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Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an asset to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dep...
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#2: Post edited
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Lundin
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2023-12-06T15:30:03Z (5 months ago)
- Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an _asset_ to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dependable and experienced moderators. That's free, positive publicity for Codidact. Because even if you have never spoken/interacted with them in person, you can still tell from their SE history that they are sensible people with lots of experience from moderation and community building.
And as we can tell from the recent moderator strike at SE, being a moderator there does by no means that one has the same interests as the company Stack Overflow. Moderators on SE are picked through public user elections, so they do represent the communities there, not the company. Had they been hand-picked by the company, that might have been a different story.- The only concern I would have if someone is a moderator on multiple sites here and/or there is the workload. For smaller communities, the workload is lighter, but it would probably be tough to be a moderator on the high traffic Stack Overflow and combine it with other moderator duties - there's got to be a limit to amount of hours volunteers put in to such tasks.
- Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an _asset_ to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dependable and experienced moderators. That's free, positive publicity for Codidact. Because even if you have never spoken/interacted with them in person, you can still tell from their SE history that they are sensible people with lots of experience from moderation and community building.
- And as we can tell from the recent moderator strike at SE, being a moderator there does not mean that one has the same interests as the company Stack Overflow. Moderators on SE are picked through public user elections, so they do represent the communities there, not the company. Had they been hand-picked by the company, that might have been a different story.
- The only concern I would have if someone is a moderator on multiple sites here and/or there is the workload. For smaller communities, the workload is lighter, but it would probably be tough to be a moderator on the high traffic Stack Overflow and combine it with other moderator duties - there's got to be a limit to amount of hours volunteers put in to such tasks.
#1: Initial revision
by
Lundin
·
2023-07-21T09:42:42Z (10 months ago)
Having staff from Codidact as prominent moderators or doing other important volunteer work on SE (Charcoal project etc) is an _asset_ to Codidact. It means that they have a public record of being dependable and experienced moderators. That's free, positive publicity for Codidact. Because even if you have never spoken/interacted with them in person, you can still tell from their SE history that they are sensible people with lots of experience from moderation and community building. And as we can tell from the recent moderator strike at SE, being a moderator there does by no means that one has the same interests as the company Stack Overflow. Moderators on SE are picked through public user elections, so they do represent the communities there, not the company. Had they been hand-picked by the company, that might have been a different story. The only concern I would have if someone is a moderator on multiple sites here and/or there is the workload. For smaller communities, the workload is lighter, but it would probably be tough to be a moderator on the high traffic Stack Overflow and combine it with other moderator duties - there's got to be a limit to amount of hours volunteers put in to such tasks.