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Call for moderators (2025)
The Software Development community on Codidact recently reached an important milestone. Thank you to everyone who invests in building this community.
We'd like to ask for a little more help. Alexei has been doing an outstanding job as a (currently solo) moderator, but it's better to have more than one. We had another moderator who later stepped down and at the time we asked for nominations for a replacement. We didn't get any volunteers then, but time has passed, the community has grown, we've discussed this with Alexei, and we all feel this is a good time to ask again.
Moderating isn't a lot of work and both the Codidact team and your fellow moderators are prepared to support you and help you learn.
What do moderators do? On Codidact they:
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handle flags (there aren't a lot of these at the moment, but there are some)
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have all the tools -- close/reopen, delete/undelete, locks, user warnings/suspensions when needed (rare we hope), create help topics, and more
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act as representatives of the community when requesting changes from the Codidact team (for example, to let us know about a meta consensus for a configuration change)
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help the community work out its direction, policies, needs, etc on meta -- anybody can and should start these discussions, of course, but we hope that moderators will be active participants
Are you interested in being a moderator here? Would you like to nominate someone else? Please use answers here, one answer per candidate, to nominate yourself or others.
Do you have questions? Please ask!
We haven't laid out an election process here, I know. This post is to gauge interest. If we see one or two very positively-received (and accepted) nominations, I don't see why we wouldn't just go ahead and appoint those folks. This is how we got the moderators we've had so far. If there are a lot of candidates or there are downvotes on nominations, we'll need to do more to determine what this community wants. If you have other suggestions on how we should conduct a contested selection, please speak up! This decision belongs to the community; staff are here to facilitate. (Alexei and I waffled on which of us should post this, by the way.)
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Update 2025-02-02: Based on the responses here, we have appointed Karl Knechtel as a moderator. Thank you Karl for stepping up and everyone for your participation.
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Sure, I'll step up for this, since nobody else has yet.
I think my credentials speak for themselves, but just in case: I'm an accomplished Python developer with a long history of helping people out with Python on the Internet in various forms and places (including via self-answered Q&A; I'm active on Stack Overflow meta; and I'm a big believer in Codidact as a platform.
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