@HenryWHHackv3.0b Your candidate score is 8 (out of 40). You are missing these badges: Cleanup, Constituent, Convention, Copy Editor, Electorate, Explainer, Investor, Quorum, Refiner, Sportsmanship, Steward, Tag Editor. Having a high score is not a requirement - you can still nominate yourself!
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Well, a lack of participation in meta is a weakness in my candidate application, demonstrated by this missing badge. Still it is what it is and either way this election goes I will spend some more time there.
was a bit worried we might not get any serious candidates, but now I'm confident that the mod team is going to get a great boost from this election ^_^
@Zanna there are some good people running. Given historical patterns, if a person needs to run at least once before winning the vote, then I should get my name in now to have a chance at a diamond in 2025/26 π
@matigo Your candidate score is 21 (out of 40). You are missing these badges: Cleanup, Constituent, Copy Editor, Marshal, Refiner, Sportsmanship, Steward, Tag Editor, Yearling. I can see you're already a candidate. Good luck!
@Zanna according to my profile, the Yearling is not too far away β’ Visited 328 days, 328 consecutive. Copy Editor and Marshal are going to be reached in 2022 as well. Will need to read up on some of the others ...
@Dan Your candidate score is 23 (out of 40). You are missing these badges: Copy Editor, Electorate, Investor, Marshal, Refiner, Sportsmanship, Steward. Perhaps consider nominating in the election?
The 40-point candidate score is calculated this way: 1 point for each 1,000 reputation up to 20,000 reputation (20 points); and 1 point for each of the 8 moderation, 6 editing, and 6 participation badges (20 points)
@RandomPerson Your candidate score is 14 (out of 40). You are missing these badges: Cleanup, Constituent, Copy Editor, Electorate, Refiner, Sportsmanship, Steward. Having a high score is not a requirement - you can still nominate yourself!
@ArturMeinild Your candidate score is 19 (out of 40). You are missing these badges: Cleanup, Constituent, Convention, Investor, Refiner, Sportsmanship. Having a high score is not a requirement - you can still nominate yourself!
Welcome to the election chat room! The election is in the nomination phase, and currently there are 5 candidates. I can answer frequently-asked questions about elections (type @ElectionBot help for more info).
@BeastOfCaerbannog I stopped using the review queues a while back, especially when I was a mod . I have loads of edits, but not 1000 reviews, apparently.
I also haven't gotten a badge for Reopen votes and Late answers (also for the new ones, First answers and first questions), but the bot doesn't show that I'm missing the badge. Strange!
> @terdon Thanks, it's a good question. And yes, I grok that my avatar might give a certain impression. But I do mention what distros I use. β vidarlo 2 mins ago
@vidarlo that's why I asked: your profile only mentioned SuSe and Debian.
@vidarlo Yep, but you will be under more scrutiny this week than usual, and people are likely to look at it to learn more about you. That's what I did and why I though you weren't an Ubuntu user (which, as I said in the comment, is not a problem in any way). So I figured I should point it out to you in case you want to change it. Absolutely not important and completlely your call.
@terdon tho, tbh, I'm gravitating towards Debian lately, as I have a certain dislike of snap, which becomes more and more endemic in Ubuntu... But the community in here is excellent, and I don't force my views on other. So I'll probably not answer snap related questions any time soon...
I know the feeling. I don't particularly like Ubuntu myself, to be honest. But I do like Ask Ubuntu and I think Ubuntu is a great choice for new Linux users, so I am more than happy to help out here.
@terdon I agree. IMO, nominating yourself to become a moderator should just be about moderation, not about "knowing as much as possible about Ubuntu". I still have some reservations about the sportsmanship badge being used as a metric because of that.
@Dan Oh. I think the sportmasnhip badge is the single most important of them all! If you don't have it but also don't have many answers, that's fine. But if you do have many answers and don't have the sportsmanship badge that does kind of suggest you are reluctant to upvote good answers that compete with your own. And that's not a good look for anyone, let alone a mod.
For example, you have 118 answers @Dan, so to get the sportsmanship badge, you would have to have upvoted a competing answer on almost every single one of the posts you've answered (it needs 100 upvotes). That is obviously unrealistic, since not all of the posts you've answered would even have competing answers!
On the other hand, I have no life 1,071 answers so I would only need to upvote competing answers in ~10% of the posts I've answered. It would be a huge red flag to me if someone with that many answers didn't have sportsmanship.
Yeah, I think it was you who answered that when I questioned it in meta. I do agree with what you say, but it is still a bit tough to achieve even with a fair amount of answers.
@terdon it also depends a bit on how you use the site. I may answer something, and other, better answers may come along, but unless it's a question I care about I'll probably not see that answer.
I just always felt that this badge is a good indicator that someone isn't too precious about their own answers and welcomes competing answers if they're good. Of course, it's easy for me to say: I have the thing so of course I think it's good!
@terdon look at the edit history ;) Deleted by me, undeleted by community. And I'm fine with you downvoting it; it was a frame challenge after all, and I was aware that I was not answering the literal question :)
And now for something completely different - The election is in the nomination phase, and currently there are 5 candidates. I can answer commonly-asked questions about elections (type @ElectionBot help for more info).
@RandomPerson You know back in those days Ask Ubuntu was not a thing? The action for Ubuntu happened in the Ubuntu Forums which was a pretty lively place back then...
And morning all :). Time for the Southern Hemisphere people to start typing!
Well, it is certainly not what it was :(. Many groups have died completely and there is a troll problem. But a handfull of groups still work well. I will have a quick look...
news.software.readers is still good, alt.os.linux.ubuntu is fine, alt.os.linux.slackware is good and alt.os.linux is still ok although trolls often set up camp there
@andrew.46 oh, yay. Trolls. The only good thing dolts who troll provide is the opportunity to prepare a person for public office. Anyone who learns to deal with the unrelenting asininity from a group of bored people with huge chips on their shoulders while still getting things done can effectively handle whatever the media might throw at them π€ͺ
2022 Ask Ubuntu Moderator Election Chat
2022 Ask Ubuntu Moderator Election Chat