@HatMan It could be anyone from Meta.SE testing the system; perhaps Shadow Wizard. Culprit is too strong a word. I did something similar on Meta to get a badge that wasn't supposed to be awarded.
@Integrator: Right, I only cast the first upvote on Arthur's comment. The other upvote, and the one on your comment, are from someone else. If I had to guess, I'd suspect Shadow for the other upvote on Arthur's comment, but I have absolutely no evidence to back that up (except that I'm pretty sure that one was cast earlier than the upvote on your comment).
Good luck to everyone in primary voting! Really excited. :)
@MartinSleziak You've been helpful with helping me edit my nomination. Do you think the fact that I did not mention my moderator-positions at edX.org and expii.com would affect me much?
I believe @AhaanS.Rungta would be a good moderator. I've seen him doing a really great job not only as a TA on edx courses helping students, but also as a brilliant.org moderator. Someone else mentions he was also an AoPS moderator.
@IlmariKaronen Because now that we've achieved the max number of nominees to go onto the primary, any new nominee must have at least as much reputation as the present nominee with the least reputation. (Only the top 20 by rep go to the primary.)
@Behaviour I hope so! (Actually, it might be that the user who nominated themselves first would go through, at least that is how ties during primaries seem to be handled. But this means that the next nominee should have strictly more rep.)
I see. Tiebreaker may be needed anyway, if higher-rep candidates are added later, pushing one of two equally-repped candidates down. So the time of nomination is a tiebreaker there. And the same logic works when a user tries to nominate while being tied for last place: they are a later nominee, so they are out.
> I wish @Thomas picked a more recognizable name/nickname. By my count, there are 66 users named Thomas on the site.
Compare to Przemysław Scherwentke or Anastasiya-Romanova...
Extra motivation to vote in this election: the Constituent badge is silver, and therefore grants the Werewolf Hunter hat. However, this badge will be given only in the final round, not in the primary.
@DanielFischer Looking at your network reputation history it is natural to ask: did you decide to join Math because of reaching 100K on SO? And what will happen when you reach 100K here?
@Behaviour No, I joined because a question was deleted on Stack Overflow just as I was finishing to type my answer. A comment under the question suggested the OP asks on Mathematics, so I looked, and there it was. I copied my answer from the deleted SO question and pasted here. Then I somehow stuck on the site.
Daniel Fischer is the only user on Stack Exchange to have at least 75K reputation on two sites (excluding Meta.SE from the study, because of its special role).
Wasn't there a thread at some point showing that the results were exactly correlated with reputation? (ie most rep = 1st place, 2nd most rep = 2nd place...)
I remember a discussion on whether one should have black coffe mugs because the whit ones stain when left with coffee residue. Might have been on MO though.
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The most surprising thing for me when I became a mod was that there were no surprise. Exactly those people were troubling that I knew were trouble all along.
@MikeMiller I think that candidate is as eligible as they rest. They must have clicked "nominate myself" button before the deadline, and took a long time to type. They are in the running; it's unlikely SE would do anything special about that candidate.
@JimmyK4542 I think so. The actual score (even negative) is kept by the system, you can find it by looking at the vote split. So it can be used to order all candidates.
Is there a grace period after which your vote is binding (as is the case for normal Q&A votes), or are you allowed to withdraw/change your vote until deadline?
@NajibIdrissi I prefer to describe it as a single vote that can be transferred between 3 candidates (1st 2nd and 3rd choices). Single Transferable Vote, as it's called.
@DanielR I think you can change your vote any time during the primary phase.
So far we have only nine candidates with a positive score. If this pattern holds, we'll have someone with a nonpositive score move on (and possibly get gifts from SE), right? That seems a bit silly.
@Behaviour From here it seems like you can change your primary vote within a 3 hour window (unless the candidate edits their nomination). It is a bit old, but I couldn't find anything more recent.
@quid As I said, my reference is a bit old, so perhaps changes have been made. But, yeah, if there weren't some sort of lock users could start trolling the primaries pretty hard.
@Thomas If you are elected, you will be "Thomas♦" There will be no other Thomas with a diamond.
So then you are easy to identify anyway.
@ArthurFischer Yes. Thinking about it I guess it makes sense. But in the moment I was "huh?" Actually I should check if I am really sure about all votes I already cast.
@TedShifrin In the primaries, you can up or downvote every candidate. In the actual election, you have one vote, which you can assign to three candidates, if your first choice doesn't need your vote, it goes to your second choice, if that doesn't need it either, to the third.
So, first we had informal pre-nominations and could vote on those. Then there are actual nominations, and we vote on those. Then there are candidates' answers to the questionnaire and we can vote on those too. Will anyone have energy left to vote in the actual election?
@Shog9 That would be a possibilty, but I think it is unneded. It could bias people towards choosing the +1000 people without thinking that much. That would mean that the votes will be spread out based on a random process, and not their competency.
I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea.
When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a mod...
Well maybe this just reflects my dissatisfaction with all election systems I have encountered yet. It is really sad that such a important thing has such an awful implementation.
Something to keep in mind: the primary phase isn't intended to be particularly accurate or unbiased. It's only purpose is to get the number of candidates down to something manageable - anything better than "pick the top 10 users by reputation" is good enough.
Cautionary tale. In recent Server Fault election, the primary results were as follows. Sven : 535 // Ward : 363 // HBruijn : 346 // Falcon Momot : 285 // HopelessN00b : 89..... Those in bold were elected.
Apparently there's a grace period on the nomination cut-off. I'm also inclined to consider that a bug, albeit one we haven't really had to worry about much.
For the time being, I've left the nominee a polite "better luck next time" and removed him from the running, as strictly-speaking he should...
I was looking at the up and downvotes and notices most people have more downvotes then upvotes. This was a bit shocking to me. I got more downvotes then upvotes ! First I felt insulted but it seems normal ...
@MJD Yes. In the Server Fault election that I mentioned (it was just a couple of weeks ago), 8 candidates had positive scores in the primary. 10 went into the final round. The negative scores are kept and used to sort the candidates, even though they are not displayed on the page by default.
But how do you know Im unqualified ?? It is said its not a matter or reputation and math skills ... But when I look at the votes the correlation of rep and skills is strong !
If you wanted to do the work of a moderator, you could have been doing it already, by raising flags and patrolling the review queues. But you didn't do that.
The voting has started. Out of curiosity, does anybody know why I have -7 votes despite the fact that I am a much stronger candidate than many of those who have 0? Also how did some people get 300 votes in just a few hours? :o
@AhaanS.Rungta Sorry, but this remark lowers my opinion of your nomination even further. A moderator (and not only a moderator) should be able to understand and accept that someone may disagree with the ideas and people dear to you, without ascribing foul motives.
A candidate does improve his/her chances of winning (very slightly) by downvoting everyone else. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of trolls who have the 150 rep needed to cast a vote. That said, it is possible that someone believes PedroTamaroff and/or JyrkiLahtonen wouldn't make a good moderator for some reason.
Mathematics 2014 Moderator Election
Mathematics 2014 Moderator Election