Timeline for answer to 2020 Community Moderator Election - Questionnaire by Travis J
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| Jul 21, 2020 at 9:34 | comment | added | tcxbalage | please define: "vulgar nastiness". i think it is very subjective what we call vulgar. | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | Travis J | @JeremyThompson - Thanks for the interest from the down under! I work a lot, but that isn't all I want to do. I am also very good at delegating. I don't want to spend all my free time trying to maximize profit, because people need to have balanced lives. Never underestimate the value of joy. Stack Overflow helped me a lot along the way in various aspects, and I enjoy giving back, helping the community, and doing what I can to ensure that it thrives. | |
| Jul 10, 2020 at 12:34 | comment | added | Jeremy Thompson | I appreciate the calibre of your nomination, you seem so successful employing 100 employees and I can see being a mod would add to your business similar to MS Regional Directors. Why don't you want to run/build up your business at VP level instead of spending your spare time helping out here for free? You mentioned you're the only IT guy too so I don't see any monetary/business incentive, do you have a cash cow and just want to hang out mod'ing here? | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Travis J | New users need tooling to help them so that we can get them better help while at the same time preventing deletion-requiring content from overwhelming our curators. I know this isn't an issue a moderator can solve, but that is what the community does need, and I have said this is various other places as well. Obviously that is something we will just have to voice our collective concerns about over time and hope the team can actually invest locally here in the platform instead of externally by trying to create the next best thing. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Travis J | Our focus should remain on encouraging the quality content being produced, and we should acknowledge that those dozen views are not worth our time to address. It is good enough as it stands, and there is progress to made in other places. New user experience for example is probably one of the better places to start. The issue is that we need to balance both sides, the curation and the creation. It is best to prevent a leak than to constantly mop it up or catch it in a bucket. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 17:34 | comment | added | Travis J | @Trilarion - Well, the answer to that in my opinion is no, it will never be enough. Don't get too caught up on that though, because it is important to keep in mind that this content occupies real estate in an online environment which comes with several advantages. Primarily, if someone reproduces half of lorem ipsum with some gibberish, Google (or your search engine of choice) will never find it. Given a year that post even if left open will only have a dozen views. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 7:25 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Everyone standing for election and being prepared to spend a considerable part of his time here has my greatest respect. But I also have to admit that I'm still pessimistic about the future of SO. Maybe some things have improved since the fallout last year, and there have been some developments with close votes or guidance by the UI but somehow my impression is that that only underlines how futile it really is. 3 instead of 5 close votes together with a higher close voting activity means we can now close twice as many questions as before, but it's not nearly enough. Will it ever be? | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 0:47 | comment | added | Travis J | Thanks Cody, I feel like a lot of my feedback has been heard or reviewed by the team, not sure internally who played which exact role in all of the updates. I had remembered you commenting on some of the revisions so I was under the impression you had been involved in some of the edits. Right now though, as I said a little earlier, I really do believe that overall the closure system is in a good place. Going through the tooling to see what we as a community here can do to edit those reasons or adjust the list would definitely be something I would like to workshop on at some point. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 0:00 | comment | added | Cody Gray Mod | Burn out is something I worry about a lot for myself. Somehow, it’s easier when you have the privileges to actually make a difference. I would love to improve the wording around the close reasons (some of the most recent changes were major regressions in my opinion); I’ve been planning that for a while, but I’ve just been crazy busy with work, and that shows no sign if letting up. Mod election results notwithstanding, if you want to workshop on that at any time with me, and especially take the lead on getting buy-in from the larger community, you’re more than welcome to reach out, Travis. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:50 | comment | added | Travis J | haha thanks for the confidence :) burn out is certainly something to be aware of, but the tech community as a whole (even outside of the exchange) is something I am very passionate about, and that really helps to keep me interested in being involved where I can be helpful | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | Makoto | Hmm. I'm concerned that you're marching down a path of burn-out like this, but some corner of my mind is going to remain optimistic for your sake. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:47 | comment | added | Travis J | With regards to the closure set, I feel like the recent iteration, in combination with the 3 close vote change, has made real progress in reducing friction for the exchange. I think that Cody Gray has also been influential in assisting with the verbiage for the close reasons, and so I would probably confer with him. As it stands, it seems like the close reason set is in a fairly good place, which hasn't really been the case for quite some time. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:45 | comment | added | Travis J | @Makoto - Being motivated isn't really an issue, I am a disciplined long term thinker. I will be motivated from seeing the platform succeed, and I will be motivated to double down from seeing it decline. Retaining users is really all about reducing friction, and the primary source of friction is in the closure system. I will work closely with the other moderators to ensure that the current set of close reasons that is in use is producing as little friction as possible, because in my opinion that is one of the essential ways to keep curators and creators both comfortable using the platform. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:14 | history | edited | Cody GrayMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 23:12 | comment | added | Makoto | I would like you to elaborate more on #10. How would you retain the users you have? How does this keep you motivated? | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 20:51 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 20:36 | history | edited | Travis J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 20:25 | history | answered | Travis J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |