2015 Raspberry Pi Moderator Election Chat

Well good luck everybody! I'm confident no matter what we are in good hands. And if I lose, don't worry -- I don't get mad, I get even.

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@SlySven You were my first thought WRT Jiving's best new member 2015. I didn't post when I saw the Phil B. nomination, which made me do a double take ("Phil B was new for 2015?!!?"). But I will now because because. This is all nice, we have a good active core potential. Or something something.

Unofficial results: Winners are Steve Robillard, goldilocks, and Ghanima.

groucho marx said I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.

no luck = blog editor

to continue the meme I love the smell of burning Pi (magic blue smoke) in the morning

well if he had a twin we could send one into space then have a relative time frame to measure against. Alternatively we could analyzze the amount of stontium in his teeth, or carbon date him

someday i will tell you about how I got questioned by the secret service about the President

the running joke at my U was that I had enough banner access to grnt myself a degree get it printed and cover my tracks so no 1 would ever know

sounds like it would make a good xkcd comic

win and you to can accidentally suspend @Jacobm001too

@Ghanima @Jacobm001 I am very impressed with how much you have done sitewide recently thank you

I would consider it a failure if we graduate, but can't then get more than 3 people to nominate themselves as moderators.

@Ghanima You seem awfully invested in the site but you haven't nominated yourself, why not? :P

Welcome all! This room is intended as a place to converse with candidates, discuss moderator traits, etc. For general discussion related to Raspberry Pi, go here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3748/the-bakery

All approaches fruition. Sign on or stand aside.

that is the second time this week we talk about something and it happens

The main problem I see with meta is that not's what it is intended for, and it will not be very flexible. It also means promoting individual articles is essentially random, and people's stuff will tend to get buried periodically (e.g., as in the past few weeks).

I am leaning toewards coopting meta the structure etc is in place to support usernames, comments polls etc.

-1 for talking about self in 3rd person

@goldilocks but... but... but... that's perl.

I like the idea, but where would the funding come from?

count me in as editor

I only match Ghanima in joint 3rd (not too bad for only a Month's membership)!

We decided we liked this room better?

It is not for us to ask what our beta site can do for us but what we can do for our beta site.

what am i my moderators keeper

Hey how would you like to finish up "Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach", 6th ed. for me?

fyi I don't know if you guys saw this or not syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks I have read a ew of these and they are pretty good

*misa thanks Mr Robillard and Goldilocks

I'm chuffed with this because I figured if I lost as an incumbent it meant I probably really ticked people off. Which I was worried about. So hooray, people like me!

lol going with the star wars theme I think that would be jaja binks

third can we work get together here one day next week and scope out a plan (editorial content and other details for the blog) maybe make this an open call to memebers sort of a town hall meeting

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yeah, my dog could count faster than that

what are we the academy awards with price waterhouse and cooper aufiting the vote

M&m's are far superior to smarties. Smarties are a consolidation prize for when they're out of sweettarts.

Looks like Ghanima and I both got the secret "vote for yourself first in the final stage of a moderator election" hat.

The words: "I'm going to write a Visual Basic app to ping his IP address and geolocate it." have been forever burned into my brain by a rage stroke.

Under the innocent guise as an education company ;)

The fact that @SteveRobillard was interrogated by the Secret Service, and @goldilocks was an illegal immigrant makes one wonder what @jivings is hiding...

Well, to be fair, you are kind of shady :P

Probably shouldn't be Ghanima since he's been nominated for one of them.

Looks like posting to the christmas project thread worked.

What? I thought you were from the USA

@mast I don't know about that but we get a lot of noobs who don't know how to check for a dupe firts

it also follwos the trend when new hardware drops

Okay I follow -- you're right it is the wiki not the tip. Thx.