<p>In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&amp;A thread for the candidates. Questions collected <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1769/2013-moderator-election-qa-question-collection">from an earlier thread</a> have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Due to the lack of submission count, we have selected all provided questions as well as two of our back up questions for a total of 10 questions.</p>

<p>As a candidate, your job is simple - post an answer to this question, citing each of the questions and then post your answer to each question given in that same answer. For your convenience, I will include all of the questions in quote format with a break in between each, suitable for you to insert your answers. Just <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/revisions/08c8b59c-0c4b-42d9-a9c9-52d460316e0a/view-source">copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes</a>.</p>

<p>Once all the answers have been compiled, this will serve as a transcript for voters to view the thoughts of their candidates, and will be appropriately linked in the Election page. </p>

<p>Good luck to all of the candidates!</p>

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  <p>(1) What is your take on the "software questions on CV" that come up very frequently and where do you draw the line and decide it should be migrated to SO or simply closed? Based on the review queue, it seems there is a lot of heterogeneity among the high-rep users in terms of what constitutes "off-topic" in this context and, with moderators having the ability to unilaterally close/migrate questions, this seems a natural question to ask.</p>
  
  <p>(2) If you are elected moderator, what (specific, concrete!) changes would you like to see made to the way the site is currently administered and moderated? How do you view your role in effecting the proposed changes?</p>
  
  <p>(3) How would you moderate situations where you find yourself disagreeing with official SE policy about something?</p>
  
  <p>(4) 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?</p>
  
  <p>(5) How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?</p>
  
  <p>(6) What are your opinions about casting the deciding "moderator" vote on closing/opening questions? For example, if five non-moderator users have closed a question that you think should be left open, would you consider unilaterally re-opening it? Similarly, if a majority of reviewers have recommended that a question be left open (say 1 close vote and 3 "stay open" votes) under what circumstances would you decide to use your deciding close vote to override the majority?</p>
  
  <p>(7) What is your interpretation of the purpose of Cross Validated and how does this influence the way you choose to use the site as an ordinary user?</p>
  
  <p>(8) What kind of moderatorial experience, if any, have you had before (online or offline)? Can you give an example of a moderatorial issue that came up, how you had handled it, and how the community that you moderated viewed your handling of the situation?</p>
  
  <p>(9) A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?</p>
  
  <p>(10) In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?</p>
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