@NorthLæraðr I just heard a Wright quote that puts it quite well, too:

> You see, early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritic humility, I chose honest arrogance.

Which Wright was that?

Frank Lloyd, of course.

Ah, the housewright.

Reminds me of that guy who talked about the architects Frank, Lloyd and Wright, not knowing it was a single name ...

@NapoleonWilson I mean duh. Everyone knows I'm amazing

That was in an art history course. Seriously.

I would've ran for the moderation election, but I didn't want the other candidates to feel bad.

Though I feel as though I've crossed the boundary from honest arrogance to delusional arrogance

@Tsundoku No, I think there's a compressed representation for when you have too many award badges, where most of the badges are shown as just thin stripes of textile with no metal bits.

@b_jonas Surely, you're not a good North-Korean general if you prefer the compressed representation :-P

Congratulations @Tsundoku @Randal'Thor :)

@heather He, thank you. It was a rather close race for the second spot.

@Tsundoku you are a far better choice than I :) Your dedication to the site is incontrovertible

@heather I don't know whether I'm better in a general sense. My previous experience as a mod is not that impressive, since Language Learning SE is a very quiet site.

But I wouldn't have run in the mod election if I hadn't invested so much time into the site.

@Tsundoku tbh literature is a reasonably quiet site too. Anyway, you were my first choice for mod, so I'm happy to see you be elected.

@heather First choice! Thank you :-)

Yes, it is a rather quiet site, and with a friendly community.

I don't think I would nominate myself for anything like Stack Overflow.

@Tsundoku Mine as well

I must have been doing something right :-)

Unrelated topic (i.e. unrelated to the elections): for the upcoming reading challenge on Guy de Maupassant, I have been looking for editions for this work.

@Tsundoku And that's the natural progression indeed.

The French publisher Gallimard offers several different editions for the same work, e.g. Pierre et Jean, ed. by B. Pingaud and Pierre et Jean, ed. by Arnaud Rochelois. Makes me wonder which one to read. And there obviously other publishers offering these works.

@Tsundoku You were also my first choice, fwiw :-)

@NapoleonWilson I guess so. But it's not automatic. There are strong contributors who would never consider becoming a mod.

OK, I get it. I got elected. Can I please go to bed now? ;-)

@Tsundoku You can't reasonably assume to genuinely "invest" into a site like that with regards to shaping its community. It seems an entirely different kind of moderation more akin to the flag handling machine analogy that SE sometimes tries to propagate with the whole janitor analogy. I really don't know how the SO moderators derive their motivation to do anything but look at the 4 digit flag numbers in awe.

@Tsundoku Do stone heads sleep?

@NapoleonWilson That's a good point. "Shaping a community" versus being a janitor.

@Randal'Thor Those Moais were lying down for a reason before European discoverers (or people who wanted to attract tourists?) put them upright again.

@Tsundoku So they perpetually sleep?

Now i really need to zzzzzzz

Goodnight!

And, me too.

@Randal'Thor Sleep tight, don't let the triffids bite

squints Is that tree an overgrown triffid?