WOW, awfully quiet here.

People have run out of questions to ask?

They've hardly asked any, really.

Boring constituents.

:P

Wow, Jacob and Thomas are really neck to neck.

Hmm

I didn't expect this but I like it.

Definitely skewed towards higher rep count too.

Yup

One thing's sure. I wouldn't have made it if I tried now.

Well higher rep count also gives you a higher candidate score.

Oh wait, I have 25k rep now.

Didn't even notice that. I still would have had some chance then.

@jokerdino I don't see why. Both you and @Seth ran against higher rep candidates didn't you?

I did, but only 1. (Thomas dropped out)

I think 3 were higher and 2 made it along with me.

It's totally possible to beat reputation.

But with reputation comes visibility too. I think visibility is the biggest factor.

Braiam didn't have more than you?

He did

About ~7k more I think.

Mitch was too I guess.

You beat 1 then. Awesome.

oh, true. I wasn't thinking of him because he was elected.

In my case, Roland, Luis and hhlp were all higher than me.

what about hexfraction?

I remember voting for Seth so, presumably, I already was aware of him through his actions on the site.

He never had more than me, that I am sure.

(I wasn't around for your election @jokerdino)

hm, you know, hhlp never came back to the site after that election.

So yeah, rep is good but not enough. Thankfully.

Some time after losing the election, he moved to SO.

@jokerdino oh okay.

@terdon no worries

I did a ton of work before I was elected.

Just clarifying :P

Don't think my after work can ever match that.

@Seth yeah, actually I never saw him much during my time either.

Ah, the rep counts are dynamic in the elections page. They just show the flare, I was hoping they'd keep the originals of the time.

They don't show the exact score right now.

@jokerdino No, that's linking to your election.

@terdon yeah me too.

It's easier when they just say >20K so we can't compare between 25k and 100k.

I was curious what candidate score I won on. I think it was 39.

@jokerdino That's what they do

@Seth Did you have one? I thought that was implemented later.

Really?

that score thingy was there when I was on.

@terdon I mean, in my election, they showed the exact reputation points.

Roland and Luis both had like 40k+ and I was barely 10k.

^^ That's from this year's.

I think it used to be out of 30.

huh, I guess not.

Was implemented in Jan. 2015. I seem to remember having it though..

Heh, I was just about to link to that.

but they had something similarish, no?

or am I confusing with election.SE?

@jokerdino I think you might be. I'm pretty sure I remember elections without score but that I've always seen the election stats page.

And I've been active on SE since ~ August 2012

Holy crap, I only just realized that.

yeah, probably just remembering that I had collected all the badges mentioned in that page.

@terdon that's 4 years long lost.

Yeah... Wow. Those were my Super User days.

AAArrrrghh, you can't teach for a few hours, and now we switched places :)

I remember when Seth and Mitch were elected, I posted my second answer or so. Saw the list of names and thought "who are these people"...

lol I think I was there when Mitch just started in the site.

Really, and imediately moderator? Ah, misread the line...

Not like that. He started out after me.

How about you ?

@Serg hahaha ... yes just saw it (including mine) ... but who the hell downvotes something like this ? I saw many downvotes on all candidates nominations ... :(

Immature that's who

@Serg seems we have many of those ... hmmm :(

@Serg @cl-netbox you can downvote if you think someone is not fit for the job. Seems legitimate. Won't work in election though (trying to pursuade you to come here)

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@Serg Why immature? The whole point of primaries is to be able to vote. Voting negatively is a perfectly valid way of voting.

If there's someone you feel would make a good mod, upvote them. If you don't really care one way or the other, don't vote. But if you think they would be a bad mod, downvote them.

@terdon This

most accurate thing i've heard today :)

@terdon I follow the rule: "If you dont have anything nice to say , don't say nothing at all" . Voting negatively just doesn't make sense to me. "Yes, I'm going to upvote this guy and this guy, but not this guy because no reason whatsoever"

@Serg It makes perfect sense to me. I really think this guy would be a bad mod, so I downvote them.

@Serg I reserve my negrates during elections for "This person is horridly poor a candidate, and should not be made a mod under any circumstances"

I think I've cast negative votes on pretty much every election I've been a part of.

and upvote good candidates

and leave the rest be :P

@Serg because no reason whatsoever is indeed no reason

@terdon If I don't think a person can be a good mod, i leave them be and upvote those who do seem like a good mod

I think I only ever have used negvotes on two people at most each election

I just wish we could cast negative votes in actual political elections. I would much rather have the ability to vote NO than YES in most real life elections.

@Serg so do I ... upvote or not ! :)

usually the people that nominate themselves 'just because they can' when they have no true qualities for it

As in, "Nooooo! Not that guy! He'll doom us all!"

@terdon This - would solve a large portion of the USA's dilemma right now

@terdon yes ! I do agree with you ! :)

@ThomasW. Yeah, I may have had that guy in mind :)

but we can take that to another channel and another time/place/offtopicarea

:P

True

Is there an option "I don't like none of these candidates" ( meaning the US election ) ?

Anyway, downvoting a candidate in the AU elections seems fine by me. Most of us only have a tiny amount of downvotes anyway. Doesn't even cost rep.

@ThomasW. He, I thought this was the elections room :)

@JacobVlijm :P

@JacobVlijm for Ask Ubuntu ;)

not "All Elections Worldwide and Beyond"

@terdon or lady..

:)

We should have that option in these elections

Shoot, I missed that ..

@Serg vote 3rd party?

@Seth I had a guy in mind.

creates the "US political viewpoint ranting area" room

(just kidding)

@terdon I had 2 people in mind.

OK, I can live with that too.

Happily, even.

Ok, back to the AU elections. Any comments on my questionnaire post ? anywhere that i should improve ?

actually bothers to check the questionnaire post in-depth this time

requests roasting from already better candidates than himself

@Serg the big question is, did you ever finish your homework?

@ParanoidPanda No, just refer back to the previous answer.

Or point, or whatever

@JacobVlijm homework ?

oh!

I did actually

Oli's ban-hammer is mighty effective

I think there were times I requested @Seth to silence me for a while too

but i don't remember when lol

@ThomasW. I think I recall there was one case where you were somewhat frustrated . . . but Seth didn't block you, you got self-control working there

@ParanoidPanda yes ... do this - Hi my friend ! :)

@Serg I think there were even older issues but yes

self control is nice

Internet breakage is also convenient

@Serg well looking at your profile you haven't done much in the way of flagging and editing.

Those are always nice things to see in a potential moderator. Flagging because it shows you know how flags work (remember you are going to be handling those as a mod) and editing because that is important janitorial work too.

@Seth very valid point. I have been mostly an answerer, not a reviewer through out my time on AU so far

I'll improve on that

I started as an answerer/asker, almost nowadays do mostly reviewing lol

save for things I can rapidly answer, or are in my knowledge spheres :P

@ParanoidPanda If you feel you;ve already answered the question then yes, refer back to that. Certainly don't just copy/paste it again, I don't want to read the same thing twice.

Haven't you already done this?

@ParanoidPanda you could use this one

@JacobVlijm saved and will be thoroughly (reused and ) abused in the AU general room

@Serg :)

@ParanoidPanda good choice :)