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Fall 2021 Moderator Election

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Metaculus is still growing. New users and veterans alike have been busy making impressive predictions, having constructive conversations, and submitting ever more great questions.

To support all this, it's time we recruited some more moderators, which means it's election time!

So as not to clog the comment section, please leave feedback and ask questions in the General Discussion Thread. You can also ask questions to current moderators in this thread.

Election Rules

  1. Any user who thinks they would make a good Metaculus Community Moderator™, should make a top-level comment below. Please start the comment with the line: "# [username] Candidacy", which should produce a formatted title. Please include a short explanation of your motivations, and what would make you a good moderator. (See the example candidacy.)

  2. Other users are encouraged to ask candidates questions in their candidacy thread, and upvote the top-level comment if they want.

  3. On 2021-09-05, a list of candidates will be generated by taking all contenders with a score >= 8 on their top-level comment.

  4. All eligible Metaculus users will be invited to vote. Only users who were at least level 2 when this post was published will be eligible.

  5. The voting will stay open a week (until 2021-09-12 23:59:59 UTC), and the results will be published the next day.

  6. We will use approval voting. Each voter can approve any number of candidates.

  7. Any candidate with an approval above 80% will be elected.

  8. Moderators are elected for life, or until they retire.

Important note: Metaculus reserves the right to veto any candidate for any reason. We want these elections to be about and for the community, so we will be very careful with this, and sincerely hope we won't need it, now or ever.

About Moderators

A reminder of who and what Metaculus moderators are, copied from our new guidelines:

Metaculus Community Moderators are committed members of the community who volunteer to help the platform run smoothly. We greatly appreciate their time and talents, and we hope you’ll do the same!

The main responsibilities of Community Moderators include:

  1. Providing constructive feedback on user-submitted questions, including asking for revisions when necessary.
  2. Accepting community-suggested questions that are ready to go live for forecasting.
  3. Mediating discussions about question resolutions.
  4. Answering users’ questions about how the platform works, when they arise.

Additionally, Community Moderators can help draw extra attention to bugs, feature requests, or other issues that affect the platform. Community Moderators are appointed democratically, by way of election.

I'll reiterate something that was asked in the last election: moderators are volunteers, i.e. regular users who contribute a couple hours of their Metaculus time each week to help make this place even better.

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