2011 Moderator Election

I am fairly new to the stack exchange community (not quite a year on any of the networks), but during that year I've come to value the expertise offered by the different sites' communities.

DBA hits closest to home as that is the community I mostly fit in. Thus, I've been pretty active on this site as far as offering what little knowledge I have, and learning from others.

I'd like to offer more to the community in terms of being a glorified Janitor and also:

If elected as a DBA.SE moderator, I will strive to bring about world peace and stuff.

‐ Dtest

• I enjoy taking care of our tag ecosystem.

• I care about our new users.

• I care about the quality of our posts. Though I only joined in August, I've already spent a considerable amount of time reviewing and improving posts, both old and new.

  • My flag weight is 230.

  • I am the #1 voter and #3 editor for September.^*

• I've got style.

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About me

I develop technologies for replicating data between databases. I am a big fan of everything open source. I have learned a lot from the Hadoop and VLC communities and want to contribute back.

Pitch

1. I haven't piled up a big reputation score here yet which is because the site is new, and I haven't been around very often lately.
2. I was one of the early members of this site and also have been very active on www.stackoverflow.com and some other exchanges.
3. I work with databases day in and day out.
4. I think I have just enough free time now to be on the website almost all the time.
5. I have never done web moderation before, I have been around long enough on this exchange to understand the essence of our community.

Plan

1. If elected, I want to not only focus on general moderating, but also how to attract more traffic here. The number of people visiting is less according to my expectations and that needs to be taken care of. Not many people know about this website. We need to make people aware that this site exists.

2. Also, I want a better logo for our website.

I'm willing to commit myself to giving the job my best effort if you decide you want me to. I've been active in helping the moderators do their job for a while by flagging posts, commenting and hanging around meta and chat, so I know at least some of the ropes.

A lot of the moderation work is extremely mundane, almost janitorial. It’s deleting obvious spam, closing blatantly off-topic questions, and culling some of the worst rated posts in various dimensions.

This I think I can do. Helping resolve (hopefully extremely rare) disputes gently and graciously? Well I'd try...

I care about dba.se and I want to help the site to do well - either by moderating or by not moderating, you get to choose :)

I'm gonna go ahead and toss my hat in the ring.

I'm one of the current three pro-tem mods on the site, and I am probably the most vocal here. I've got several sites on the Stack Exchange network where I'm active, including Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, here and English Language & Usage, so I'm rather well versed in what it means to be a mod. I'm also pretty well always available on chat.

I am also a moderator on some non-stack exchange sites, and I lead some local user group sessions, so this is already something I'm doing. I definitely enjoy being of service to a community and pitching in where I can. In addition, I'm trying to coordinate with some other individuals here to start a Sql Server users group (we already do .NET on a monthly basis) so as you can see I'm dedicated to promoting database administrators helping each other.

Other reasons to elect me would probably include my rather extensive involvement on our local meta, my mid-level rep here on the site (I'm in the top 20 users of this site), and the fact that adding filler to my paragraphs looks better, since they're more flushed out. And now, a joke:

This is an object-oriented system. If we change anything, the users object.

Thank you thank you, I'll be here all night.

I'll throw my hat in the ring. I'm currently a moderator for ServerFault where I've been a moderator since the site started so I've got a good understanding of what is needed to moderate the site.

I've been using this site for quite some time (as my rep score shows) so I'd like the chance to give back to the site for a bit.