2012 Moderator Election

Right, I'll throw my hat into the ring for this one. It shouldn't just be a three horse race.

I'm one of the users who came over from UXExchange.com & was a regular contributor over there before the merge with UX.SE & I have been active here ever since. As for my personal history; I completed my Uni course about 10 years ago, specializing in H:CI & User-Centred Design & have worked in this field primarily since then.

My visions for the site would be to help expand the 'core' group of regular posters & to try to encourage new visitors to join & become active contributors. We can guide these new users into becoming valuable community members so that we will all benefit.

I think my approach to moderation overall would be quite laissez-faire; the community is already a good one & doesn't need a heavy-handed approach, just people to watch over it & ensure it doesn't descend into arguments & abuse - which could happen as UX is quite a subjective field where passionate people have strong opinions.

I’m an active member of UX.SE & would like the opportunity to put the time that I spend on this site to even better use to help the site grow & attract new & valued users.

I'm the "youngest" member running (been here for just 2 months). Nonetheless, I love this community and I think it's the best gathering of the UX tribe on the Internet.

I strongly believe in the broken windows theory so I will remove any off-topic post upon seeing it. At the same time, I think that some general questions dealing with UX as a field should stay & become community wikis because they get asked again after some time (e.g. Stack Overflow's famous question on free programming books). Meanwhile, authors of low quality content will receive comments asking for clarifications because I don't edit for reasons other than fixing grammar or choice of words. And, in case there're any disputes, I have UX chat open in a perm tab.

My long-term goals as a moderator are clarifying the FAQ about what's considered off-topic and growing the user base (it makes me said that I have reached top 20 in under 2 months when there are nearly 10k users here).

So vote for me if you want a stronger community.

I'm an HCI major (graduated) who found this site 6 months ago and loved it. Since then I've become one of the Most Active Users on the site, as you can see from My Profile. I also use Meta a lot, I even have a badge to prove it!

I try to improve posts before I vote to close them, but I hope to keep this site a high quality and professional resource and have helped close many ill-fitting questions. When a post is borderline or in need of help, I bring it to the attention of the chat room or Meta where a consensus can be made.

I edit, vote, comment, ask and answer on the site a lot and I enjoy making the site a better place for UXers. Did I mention I'm the only user with the Reviewer Badge? I have a lot of badges, but I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want.

I've been a pro tem moderator since early 2011.

When we merged UI.stack with UXExchange we created a new site whose mission was still a little unclear. Do we include questions not about software? Do we allow opinion-based questions because a lot of UX design isn't about cold hard facts?

I think we've done a good job of guiding the site to represent a certain type of questions. But I also think we're a bit dry - we're missing what makes UX so much fun. Questions like the one about the 3d rotating cube are fantastic but only come along once in a blue moon.

I'd like to see us opening up to a better representation of what it is to be a UX designer instead of just dealing with the daily grind of "how do I fit too much data into this table" questions.

Having said that, we're running for moderator, not for president. My opinion on the future of the site doesn't really factor into my daily moderation duties and I know this because I've done it for 9 months. Your responsibilities in closing the right question shouldn't be related to your personal opinion - that's why we lay down rules in the FAQ. If you can't separate the two, then I'm not sure you'd make a good moderator.