Who should the new moderators be?

Question

As AVP is rapidly nearing being re-branded to specifically fit the Video community, it's time to think about the users that can lead this site and community through a renewed beta phase. It's the job of moderators to step in occasionally and do what the community can't, and to act as a liaison between this community and Stack Exchange. These three folks will have our ear, and will work with us to make sure the needs of this community are being met.

Once the transition is finished, the existing moderator team will remain moderators on Sound Design SE alone. Video needs a few great users to step up! They're currently moderators on both sites to help with the migrations and transition.

Moderators should be:

• Consistently patient and fair in their interactions with new users
• Able to give an hour or two of their time each week to moderate
• Interested in having the responsibility of being a moderator
• Knowledgeable in the major tags to the point that they can judge the quality of a post, though high reputation is definitely not a requirement

If you're interested in leading the Video Production Stack Exchange community, or think that another user would be a great fit for the job, nominate yourself (or them) as an answer to this question to let us know you're interested.

When nominating, link the name to the user’s profile (parent and meta). Links to other activities may be helpful: Area 51 participation, participation in other sites, blog posts reviewing or announcing the site, etc.

If the nomination was posted by a 3rd-party, the nominee should indicate their acceptance by editing the answer to add that they accept the nomination and optionally write something about themselves.

While votes on nominations are a guiding factor in our decision, we don't make our selections based on votes alone. We might also approach some users that weren't nominated or didn't nominate to see if they might be interested, based on their previous participation.

For more information about the Stack Exchange moderation philosophy and the initial moderator selection process, see here:

• A theory of moderation
• Moderator pro tempore

Good luck!

Update

AJ and Rory have accepted and been appointed, but we still need one more moderator to complete the team. Would you like to help lead this community, or know of a user that would do a good job? Let us know in an answer below!

Due to the recent split from Sound, it's rather difficult for me to go through the list of users and contact folks individually, as I can't be certain that some didn't move the bulk of their activity over to Sound Design (though Video remains extremely active post-split). Hence - if you'd like to be considered, I really need to hear from you!

Answer 1

I nominate AJ Henderson!

AJ not only has the highest rep on the site, but has also been helping with moderation type issues. Often I have seen a comment from AJ on a post in the review Queue guiding the user in the right direction.

Answer 2

I nominate Rory assuming he isn't too busy with all the other sites he works with. I know he is also video focused and does a great job on all the sites I've known him as a moderator on.

Rory edit:

I am happy to accept this nomination.

I joined AVP 800 days ago, as I have worked in audio and video since the mid-nineties - initially on a professional basis, as a pre-sales engineer for Silicon Graphics, demoing Alias Wavefront and video editing suites, and more recently on an enthusiastic amateur basis for my rock band :-)

As a Moderator on a few Stack Exchange sites already, I have a good grasp of the necessary activities to help sites develop, stay tidy and clean, and to calm the odd anger/frustration without taking things too personally. The sites I moderate range from the very active Security Stack Exchange, to some of the much smaller betas, like Personal Productivity.

For the Audio/Video transition, Tim asked me to help out with sorting, clean up of tags etc, and while there is quite an effort required to fully merge the Audio culture with the SOund Design culture, here we are much more in a business as usual mode, so I know I can make time to moderate, and to continue to contribute.

I am as patient and fair as I can be with managing disagreements and new users' challenges, and I am known for trying to clean up comments and answers. I am also known for making mistakes on occasion, and accept challenge gracefully - remember a mod is only here to help the community, so when we get it wrong we need to accept that fact.

I set up the Security SE blog, and while I still don't have as many volunteer contributors as I would like, I try and arrange for reasonably regular publications.

Answer 3

Bart Arondson is multi-disciplinary, active on the SE network as a whole and is active in the review queue.