Hi,

What do you think about sending suggestions of yielding status of exam leader to persons who are too busy to keep their exams in good shape?

Being moderator allow me to moderate all exams, not only these which I lead. I understand that the purpose of the exam leader status is the indication that this particular lad/girl is responsible for keeping exam in shape and also should be available to response to any contributor on the behalf of the question author (old proposals, question comments, objective comments). I believe also that if I send an e-mail to the person coordinating particular exam I shouldn't get a SMTP response telling me that his/her e-mail is no longer valid And that sometimes happens to me.

Since moderators can edit ANY exam, persons who can log to the JBB once in a month or two due to the work or university duties can still moderate these exams as regular moderators, but shouldn't be signed as leader since it is misleading for contributors and for entire community.

I guess that it would be better if given exam has no leader at all then such phantom coordinators. In the place of the moderator icon we can print out sth like 'Leader wanted - it could be you' with link to the e-mail form sending moderator status request to one of the admin. I guess it's gonna result in encouraging regular user to become moderators and active leaders.

I guess that critical time for question to be removed from the repair zone or freezer is a month. Critical. It should be done in 2 weeks. However I believe that if sb cannot afford to clean his/her exam at least once in a month he/she should be rather regular moderator. Note again that exam leader status gives you no additional privileges - you're still only in regular moderator rights from the perspective of the platform - this status indicates only that if sb has an issue concerning this exam you are the right person to bother And that you can be blamed for the mess in the exam if the former exists :P

Once again - I think that we cannot overemphasize the fact that exams with no leaders are gonna lead in more persons deciding to coordinate them. You know - sth like "I know X technology well and I see that exam 'X - basic' is orphaned - I can help then" instead of the "I know X technology well but 'X - basic' exam is coordinated by 4 moderators so I guess that they can handle it".

At this moment I coordinate 7 exams but believe me that if I find out that I cannot handle them all I'll resign from some.

Note also that such resignation may be temporary. One can become a leader again after 3 months of intensive occupation in work for instance.

What I suggest then?
1) Make sure that: all the coordinators e-mails are valid.
2) Check activity of the exam leaders in last n months (logins, amount of proposals accepted/rejected, open comments responded, etc.)
2) Ask every exam leader with backlog in his/her exam and/or little activity in their exams (some exams can be coordinated by more then one moderator) if they want to yield their leadership (even temporary) to sb less occupied.

Any comments?

Best regards