where form meets function » stackoverflow http://www.paulfedory.com/blog programming & design by paul fedory Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:06:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 the StackOverflow moderator election http://www.paulfedory.com/blog/2010/02/the-stackoverflow-moderator-election/ http://www.paulfedory.com/blog/2010/02/the-stackoverflow-moderator-election/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:21:36 +0000 Paul http://www.paulfedory.com/blog/?p=23 Every StackOverflow user with a reputation of 200 of more has the opportunity to elect a new moderator. The list of candidates looks as if it was chosen from users with high reputation. The voting page says to vote based on what kind of moderator you’d think they’d be, based on their profile page.

I didn’t take this advice. I feel that StackOverflow has a bias towards Microsoft technologies. To even things out, I’d rather have a moderator that works on non-Microsoft technologies. So, I visited each potential moderator’s page and eliminated candidates based on that criteria by looking at their most used tags. I ended up with candidates that I would like to see become moderators, solely based on their subject matter:

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Here are the profiles I linked to:

I didn’t link to:

  • LinkedIn
  • Digg

I don’t use my LinkedIn account. I wasn’t sure if I should link to my digg account. Nor was I sure if I should link my Last.fm account, but I did because what music I like feels much more anecdotal than the kinds of stories I like. For some reason, my digg profile feels much more revealing. That’s my current comfort level.

Is there any advice out there regarding this?

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