Ineligible nominations

@barrycarter Can you not make this a "me-vs.-them" issue? It isn't.

Here comes the censorship of the censorship.

Happy to see you run, but please do take this at least somewhat seriously.

@HDE226868 But the suspension was for arguing against aggressive moderation.

@Marcel The beatings will continue until morale improves

@barrycarter that is speculation. We must not let ourselves fall into the habit of only seeing ulterior motives and believing what we speculate. That inhibits our ability to maintain an impartial view and makes us more likely to be hostile/bitter

LOL, that was the censorship of the censorship of the censorship.

@barrycarter : forget about writing to stack exchange. Use your time to put it up on another website somewhere.

not for being annoying

and folks could believe you, because you'd actually established a history of knowing things and solving problems

I can't help but feel like you're more interested in Raging Against The Machine than in fixing it.

:32585242 I think it is an important question, well maybe I don't know too many from your visions and ideas, but it seems to me as if you would actively work to cement small circles ruling entire SE sites and working actively to make it hostile.

@Shog9 Btw, do your bosses have something to measure your productivity?

@barrycarter no it wasn't.

@Shog9 OK, for satirically arguing against it.

@HDE226868 Well, us-vs-them, and it absolutely is.

@HDE226868 : well let's just have another two eliminated, then we can all vote for the candidate of our choice. Isn't that right @shog9?

You might've at least finished reading that email before making stuff up...

@barrycarter : and so this rather interesting event, which had energised physics stack exchange, turns to... sour.

@barrycarter : OK noted. The moot point here, is that a moderator who isn't dealing adequately with abusive posters etc, can simply suspend the poster who complains in order to eliminate the competition.

@barrycarter "Unless someone can raise a credible objection to this, I plan to start implementing this immediately: the next time someone nominates themselves after having been suspended on any Stack Exchange Q&A site during the past year, we'll quietly withdraw their nomination and send them a message to let them know why. "

This site's structures and opinions are seriously troubling

"You can't vote in this election because you protested against the current President"

@Jim Because I was suspended in the previous year (for complaining about abusive moderation as it turns out).

That's what I call a guided democratic election ^^

I mean, in the sense that, if I was responsible for the health dept. in your city, I wouldn't get to say whether you served Indian or Greek food in your restaurant... But if I saw you taking a squat over a patron's table, it would be my responsibility to shut you down.

@Marcel sure.

@Shog9 And you are to judge what is usefull in that particular case?

How you decide to do that, how best you decide to approach it, that's your call... But if you're gonna step up, you can't shirk your responsibility and then pretend it was some meta commentary that should surely be recognized and protected.

Uh, yeah. That's kinda my point. If you're gonna nominate, it's your responsibility to... y'know... do something useful. Not waste everyone's time.

@Shog9 That should have been my responsibility how I would achieved that, shouldn't it?

@Shog9 The whole point of my nomination was to show the obscurity the average active member puts into his/her seriousness in defending a certain policy. Just scroll through this chat or the nomination comments and see how radical most parties fight for their standpoint. However it seems that I somewhat achieved what I wanted, when I even get denominated, showing that "not being in line" is a reason for exclusion

@Marcel .... He's Shog9

@Shog9 That's the point of an opposition in a democratic election right? Making others think ... I don't think I would have been elected but who are you to interfere with a democratic process?

"democratic elections" :D

lol, I got denominated