2021 Moderator Election

nomination began

Feb 15, 2021 at 20:00

election began

Feb 22, 2021 at 20:00

election ended

Mar 2, 2021 at 20:00

candidates

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Election Phase

In the election phase, the candidates who made it through the nomination phase or primary phase (if required) advance to final community voting. Candidates are displayed in random order.

Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election. Please make your selections in order of preference, with the most desirable candidate as first choice. You do not need to rank all candidates.

We will calculate the winners using OpaVote with the Meek STV method, which automatically weights users' votes in the way that does the most good for the candidates they have selected, in order of preference.

When the election is complete, the ballot file will be freely downloadable from this page for the life of the site. Individual users' voting choices are always private; only the aggregated tally will be made public.

On Stack Exchange, we believe the core moderators should come from the community, and be elected by the community itself through popular vote. We hold regular elections to determine who these community moderators will be.

Community moderators are accorded the highest level of privilege on our community, and should themselves be exemplars of positive behavior and leaders within the community.

Our general criteria for moderators is as follows:

patient and fair
leads by example
shows respect for their fellow community members in their actions and words
open to some light but firm moderation to keep the community on track and resolve (hopefully) uncommon disputes and exceptions

Every election has three phases:

Nomination
Primary
Election

Please participate in the moderator elections by voting, and perhaps even by nominating yourself to be a community moderator!

2 Candidates

Nomination Primary Election

Running on a platform of no more bad migrations against policy or closing of questions against written policy.

Moderation should not dump bad questions on other sites and should do more than just look for a single keyword before doing so. I will read the question before any migration.

posted Feb 21, 2021 at 13:02

Passerby
member for 11 years

candidate score 38/40

reputation >= 20k
moderation badges: 6/8
editing badges: 6/6
participation badges: 6/6

reviews | meta posts

Candidate: SamGibson

I am nominating myself to be a site moderator, because I want to help keep EE.SE running smoothly. I've been here for almost 5 years, so I believe I understand what most users want from EE.SE.

I value the site and the people here. I don't know all the answers, but I want to help people who do know an answer, or who want to ask a good-quality question, to have a good experience on the site.

As I expect many moderators would say, I want to moderate as little as possible, but as much as necessary. I enjoy helping people, and I have a zero-tolerance approach to spam and abuse.

A little about me: I started my career in electronics, including bench repair and field service. I have spent many years working in or alongside engineering groups in various companies, diagnosing problems that couldn't be solved elsewhere. Recently I have been working more on embedded systems (both hardware and firmware). I am a passionate advocate for applying good-quality troubleshooting techniques and critical thinking, when problem-solving.

Here are my answers to the 2021 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire.

posted Feb 22, 2021 at 15:42

SamGibson♦
member for 8 years

candidate score 35/40

reputation 18k
moderation badges: 6/8
editing badges: 6/6
participation badges: 5/6

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2021 Moderator Election

2 Candidates

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