Daniel's answers to your questions

After a long deliberation, I have decided that I too am ready to take up some obligations to help keep maintaining and if possible increasing the quality of the site by becoming a moderator (if elected).

I am a relatively new user of this site, but since I've joined about one and a half years ago, I have been fairly active here - mostly answering questions and posting hopefully helpful comments, but I have also been moderately active in the review queues and done a bit of editing posts into better shape, and cast a couple of flags, so I am not completely without experience in the janitorial tasks. My meta experience is mostly reading, but occasionally I muster the energy to answer a question there too.

There are some things that make me think I would be a good moderator:

• I am old enough to be patient, so the risk of me losing my temper is small.
• I care enough about the site to invest a significant amount of time in it.

And others that make me doubt:

• I am a slow thinker and slow at coming to decisions.
• I lack skill at "putting myself in the other's shoes".
• I have no previous moderation experience.

It may be relevant (or not) that I'm not a professional mathematician.

Daniel's answers to your questions

After a long deliberation, I have decided that I too am ready to take up some obligations to help keep maintaining and if possible increasing the quality of the site by becoming a moderator (if elected).

I am a relatively new user of this site, but since I've joined about one and a half years ago, I have been fairly active here - mostly answering questions and posting hopefully helpful comments, but I have also been moderately active in the review queues and done a bit of editing posts into better shape, and cast a couple of flags, so I am not completely without experience in the janitorial tasks. My meta experience is mostly reading, but occasionally I muster the energy to answer a question there too.

There are some things that make me think I would be a good moderator:

• I am old enough to be patient, so the risk of me losing my temper is small.
• I care enough about the site to invest a significant amount of time in it.

And others that make me doubt:

• I am a slow thinker and slow at coming to decisions.
• I lack skill at "putting myself in the other's shoes".
• I have no previous moderation experience.

It may be relevant (or not) that I'm not a professional mathematician.

After a long deliberation, I have decided that I too am ready to take up some obligations to help keep maintaining and if possible increasing the quality of the site by becoming a moderator (if elected).

I am a relatively new user of this site, but since I've joined about one and a half years ago, I have been fairly active here - mostly answering questions and posting hopefully helpful comments, but I have also been moderately active in the review queues and done a bit of editing posts into better shape, and cast a couple of flags, so I am not completely without experience in the janitorial tasks. My meta experience is mostly reading, but occasionally I muster the energy to answer a question there too.

There are some things that make me think I would be a good moderator:

• I am old enough to be patient, so the risk of me losing my temper is small.
• I care enough about the site to invest a significant amount of time in it.

And others that make me doubt:

• I am a slow thinker and slow at coming to decisions.
• I lack skill at "putting myself in the other's shoes".
• I have no previous moderation experience.

It may be relevant (or not) that I'm not a professional mathematician.

Daniel's answers to your questions

After a long deliberation, I have decided that I too am ready to take up some obligations to help keep maintaining and if possible increasing the quality of the site by becoming a moderator (if elected).

I am a relatively new user of this site, but since I've joined about one and a half years ago, I have been fairly active here - mostly answering questions and posting hopefully helpful comments, but I have also been moderately active in the review queues and done a bit of editing posts into better shape, and cast a couple of flags, so I am not completely without experience in the janitorial tasks. My meta experience is mostly reading, but occasionally I muster the energy to answer a question there too.

There are some things that make me think I would be a good moderator:

• I am old enough to be patient, so the risk of me losing my temper is small.
• I care enough about the site to invest a significant amount of time in it.

And others that make me doubt:

• I am a slow thinker and slow at coming to decisions.
• I lack skill at "putting myself in the other's shoes".
• I have no previous moderation experience.

It may be relevant (or not) that I'm not a professional mathematician.