In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from [an earlier thread](http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com/questions/3860/2013-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.

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 linebreak](http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com/revisions/e6cfc71b-6d87-4bff-98a8-b5aa847a577f/view-source).

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!

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> In your opinion, what do moderators do?



> A diamond will be attached to everything you say and have said in the past, including questions, answers and comments. Everything you will do will be seen under a different light. How do you feel about that?



> In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?



> 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?



> How would you handle a situation where another mod closed/deleted/etc a question that you feel shouldn't have been?



> What is your general ideology regarding how moderation should be performed?



> What are your thoughts on the community-driven nature of StackExchange, and would you support continued moderation primarily by community members?



> What is your motivation for being a moderator? What makes it something you want to do? Why do you feel like photography is the right community for moderating?



> Is there anything about Photo-SE which you would like to be significantly different from the way it is now?