Timeline for 2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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| Dec 14, 2014 at 21:52 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @user7530: It is not so intended: I have voted for moderators who did not share my opinion on the subject. But I still want to know, and I want to see how candidates express themselves on the subject. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 18:36 | comment | added | user7530 | This feels a lot like a "Roe v Wade"-type litmus test, in that I certainly have an opinion on the subject, but I'm not sure whether or not a candidate's opinion matches mine says anything meaningful about their appropriateness as a moderator. | |
| Dec 11, 2014 at 11:06 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | @Willie: Is this how you spend your last days as a moderator? Moderating? :-) (Seriously buddy, we'll miss you!) | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 15:22 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @RobertHarvey: I sense that this discussion is heading along the route of escalation. Just a pre-emptive suggestion to keep the discussion on topic (that is, whether Brian Scott's question is a good one to ask moderator candidates for this SE site). | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 15:20 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @NajibIdrissi: please keep the discussion on topic, and refrain from making statement in regards to the poster (Robert Harvey in this case) as opposed to the position he takes. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 18:26 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | (I also realized that you don't even have enough reputation (150) to vote in the upcoming election -- take that as you wish, maybe the software itself has something to say) | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey Then like any user in good standing, if you're unhappy with how things work, you can open a meta thread. This isn't the place to discuss it. It will probably get closed as a duplicate, though. (Small precision: you enforce policy on SO, nowhere else) | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:48 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @NajibIdrissi: No, I don't set policy; I only enforce it. Yes, my opinion matters; I am a user in good standing at Math.SE, and the fact that my opinion rubs you the wrong way doesn't give you the right to dismiss that good standing. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey I don't think you're in any kind of position letting you make statements like that. I see you're a mod on SO - great, good for you. That doesn't mean you get to set network-wide policies, or that your opinion has any kind of relevance on sites where you hardly contribute. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @NajibIdrissi: I disagree when those rules run afoul of the fundamental principles of the network, yes. You're free to develop your own individual and unique culture, but not by turning the platform upside down. If you want to do that, you're more than welcome to stand up your own website somewhere else. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey It is a fact that SE developers encourage individual SE sites to develop their own rules, customs and traditions. Do you disagree with that? | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey Your question consisted of "Problem statement - Requirement that it doesn't use math past precalculus - Requirement that the answer is sufficiently well-explained that you can implement it without effort". I don't see any work shown. The fact that it wasn't homework is irrelevant. But this isn't the best place to discuss that. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:39 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @NajibIdrissi: I have no idea what you're talking about. In general, homework questions on other sites are expected to "show their work" and demonstrate effort; my question was not a homework assignment, and I was not asking for hints. It is not I who is being condescending; it is you ("We're special, and therefore not subject to the whims of the SE corporate engine"). | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Dilaton: It's not a new problem, or even a novel one. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:37 | comment | added | Dilaton | @RobertHarvey what has been solved on other SE sites does not automatically have implications here. Brian's question is a very good one as this is still an open issue on THIS site. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 17:33 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey Thanks for the condescension. Anything else? (Given this question of yours, I can only guess that other SE sites solved this problem by allowing PSQ that include irrelevant tidbits about the question asker) | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Ah, a problem solved long ago on other Stack Exchange sites, which you apparently feel the need to rehash here. Psh, you even gave the problem your own name. A bad one, I might add; every good question has a clear, concise problem statement. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 8:37 | comment | added | Najib Idrissi | @RobertHarvey "Problem Statement Question". Basically, a question that reads like a homework assignment where the OP makes no effort at all and straight copied/pasted the question from somewhere. | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 7:57 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | What are PSQ`s? | |
| Dec 9, 2014 at 4:03 | history | edited | Asaf KaragilaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2014 at 3:42 | history | answered | Brian M. Scott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |