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I'm a man of a few words so I'll make it brief and to the point. The SOCVR current team needs help on to shape and moderate the room, and I want to help.

  • I've been around since September 2015. I was introduced to the room by durron597 right here. First message said to me in chat here. Side-note: on the very next day, I was already reporting spam...!
  • Today, the FAQ has no secret from me and I do not hesitate to remind it to the chatters and link to it to new comers. That's actually a task I like to do: this room is under a lot of scrutinity and everytime I can help moderating by answering questions about the room's guidance, pointing out something to chatters or defusing a heated conversation, I feel great.
  • As a Room Owner, I'll continue doing those tasks, and more: supervising burnination efforts, coaching chatters, giving feedback on a review, improving the current room guidance...

That's pretty much it: I feel I have what it takes to lead this room with our current ROs, I'm positive I can help drive the room to a better horizon and I want to do it.

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Tunaki commented Mar 14, 2016

@joncle

I welcome them! It's a great and positive thing for the room to have moderators as members. It shows that there can be a group of people interacting "freely" with moderators. And SOCVR is not the only room to have such privilege. Still, this is a tricky question because it raises important challenges that the room faces. Moderators were elected by the whole Stack Overflow community, RO were not. However, in the room, they are under the same set of rules as all other members.

The first important point is that never should the room take for granted having moderators around. It is a wonderful thing but the room cannot rely on that. It has to do its own moderation, and, as a result, even moderate messages posted by diamonds themselves, in accordance with the FAQ. Members of the room should also not count on moderators to take any actions regarding cv-pls or reflag-pls. It also goes without saying that never should one member face up to a moderator because of a declined flag for example.

How are others members going to interact with them? That's another tricky point: yes, they are members of the room but they also have a greater challenge and mission. This means that other members should try to avoid pinging one moderator for feedback / actions / explanation... If someone has an issue on their hands and feel it requires moderator intervention, the main vector of action is still to raise a mod-flag and not try to involve a mod currently present in the room.

Given that today, there are quite a few diamond moderators active in the room, I think such a general guidance should be written explicitely in the FAQ.

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Tunaki commented Mar 14, 2016

@YvetteC

This question hides several important aspects: what should the room as a whole do? What should the Stack Overflow community do? I am not running for Stack Overflow moderator but SOCVR room owner so I cannot speak for the Stack Overflow community. But I can speak with what I think the room should do.

There are several considerations about the room and the user interacting in it. Should the room be responsible for actions done by its members outside of the room? No, it can only moderate what happens inside its borders in accordance with the FAQ. Should the room sanction / authorize its members to discuss bountying each other in the room? Definitely not. The FAQ is very clear on this matter: coordinated voting (whether it is by upvotes or bounties) is not tolerated. The actions that lead to the Meta post you're linking to definitely should never have happened in the room. And, in the future, should I become a room owner or not, I will certainly and sincerely hope that this never happens again.

Does this mean that those actions should never have happened at all? Well, this is a question that I cannot answer because it goes outside of the room's scope. Users are free to do what they want: their actions will be regulated by the Stack Overflow rules, not by the rules of the room.

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on the very next day, I was already reporting spam...!

Really Tuna? ... I was reporting spam, 24 minutes after entering the room. 😄

Congratulations on becoming a RO and all the best for the future.

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