<p>Aksakal answers your questions</p>

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  <li>Several tag-related tasks require moderator attention. How well do you feel our community deals with them presently? Would you be able &amp; willing to improve the situation (if it is needed)? How? Related links regarding tag burnination <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3031">1</a> <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3147">2</a>, tag synonym implementation <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1200">1</a>, and tag synonym merging <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2790">1</a></li>
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<p>Frankly, I don't use tags because in my opinion they're the remnants of the old way to search for information. GMail's slogan used to be "search don't sort," and tags belong to "sort" approach. We have the search engines and that's how people find the answers and end up asking questions on SE. Nobody's using tags anymore, so I wouldn't sweat about all tag issues, they're irrelevant for the utility of CV.</p>

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  <li>What do you see as the biggest problem facing our site and what would you do to help address it?</li>
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<p>After people ask all basic questions and get all the answers, the questions become more and more narrow specialized, then fewer and fewer people would be able to answer them. The generalists (dudes with high reputations) will not be able to answer anything and become bored and leave, the questioners don't get answers, the site traffic goes down and it dies. </p>

<p>We need to find a way to attract the specialists to answer specialized questions. Maybe have incentives to do so by throwing in "house bounties" on very interesting questions from narrow fields.</p>

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  <li>Do you have any Meta posts that you're particularly proud of, or that you feel best demonstrate your moderation style?</li>
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<p>Not really</p>

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  <li>One of the issues which crops up frequently on this site is the dividing line between a statistical question and a computing question. At the moment custom and practice is that requests for code or package suggestions are seen as off-topic. Do you think we have the boundary in the right place? If you do not what is your suggestion for the new boundary?</li>
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<p>Yes, the current approach is right. No need to change. If someone's asking for SAS code to do a certain thing, they should go to SAS forum.</p>

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  <li>How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?</li>
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<p>Warn him at first, then ban if behavior doesn't change.</p>

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  <li>How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?</li>
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<p>Contact that mod, discuss. Usually reasonable people come to the same conclusion when given a chance to discuss.</p>

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  <li>There is some controversy surrounding our use of Community Wiki status, see <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2953/">What is and what should be our policy on making questions community wiki?</a>. Our current policy is not sufficiently clear, is not being consistently implemented, and is arguably suboptimal (though opinions might differ). What is your opinion on all that? Do you see any of that as a problem? What is your preferred policy? Would you be willing to work towards formulation of some consensus policy and enforcing its consistent implementation?</li>
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<p>I don't have an opinion. I don't think these things are important for CV to be a valuable source of information. It's like a side business, and doesn't impact the bottom line</p>

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  <li>What do you propose to do about the host of unanswered questions?</li>
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<p>Regularly review them, and bump them up from time to time or close/merge. There's no other way about it, someone has to look at them and process them one by one.</p>

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  <li>Do we close questions (for any reason) too much, or too little? Why?</li>
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<p>Just right</p>

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  <li>In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?</li>
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<p>Moderation is an orthogonal dimension to answering questions. It's about keeping and order and making the market so to speak. I don't see this as an alternative to answering questions at all.</p>
