2016 Moderator Election

Hi guys. I've been around here for a while. It all started by trying to find an answer about Kalman filters. DSP SE popped in my search results. That's how I fell in love with it:

• So many clever people giving great answers.
• Only best answers are being upvoted.
• Duplicates are closed and deleted.
• Plain users can edit the Q/A to improve formatting and content.
• There is $\LaTeX$ $\heartsuit$ !!!

The one thing I really miss here is the culture of chatting with other people (take the Stack Overflow as an example).

So far, I tried to use my current moderation privileges as much as possible. Things to brag about:

• Top #10 in all-time reputation.
• Top #1 in First Posts review queue - 1492/5480 reviews all-time.
• Top #1 in Posts edited - 557 so far. Sometimes spending even 30 minutes on a single question, trying to rewrite a terrible photo of a page filled with equations into $\LaTeX$.
• 148 helpful flags. No idea how that compares to all users, but by looking at other profiles, it's quite a lot.

Apart from the main page, I am spending some time on meta as well.

As one of the original moderators on the site, I'd be happy to continue moderating, as I think the site would benefit from some measure of continuity as we transition out of beta.

The community has grown to do an excellent job of self-moderation, and there are vastly fewer major "incidents" than there were during the first couple of years. It's been a real pleasure helping to develop this resource into something that will now continue to live on for many years to come.

Stack Exchange can be intimidating for beginners, and I like to think that during my time as moderator I've been able to soften the experience for new users to some extent. I have no idea how successful my efforts have been, but that has been one of my goals. The other has been to ensure that we don't devolve, as a site, into an excessive focus on any particular sub-field of signal processing. There was a real danger, in the early days, for this to become merely a collection of questions about linear digital systems, and I'm very glad that we were able to maintain a broader scope.

So, you know, vote for me if you're into that kind of thing.

As one of the pro tem moderators, I'd like to continue in the moderator's position.

Based on the "Good moderators often" panel, here's some information:

• I have a reasonably high reputation on this site. At the time of writing, I am #6 overall.
• I am involved in meta activities, though meta on DSP.SE is not as active as on other sites.
• I believe I make an attempt to answer what questions I can. I like to get the check mark, but I'm perfectly happy to just answer and provide information.
• I try to err on the side of assuming my own misunderstanding, rather than getting too hung up on specifics. So I tend to write many comments (link directly to comments doesn't appear to work!).

Apart from all that, I have an interest in continuing to see DSP.SE thrive because I started the original proposal on Area 51 back in 2010.

i dunno if i should toss my hat in the ring or not. but it says there is one more position than the number of other candidates at the moment.

i haven't been around SE as long as datageist♦ or PeterK♦ have. i have been around the USENET comp.dsp longer than PeterK and likely longer than datageist. on comp.dsp, we don't get to attach graphics or LaTeX-formatted equations like we get to do here, which is nice about this SE site.

i poke my head around meta http://meta.dsp.stackexchange.com/users?tab=participation a few times, but usually only if i wanna complain about something. i am not fond of the extra layer of SE chat, but i'll go there if i have to.

i used to consider myself reasonably anal regarding mathematics and mathematical expression, but cannot hold a candle to some other participants here. i'm not going to worry too much about $\delta(t)$ being a "distribution". it's fine with me to call it a "function" and naked Dirac deltas outside of an integral are fine by me. i don't worry too much about ROC or whatever regarding transforms. and i don't worry too much about the difference between a norm (for a normed space) and a metric (for a more general metric space).