###Notes:

Catija has had a lot of participation here; she's currently the #7 user by reputation and also one of the most active meta users. She has a very good knowledge of the Stack Exchange system as a whole, with active participation on several larger and older sites and over 10k reputation on main meta. She's also already a moderator on Arts & Crafts SE, so she knows what it takes to be a good pro-tem mod.

Plus, look at that cute baby. Who wouldn't vote for that picture?

I accept this nomination.

Thank you, Rand, for the nomination and the kind words.

I've been thinking about whether I would consider moderating this site since before it went into Beta. That may sound odd but one of the things I like to think about is how "easy" or "difficult" I imagine a site would be to moderate. I think this site, particularly in Beta will be on the "difficult" end, largely because I think it needs a lot of direction and leadership in a way that the site I currently moderate (Arts & Crafts) really does not.

Fortunately, this site seems (even in private Beta) to have an amazingly engaged group of users who want to see it succeed and who are interested in making the site better and honing the scope and having active discussions on what is and is not on topic. I feel confident that the non-moderator users of this site, both the ones who don't get tapped from this nominations list and the users not interested in being diamonds here, will create a backbone that will help keep this site away from the danger zones of bad SE content.

I can not guarantee that I will always agree with everyone. We can't always shape the site the way we think it should be. But I will promise that, to the best of my ability, I will be happy to help keep this site on the tack we, as a group, choose to set it upon, whether as a moderator or not.

Some info about me. I work a day job that often allows me time to be on Stack Exchange throughout the day and am also an avid user of the iOS app - which has no moderation tools, unfortunately... I'm in chat most of the time, though I haven't been talking in The Awkward Silence, I did change the room name. I'm in the US on Central time, so I'm largely around here from 1500 Z - 300 Z.

###Notes:

Catija has had a lot of participation here; she's currently the #7 user by reputation and also one of the most active meta users. She has a very good knowledge of the Stack Exchange system as a whole, with active participation on several larger and older sites and over 10k reputation on main meta. She's also already a moderator on Arts & Crafts SE, so she knows what it takes to be a good pro-tem mod.

Plus, look at that cute baby. Who wouldn't vote for that picture?

I accept this nomination.

Thank you, Rand, for the nomination and the kind words.

I've been thinking about whether I would consider moderating this site since before it went into Beta. That may sound odd but one of the things I like to think about is how "easy" or "difficult" I imagine a site would be to moderate. I think this site, particularly in Beta will be on the "difficult" end, largely because I think it needs a lot of direction and leadership in a way that the site I currently moderate (Arts & Crafts) really does not.

Fortunately, this site seems (even in private Beta) to have an amazingly engaged group of users who want to see it succeed and who are interested in making the site better and honing the scope and having active discussions on what is and is not on topic. I feel confident that the non-moderator users of this site, both the ones who don't get tapped from this nominations list and the users not interested in being diamonds here, will create a backbone that will help keep this site away from the danger zones of bad SE content.

I can not guarantee that I will always agree with everyone. We can't always shape a site the way we personally think it should be. But I will promise that, to the best of my ability, I will be happy to help keep this site on the tack we, as a group, choose to set it upon, whether as a moderator or not.

Some info about me. I work a day job that often allows me time to be on Stack Exchange throughout the day and am also an avid user of the iOS app - which has no moderation tools, unfortunately... I'm in chat most of the time, though I haven't been talking in The Awkward Silence, I did change the room name. I'm in the US on Central time, so I'm largely around here from 1500 Z - 300 Z.

As noted in the comments, please don't vote based on the cuteness of my avatar. I will continue to share the wealth of cuteness that is my small child even if I do not become a moderator of this site.

###Notes:

Catija has had a lot of participation here; she's currently the #7 user by reputation and also one of the most active meta users. She has a very good knowledge of the Stack Exchange system as a whole, with active participation on several larger and older sites and over 10k reputation on main meta. She's also already a moderator on Arts & Crafts SE, so she knows what it takes to be a good pro-tem mod.

Plus, look at that cute baby. Who wouldn't vote for that picture?

###Notes:

Catija has had a lot of participation here; she's currently the #7 user by reputation and also one of the most active meta users. She has a very good knowledge of the Stack Exchange system as a whole, with active participation on several larger and older sites and over 10k reputation on main meta. She's also already a moderator on Arts & Crafts SE, so she knows what it takes to be a good pro-tem mod.

Plus, look at that cute baby. Who wouldn't vote for that picture?

I accept this nomination.

Thank you, Rand, for the nomination and the kind words.

I've been thinking about whether I would consider moderating this site since before it went into Beta. That may sound odd but one of the things I like to think about is how "easy" or "difficult" I imagine a site would be to moderate. I think this site, particularly in Beta will be on the "difficult" end, largely because I think it needs a lot of direction and leadership in a way that the site I currently moderate (Arts & Crafts) really does not.

Fortunately, this site seems (even in private Beta) to have an amazingly engaged group of users who want to see it succeed and who are interested in making the site better and honing the scope and having active discussions on what is and is not on topic. I feel confident that the non-moderator users of this site, both the ones who don't get tapped from this nominations list and the users not interested in being diamonds here, will create a backbone that will help keep this site away from the danger zones of bad SE content.

I can not guarantee that I will always agree with everyone. We can't always shape the site the way we think it should be. But I will promise that, to the best of my ability, I will be happy to help keep this site on the tack we, as a group, choose to set it upon, whether as a moderator or not.

Some info about me. I work a day job that often allows me time to be on Stack Exchange throughout the day and am also an avid user of the iOS app - which has no moderation tools, unfortunately... I'm in chat most of the time, though I haven't been talking in The Awkward Silence, I did change the room name. I'm in the US on Central time, so I'm largely around here from 1500 Z - 300 Z.