@Behaviour Barely any point in the long run. Basically it was just an extra sentence noting that one can view the online summary, plus the farewells to Willie and Alex plus the welcomes to the newcoming moderators were paragraphs long.
I don't know what to think about the current state of the 2014 moderator election. It's great that so many people are eager to help, but I don't feel like any of the current candidates fit the bill.
I do however hope that they find some way to mail her whatever bling SE had in mind for the nominees, t-shirts and such things I suppose; I think she would really cherish something like that more than most being a 14 year old child in Crimea.
The Werewolf Hunter hat is so close! (Everyone voting in the final round will get it, unless they have it already). Although it'd prefer a Vampire Slayer hat personally.
Hello. Does anyone have any questions for me regarding my candidacy? I doubt very much that I'll win but I'm pleasantly surprised at how I'm doing so far :)
@BillDubuque Nice attempt at a pivot. Out of all the off-topic comments here, it is my one poignant comment you pounce upon. Apparently I am a "usual suspect" for pointing out shenanigans, and that's OK with me. I have no idea how you read your moderatorhood into that comment. But since that's too far off topic, I won't pursue it.
I do really salute your determination by the way ;) keep it up dude, but you won't have my vote (I feel that your first day task as mod will be deleting my account xD )
@quid I don't worry about it a bit - rather, I find it all quite hilarious. I recall rotfl'ing for days when I saw the version of his profile that professed his love for Shog9 via a modded xkcd comic. I can't wait to see the next installment. Drink up!
@skullpatrol To earn that, you have to start debunking some of his many SE fanboy quotes. I cannot understand how it is possible to drink that much SE Kool-Aid without exploding.
@BillDubuque It's not a campaign for me. I'm just doing my part in participating in a bit of clean-up of the site. I know you have fundamentally different ideas about what is good for the site, but you may be able to believe that I'm just doing what I think is good for the site.
Back to the topic: two of top ten candidates are yet to answer the questionnaire: Jyrki Lahtonen (who said in advance he'll be late) and Anastasiya-Romanova 秀.
I'd like to see more of the effort to identify dupes, both on the part of question askers and the voters. And this is a scenario where moderators should feel free to exercise their vote to close.
Top 11 as of now: Daniel Fischer 763, Jyrki Lahtonen 573, Pedro Tamaroff 457, Jack D'Aurizio 317, Ilmari Karonen 315, Thomas 287, Arkamis 241, Shaun 109, Anastasiya-Romanova 秀 24, Ahaan S. Rungta 21, Sanath 14
@Behaviour Already retracted. I have read the Help Center in the past. It's the fine like about the History of Math that got me over there. No major deal. ;)
The candidates' answers are slowly being reordered by reputation. I wonder how many people are actually reading them compared to how many are voting on them.
@JackD'Aurizio You may want to change the link at the top of your nomination so that it points directly to your answers, instead of the beginning of that long thread.
Yes, and dustin is not too far away either (at -7 and 20 votes behind). It's a bit surprising the other candidates for the contested slots did not write anything.
I'd very much like to see this done, at least for questions with suggested duplicates.
Why do I want this? Well, the notice placed on questions closed as duplicates looks like this:
This question already has an answer here:
Link to duplicate question n+1 answers
The way I see it, if t...
The "possibly related questions" list that pops up when you start typing a question is much better, but it only shows up when you've already decided that "OK, I'm gonna ask a question myself."
@MikeMiller I certainly don't think that the top-3-by-rep are unqualified, and they each seem to have a good head on their shoulders. That's part of the reason why @AlexanderGruber and I haven't mysteriously suspended any of them in the last few days.
Current results: Daniel Fischer : 440 // Jyrki Lahtonen : 327 // Pedro Tamaroff : 271 // Jack D'Aurizio : 170 // Ilmari Karonen : 165 // Thomas : 165 // Arkamis : 135 // Shaun : 34 // Sanath : -7 // Anastasiya-Romanova 秀 : -9 // end of top 10 // Ahaan S. Rungta : -12 // dustin : -20 // the rest are way out of it
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...
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.
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.
I'd very much like to see this done, at least for questions with suggested duplicates.
Why do I want this? Well, the notice placed on questions closed as duplicates looks like this:
This question already has an answer here:
Link to duplicate question n+1 answers
The way I see it, if t...
