@MikeEdenfield Um, who is?

@SSumner Not enough, though. At the moment there are about 1 third good candidates, 1 third bad ones and 1 third uncertain ones. A few more candidates for more options can't hurt, no? Besides that, it's way more exciting to have a primary before the actual election, and for that at least 11 candidates are required.

@NapoleonWilson Me! They help me get around turns faster.

@MikeEdenfield I love spoilers. I hate it when people hide them; a post with hidden spoilers is like an eclair without the filling.

@Keen don't forget the stickers - they help you get through the straightaways faster.

@SSumner plenty of good candidates just means an opportunity for you to test yourself against them.

@Shog9 Now that's the right attitude! I totally "adore" those questions and answers that simply consist of huge blank boxes interspersed with stupid 3-word bridge sentences.

@b_jonas don't forget they'll be answering questions soon....

@NapoleonWilson yeah... why learn key details about a topic that interests you when you can play Madlibs instead?

@phantom42 are you going to run?

@Shog9 true but if you think some of the existing candidates would do at least as good a job as yourself, that lessens the impact of you running (also, the potential for vote splitting to allow a lesser candidate to win)...

@SSumner ah, that's the beauty of STV elections - everyone gets three chances to vote, so the likelihood of them "wasting" a vote are greatly reduced.

@shog9 true, I had a brain fart there

@NapoleonWilson I don't think a primary election where we eliminate 2 candidates is all that exciting

@SSumner Well, it's an additional phase in an already long timeframe. And gives a nice pre-assessment through SE-like voting.

@MikeEdenfield is that an older Civ game?

its Civ IV.

the last one where you could change government types and start a revolt

Not to go off-topic, but Civ 5 does have that it's just a little different

it has civics options or some sort but I don't think you can say "democratic" or "communist"

It has ideologies: Autocracy, Freedom, and Order. I believe they affect governance less, but they're there

you should bring this back to the election topic somehow. Like, I donno, how your Civ ideology experience would influence your moderation of SFF.

Probably not good, since I tend to favor the less...free ideologies, but yes. Sorry for taking it off topix

@SSumner there's your nomination pitch right there then.

i would favor science over economics until we developed nuclear weapons with which to nuke tags from orbit.

at which point, typically, psycho-agressive ghandi would come along and plow over out pitiful army and win by conquest.

@SSumner nope.

@MikeEdenfield if this doesn't somehow make it into your platform, i'm not sure i can vote for you

i only have 24 characters left.

> at which point, typically, psycho-agressive ghandi would come along and plow over out pitiful army and win by conquest nuclear winter.

Ftfy

@shog9 that sounds like a better pitch for the North Korean elections

on topic: what's the story about Himarm allegedly getting caught using a sock puppet?

@Ixrec @himarm, do you want to answer this?

@Ixrec meta to the rescue.

wow

thanks

It was a low point, but one that really made me interested in being a mod as i was never officially told why i was suspended, even after reaching out to mods it was only after my second account was deleted did i figure it out

my suspension notice to this day still states it was for targeted downvoting which i didnt do

7 candidates now

It is however delightful to see that there are no blatant rep-only nominations yet, about posting a lot of stuff and gathering a whole lot of reputation in a short time. All the existing nominations actually do talk about moderation issues and an election platform (be that platform even questionable or unclear).

A vote for himarm is a vote for punch and pie

@Ixrec (and @ everyone else) Please don't use the election as an opportunity to dredge up dirt on the nominees. Suspensions are meant to be temporary corrective measures, not a permanent black mark.

@Keen in this case, the question regards a candidate... I think it's fair, although of course he's free not to answer.

someone brought it up as a concern in the comments for himarms nomination

yeah, i know.

@phantom42 Did you want your small typo fixed here? scifi.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1#comment-281380

@Keen oh yeah, sure. thanks

Don't vote for me. I'll make a horrible mod :P