So you wouldn't mind if one person comes along and ask the bot to calculate 50 users' candidate scores?

@SamuelLiew thus the "abuse" is overuse?

Hey @ElectionBot, when dis election dun?

When is the election over?

Mathematics Election 8 Schedule
Nomination: 2020-07-20 20:00:00Z
Primary:    (none)
Election:   2020-07-27 20:00:00Z <-- current phase
End:        2020-08-04 20:00:00Z

Groovy.

When does the election end

The election ends at 2020-08-04 20:00:00Z (in 38 hours).

@quid The ElectionBot has dominated this thread more than any human user, in part because users have been spending more time playing with the bot than discussion the election. I see very little participation by candidates and real human users. If this is how future election chats on SE are going to operate, no one should even bother with such a chatroom.

Bots are only useful if they facilitate human dialogue, in this case, between candidates and users, and between users. This particular bot has shut dialogue between human users down to a trickle, at best.

@amWhy maybe for the next one we could think about having separate rooms.

@quid That might be a good idea!

The current one end tomorrow IIRC

Indeed it is just written up there.