Super User 2014 Election

Your approach makes sense on a site for professionals, the point of SU is that your grandmother should be able to post here and as long as the Q is clear, she should get an answer. At the very least, she should be treated with civility and not "snarky sarcasm".

Winners are @JourneymanGeek and @Mokubai!

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork When people discover our seemingly intuitive system, and see lots of questions getting answers, they just .. well .. start asking questions. That's precisely what we want them to do because we do force them through some of the initial help before they can ask their first question. If they miss something, it's ideal if there's a civil, polite and helpful community of people willing to guide those that can be guided.

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork The user was just granted their association bonus. His first answer wasn't just pure crap. One last time: stop calling a user a jackass.

Any candidates able to get me my unicoins back?

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@slhck Yeah, the reaction to the first polite-but-corrective comment or non-suspension mod message is usually a pretty good indication of how the user will turn out. It always makes me happy when new users respond well to feedback, and then stick around to be awesome.

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork We've had enough cases where we messaged users, without punishing them, and they turned out to be good contributors.

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork you seem to think that all sites are SF. We want clueless users here, that's the whole point of the site, to help people who don't know.

What is on or off topic on SU... the eternal debate.

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ONE HOUR! THE TIME OF THE MOD-ELECTINGNESS IS UPON US!

@CanadianLuke @IvoFlipse I thought that they made people mods so that they could shut them up and stop them flagging...

I'm a regular user who comes here, eventually ask and answer questions, frequently upvotes this or that. I know nothing about you, it's the first time I ever saw you, and even if I had seen your user before I would still not know anything about you, because I don't use my time to go stalking other users. And I believe at least 90% of the other people voting are like me. Be humble.

@JourneymanGeek We know you do. Most of us do.

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork Point them to the appropriate help section at the first "offense". Then, if they continue to do something against the rules, we'll find other measures.

Copy + paste in this code in Election page for some fancy graphs & sorted votes

@Seth I always pronounced it as "slimy green stuff" :P

aren't primaries supposed to decide the people who run in the general election for each party in the US? if so, what are the parties on SU? Supercrat and Userican?

I mean, unless your name is Jon Skeet. then you're wedded to this company at the hip for life

Still, I followed, and voted in this election, I was impressed by most candidates. It is always a shame when there are more good people for the job, than there are jobs.

@Malachi Thank you. It was a good fight to the last post by all accounts

congrats @Mokubai @JourneymanGeek

JMG and Mokubai.

What the!?!?

Oh, Canadian Luke got it right .... good Canadian.

Server Fault and Ask Ubuntu

@IvoFlipse I do have all the privileges on CodeReveiw because it is still in Beta

@JourneymanGeek Could caption that "I'm ready for bed, now. I noticed you just changed the sheets."

@msb: I'm slightly internet famous, least as far as SU goes. Besides, I said, "many of you" not "All of you". (I also wrote that part of the candidate introduction on a phone when I was in india with no desktop access. It probably could be better).

@nhinkle I am glad that you could make an informed decision

can we sub referees for janitors? ;p

he has just been downvoted more

Just FYI in case you didn't know, our awesome community contributed elections app is working again.

to me it's just a gorram ego boost as well as a potential to make a 0.01% better chance of getting hired somewhere, but i think having high rep on SO would probably do worlds better for job opportunities than SU anyway

@HopelessN00bGeniusofnetwork: Well, I did once manage to get a spammer to self delete due to sheer snark. That and I suggested his boss fire the halfwit SEO drone he hired.

It's sad to see a 75k user leave...

typical user: "oh, that guy has more rep, he must be smarter. *click*"

yeeeeeee this is an active chat \O/

> Evan, you'd violate the moderator agreement by allowing people to use your account as a proxy, as well as our privacy policy. If you want to be a moderator, I suggest a serious nomination detailing good things that you could do for this site and community. Opening up anyone's personal information to anyone with a browser isn't a good example. I'm going to be withdrawing your nomination if it's not radically different by the end of the day today. – Tim Post♦

the election goes by popular vote, so "SU mods support me" is basically meaningless because they're so few in number