@fredsbend I'm nervous. Even though I know it'd be better if someone else won because I'm influential enough being high rep and vocal and all, I do want the diamond. I honestly think you're going to edge me out. Which would be a good thing for the site, but well... purely selfish reasons, I'd like the diamond myself.
Well, I'm going to head back to the real world, but honestly, good luck to you. I think if you win it, you'll do a fine job. You've got the right perspective and the right head for it. He would have been as well. So would Flimzy and Dan. This is a tough one.
@DavidStratton @fredsbend The voting on questionnaire responses is not going to be indicative of election outcome. You can quote me on that in 11 hours (or laugh at me if I'm wrong), but I'm calling it now. At most there is a 4 point spread on questionnaires but we've had 120 votes in the election so far. The meta voting is only a meter of a discerning or opinionated few, not of public perception.
Mind you meta is important: after all site guidelines are determined by that same discerning or opinionated few and not by broad public opinion, but it's not what gets people elected ;-)
Get your votes in people! 56 of you visited the election page but didn't vote. 115 of you visited the site but didn't hit up the election page. 573 of you out there are eligible to vote but haven't even visited the site during elections :-(
@fredsbend that is the one nice thing about being an existing diamond, while an election is still exciting, it's not nearly as exciting as if you don't have a diamond somewhere already (also, I don't really expect to win and as David mentioned, I think David, Fredsbend, Flimzy and Dan would all do well as well, so I'm confident that it will be a good mod that gets elected whoever it is.)
@waxeagle I just realized that whet I did the math to figure out where I was going to be tonight and came up with something different that what I was counting down to.
@Caleb So maybe I shouldn't ask, or you won't tell me, but I can't shake the feeling that this election and the upcoming one promised in a few months are to replace some of the current mods, wanting to resign from their post. Am I right?
I think I managed to do both at once today. I programmed a new mode into an app: a distraction free reading mode. I setup the toggle switch to activate it, then started ripping things out of the UI. It my test system I turned the mode on and kept recompiling to see how it was looking. I got all done, committed, merged and pushed. It was only later I discovered one of the things I'd hidden from the reading mode was the view-mode toggle switch.
Having participated in several elections recently, I've been puzzled why I never seem to know when they are ending. Last week I even planned my evening around being home in time for the results to come out only to discover I was a day early. Today I started a countdown in an election chat room. A...
@fredsbend When we discussed elections, El expressed the idea that he intends to be around. Mason we don't hear much from, but he is around and hasn't said anything about wandering off.
@waxeagle @Caleb Well, if you guys don't know, I doubt they would be leaving without you already knowing about it. It's not something that really should be a secret anyway.
Chat was down for a few minutes there. You guys too?
@AJHenderson You've had a couple weeks to work on that. If you waited till the last minute to try to leverage them up, you deserve the hassle that will be ;-)
@Caleb @AJHenderson I use it mostly to post stuff on BH.SE that isn't up to my own personal standards for an answer, but is still very helpful for most users
i.e. when I know I should do more research, or when I'm just summarizing someone else's position, or...
but also to just feel like a normal user again, i.e. not attract instant DVs when I post an answer simply because it's from me :P
yeah, I've thought about farming one up to VTC level for voting to close when I don't want a binding vote, but I think that partly goes against the spirit of why they don't give us that option too
I poke my head in there every once in a while, but it's such a different beast. I still get +2 rep from suggested edits, which is pretty much shooting fish in a barrel with as much junk as goes by.
@AJHenderson That's stupid too. Why would you want privs on a site that you don't know enough about to earn the legitimate way? So you could do what exactly?
and warren, while you only had 5 primary votes, you actually made it further in a 2 candidate election than my 7 did (so you had a decent number of second choices probably)
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Wow STV is so counter-intuative sometimes. I just got it working over here and re-ran the results for the election I lost last week over on U&L with 3 seats instead of 2. Not only would I have been 3rd (which was obvious) but I would have been 3rd with more votes after transfers than the 2nd place ended with. Strangeness.
I probably should come up with another username, just can never determine what I'd want. So far 'ByzantineDan' is my favorite (which is my Rap Genius username)
but in other ways I think it's be too confusing for some if I changed my username, because then every conversation would be like explaining Prince (I'm the user formerly known as...)
@JonEricson the best candidate won, had I not had to cut a lot of content from my 'campaign' spiel, one of my 'cons' was that I think @DavidStratton is a better candidate than me here on C.SE
@Daи I think that it actually ping's the most recent Dan first. Still might be a problem on occasion, but much less than if it pings all users that start with Dan.
@fredsbend yes, it carries the idea of being moderate between extreme positions and judging/ruling, keeping folks within bounds, observing moderation, restrained, etc.
There are so many candidates and only one position. David Stratton is in the election, and out of all of them, he is the most active in reviewing and answering questions, both of which are the more difficult tasks of the C.SE. So, obviously, David Stratton has to win the election.
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Christianity 2014 Election
Christianity 2014 Election