2016 Science Fiction & Fantasy Moderator Election

1:05 AM

@randal'thor Now why would i do that?

rand al'thor

I'm not saying you should, just wondering why you don't, if you think people shouldn't vote for you.

I did say that i was joking...

Shog9

2:23 AM

@MikeEdenfield one of the candidates later had their account deleted. Three more nominees withdrew during the primary phase.

(which, yes, sorta made the whole primary pretty pointless)

@Mithrandir you should probably stop, if you're serious about wanting to be a mod.

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@Shog9 Yup, i am stopping

Ward

5:47 AM

@Ixrec You're missing something: Adam is an employee so the diamond shows up on all sites.

5:21 PM

<2 hours until it's election time!

ArtOfCode

@Keen Shoulda done that an hour ago.

<3 hours.

Did they ever compile the questions and create a meta post so we could reply to the top 8 questions?

Haven't yet; there's still two hours open to vote on questions

@ArtOfCode heh

@JackBNimble No because the deadline is in the future.

Future smuture, that's what I say.

5:33 PM

Campaign promise: repeal the laws of time

phantom42

5:47 PM

that sounds like something a time traveling robot would say

A vote for @JasonBaker is a vote for RONDO!

Hah, that is absurd

You cannot prove I have ever time-travelled

ArtOfCode

@JasonBaker Neither can I prove you have not.

Curses, my plot is discovered

phantom42

5:53 PM

schroedingers time machine.

Doctor Who - Blink - Big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

►

JohnP

6:34 PM

Hrm. I've not been on in a month or so, is there a reason none of the current mods are running again?

@JohnP Because they're not being removed.

One hour left...

Oh hey, @CreationEdge threw in their hat

I guess we got our primary

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Null

at the last minute, too

JohnP

@Mithrandir Ah, ok. Makes sense.

I liked my chances better when no one was running against me.

6:48 PM

@JackBNimble Now you're up against ME. :)

Ominous.

7:27 PM

Stupid DST, I thought the nominations closed half an hour ago, but instead there's another half hour to go!

Ixrec

could be worse, I was expecting them to close 12 hours ago

8:00 PM

Primary closes in 4 days.

ArtOfCode

@JasonBaker 58 seconds late, how dare you?

alexwlchan

When does the Q&A thread show up? Is that this evening, or do we wait for the primaries to close?

never mind

Q: 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

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In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as the space for the candidates to provide their answers. Not every question was compiled - as noted, we o...

Mike Edenfield

@JackBNimble there was never a point where no one was running against you this election...

8:09 PM

@MikeEdenfield When it was just you and me, we weren't running against each other, just for ourselves.

Mike Edenfield

oh right.

we should go back there.

so what happens if more than one person ties for last in the primary?

did we cover this yet?

AncientSwordRage

@MikeEdenfield not whilst I was about

Ixrec

I don't remember that coming up either

it looks unlikely though

A: What math decides who is eliminated during election primaries?

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I have no idea where to find the official answer, but based on what happened on ServerFault last year (where I had +22/-12 and the other guy had +27/-17), in the case of a tie in the primary, the person who was nominated first goes on to the final Election. I don't know if this is still the case...

Ixrec

unless two candidates with negative scores are considered tied because they're shown as 0