Timeline for 2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
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| Mar 12, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @DocBrown: Alright. I'll post an answer when I have a bit of free time. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 16:24 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RobertHarvey: ok, but my question was less about those individual posts, but about the self-moderation style of the community, and its potentially negative impact on the site's participation statistics. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 15:32 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @DocBrown: Most of the posts you cited look like they're doing OK to me. The only one that is borderline is this one (evidenced by its four close votes), which I see as a people problem, not a software engineering problem, but I didn't vote to close it. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 6:10 | comment | added | Doc Brown | ... so bonus question for the mod election: what's your opinion on my question about the (IMHO unhealthy) self-moderation style described my question | |
| Mar 9, 2019 at 8:16 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RobertHarvey: following your suggestion, I brought this up to meta This is what I would call the biggest problem/challenge Software Engineering is currently facing - a hostile self-moderation culture, which drives askers of abstract, conceptual and broad questions away. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 16:51 | comment | added | Doc Brown | @RobertHarvey: yes, you are right, the discussion about the community behaviour in interpreting the rules sometimes very strictly may be better placed in a separate meta post. But I guess I have to collect some examples first. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 16:37 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @DocBrown: Part of the reason the scope rules exist is to encourage users to ask more focused questions. All too often, I often see questions that simply ask "Is this OK," "is this correct" or "am I right;" questions that are not answerable without specific criteria for determining what is "right," "correct" and "OK." I'm fine with leaving closed questions on the front page for awhile so that folks can rehab them. Anyway, you can open a meta post on this specific topic if you want more discussion. | |
| Mar 3, 2019 at 9:36 | comment | added | Doc Brown | I agree very much to what you wrote about the scope of this site, but IMHO it is mainly a community problem, several people here seem to interpret the scope rules extremely narrow, downvoting and close voting many questions very quickly just because they see a scope violation in some parts of a question (which often could be fixed by some editing). Any idea how moderators can help to improve that situation? IMHO deleting such questions even more quickly cannot be the solution. | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @BartvanIngenSchenau: My moderation time on Stack Overflow has diminished since the newer moderators were elected. They do a fantastic job of keeping the flag queue at bay. | |
| Feb 26, 2019 at 9:40 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | Bonus question: As you are also a moderator on SO, how do you see the possibility for a conflict on your valuable time that you have available for moderation? | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 21:29 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |