2018 Moderator Election Chatroom

Winners are Asaf Karagila and Aloizio Macedo.

So, vote as if you have one vote, for the 1st. Then, do the same considering all candidates but the 1st one for the 2nd. And likewise for the third.

Congrats Asaf and Aloizio!

Seconding Asaf's question. What the hell just happened to Zach?

@AsafKaragila HINT: "Awarded 4679 times" was the status of the constituent badge before this election, it is now "Awarded 5228 times." Can you take it from here? ;D

One final link: The Official Questionnaire

The official 2018 Moderator Election page

The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!

AFAICT closing/reopening is more responsibility of community than of moderators. In fact, I remember that one moderator mentioned that they cast much less close/reopen votes after getting the diamond. (I am not really sure which one, but probably more than one mod behaves like this.)

I tend to agree that 'PSQ' is the wrong guideline. I have answered good problem statement questions when there is not much more to say than the problem statement. But I feel that there is a glut of 'bad' questions. I won't try to define this - I guess that's what led to the PSQ idea being so used.

@AsafKaragila Thanks for running!

@AsafKaragila What a(n extremely positive) turn of events! If this helps anything in making you more comfortable with the situation, I am very pleased to see your nomination.

@JyrkiLahtonen: You put us in this mess of elections. How about running?

I doubt it matters to anyone, but if anyone is wondering why I never participate anymore, the comments under each moderators nomination are pretty much the whole picture. We have someone playing needless literal word games, people calling each other bullies, people quibbling over votes/membership length ratios, and all sorts of nonsense. I popped in for the first time in awhile, saw this, and am right back out. Not that I am important. I'm not. But this is very upsetting to see.

It's a cautionary tale about electing moderators properly, and having time to vet and inspect the candidates.

@user170039 By talking about past elections and how they are relevant to something which might or might not happen in the very near future? I don't know. Are we?

@quid: Can I nominate you to run again?

@amWhy it's a Q&A site, see Q always comes first.

Congrats to all contenders for volunteering to run!!

@AsafKaragila gotta get a drink

I'd like to point out that the first candidate to post a video with their best dance moves will win my third vote

@quid I don't know... I mean, you don't know what Rick and Morty is...

@Shog9 and @GraceNote: One of the candidates is fairly unresponsive, have not participated in the Q&A, and at some point claimed to have withdrawn their candidacy (but haven't actually done so). Seeing how most people vote for one or two candidates, having bad candidates seems like a detraction to the whole process. At what point do you guys intervene? (I'm not saying that you should or shouldn't, I'm just asking.)

@BrevanEllefsen there are users that think that think that there should be meaningful control over the content of the site, and there are others that don't or find all kind of issues in how it is done (some arguably justified, but some arguably misguided or even presented in bad faith).

@Hurkyl not to my knowledge. I think it was getting fed up with the election related process, and maybe it was an overreaction in the moment. Though presumably a lot of frustration built up beforehand which is rather clear from some meta post. However, the "final straw that broke the back" seemed minor to me. (But maybe I missed something.) Anyway I know about as much as everyone.

@SimplyBeautifulArt I'm sorry, can you clarify this?

If you want to accuse me of something, can you please do it in a clear way?

@SimplyBeautifulArt Why do you think that you're mature enough to be a moderator, by the way?

@TheSimpliFire: Same question as above.

@MikeMiller Keep thinking about it :-)

@MikeMiller Are you planning to run for a moderator?

@SimplyBeautifulArt No offense, but I still have doubts whether or not you're too young for this job.

@SimplyBeautifulArt that's hard to answer like this. But I'd say most will typically not spend more than 15-30 minutes a day on moderating. It's certainly possible to do still less without come over as too inactive. But then, it is likely not a good idea to start the task if one is not prepared to spend that amount of time.

Am I the only one who feels that the lack of nominees is a lot due to the fact that meta participation has become somehow limited to a handful of users most of which are either publicly reject the idea of being a moderator, are moderators, or very clearly unsuitable for being moderators?

@user7530 it is, in that the relevant badges are attributed for this type of activity. One gets 1 point for each of a list of 20 particular badges (I'll give you the list shortly), a rough breakdown is given on the post plus 1 point for any 1k points up to a max of 20.

But I try to keep it professional and leave the alcohol at home.

I hope the two newly elected A's know they must adhere to respecting, first and foremost, all regular users whose usernames start with the letter "a". I'm just sayin' .... !

I HAVE THE POWERRRRRRRR!!!!

@amWhy It would be funny if the script by Asaf was bugged and it sorted people by alphabetical order.

That was quick!!!!! Thanks Asaf. I wonder how @Shog9 will feel knowing you beat him in reporting in chat!!

@JyrkiLahtonen Is that the start of an attempt to argue that Santa really lives in Finland (rather than Greenland where we all know he really lives)?

@JyrkiLahtonen One of the logicians I know is doing something between model theory and set theory. In set theory conferences, he's a model theorist; in model theory conferences he's a set theorist.

It seems kind of inappropriate for anyone to ask anyone else who they voted for.

I just want to know, how does someone plan on achieving that.

I've told you my conjectures, i'll leave the proof as an exercise for the reader

I think the point is that your estimation of how culture changes is as simplistic and rough and vague as it could be.

@Kenshin: Nobody is happy with the amount of closures, I promise you. Those who close these questions would have rather them being asked in better form from the get go, or not at all.

@Kenshin 33. And I've been on online communities, of all sorts, for the past 20 years. I've seen them rise and fall. I've created them, and destroyed them.

Not really. Moderators have minimal relationship to close votes; because their votes would immediately close a question, most prefer to close less or not at all than they would as a user. Conversely, they are unlikely to vote to reopen by binding votes. The point is that these are community jobs.