the questions posted by the community here I encourage you to take a look.

Why should you vote for me?

• I've been a moderator on Community Building for several years. I was appointed to a moderator position on Hardware Recommendations. I know the moderator tools and have worked with the current moderators.
• I'm active in the review queues (I am the top reviewer in the Low Quality Post reviewers, with over 26,500 reviews in this queue). I also enjoy the other moderation aspects of Stack Exchange.
• I believe that moderation can be tool assisted. I've helped to flag a sizable percentage of comments on Stack Overflow. I've helped build the community spam detection bot. These types of tools help eliminate the obvious bad stuff so that moderation time can be spent on the less obvious stuff.

I have a history of good community moderation, am here consistently, and believe I can help the current team.

I'm Cody Gray, and I'd like to nominate myself as a candidate for moderator.

I feel the most serious issue facing Stack Overflow is a constant deluge of garbage that crowds out useful and interesting content. This problem truly affects everyone: answerers, askers, and even infrequent browsers.

Although everyone has a role to play in helping to keep the site clean, that often isn't enough. We have too much cleaning to do, and too few people with the tools to handle it. I'm asking for you to entrust me with more and better ♦ tools, so I can get out there and work on this problem (and others, as they arise, of course).

I've been contributing here for a long time, monitoring a diverse (and changing) array of tags, and doing my best to moderate. I edit a lot of posts and thoroughly exercise my current privileges. I'm well-acquainted with our standards, and I have an excellent eye for quality. I'm also fair, reasonable, and committed.

As an active participant on Meta, my posts there speak for themselves. Anyone who frequents Meta knows me and what I stand for. Anyone who doesn't should see my answers to your questions.

Hello, my name is Travis and I am a web developer from California.

I have been a happy participant at Stack Overflow since 2011, and am a strong believer in the ideals of building a repository of knowledge.

I would be a status quo moderator, with an aim towards staying within community norms while maintaining a fair unbiased outlook towards resolving flags. I think it is important to be respectful of other users, regardless of their experience here. I believe that community moderation is key to keeping clean content and that users are capable of coming back from question bans given the right opportunities.

I am on at odd hours, and am up at times when there are not many other users around, which could help with coverage during low activity. I am also semi in touch with some of the current Stack Overflow staff, having taken part in some in-person events, beta testing, google hangouts testing, and chat.

At work I oversee 90 employees on-site and am very used to respectful conflict resolution.

view my questionnaire answers

Hi, I'm the Baum mit Augen and I'm running to become one of your mods.

Ever since I could access my first review queue, I enjoyed spending time moderating this community. As my knowledge and privileges increased, so did the time I spend and the amount of tasks I perform and now I'd like to take it to the next level.

My goal is not to do anything revolutionary, but to simply add more volume to the great service the current team provides.

Why me?

• I have a very flexible schedule. I can basically be around whenever I'm needed, several hours a day.
• I work closely with Bhargav Rao on the SOBotics project, which I think has given me a decent idea about the tasks of moderators.
• When I get feedback indicating I'm doing something wrong, I make it a priority to fix that problem before I get back to the task at hand. This led to decent accuracy in my moderator actions in the past. (For example: 6.7k helpful flags, 11 declined, no auto-flags; >9k review tasks without any review bans.)

Why not me?

• I don't post much on Meta, although I usually see important discussions. Lack of Meta discussion never struck me as one of the key issues of this site. :)

Hi, my name is vaultah.

Everything I said in my previous two nominations still holds true, and frankly, there isn't much to add. I'm still here, still willing and able to do this job.

I'm running for moderator, because, at this moment, I see ♦-moderation as the most effective and rewarding way to contribute positively to this site, considering near-absence of interesting questions in the tags I follow and the current state of review queues. Nonetheless, I do use tools available to me, and I've already contributed by

• editing 1.1k posts
• completing 3k reviews
• manually raising 3k helpful flags
• casting thousands of close-, delete-, down-, and up- votes
• being one of top 100 duplicate hammer users

While I'm more inclined towards reviewing posts in real time, I will focus on the moderator flag queue, if elected. I intend to hold myself to fair, consistent, and light-handed moderation, as well as close collaboration with the community both on Meta and in chat.

My answers to this year's questionnaire

My answers to your questions

I'm Rob, a 29 year old Australian (AEST timezone), currently working as a senior software developer.

Over the last couple of years, I've focused more keenly on the moderation side of the site, and have been involved in a few projects used to aid in the moderation of the site.
I'm involved with Smoke Detector as a user, and I spend most of my time these days in the "New Answers To Old Questions" page, raising numerous flags regarding non-answers, suspected sock-puppets, plagiarism and spam which gets past Smoke Detector.
I typically spend an hour or two every day undertaking moderation duties.

As my involvement in the site has become more and more focused on moderation, I figured it's time to nominate myself, allowing me to be more effective with the actions I take.

Having access to moderator tools will allow me to moderate much more effectively; cutting out the middle man, and providing me with tools to make quick, educated decisions.

While I'm not visibly very active on meta, I peruse the site very frequently, in order to stay up-to-date with community consensuses on moderation.