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Grace Note

Jul 11, 2016 18:36

If you have questions about the election process itself, please ask your question on the Puzzling 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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Grace Note

Jul 11, 2016 18:36

Welcome all! This room is intended as a place to converse with candidates, discuss moderator traits, etc. For general discussion related to Puzzling, go here: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/14524/the-sphinxs-lair

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Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 19:57

Welp, time to retract my vote for GPR

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user61230

Jul 21, 2016 20:52

The moderator agreement, for those who are curious.

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GentlePurpleRain

Jul 15, 2016 15:23

Does anyone know how the number of moderators is chosen? I've noticed a few people say that their time commitment is limited. Would it be conceivable to have 4 or 5 moderators, some of whom have less time to commit? It seems to me that (within reason) more moderators would be better than fewer.

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Lord of dark

Jul 12, 2016 14:45

Something interesting would be to have mods from different timezones so there is always one mod awake to handle urgent problem

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Alconja

Jul 12, 2016 06:48

Question for @GraceNote and/or @Emrakul... what sort of time commitment is generally "expected" or "normal" for moderators?

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Alconja

Jul 19, 2016 23:01

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Q: How are moderator election votes counted, in plain English?

The election pages' sidebars state that Stack Exchange elections use the Meek STV vote-counting method: After m days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from this page forever, and we will calculate the n winners using OpenSTV with the Meek STV method. How does that work? ...

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CodeNewbie

Jul 27, 2016 08:16

Googling "What do SE mods do?" ..... Shit, can we repeat the referendum/election for mods? #Pexit

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Dan Russell

Jul 26, 2016 20:47

@Alconja Sounds good to me. I'm sure your policing would be solid, but your puzzles are excellent.

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ffao

Jul 26, 2016 20:44

it's one of those choices you can't really go wrong with either way

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feelinferrety

Jul 26, 2016 20:33

And a hearty fare-thee-well to @Doorknob

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Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 20:21

Politics in the Animal Kingdom: Single Transferable Vote

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Lord of dark

Jul 26, 2016 20:19

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user61230

Jul 26, 2016 20:17

@feelinferrety Here are the results!

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Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 20:02

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Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 20:01

Emrakul, me, and GPR!

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user61230

Jul 26, 2016 19:00

Hey, I like tea, too! In the harbokay that's a bad joke.

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ffao

Jul 26, 2016 18:37

said no one ever

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CodeNewbie

Jul 22, 2016 05:27

As approved by @GraceNote, here is a link to the mock questionnaire answers with a big bold disclaimer up top. meta.puzzling.stackexchange.com/a/5136/12700

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CodeNewbie

Jul 21, 2016 13:35

(*Mock answer to the questionnaire*)

9. How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

You know, this site, it's got a lot of users. Different kind of users. Sometimes they can be nasty. Because they are awful. Awful. But you see these users, they have some good answers. Great answers. Answers that need to be upvoted. But sometimes, they say these things, you know. Things that hurt other users. And I know these other users who have been hurt. Good users, god-fearing users. These users,…

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Alconja

Jul 15, 2016 05:32

@Emrakul You've forced my hand Emrakul... I won't stand idly by and listen to such biased and one-sided rhetoric. If elected, I will stand for all puzzlers; those that stomp small animals and those that choose to stomp larger animals.

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Lord of dark

Jul 12, 2016 09:01

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user61230

Jul 27, 2016 17:39

Amalgamating "Puzzling" and "exit" leads to the delicious word "pugzit."

Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 21:00

It's still so weird to see a diamond by my name

Lord of dark

Jul 26, 2016 20:42

When I have a child I'll put a diamond at the end of his name so every body will think he is a real life moderator

Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 20:38

Whoa, it's so weird seeing a diamond next to my name

Jonathan Allan

Jul 26, 2016 20:26

Congratulations @GentlePurpleRain @Deusovi @Emrakul

user61230

Jul 26, 2016 20:21

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Q: How are moderator election votes counted, in plain English?

The election pages' sidebars state that Stack Exchange elections use the Meek STV vote-counting method: After m days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from this page forever, and we will calculate the n winners using OpenSTV with the Meek STV method. How does that work? ...

support election

user61230

Jul 26, 2016 20:17

In detail.

f''

Jul 26, 2016 20:06

there's a ballot in there that has emrakul as third choice and no first or second choice

Doorknob

Jul 26, 2016 19:59

Deusovi

Jul 26, 2016 19:58

@ffao No it doesn't! I've never made a tpyo in my life!

Lord of dark

Jul 26, 2016 19:54

GentlePurpleRain

Jul 26, 2016 19:47

@Lordofdark Get out there and start downvoting!

ffao

Jul 26, 2016 18:37

I'll be so surprised if Emrakul is elected

Alconja

Jul 26, 2016 02:31

*shakes head* ...just wait until i'm elected. First job will be to build a wall. ...of toasters. To keep bread-lovers like you out of here.

user61230

Jul 22, 2016 02:20

Scores: 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6...

Grace Note

Jul 19, 2016 16:22

@CodeNewbie Yes. It'll be 10 candidates always, we'll take the top 10 in a pure vote score sort, no exclusions. (had Shog help me look it up)

GentlePurpleRain

Jul 15, 2016 15:33

@DanRussell The nomination page clearly states right now that there will be 3. "Moderator positions available: 3".

BmyGuest

Jul 13, 2016 07:06

@Doorknob Well, thanks for your time served then. I've not always been of your opinion, but I think you did a good moderator's job.

2016 Puzzling Moderator Election

2016 Puzzling Moderator Election