@BradLarson good point. I've had a lot to do with both these people @ArtOfCode and @Andy in charcoal and both have always been reasonable and active on the site. I have great respect for both of them. I wasn't going to vote for Art because of his rep, but your endorsement has changed my mind
@pydsigner The soprimaries.charcoal-se.org tracker is Undo's. He moved it to a shared server after the primary, and I changed the DNS over. It may be DNS caching, so clear your DNS cache. If not, then it's sporadically having load issues so it may be that.
@JigarJoshi: I really dislike that you didn't answer the questionnaire. In future I suggest candidates should be automatically removed for not answering it.
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Even if you were short of time. You could have scribbled something very brief.
@smci he isn't pingable in this room, which means he won't get the notification. To be pingable, you need to have visited the room in the last 7 days if I remember correctly. Jigar has never come in this room AFAIK
If there was some click-bait notification like "Want to get a silver badge without writing a new answer or asking a question? Click here to know more", then we would have more.
@lukya Yes I think it is important to have moderators with a diversity of programming experience (/tag coverage), I expect them to be capable of improving a problem or missing tag, not just closing questions en masse. I'm dismayed at the serious lack of constructive comment on Meta from some of the candidates.
@smci A moderator's primary focus is usually to handle flags. Closing / editing and re-opening questions is something the community can handle pretty well.
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I dare say, even, that the community handles a massive majority of that.
While it can be convenient for a moderator to know the language of the flagged Q/A, in a perfect world, the flag is described in a manner that requires no knowledge of the language at all.
@Cerbrus: they can't effectively handle flags if they don't understand what the questions, answers, comments and flags are actually about. Otherwise, they can't understand which ones are snark, legitimate comment, abuse, unconstructive comment.
@meagar Please read what I wrote more carefully. I said I expect them to have the knowledge level to do that or understand when it's the underlying issue - I do not expect them to do actually do much of it. Sure, dealing with repetitive or low-grade crap is most of the jobdesc.
> I am having the same issue. I added the needed components, setting correct minimum targets and intellisense is not picking it up. tried restarting app as well.
@meagar You misrepresented what I said. I never said I expect moderators to waste "huge time" dealing with tag issues, or even hardly any time. I said I expect them to have the knowledge level to know what the hell they're doing, which often is not the case. Good intentions only get us so far.
@BhargavRao and Cerbrus: that one's easy, clearly it's either VLQ or NAA. If "I added the needed components" is supposed to refer to specific Nuget packages in specific libraries, then it's around the borderline of VLQ and NAA.
> I am having the same issue. I added the needed components, <specific components>, setting correct minimum targets and intellisense is not picking it up. tried restarting app as well. tried <code> as well
@meagar Please stop the snark. I expect them to know when closing is not the solution. I expect them to able to discern when flag activity highlights a legitimately unclear, ambiguous issue, legitimate difference of opinion, missing or problem tag, etc. vs when it's simply users behaving badly or messing around. I expect them to be capable of occasionally formulating the odd constructive proposal on Meta, maybe every six months.
yeah, my impression is that a mod's job is designed to only consist of janitorial tasks that require an understanding of SO standards, both official and based on established community consensus. you can say you want some non-job-related knowledge, but that's not super persuasive to anyone else
