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Narusan
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Could we request mods to step down?

On a Beta Site, the most important thing (in my humble opinion) are active users. The second most important thing are active moderators.

Currently, Health.SE has three moderators:

  • Susan, who was last seen online 10 hours ago. Susan is also a moderator on Biblical Hermeneutics. Her newest answer was committed on March 10, 2016 and the newest question asked on March 11, 2016.

  • michaelpri, currently last seen online on April 23rd, being 11 days absent from this site now. Michael is also a moderator on Lifehacks.SE. His newest answer was committed on March 4th 2016, and his newest question asked in April 2015.

  • John P, currently last seen online on April 20th, being 14 days absent from this site now. John is also a moderator on Fitness.SE. His newest answer was committed on March 16, 2017 and his newest question asked on March 26, 2016.

This might be just my impression, but the users I see most on Health.SE are Lucky, Carey Gregory, Pills N Pillows, Butterfly and Bones and L.B. The review queue does support my impression though, as only one moderator reviewed posts via the review queue as the fifth-to-first user.

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In my opinion, it is very important that moderators stay in touch with the community, especially on Beta Sites. I can understand that the moderators have many responsibilities and always a lot going on. I also don't want to create the impression that I pick on these 3 moderators as Stackexchange Users.

However, if you, the Moderators, feel that you can not be 100% behind managing Health.SE, I would kindly request you to consider the option of stepping down.

This way it can be ensured that neither of you gets burned out as was recently the case with a few moderators on other sites (we're Health.SE and should be a good example!), and the Community also benefits. Even if no new moderators are appointed or elected, there will be a vacancy for good as everyone will give their best to find a new moderator.

Is Health.SE sick? is almost 2 years old by now, but the issues still remain unsolved.

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