2011 Moderator Election

First and foremost, and I hope you forgive me for using this space, I would like to congratulate everybody on our graduation. I'd like to thanks also @RobertCartaino for the opportunity of being a pro term moderator. It was really fun and rewarding. I've learned a lot during these months.

And my special thanks is to @Kortuk for being a fellow patient and generous. There could be no better moderator.

I was a poor user here and didn't know right the philosophy of the Stack Exchange. Since I became a moderator, I have studied a lot the guidelines and whenever there is any doubt, I look for help from other moderators trying to avoid my decision being wrong. At the beggining I've committed some mistakes, but nowadays I like to think that I'm doing a good job.

My philosophy is that the moderator has to do the minimum possible, and whenever possible leave the community to be self-moderated.

We have to treat everyone with respect and patience.

And we have to keep in mind that this should be the best resource available for professionals in electronics in the world.

I would be honored to serve again.

Please, consider use Stack Exchange Elections Statistics Page to help you choose the best three.

I've been a regular on this site for 7 months now, since the commitment phase. With the time I'm able to spend here (between work and family life) I have strived not only to answer questions to the best of my knowledge but to improve things in general - by editing questions to add equations, voting up/down as necessary, flagging posts, and contributing to tag wikis.

Being close to 40 (yikes!) gives me a great deal of life experience to draw upon when considering how to deal with people. I enjoy spending time on this site and would appreciate the trust of the community to participate in a more active role here.

Adam (madmanguruman)

I am not much of one to "toot my own horn", because of that I am not going to go into much detail here. I think I have been around the community and expressed my opinions through comments, questions, answers, and chats long enough that you will either think I am suitable for the job or not.

If you want to know more about me go read my profile or @me in chat.

I am Kevin Vermeer. As my profile page says, I'm a university engineering student in electrical and computer engineering. I've been a member for 10 months, which includes the entire transition from Chiphacker to the graduated StackExchange site. In that time, I've been active in enhancing the site by creating content (primarily answers, not questions) and by improving the quality of the site through prolific editing, commenting, chatting, and participation on Meta.

My philosophy of moderation would have a primary goal of enhancing the community to be the best place on the Web for expert questions and answers on electronics engineering and computer engineering. Since I've not been an official moderator before, I would seek guidance from the community, the podcast, and other, more experienced moderators.

If you want some stats or name-drops, here you go:

• I was offered a pro-tempore moderation position by Robert Caratino "because of your [my] outstanding contribution to the community" at the start of the Beta period in September.
• Jin personally thanked me for my contributions during the design phase.
• In the past year, I've been the 2nd most prolific editor on Meta, the 3rd most prolific voter on Meta, , the 7th most prolific editor on the main site, and the 6th most prolific editor on the main site.
• If you want more stats, please feel free to gather them yourself. I don't put too much stock in them. Instead of trying to rank through the stats, read through the site's history and see what I and the other candidates have actually done and said.

As moderator, I would continue to use the tools which I previously used during the beta and during Chiphacker to improve the site. If I'm not elected, well, I'll keep doing that.

Greetings. I am Nick. You may know me from places such as Stack Overflow, Gaming at StackExchange, or community-access radio in the Flint area. I'm an electrical engineer from Michigan (go Red Wings) who's been around on this site for a couple of months working to both add content by answering plenty of questions and perform some janitorial duties by waging small personal wars on tags that I find useless.

I would like to be your moderator so I can derive personal satisfaction by helping this site maintain a high level of quality and fostering a positive community. As a moderator I would take great care to avoid imposing my will on the site, but rather encourage and facilitate discussion on what to direction to take; moderators should take a moderate point of view. I like to think of myself as extremely pragmatic, open to whatever works. My goal would be to treat all users equally, but taking care to help new users (They Are Our Future^TM after all) along with nudges and/or turning their posts that may not fit our particular model into something more constructive.

If elected, I would probably be guilted into listening to the SE podcast regularly in order to keep up on the latest from Atwood & Co. I would also continue to work cleaning up useless tags, preferably without cluttering the entire front page with edits when I do so.

I'm markrages -- Change you can believe in.

Vote for me to change the direction of the stack exchange site.

I believe:

• Questions about selecting and sourcing electronic components should be considered on-topic and encouraged.

• Questions about non-design but related items (how to solder, etc.) should be allowed.

• Lazy, "send me the codez" questions should be closed quickly.

• Respect the Electropus

Only vote for me if you agree with the above ideas.

About me: I have an engineering degree and have been doing electronics design professionally for fifteen years. I still type "chiphacker.com" to visit this site.

I am Kortuk. I have been with the site for 1 year and 5 months. As a few others probably have, I started with the SE1.0 system and had no prior experience with stack overflow or the stack exchange system. I slowly picked things up on chiphacker and was promoted to moderator there with about 25 others before moving to Electronics.stackexchange.com

I have been a pro temp moderator with ED for a while now and hope to continue. I try to help steer the site in the right direction and with a large amount of help from "the teachers lounge." I have learned a large amount about moderation since, many decisions that go unnoticed, quite a few that at least a few members have shared their dislike of on meta. I only note this to say that I stand by my decisions but I am also open to criticism.

I stand behind my decisions and attempt to share when I think I have made a mistake. If I am unsure of a decision I ask other moderators. There are normally points we reach were a new problem comes to light, or an old problem is approached, at these points I seek advice. This forms what I consider a core part of moderation.

Patience for new and old users is key. I try to be both kind and heavy handed. I give warnings, I share when there is an issue, but I also fix the issue. I will close a bad question, but I attempt to leave a kind message for the user explaining the issue.

I am just taking a moment of my day and trying to give some basic background of my stances. I have been a mod already, I know many of the ins and outs already, and I feel that my wisdom will be valuable to any fresh blood that joins the ranks.

I am not great at just listing the many reasons I feel I am qualified and hope those with questions will just ask me. I am in chat and I check meta, just let me know.

I've been a member of Electronics Design for about 6 months now with daily(sometimes hourly) visits to the site to see what new interesting questions have come up. I am always interested in helping new members get an understanding of how the site works as its different from a forum site. Over the past couple of months my interest in electronics has grown from a hobby to something I can see myself doing as a job. This has largely been due to this community(Electronics Design).

If I read a question that is inappropriate I flag it. If I see a question that i'm unsure about then I also flag it to get someone else's opinion on what should happen with the question. I'm fair and don't judge people over the internet. If I have no knowledge on a subject then I will go research it and comment on the question if I have discovered anything that might be considered useful to the user asking the question as well as the community.

Being a moderator would allow me to put something back in to this community after I have taken so much out of it(check my questions against answers). If there is anything else you would like to know about me ask me in chat(just start your message @Dean and it will appear in my inbox).