2015 Moderator Election

nomination began

Oct 5, 2015 at 20:00

election began

Oct 12, 2015 at 20:00

election ended

Oct 20, 2015 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

This is my fifth year on the site, and third time participating in a moderator election. I have been consistently very active throughout, visiting the site daily except when camping or travelling. Being in New Zealand, I'm in a different timezone from the other moderators and able to provide coverage for the night shift.

Over time I have spent less time answering questions and transitioned more to editing, flagging and clearing the review queues, which I do many times during the day. I try to be welcoming to new users, and wherever possible comment or edit in order to salvage a question rather than closing it.

We have a knowledgeable and friendly community, and I would like to continue to help out in any way I can.

posted Oct 5, 2015 at 22:09

MikeW♦
member for 12 years

candidate score 38/40

reputation >= 20k
moderation badges: 7/8
editing badges: 6/6
participation badges: 5/6

reviews | meta posts

I'm a high rep, experienced user who is very active on Stack Exchange and a seasoned moderator on Video Production, Sound Design and Community Building. I'm also a part time professional wedding photographer. I have not had as much time recently to post answers as I used to, but I check in on photography regularly and check moderation queues for my moderation sites several times a day. I've withdrawn a bit from this site to focus on the sites where I moderate to make the most of my time, but I love this site and would like to be able to make a bigger difference here.

I'm extremely familiar with the Photography.SE community and moderators and know how they operate. The main thing I bring to the table is my experience moderating artistic and subjective content on Stack Exchange.

My goals as a moderator would be to keep things running smoothly and finding ways to integrate "Good Subjective" questions on artistry with the community. I want the site to be welcoming to newcomers and make sure that we maintain a high quality repository of questions and answers for photographers of all skill levels.

posted Oct 5, 2015 at 22:21

AJ Henderson♦
member for 10 years

candidate score 35/40

reputation >= 20k
moderation badges: 6/8
editing badges: 4/6
participation badges: 5/6

reviews | meta posts

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2015 Moderator Election

2 Candidates

This election is over.