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Can't we all just be passive help officers? I was under the impression that the current way of doing things is to make feature-requests and let the community voice their agreement or disagreement by voting, and then mods can escalate the request to staff by tagging status-review. I think that communal vote and discussion part is important. If we create a "Help Officer" role, are you suggesting that that that communal vote and discussion be removed from the process? And what do you think is insufficient about the status-review tagging process?
– starball
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 20:47
@starball The voting on Meta posts to me pretty much says nothing about agreement or disagreement with the post's content. For that, we should at least introduce the concept of a 'poll' where a vote can be cast based on a short one-line proposal (ignoring all remaining text). I don't think the poll-vote should replace the post-vote but rather complement it. The Help Officer could be at the heart of setting up these polls.
– Sep Roland
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 21:16
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polls on meta would be no more useful than upvotes and downvotes on meta at determining a meaningful consensus.
– Kevin B
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 21:30
@KevinB That's why they have to be very short and focussed.
– Sep Roland
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 21:36
That wouldn't fix the reason they're not useful.
– Kevin B
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 21:40
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Details that the help center doesn't mention are collected in the [faq] already
– Bergi
Commented Dec 2, 2022 at 23:06

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