In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected [from an earlier thread](http://meta.magento.stackexchange.com/questions/637/2015-moderator-election-qa-question-collection) have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we only selected the top 8 questions as submitted by the community, plus 2 pre-set questions from us. 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 [copy the whole thing after the first set of three dashes](http://meta.magento.stackexchange.com/revisions/9fe51f6a-56be-48d6-a49e-e99ed054daf4/view-source). Oh, and please consider putting your name at the top of your post so that readers will know who you are before they finish reading everything you have written. 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. Good luck to all of the candidates! --- >1. What is your opinion of the role of the Magento StackExchange in relation to third-party extensions--both free and commercial? >2. Moderators have a decisive vote when it comes to closing questions, opening questions, validating edits. This means a moderator can close a question without the need for other 4 votes. What's your view on that? Does it change anything, does it make you pay more attention to what you are reviewing? or it doesn't make a difference? >3. Do you think you can/should help keeping the answered question rate high as a moderator? If yes, how would you do that? >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? >5. How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been? >6. Moderators frequently have to deal with content from user new to Magento and to StackExchange. What will you regularly do as a moderator with regards to these users? >7. How would you react with users who shamelessly posted stupid question/doing this job for me type of question. How would you react with those users? >8. In phase 2 of the graduation, the "trusted user" privilege will be gained at 20K reputation instead of 4k. This means, the number of users that can vote to delete questions and answers with negative score suddenly drops from 23 to 3 and the responsibility to decide about deletion is shifted more towards the moderators (at least for some time). How do you feel about this responsibility and what's your policy on deleting posts? >9. Moderators have several tools at their disposal to educate users and to ensure the quality of content. How would you rank the various activities of moderators? >10. What do you believe is your most important role as a moderator **specifically for this exchange** - in your personal opinion and from a community perspective?