Welcome to the second episode of [Unicorn Meta

Zoo](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/unicorn-meta-zoo),

a brand new podcast by members of the Stack Exchange community team. If

you want to avoid spoilers, jump [straight to the

audio](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/episodes/moderation.mp3).

### Participants

[](https://stackexchange.com/users/463168)

[![Juan

M](https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/6254215.png)](https://stackexchange.com/users/6254215)

[![Jon

Ericson](https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/1083.png)](https://stackexchange.com/users/1083)

We're talking about moderation and how it's different on Stack Exchange

than on forums.

### Links

- Our OG [Theory of

Moderation](https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/05/18/a-theory-of-moderation/)

- Our refined [Theory of

Moderation](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/)

- [My explanation of moderator

elections](https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/03/01/fair-elections-and-stv/)

### Transcript

I [used

YouTube](https://github.com/unicorn-meta-zoo/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

to produce [a raw, automated

transcript](https://unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/episodes/moderation.sbv)

of this episode. There is a [wiki for

transcripts](https://github.com/unicorn-meta-zoo/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/wiki),

if you'd like to produce a cleaner, more coherent transcript. I'm

extremely grateful for users who helped fill in most of [the first

episode's

transcript](https://github.com/unicorn-meta-zoo/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/wiki/Why-another-podcast%3F-%5BTranscript%5D):

- grooveplex

- Jeremy Banks

- MilkyWay90

### Meta

Moments before the start of this episode, Abby asked if the name of the

podcast is "Meta Petting Zoo". In the heat of the moment I couldn't

remember and just said yes. In reality, the name we decided on was

"Unicorn Meta Zoo" based on actual [unicorn petting

zoos](http://www.allgodscreatures.net/Unicorns.html). Abby just changed

to the wrong word to "meta".

At around the 18:40 mark in the recording you can hear Abby's tea slide

off her tilted desk and fall on the floor. No mugs were harmed in the

making of this podcast. The same can't be said of the tea.

For some reason, Juan's channel got really noisy in the beginning of the

episode with my podcast editing script. I fixed the problem by [making

the pre-channel loudness normalization

optional](https://github.com/jericson/edit_podcast.rb/commit/c04f1f9af1f3306cd6bce87aaf11a58e1293c63d).

### What do you think?

[Take a

listen](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/unicorn-meta-zoo.github.io/episodes/moderation.mp3)

and respond in the answers below.