Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!
Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.
Who should the moderators be?
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing this as a stopgap, while communities are forming, so Codidact staff don't have to handle all the flags (some of which we might not understand because y'all are the experts, not us).
The Software Development community is also still forming, but it came about through a different path, through lots of discussions. It didn't have one or two main champions; it was more distributed. And there's been lots of good early activity from several people. So we'd like to ask you who the initial moderators should be.
This community is still small, so we encourage y'all to think of this as temporary -- plan to do something more formal and permanent later, but in the meantime, we need a couple of people who are able to lead this community's early efforts at shaping this community.
What do moderators do? Aside from the community-leadership aspect already mentioned, on Codidact they:
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handle flags (soon you'll be able to get some help with that, when abilities roll out, but mostly it'll be mods for a while
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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 features from the Codidact team. There are some things, like creating new categories or changing configurable site settings, that require admin access. Mods are the people we want those requests to come from. (If it's something big, we'll ask you to show us community consensus, for example a well-received meta post.)
Moderators do not have access to users' PII. (I don't even have access to users' PII. We try to keep that locked down for everyone's safety.)
Please use answers here for nominations. You can nominate yourself or others -- one candidate per post. If someone nominates you, please edit or comment to indicate whether you'd accept the nomination, and feel free to add anything else about you that the community should know. We'd like to have at least two moderators; a moderator should always have a peer to check with on tricky matters or to defer to where there's conflict of interest.
Update: We have appointed two moderators, Alexei and ShowMeBillyJo. This addresses the immediate need; we can add another if the community wants, but we can also wait. These are temporary appointments, until the community is larger and more established. Ultimately we want communities to choose their own moderators.
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I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community.
I nominate Lundin, who is very active on main and meta, has proposed some initiatives on meta, and is well-positioned to help us firm up sometimes-fuzzy scope and help this young community grow.
I'll throw my hat in. I don't post much, but I do keep up with the site every day. I try to model a style of leadership that emphasizes consensus building, compromise, and "the third way." That's how I'd approach moderation here too.
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