Code Review Moderator Election 2015

3:36 AM

remember:

1 hour later…

Heslacher

4:42 AM

@Mat'sMug I know, but these changes does not change the behaviour of the site. On msdn there had been changes in behaviour which I couldn't live with. In addition the fact that they changed it regardless of the massive user protest (from the regulars) made me leave.

Quill

@Mat'sMug It'd be all the more rewarding if the creater could spell

4:55 AM

@Quill creater?

;^)

Quill

@Mat'sMug joke :P

8 hours later…

Malachi

1:15 PM

@Quill and use proper grammar

Quill

@Malachi Yeah

2 hours later…

3:00 PM

Bigger elections than ours:
- Gaming [2014 election 4 - 1263 visits](http://gaming.stackexchange.com/election/4)
- Programmers [2013 election 3 - 1880 visits](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/election/3)
- Ubuntu [2014 election 4 - 1549 visits](http://askubuntu.com/election/4)
- ServerFault [2013 election 3 - 1353 visits](http://serverfault.com/election/3) and [2014 election 4 - 2183 visits](http://serverfault.com/election/4)
- SuperUser [2012 election 2 - 2057 visits](http://superuser.com/election/2) and [2014 election 3 - 3643 visits](http://superuser.com/election/3)

200_success

3:37 PM

Is that an exhaustive list?

yes.

Going purely by the primary numbers, it's pretty obvious who the eventual winners will be.

@Donald.McLean hmm.. yes. but then again primaries and final results are vastly different with that kind of candidate field

at least from my experience with STV

Malachi

4:15 PM

Janos or Simon could end up with the 4th moderator spot

5:00 PM

@200_success Yes, exhaustive, except this election: askubuntu.com/election/3 with 1115 visits, but I figured that somewhere in the next few days we will pass that number since we havf 1107 at the moment - we can get 8 more visits.... right?

So, only 7 sites have had more visits for a single election than what we have. Some of those sites have had multiple bigger elections, so there are 15 total elections in SE history that have surpassed us in terms of number-of-people that have visited the elections page.

In addition, the "long-tail effect is very long... so, just counting caucus badges (which is the sum total of all people who visit a site's election for all combined elections.....), the tail drops off fast.

So, we can call our elections successful :-)

We have 1.1K caucus awards, after us, there's This: This link of stats

look at the "text only" results.

The number of caucus badges drops off quickly, only 10 sites have between 550 and 1100 caucus badges....

so we are more-than-double the "size" of more than half of all graduated sites.

> I'm the ~~scat~~ stats man

That query I linked up there, is a great abuse of SEDE.... people would cringe ...!!!

@rolfl you're passing a query as a parameter??!!

5:09 PM

Yes... nice, hey?

I got tired of writing a new SEDE query for each time I want to compare Code Review against other sites..... so I just parameterized the entire thing.

Twisted

What's worse, is it takes the parameterized query, it injects it in to a larger String.... then, it eval calls the string.... ;-)

on... 150 databases ;-)

You're probably the top SEDE abuser, you know? I don't even think Tim thought it could even be used like that!

Yeah, it's abusive ;-)

But, that query is awesome... you want to know how active meta is compared to other sites? write a small query....

select count (*) from [Meta]..Posts where CreationDate >= '1 jan 2015'

Target                   Metric Elections LessThan Total PercentLess
------------------------ ------ --------- -------- ----- -----------
StackExchange.CodeReview 724    Beta      90       90    100.00
StackExchange.CodeReview 724    Full      50       52    96.15

We had 724, which is more than any other beta site, and more than 50 of the 52 graduated sites.

5:36 PM

@rolfl we have 1,107. I wonder if we'll get as many [badge:constituent].

@Mat'sMug Half of all full sites have less than 300 constituents

that's so freakin' cool. this site was collecting dust just 2 years ago. and now it's blooming.

Since > 300 people have voted in the primaries, I would suspect at least as many in the final round

who knows where we'll be in 2 years

5:53 PM

@Mat'sMug By then? In space ideally.

6:14 PM

WIN TEH INTERNETZ!

@Mat'sMug I think CodeReview would be a good space-internet-pilot-test.

6:35 PM

@EBrown Different site: space.stackexchange.com

@Donald.McLean Damn. I was hoping CR could get the first StackExchange server in the ISS.

@EBrown Well, I think that the astronauts would prefer to only see well test, thoroughly reviewed code.

6:50 PM

@Donald.McLean Well isn't that was CR is for! I demand the first space server! And another coffee mug.

yes, please a coffee mug!:)

No mug for you.

hmm... I'm on the first page, I can hope to actually get into election round, why no mug for me??

@Vogel612 Everyone is on the first page...

@Donald.McLean I already have my StackOverflow coffee mug, though I could always do for another.

@EBrown I just count 36 users on the first page of "users" tab...

7:06 PM

@Vogel612 Oh, I was talking about the moderator election page...lol

Most specifically: codereview.stackexchange.com/election/1

well.... for one I hope for election swag...

and for two I hope for graduation swag...

the latter one would be a nice to have.

I got my "be awesome" swag.

Send me a T-Shirt, which is comfy as hell, a coffee mug and several stickers which now litter work.

@Vogel612 Is there any chance that your impatience (as you put in your post on the moderator candidacy primary) would backfire, and cause issues were you to be a mod?

I am confident I can actually keep that in check as far as regular user interaction is concerned

I might go vent somewhere else, against it...

yell at my potted plant, write some all-caps messages

in the worst case I think I got that bit of control needed to not do something completely stupid.

the buttons are a different matter, but in both cases the IMO correct handling is walking away and letthing it cool down.