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The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.

Space Exploration Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2022-03-28. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary.

Here’s how it’ll work:

  • Until the nomination phase, (so, until 2022-03-28 at 20:00:00Z UTC, or 4:00 pm EDT on the same day, give or take time to arrive for closure), this question will be open to collect potential questions from the users of the site. Post answers to this question containing any questions you would like to ask the candidates. Please only post one question per answer.

  • If your question contains a link, please use the syntax of [text](link), as that will make it easier for transcribing for the finished questionnaire.

  • This is a perfect opportunity to voice questions that are specific to your community and issues that you are running into currently.

  • We, the Community Team, will be providing a small selection of generic questions. The following two questions are guaranteed to be included:

    • 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 handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc. a question that you feel shouldn’t have been?

  • The community team may also include the following three questions if the community doesn’t supply enough questions.

    • In your opinion, what do moderators do?
    • A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?
    • In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?

  • At the start of the nomination phase, the Community Team will select up to 8 of the top voted questions submitted by the community provided in this thread, to use in addition to the aforementioned 2 guaranteed questions. We reserve some editorial control in the selection of the questions and may opt not to select a question that is tangential or irrelevant to moderation or the election. We exclude any suggested questions that are negatively scored.

    • We will post the final questionnaire on the Election page. Candidates will have the option to fill out the questionnaire, and their answers will appear beneath their intro statements.
    • This is not the only option that users have for gathering information on candidates. As a community, you are still free to, for example, hold a live chat session with your candidates to ask further questions, or perhaps clarifications from what is provided in the Q&A.

If you have any questions or feedback about this process, feel free to post as a comment here.

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  • $\begingroup$ Sorry--when I posted my answer earlier I forgot about the one question per answer requirement. I split my two bullets into separate answers. It's not a problem that each bullet technically contains a few questions, right? They are structured to be topically cohesive. $\endgroup$
    – called2voyage Mod
    Mar 23, 2022 at 18:23

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Moderation can be a demanding task. At times it may be emotionally impacting as well as require time management. Work-life balance applies to volunteer work too. What is your plan to maintain work-life balance as a moderator? Do you have established rhythms for dealing with burnout? What course of action would you take if you needed to take some time away from moderation?

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Online resource communities often have pressure points--areas that can put strain on the community or make the site difficult to navigate for casual users. What areas do you think are key pressure points in this site, and why? What would you do as a mod to help mitigate those?

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Why do you want to be a moderator for space stackexchange?

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  • $\begingroup$ As someone who mostly just lurks on this site but really enjoys space, I thought that this would give help me get to know the potential moderators a little better. I don't participate much on the main site or meta. Perhaps this question is too simple or too open-ended. If so, there's always that downvote button. $\endgroup$
    – mgarey
    Mar 25, 2022 at 17:38
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    $\begingroup$ I interview employee candidates for an aerospace company. Simple and open-ended questions are sometimes the best. This, along with a few other simple and open-ended questions where the questioning should start. $\endgroup$
    – David Hammen
    Mar 28, 2022 at 9:27

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