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community January 8, 2015

Stack Exchange Year in Review 2014

We – which is to say, you, the Stack Exchange community – had another great year in 2014. We cracked Quantcast’s top 50 networks in the US. We did this without posting celebrity gossip, top 10 lists, or cat pictures. We did it by creating artifacts: useful, canonical bits of information, edited, refined, and curated by…
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Engineering Manager (former)
community March 8, 2013

VOTE NOW in the 2013 Stack Overflow Moderator Election

It’s time once again to cast your vote for the next Stack Overflow moderators. The primaries have just ended, and the top ten candidates can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/election. Why more moderators? We’re running the election now (rather than a year from the last election in June) because veteran moderator Tim Post is stepping down…
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Community Manager (former)
community June 4, 2012

2012 Stack Overflow Community Moderator Election Begins

Hard to believe it’s been only six months since the last moderator election on Stack Overflow… Remember A Theory of Moderation? It talks about how moderators are the “human exception handlers” on Stack Overflow, elected to deal with those rare situations the normal community moderation can’t handle. It also notes: The most common moderator task…
Avatar for Josh Heyer
Community Manager (former)
community February 4, 2011

Welcome Our New Trilogy Moderators for 2011!

The trilogy elections are now complete. Welcome our new trilogy moderators for 2011! Stack Overflow Server Fault Super User I hereby declare the new election process, at least as judged by the quality of the final candidates and the eventual winners, a resounding success! Thank you for so generously contributing your time to keep your…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community February 2, 2011

Moderator Messages

First, a quick update on the Stack Exchange moderator election schedule. Ending today, so get those votes in! serverfault.com/election superuser.com/election stackoverflow.com/election Ending soon: programmers.stackexchange.com/election cstheory.stackexchange.com/election gamedev.stackexchange.com/election Just started: webapps.stackexchange.com/election askubuntu.com/election gaming.stackexchange.com/election Coming soon, in this order, at 3 per week: webmasters.stackexchange.com/election (Feb 7) cooking.stackexchange.com/election (Feb 7) photo.stackexchange.com/election (Feb 7) stats.stackexchange.com/election (Feb 14) tex.stackexchange.com/election (Feb 14)…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
community January 24, 2011

Stack Exchange 2011 Elections Begin

After running a beta community moderator election on math.stackexchange, and launching 2011 community moderator elections on the trilogy sites, we are now rolling out community moderator elections to all the public Stack Exchange 2.0 sites. When we selected Moderators Pro Tempore on the public beta sites, we tried to be quite clear that the eventual…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
company January 19, 2011

Trilogy 2011 Elections Begin

After vetting the new, improved election process on math.stackexchange.com we’re ready for the next big step: 2011 community moderator elections on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I’d make a great community moderator!” — now is your chance to nominate yourself: serverfault.com/election superuser.com/election stackoverflow.com/election Don’t worry —…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
community December 2, 2010

Stack Exchange Moderator Elections Begin

Back in July, we appointed Moderators Pro Tempore for the nascent Stack Exchange 2.0 communities. Leadership is critical to any community’s success, and the bootstrapping of a community often requires those leaders to be appointed before the community is large enough or organized enough to elect them itself. Our fellow moderators Pro Tempore have been…
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Co-Founder (Former)
community July 11, 2010

Summer 2010 Moderator Appointments

Due to a continual and ever-growing stream of moderator flags on the classic trilogy — and a desire to be respectful of the time our existing community moderators are so generously contributing to our community — I recently proposed on meta that we add moderators to each classic trilogy site: Stack Overflow (came in 3rd…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
community February 9, 2010

Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Results

The Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election results are in! We decided to choose two moderators this time, just like last time. The winners are … drumroll please … Congratulations to our newest community elected moderators, Gumbo and Jonathan Sampson (update: Jason Cohen was originally the #2 winner, but withdrew from the race after some post-election…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
community February 1, 2010

Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator Election Begins

After a week long nomination period, we now have our Stack Overflow 2010 Moderator candidates. (To be eligible as a candidate, you had to have at least 10 total upvotes in the meta nomination thread. Downvotes were not counted in any way.) There were some suggestions that the Single Transferable Vote system would work better…
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Co-Founder (Former)
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