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Arqade 2016 Election Discussion

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Frank
May 31, 2016 21:52
Not the Bridge; let's keep the discussion to moderation and election stuff.
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Grace Note
May 30, 2016 20:14
Welcome all, again! This room is intended as a place to converse with candidates, discuss moderator traits, etc. For general discussion related to Arqade, go here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge
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badp
Jun 1, 2016 19:04
except that I cannot. erm, @GraceNote, could you...
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Grace Note
May 30, 2016 20:14
If you have questions about the election process itself, please ask your question on the Arqade Meta Site. Remember, folks stepping up to lead this community are committing a significant amount of their time, please keep all discourse civil and constructive.
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ken.ganong
Jan 27, 2014 20:24
To all of the nominees:
Thank you for your nominations. Everyone of you have volunteered for a dirty job. Sure, it is a job that comes with power, but it is still a dirty job for which you get no pay or reward. Thank you for the offers of time you've made to this community, whether or not we decide to vote for you.
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StrixVaria
Jan 22, 2014 16:22
I will blame the lack of punchline on the very restrictive character limit.
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Grace Note
Jan 20, 2014 21:21
You might have said that it was a bad user experience.
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Grace Note
Jun 7, 2016 15:15
(This is when my theme song would play)
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GodEmperorDune
Jun 6, 2016 20:09
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Q: 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Grace NoteIn 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, ...

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fredley
Jun 3, 2016 08:36
user image
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murgatroid99
May 31, 2016 22:18
@ardaozkal That's kind of what a nomination is saying
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Wipqozn
May 31, 2016 21:59
I sent that way too early, now I need to start retyping. The point I was going to make is you can't change the past, and there's nothing unfair about us judging you for the past, even if it happened 2 years ago. You made mistakes, and the community not trusting you is the consequences of those mistakes. The only way to regain the communities trust is by being on good behaviour for a very long time, and 3 months just isn't that long, not for the actions you took.
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Wipqozn
May 31, 2016 20:38
I'm torn between my desire to help the site and my desire to disappoint everyone.
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ken.ganong
Jan 28, 2014 20:43
What's with the votes on the Q&A answers? You are voting in the wrong place people!
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Wipqozn
Jun 14, 2016 20:27
Winners are @Robotnik and @Wipqozn
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badp
Jun 1, 2016 00:21
here is some light hearted reading for our would be modraters
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ChaseC
May 31, 2016 22:07
So if you don't gain anything from becoming a mod, why would you do it? Resume builder? Feeling of importance? The drive to help Arqade be the best it can be?
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user4704
May 31, 2016 22:02
Frank you smell.
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GodEmperorDune
May 31, 2016 19:33
@fredley yeah! @AshleyNunn for arqade mod!
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Matt Эллен
Feb 4, 2014 21:38
Congrats to the new Moderators! Good luck.
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Shog9
Feb 4, 2014 20:30
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Q: 2014 Community Moderator Election Results

Grace NoteArqade's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are: Congratulations, you three! They'll be joining our existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ro...

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Shog9
Feb 4, 2014 20:30
pops champagne
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LessPop_MoreFizz
Jan 24, 2014 03:49
Instead of changing @GnomeSlice's name, we can simply turn him from an Ottawan to an Ottoman.
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kalina
Jan 23, 2014 15:00
@Frank If a question seems obvious to you - great, help them with it. Just because it's obvious to you doesn't mean it's obvious to them.
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Sterno
Jan 22, 2014 18:14
If this were like presidential debates, I'd vote @FAE for debate moderator. She has asked good questions.
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OrigamiRobot
Jan 28, 2014 15:06
The issues here are, in my opinion, poor judgement, shortsightedness, and failure to realize when something has gone too far. I believe these are all important issues to any candidate and potential voters. I am certain the intention was perfectly innocent, but intention is not always the same as the actual effect.
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LessPop_MoreFizz
Jan 24, 2014 03:00
Right. It's all well and good to say "I like to govern by consensus", but 'consensus' is a magical unicorn poop notion that never really appears for anything that matters; the best you can hope for is to give everyone a voice, protect the minority while allowing the majority to guide the way, and cut off discussion once it stops being constructive to start doing The Work instead of talking about it.
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kalina
Jan 23, 2014 15:03
If the question is on topic, then why isn't it welcome?
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Sterno
Jan 22, 2014 18:06
It's kind of a weird situation here that once people become mods, they seem to get more quiet about their opinions on everything
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Oak
Jan 21, 2014 18:28
@ken.ganong I guess a few were intimidated by the hard questions posed by @FAE and @FEichinger
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Grace Note
Jan 20, 2014 19:58
Welcome all! This room is intended as a place to converse with candidates, discuss moderator traits, etc. For general discussion related to Arqade, go here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/35/the-bridge
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Grace Note
Jan 20, 2014 19:58
If you have questions about the election process itself, please ask your question on the Arqade Meta Site. Remember, folks stepping up to lead this community are committing a significant amount of their time, please keep all discourse civil and constructive.
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GodEmperorDune
Jun 8, 2016 00:18
@Robotnik can you please tell me about some flaws that you have
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StrixVaria
Jun 7, 2016 15:06
@GodEmperorDune Only mods can see deleted comments.
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Grace Note
Jun 6, 2016 20:58
@fredley The B stands for BRONTOSAURUS.
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fredley
May 31, 2016 19:32
"Arqade community best crap suckers" - @AshleyNunn 2016
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angussidney
May 31, 2016 10:52
By the way, if anyone was running in the election only to see their mod score thingy, please run this query: data.stackexchange.com/gaming/query/298418/candidate-score
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fredley
May 31, 2016 08:44
@Robotnik 4) Everyone else is asleep
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Robotnik
May 31, 2016 07:34
Side note: if elected I'm gonna start calling the 'diamond' mod symbol 'chaos emerald' instead :P
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Robotnik
May 31, 2016 05:45
Also I figure I'll address this before someone asks: No I haven't had a message starred 10 times in chat, and the reason for that is that I'm hardly active in chat:

1) I tend not to spend too much time idling on the site. I'll spend some time, read some posts, edit some things, respond to notifications etc etc, and close tab.
2) I'll only join chat for matters of large discussions and/or if I'm @ pinged.
3) I'm not really here for the idle banter. You are all great don't get me wrong, and it's not like I actively try to *avoid* chat , it's just not really my thing :).
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LessPop_MoreFizz
Jan 23, 2014 21:50
I fully expect to have the largest gap of any candidate between number of first place votes and number of not on the ballots, whether I win or lose.
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Sterno
Jan 23, 2014 20:25
Even the simple "This shows a complete lack of research effort." comes off really badly.
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Sterno
Jan 23, 2014 19:03
99% of the downvote drama comes after someone explains their downvotes.
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LessPop_MoreFizz
Jan 23, 2014 18:37
Bad questions drive good questions away because Yahoo Answers.
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Unionhawk
Jun 7, 2016 20:34
This means that at least one of your votes will not become a mod.
GodEmperorDune
Jun 7, 2016 18:03
@Unionhawk don't get me wrong (and this goes for @wipqozn too), but i think it is naive to think that as mods you will be able to remove yourselves so easily. That diamond is always there. people will fling imaginary and real shit at you.
Unionhawk
Jun 7, 2016 18:02
Well @GodEmperorDune lost my vote
GodEmperorDune
Jun 7, 2016 18:00
@Unionhawk so you'd sneakily have another mod do it for cover? instead of saying "i banned him and we don't discuss ban circumstances in public"?
user4704
Jun 7, 2016 15:55
Sometimes doing so, particularly in more public venues (e.g., suspending a user from chat) involves that user lashing back out at you in a fashion that might hurt your feelings or otherwise make you uneasy.
MadMAxJr
Jun 7, 2016 14:51
I still want to see SMB 1-1 performance from the candidates. Something that visually tells me you get the basics of gaming.
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