Leaders, Moderators, Administrators - Yearly Wrap-up 2021

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This is the second “yearly wrap-up” for users with extended privileges on Discourse (leaders, moderators, administrators).

The TL;DR is that we expect everybody who currently has privileges on Discourse to say whether they want to continue having those privileges (no response means giving up the privilege). This is also a space for users to ask for more privileges or nominate others that they believe should have more privileges. You can also nominate others or yourself by a private message to the Community Manager (me) or the SGB. Preferably, privileged users or new nominees would also share past accomplishments/experiences and plans/visions for the future of the forum.

All users ale also welcome to voice their feedback/wishes/… for privileged users.

The period to react here is one month, i.e. until November 10th (anytime on earth).

Read Selection and accountability for forum moderators and leaders for a full description of what this means, what individual roles can do and what we expect of privileged users.

As I write this, the privileged users are:

Administrators

(can do literally anything on the site)

Moderators:

(can edit/moderate all public content, can ban users)

Leaders:

(can edit/reformat posts, recategorize topics and other mostly maintanence/gardening tasks)

@Adam_Haber, @andre.pfeuffer, @andrjohns, @Ara_Winter, @arya, @breckbaldwin, @ducoveen, @hsbadr, @hyunji.moon, @jgaeb, @lauren, @mans_magnusson, @Matthijs, @maxbiostat, @Max_Mantei, @mcol, @paul.buerkner, @rok_cesnovar, @roualdes, @serban-nicusor, @spinkney, @stablemarkets, @stevebronder, @tadej, @vianeylb, @WardBrian, @yizhang, @yuling

Thanks everybody for all the hard work in keeping this community running.

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I want to continue having those privileges.

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@martinmodrak, thanks! I’ll stay on as an administrator.

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What’s the intuition behind removing folks off the mod list if they haven’t contribute in 6 months? Is being on the mod list a limited resource?

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I would like to continue having those privileges.

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I want to continue having those privileges.

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I would like to continue having those privileges as well

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I’d like to continue having my usual privileges, which I basically employ to do

syntax  highlighting

:)

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I would be interested in having the ability to format posts with syntax highlighting. I guess that means I self-nominate as a leader?

My vision for the forum is to continue to provide a platform that patiently and kindly helps new users to get comfortable with Stan. I think this is crucially important for the long-term health of the project and for the diversity of the community.

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I’d like to stay on as a Leader if that’s ok.

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I’d like too, thanks!

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I want to continue having those privileges.

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I would like to continue having those privileges.

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Happy to stay on thanks

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I’d like to stay on as a Leader as well, thank you Martin for the wrap up!

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Thanks to everybody who responded so far!

Note: “not contributing in 6 months” is not a criterium I am aware of, although we want all mods/leaders to be at least a bit active (as discussed at Selection and accountability for forum moderators and leaders). It is mostly a step towards accountability, transparency and a bit more security. Accountability in that there is currently no other process where community can provide input on leaders/mods and it reminds the SGB/Community manager to periodically evaluate if the leaders/mods currently in place and the processes surrounding them serve the community well. Transparency in that it makes it more discoverable who is actually managing the forums and not having inactive people on the list makes it clear who is/could be responsible. Security in that less people having advanced privileges means smaller attack surface. Last time we did this we discovered some people didn’t even know they have privileges, so making sure people still want to bear the (limited) responsibility associated with the privileges is also useful. I don’t think the current process is doing a lot in either of those categories, but I hope it is doing something useful and it is minimally intrusive/annoying

Does that make sense?

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I would like to continue having those privileges. Thanks!

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I would like to continue having those privileges.

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Oh sorry I totally misread your first sentence and thought this was a bi-yearly thing. Yearly feels more reasonable.

makes sense!

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As for myself, I will be stepping down as the community manager. I would like to keep the administrator privileges to let me finish some of the outstanding tasks during the transition, but after those are done, I’d be happy to have those privileges revoked.

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