What about the discussion about the "curate" privilege from meta here? If it is something similar to "20k+" on SE rather than full moderator duties, then it might be easier to get volunteers. For example, I probably don't mind chewing through edit/close reviews etc but I do mind dealing with all the "why was my post closed"/"why was I banned" drama that comes with a full moderator position.

Also, I still think the scope of this site is still too vague for anyone to moderate it. There's a lot of corner cases which the community has yet to come up with a consensus about: tool/software recommendations, asking "where to find documentation" questions, homework dump policy, "how is x designed?" questions, dealing with duplicates, link-only answers etc etc. All of which would be shot down in flames at SO, but may or may not be OK here.

@Lundin the "curate" discussion is ongoing, but meanwhile we don't want to block on getting some help for our single-person mod team here. Scope needs to be decided by the community; moderators don't decide that on their own, and maybe we need to have more "case studies" to discuss to refine the open questions?

This post regarding scope is still open for community suggestions Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? Or we could start new ones. I suppose it might be easier to overview (and archive) if we post one question per issue instead of this single, big post.

@Lundin Please check the "what types of questions can I ask here" on its help page. Of course, it is not set in stone, so yes, it is still open for suggestions. Please use a separate meta question to suggest improvements for it.