2012 Moderator Election

Hey, if you don't try, you'll never know so I'm going to nominate myself. That said, there are two places and the other two candidates are pretty outstanding pillars of the community. Perhaps we can persuade Anna Lear to make a third place available :-)

On a professional level, I am a Senior Drupal Developer in the UK - so I have a fair amount of knowledge and have decent people skills.

I always try to help when I can, and spend a fair amount of time in the review queue if I don't have the time to answer any questions. I tend to block out time per day for DA, even during the weekend...much to my wife's disapproval. I also spend some time a week offering support on IRC, although with sites like this popping up I'm spending less and less time there.

I spend a bit of time on the Meta site, but feel that I rarely have to participate as questions I have are already answered, or questions I have the answer to have already been tackled by someone else.

I'm not really sure what else to write here - so if anyone has any questions at all, then please feel free to ask them!

I would like to nominate myself for a moderator role.

I already spend quite a bit of time on the site editing/reviewing/flagging/etc, trying to give new users a poke in the right direction, and generally trying to help out as well as answering questions. Becoming a moderator feels like it would just be a natural progression of that (with extra responsibilities of course).

I like to think I'm a pretty fair and affable guy, and I have a good understanding of the site rules. I'm a regular visitor to Meta Stack Exchange; my involvement there is fairly passive as pretty much everything I need to know has already been answered, but I've read more posts about the way the network operates than I can remember. I also visit the Drupal Answers meta site regularaly and participate there whenever I can help out with something.

I really enjoy the time I spend here and I think there's a great core community of users, I'd welcome the opportunity to help keep the site progressing as well as it has done so far.

Please feel free to ask any questions :)

I am going to nominate myself.

I think my profile here says the most about me. It will show my question/answer activity here, as well as my voting trend. I will point out that the reputation I have given out by voting exceeds the reputation I have received by nearly a two-to-one ratio, and I have no problem voting for a "competing" answer if it is correct and/or better than mine.

I have been participating in various internet communities (USENET, listservs, forums, etc) for over twenty years, which I think has given me a good understanding of the dynamics and issues that come up. I have also been a moderator on other sites and know that it can be a drag at times.

If it isn't apparent from my profile, I am a professional developer and spend most of my time either implementing Drupal sites or overseeing the development of Drupal sites.

I am on the site fairly often (it is my prime "head clearer" during the work day). I ask questions, I answer questions, I flag, I review, I participate in meta.

I had more written for the last election, but the character count this time around is much shorter.

Ask questions and I will try to answer them.