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The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!

Community moderator elections have three phases:

  1. Nomination phase
  2. Primary phase
  3. Election phase

Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are.

Please visit the official election page at

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/election

for more detail, and to participate!

If you have general questions about the election process, or questions for moderator candidates, feel free to ask them here on meta -- just make sure your questions are tagged .

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    The nomination page appears to only allow self nominations, not nominations for other members. Am I misreading it?
    – Dcleve
    Commented Aug 21 at 2:51
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    Yeah I would not object to changing that… would be happy to nominate others. I’m worried some people are too humble to nominate themselves!
    – Julius Hamilton
    Commented Aug 21 at 14:15
  • Related: Upcoming moderator election, which explain that the goal of the election is to increase the number of moderators from three to four.
    – Tsundoku
    Commented Aug 27 at 20:40
  • Proposal: Open more moderator positions. Three halves make a whole?
    – Him
    Commented Aug 27 at 22:20
  • @Dcleve Nominating other people is something I have only seen near the end of a stie's Private Beta phase, when "pro temporary moderators" are appointed. The community publishes nominations on a meta question, and a CM then makes a selection. In proper elections, the only thing you can do is nominate yourself or ask other people to nominate themselves.
    – Tsundoku
    Commented Aug 29 at 10:02
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    A chat has been opened to post questions to the mod candidates. Not much activity there yet. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/154893/…
    – Dcleve
    Commented Aug 31 at 18:08

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  1. I nominate Philip Klöcking as moderator.

    Philip is one of our present moderators. I appreciate his excellent work during the last years.

  2. I also nominate Marco Ocram and the present moderator Geoffrey Thomas as new/continuing moderators.

    I have seen that both show by example what I consider to be clear and helpful answers and comments – one of them since nearly two years, the other several years ago - before adopting his present job as a moderator.

    I am also confident that both participants could raise the level of discussion by throwing in from time to time some thought-provoking question. And also by repudiating those kind of questions, which are either wide of the mark or which show that the OP misses any effort of own thought.

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    Thanks for the merits but it really is about getting additional personel to share the workload between more people than it is currently the case 😇
    – Philip Klöcking Mod
    Commented Aug 27 at 22:19
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Zero people have nominated themselves. I hope there is a way to change it so we can nominate others?

Otherwise, I’m casting a bit of a wider net to encourage these people to nominate themselves!

  • Bumble
  • J D
  • Lowri
  • Dcleve
  • Conifold
  • Kristian Berry
  • causative
  • Mauro ALLEGRANZA
  • Corbin
  • Anyone who is actually a philosophy academic, even if they only participate intermittently

Feel free to say you nominated yourself on my behalf.

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    How would nominating others even work here? I assume they are holding an election because they could use the help. The community cant just choose someone to help who hasn't already volunteered their time to do so. It's self-nominations because the alternative doesnt really make sense.
    – JMac
    Commented Aug 21 at 18:23
  • @JMac require nominess to <button>Accept</button> a nomination before putting them on the ballot.
    – Him
    Commented Aug 27 at 22:36
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  • Kristian Berry
  • Joe Wehler
  • Conifold (would be fun)

sorry, drunk

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