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A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate. Sometimes moderators may ask questions intended to allow the debate participants to ...
Moderator variable, in statistics, a qualitative or quantitative variable that affects the direction and/or strength of the relation between dependent and independent variables; Sound moderator, a suppressor attached to a firearm; A faction in the Regulator–Moderator War; Discussion moderator, a person who controls the tone of a discussion or ...
A panel discussion, or simply a panel, involves a group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience, typically at scientific, business, or academic conferences, fan conventions, and on television shows. Panels usually include a moderator who guides the discussion and sometimes elicits audience questions, with the goal of being ...
A "moderator" is one name for the formal position of one who presides over a discussion, helping to ensure that the discussion is balanced among its many voices, for example in the Methodist church's use of the term for the heads of its conferences. A neutron moderator is used to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
The term parliamentary procedure gets its name from its use in the parliamentary system of government. [3] In the 16th and 17th century, the parliaments of England began adopting rules of order. [4] In the 1560s, Sir Thomas Smyth began the process of writing down accepted procedures and published a book about them for the House of Commons in ...
Wikipedia does not have a group of people known as moderators. You may be looking for: Wikipedia:Administrators, who carry out many of the tasks assigned to moderators on other sites; Wikipedia:Mediation, for help with the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution process; Wikipedia:Moderators/Proposal, a 2016 proposal that did not gain consensus
British Parliamentary debates consist of four teams, containing two speakers each, which are divided into two sides that speak for and against the motion. Due to the style's origins in British parliamentary procedure, the two sides are called the Government and the Opposition. Similarly, sides are known as benches, consisting of two teams - an ...
Any script that does nothing other than add a link to a page to a menu, panel or toolbar belongs to § Shortcuts. Any script that makes an edit to a page (i.e. increases the user's contributions) or changes the appearance or behavior of the edit form ( action=edit/submit ) belongs to § Editing .