I notice that the site lacks any moderation at day time (GMT+3), even though I am not particularly a high scorer and consider myself a hobbyist. I feel I am one of the few people who are active during the day (GMT+3) and trying to help flag questions, do you think the site needs a moderator from the "Eastern" part of the earth [GMT, GMT+3 ] since most of the moderators seem to be living in Pacific time-zones ?
Do you think more active moderation will help GDSE get more traffic?
Our average flag handling time is less than two hours (down from several hours since our recent election).
I think we currently have more than enough coverage in terms of moderators and high-ranking users to maintain the status quo in terms of quality. I don't see how adding more diamond moderators would improve site quality any, and I certainly don't think there will be a traffic correlation.
Note, too, that moderators are not appointed (except for the beta moderator, I think, but that's irrelevant here). Moderators are elected, which means that even if we thought there was a need for more diamonds, we could not guarantee that the new diamonds would be from a particular geographic region.
Active moderation won't get more traffic, it'll get rid of bad questions/spam...promoting will get us more traffic.
I personally don't see the need unless the problem demands it. And i don't think there is such a problem that calls for it either.
If a flag takes a few hours to be dealt with its not that bad.
...At least not for now.
