<p>In case anyone missed the <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/moderator-messages/">announcement</a> on the Stack Overflow Blog, the moderator elections are scheduled to begin on the 14th February.</p>

<p><strong>The election process</strong></p>

<p>The best way to get an idea of the election process is to check out another SE site. For example, here's the <a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/election/1">election page</a> for the programmers SE site.</p>

<p><strong>What does a moderator do?</strong></p>

<p>There's some general guidance on being a moderator at the top of the programmers election <a href="https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/election/1">page</a>. If you already visit the site almost every day, answer, edit and re-tag questions as appropriate, participate in meta when necessary, and vote to close/delete, then being a moderator will involve little extra work.</p>

<p>This site has never -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocking_on_wood" rel="nofollow noreferrer">touch wood</a> -- had a problem with difficult users. We get the occasional SPAM message, but even that's fairly rare.</p>

<p>Others mods - feel free to add or edit this post.</p>
