Posted my nomination now

Good luck to all the other candidates!

Hm, I just thought of a missed opportunity for the questionnaire. "Do you see yourself as more of a sci-fi person or a fantasy person? Do you consume more written SFF or screen SFF?"

Not that it has any bearing on whether someone would make a good mod or not, just would be interesting to know what kind of topics people cover.

ibid already mentioned his main tags.

Among the current mods, I'm more fantasy and Null's more sci-fi, and ASR I'm not sure, maybe a bit of both?

You can generally tell by someone's tags anyway. I watch more than I read (I don't have, or make time, to read as much anymore)

@ibid there is toggle switch for markdown

i think if you flip it back and forth you can see what your markdown looks like and then what it appears as

@TheLethalCarrot Unless you are Rand because he's like Harvey Danger

@Skooba You can, didn't realise this used the new editor

@TheLethalCarrot whenever I stumble on new features I wonder if I "used" them correctly, or did I back into something. Same thing with bugs... is this a bug, or did I just muck something up...

@TheLethalCarrot I have the same problem with time but I solve it the other way: I read a lot more than I watch. That's probably at least in part because I find it increasingly difficult to find something worth watching, and even the things that are worth watching often have a written form (e.g. The Expanse).

Unless it's something I particularly want to watch I usually let the wife decide anyway, I tend to spend most of my free time gaming or watching YouTube

@TheLethalCarrot You'd better do as much gaming and watching Youtube as you can now in case you're elected, since all your free time would be taken up by moderating, right? :)

Of course

Let me just go run that past the wife ;P

Past? Passed? I don't know

@Null Free time, what is that? I make sure to do 25k moderating during work. So even though Moderators don't get paid, I still feel like I would.

which is highly motivational

That's the attitude I'm looking for in our candidates - total dedication and devotion of all free time to moderating. Once you've been onboarded maybe I can sit back and relax a bit. :)

@Null I never watched much TV when I was younger, so I can catch up with old stuff that's still worth watching.

Last year I watched Blake's 7.

Might have to write a review of that for our blog.

Speaking of blogs, I wonder if Jack will run again ... he's been in 4/4 elections so far.

@Randal'Thor wait, did you finally get a TV?

@Null The only thing I am worried about is how many browser tabs can I have open before it crashes

@Skooba I have a computer ;-)

@Randal'Thor Yes, streaming really has changed content viewing.

Like my "television" is just running apps through the internet. Does that just make it a large monitor?

dog, pig, dog, pig, dog, pig, dog, pig.... loaf of bread.

What?

Someone broke Skooba.

TV, monitor, TV, monitor, TV, monitor, skateboard.

Uhoh, I'm only on question 5 and I have the 888 characters left warning pop up

I'm gonna need to do some serious editing when I'm done

nice humble brag lol

3.5 questions to go and I'm already over by 1100 characters

It's not going to be fun trying to edit it

I hit the character limit on the nomination post

@Catija Fancy doubling the questionnaire character limit? :P

@Skooba I hit it exactly but had to cut some stuff I wanted to mention, it should get covered in the questionnaire though

@TheLethalCarrot yeah same here I am going to use #5 for the overflow.

The limit is there because we want y'all to be thoughtful about how much people are actually likely to read.

Pick the important stuff.

But all of my stuff is important!? /s

This is a new problem that you guys have.

Back in my day ... :-P

You could waffle on

I dunno exactly what the character limit is on questionnaire answers now, but it must be a lot less than the 30k limit for posts that'd apply to the normal meta answers that candidates used to provide.

Maybe they don't want voters to have to wade through tomes of Q&A. I'd say for larger sites with dozens of candidates that could get quite cumbersome.

Mm, the questionnaire always made for quite lengthy reading. But who said being an informed voter is easy? :-D

I'm going to have to stop myself from adding stuff, now to somehow remove 3161 characters

What I miss about the questionnaire is being able to use it as a way of recording my intended votes. I'd often use up/down votes on meta questionnaire answers to keep track of which candidates I liked or not, then after reading all the questionnaire posts I could quickly check which ones I'd voted which way on.

@TheLethalCarrot Call George R.R. Martin

Then I'll never get it done!

@TheLethalCarrot True. Effective at killing characters, not at finishing the text....

@Skooba Are you saying he has negative writing speed?

Oh damn, aDwD part 2 has just disappeared.

@Randal'Thor The Winds of Winter keep blowing the text off his word processor!

Questionnaire answers posted now :)

nice. i am just about done meeself

but now I am going to read your first lol

Lol

that was too much reading, so i just posted

Ooh new stuff to read.

^ inbox notification isn't clickable?

@Catija is this a known bug?

That's... weird.

I don't know that anyone is aware of it.

Where should I post about it?

FWIW the inbox notification for me for the comment on my nomination works and takes me to /election/5#comment-683788 but the browser doesn't browse to the comment

Not sure if that is browser side or SE side though

@TheLethalCarrot Might be different for you because it's "your" post?

Aye maybe

Oh yeah, same here actually: it does redirect to the URL with the # thing, but doesn't go to the comment itself (so looks like nothing happened at all, since I was on the election page already when I clicked it).

If @ibid is answering the questions in the comments though I might be able to reproduce it

Aye that might be it

Good to see @ibid isn't answering everything by referring to the comment just above ;-)

I'm not sure that's new or not. There's always been a slight issue with comments on posts not having direct links... and it's possible that somehow it got mucked with... I thought we'd fixed it but if it's not currently broken, either it's recurred or something got removed that shouldn't have been.

Links to comments do browse to the right point on the page: /election/5#comment683784_249948 works fine.

Maybe the problem is that the inbox notification connects to a link in the wrong format?

Because /election/5#comment-683821 looks different.

That's the link in your notification?

Notification link: scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5#comment-683822

Comment link from clicking timestamp: scifi.stackexchange.com/election/5#comment683824_249948

The latter works, former doesn't

Ah, OK. And I do see that there are comment links on timestamps now... but I swear there weren't yesterday.

comment-683822 vs comment683824_249948

Thanks :) That's helpful.

OK. Yeah, the second number seems to be the post ID of the nomination.

Anyway, I've got a ticket in Jira. :) Thanks for flagging it.

I just @'d the user when replying like I'd do on the main site.

But when there's multiple questions from the same user I guess it can get confusing.

@Catija That's what I figured, the hyphen causes a problem as well though as I tried comment-683824_249948 and that doesn't redirect to the comment

Thanks for getting it logged :)

Yep :)

@Catija No need for a meta report then?

Not really. If y'all want to start that bug thread next time y'all find sometime, even if it doesn't necessarily seem like there'll be a primary, it'll give people somewhere to put them.

@Randal'Thor ...it didn't matter because noone read the questionaire anyway. ;-)

Or at least, the people who did read the questionnaire in 2016 weren't the people who voted for me :-P

@Randal'Thor I can't remember if I read your questionnaire or not. I voted for you because you were fun in chat.

(among other reasons)

I think you've done a pretty middling job since then XD

I didn't even know you were already here when that election happened.

Or I mixed it up with the older one.

@Skooba I was referring to the fact that my questionnaire response got a negative score (something like -4) on meta, but in the election I got more first votes than anyone else (140?)

By the way, there's almost three times as many eligible voters now than in 2016.

You guys have a lot more hand-shaking and baby-kissing to do than we did five years ago :-)

@Randal'Thor how much of that is a factor because of the question rep adjustment?

I'll be interested to see how many visit the election page and how many vote

So there are 12,000+ eligible voters now? wowzers

12,000- currently.

But yeah.

In 2016 it was 4200.

I don't know whether that figure on a past election page is static or if it takes account of the grandfathering in of extra question rep.

@Randal'Thor I think it is static because I've look those numbers before and they don't stand out from what I remember. The numbers were always so low. Now for the new election those percentage are going to tank I imagine. Only ~15% of eligibles votes, but I don't think that will increase with all the new eligibles.

Between the 3rd and 4th election there was a negative ratio of % eligible vs. % voting

Much like real elections it seems we have an issue with voter turn out.

Well, if we filter for people who have actually visited the site in the past month the number probably won't be nearly as bad. I'm sure there a host of people there who haven't been on the site in a year, and could hardly be counted as part of the electorate.

oh no I factored that in. 39% of eligible voters visited the site, 31% visited the election page, and only 14% voted

or if you factor those that actually made it to the election page... 45%

@Skooba At least here nobody is voting in person, it's all postal electronic votes ;-)

@DavidW Although some people who haven't visited the site in a year will come back to vote when they get a notification that an election's starting.

But people can still go postal over it.

@Randal'Thor puts on tinfoil hat

@Skooba You know that just means they can find you with a metal detector, assuming you've already fooled the heat and CO2 detectors.

@DavidW puts on CARBON FIBER hat

Better. Got your googles too?

@DavidW I always wear goggles. Well a mask at any rate, along with a snorkel, fins, and an air tank ;-)

@Skooba Sounds like you're well prepared for the interview then.

@Skooba See, this is good information; you should have this in your pitch.

@Randal'Thor If this interview is underwater, I should crush it!

@DavidW I'll see if I can squeeze in the character limit lol

@Skooba Whether carrots float or not depends on the salinity of the water, apparently.

24 hours and 3 candidates so far.

At this rate we'll have 21 candidates for the election.

depends, are we working on linear, exponential, or logarithmic scale (or something else)

@Randal'Thor IIRC I voted for you back then because you were one of the few candidates I recognized. Ultimately I think most voters just vote based on who they remember seeing writing good answers.

@ibid :/ ... That seems like a problematic hobby.

@Catija That would apply to most of the "My Hobby" comics, actually. :)