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{waves excitedly} HI!

Oh do links to the questionnaire auto populate now?

Hello.

I am thinking about nominating myself!

I will be making a post shortly, but if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them here. If that is allowed.

@Adamant that was some quick thinking ;-)

I'm sure it's allowed; in fact I expect that's the entire point of this room. :)

Looking forward to the election. Hope all goes well for all the candidates. Good Luck :o)

@Skooba How do you mean?

@Catija I remember (and that is not always the most reliable thing) that a candidate used to post answers on meta and then link it to the nomination post.

Oh, yeah.

The new system has only been around for a few months where the questionnaire is hosted on the election page.

You'll need to edit your nomination to start answering the questions. :)

Well that makes my space saver for the link quite redundant, but at least a reminder to myself I plan on answering them.

Hi all. Looking forward to seeing the field of candidates :-)

I believe by the time it is all said and done it will quite the field of dreams...

@Skooba Your nomination now shows with placeholder answers for each question, so no need for your manual placeholder - there's already an automatic reminder.

@Randal'Thor Do answers calculate into the character limit of the post?

Gonna refer that question to @Catija ^

@Skooba There's two separate fields, one length limit for the blurb, one for the questionnaire.

@Catija perfect. I will try to be as long winded as possible then!

I mean... you still only have about 10k characters? There's a counter somewhere, I think.

@Skooba If you need to lose some characters, just drop the odd word. It's in character anyway.

I'm sensing a common theme.

I take it @Skooba tends to accidentally words from time to time?

Yes he indeed.

scifi.stackexchange.com/election#comment683727_249942

Oh, comment upvotes on nominations are back?

yes

And flags.

And links to comments

Oh, wait, I have to rescind the last one... apparently there aren't links. :/

@Catija if time to time means, almost every sentence, then yes. It just depends on well I proofread myself.

sometimes it leads to hilarious (or disastrous) misunderstandings!

@Catija Btw, can site mods handle those flags, or CMs only?

@Skooba Especially if the word you miss is "not".

Uh. There was a lot of discussion around that but... I don't remember. I think in the end we made it so that you can see them in some cases but not handle them in all cases?

Comment flags, I think you can handle, nomination flags, no?

You're welcome to test comment flags but post flags email me so... just use them for real flags. :P

Do tags work in nomination posts?

Try it and see? Is there not a preview?

no preview