In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers.
Due to the submission count, we have selected all provided questions as well as our back up questions for a total of 10 questions.
As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes.Please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written, and also including a link to your answer on your nomination post.
Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page.
Good luck to all of the candidates!
Oh, and when you've completed your answer, please provide a link to it after this blurb here, before that set of three dashes. Please leave the list of links in the order of submission.
To save scrolling here are links to the submissions from each candidate (in order of submission):
- In your opinion, what do moderators do?
- How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?
- How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?
- How would you deal with an enthusiastic user that produces mostly chaff, non-answers, or outright wrong answers but occasionally does contribute a good and useful reply?
- In light of the site's growth, are there any long-standing policies you'd like to look at to see if they've outlived their usefulness?
- Being a moderator means sometimes that for the good of the community you might have to do things with which you disagree. How would you deal with such scenarios?
- Why is this site (or SE as a whole) important to you? (Preferably in as few lines as possible.)
- What do you think the site needs more of in terms of moderating?
- What moderator action(s) have you witnessed that you appreciate the most, and why? Either on Aviation or any other SE community.
- What is your experience, either professionally or otherwise, in the Aviation industry?
