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I'm likely to spend about the same amount of time on the site as before (this varies from day to day, but I will be available almost every day; I currently have a 432 day "uptime").

My time here has been mostly taken up by looking for interesting questions to answer, answering them, and reading other people's answers and questions. If elected, I would answer less questions. I'm hoping that I would let the moderation tasks take the time they need to take.

I've been a bit caught up in the excitement of finding interesting new questions and answering them quickly, but I want to move towards a more relaxed approach. This may mean improving existing answers, and answering a few less questions myself.

The thing is, sometimes these questions are interesting. The professor (or whatever) sometimes obviously want them to solve the question using a particular set of tools. These tools are sometimes obviously the wrong tools (e.g. "use ls to identify the five newest directories and print their names out"). I would answer these questions as if a professional had asked it and it would be implemented on a live production system.

I definitely don't want to ban homework questions on the site. What I would want to see is a careful handling of these, possibly through being stricter with the formulations of the questions ("use your own words", "tell us what issue you have with this assignment"). That would enable a totally different type of answer.

In general, I'd like to also somehow discourage "Try this:"-answers (not just on homework-like questions; "Try this" implies "I haven't really spent enough time on this to know whether it would work or not, and I don't know under what conditions it would fail."). The point of a homework assignment is to learn something (or to prove that one has learnt something), and we should be able to help with this.

I'm likely to spend about the same amount of time on the site as before (this varies from day to day, but I will be available almost every day; I currently have a 436 consecutive days on the site).

My time here has been mostly been taken up by looking for interesting questions to answer, answering them, and reading other people's answers and questions. If elected, I would answer less questions, and I would have to look at topics that usually does not interest me. I'm hoping that I would let the moderation tasks take the time they need.

I've been a bit caught up in the excitement of finding interesting new questions and answering them quickly, but I want to move towards a more relaxed approach. This may mean improving existing answers, and answering fewer questions myself.

The thing is, sometimes these questions are interesting. The professor (or whatever) sometimes obviously want them to solve the question using a particular set of tools. These tools are sometimes obviously the wrong tools (e.g. "use ls to identify the five newest directories and print their names out"). I would answer these questions as if a professional had asked it and as if it would be implemented on a live production system.

I definitely don't want to ban homework questions on the site. What I would want to see is a careful handling of these, possibly through being stricter with the formulations of the questions ("use your own words", "tell us what issue you have with this assignment"). That would enable a totally different type of answer.

In general, I'd like to also somehow discourage "Try this:"-answers (not just on homework-like questions; "Try this" implies "I haven't really spent enough time on this to know whether it would work or not, and I don't know under what conditions it would fail."). The point of a homework assignment is to learn something (or to prove that one has learnt something), and we should be able to help with this.

The following was an extra question submitted in the Election Chat:

I am afraid the most important question from the last election wasn't asked again this year. Since this is possibly the single most important issue on any *nix site, I ask it here:

What is your favorite editor?

My favourite editor is Vim. That is, that's what my muscle memory tells me. I wish it was Vi (vi on OpenBSD), but I'm afraid I've grown used to Vim's syntax highlighting and it's nice :help command. I do use Vi for system admin tasks though, and, as we know, Vi is the standard editor (sorry Jeff). I also run my shells in Vi command line editing mode.

The following was an extra question submitted in the Election Chat:

I am afraid the most important question from the last election wasn't asked again this year. Since this is possibly the single most important issue on any *nix site, I ask it here:

What is your favorite editor?

My favourite editor is Vim. That is, that's what my muscle memory tells me. I wish it was Vi (vi on OpenBSD), but I'm afraid I've grown used to Vim's syntax highlighting and it's nice :help command. I do use Vi for system admin tasks though, and, as we know, Vi is the standard editor (sorry Jeff). I also run my shells in Vi command line editing mode.