2021 MathOverflow Moderator Election Chat

6:45 AM

But even without a bot we can summarize that so far there are 5 users who posted their answer to the questionnaire: Asaf Karagila, Daniel Loughran, Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Liviu Nicolaescu, Alec Rhea.

For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity? I am using my real name. I am a professional mathematician. I recently started a permanent position. Should there be a term for which moderators are elected? If elected, how long do you envision serving as ...

For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity? I'm using my real name. I have a permanent lectureship at the University of Bath. Should there be a term for which moderators are elected? If elected, how long do you envision serving as a moderator? I th...

For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity? I am using my real name (though I publish as Nyberg-Brodda rather than Nyberg Brodda). I am currently a final year PhD student. Should there be a term for which moderators are elected? If elected, how long ...

For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity? I am using my real name. I am Professor of Mathematics at the University of Notre Dame. Should there be a term for which moderators are elected? If elected, how long do you envision serving as a moderator? ...

For pseudonymous candidates, Are you a professional mathematician? In what capacity? I use my real name here, but I am currently a voluntary college dropout studying math independently. This could potentially present an issue, since someone like me with no formal prestige to their name modera...

gmvh

7:04 AM

There are currently three candidates with a candidate score higher than mine. One more, and I'll happily withdraw my nomination.

7:23 AM

Are there some useful data which would tell us something about the users (some SEDE queries which could be useful)?

Number of questions/answer for users from the give list: meta, main

It seems that only four of the current candidates posted something on meta before the election: Asaf Karagila, Liviu Nicolaescu, gmvh, Alec Rhea.

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8:47 AM

Maybe I should have explicitly said that this only includes the current meta - from the data in SEDE we won't get anything about participation on tea.

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10:19 AM

@gmvh On the off chance that not happening, could you please post answers to the questionnaire before the official election begins? People are a lot less likely to check for further information once they've voted, so it's good to have it all prepared in advance. (Back on MSE there was a push at some point to force a day or two interval so that everyone has time to engage with users before the actual election.)

Q: Reason for the 2021 moderator election

10:43 AM

There are three possible reasons for having the moderators election this year (with 3 positions to fill): 3 moderators from the current team have decided to step down (for reasons that I consider personal and about which I am not asking); 3 new moderator positions are created, in addition to th...

@SamHopkins None of the current moderators are expected to step down. Some of the moderators have reduced their activity on the user-visible end of things, but none have expressed the desire to fully step down. — François G. Dorais ♦ Mar 25 at 20:00

@AlexM. From the above comment it seems that none of the moderators plans to step down. (At least if you're willing to take François G. Dorais' word.)

I have sent you an invite to this room - so I hope that you'll get some kind of notification.

I posted here rather than in a comment - since I wasn't sure whether this is what you're actually asking.

gmvh

10:59 AM

@AsafKaragila I've done so.

@gmvh Just saw, thanks!

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12:27 PM

@TimCampion: When are you going to throw your hat into the ring?

user 85795

1:08 PM

Would it be too much to ask Professor Hamkins to throw his hat into the ring also? If he's not too busy, of course.

1:25 PM

@gmvh I hope you don't drop out of the race, even if more good candidate join in.

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