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Martin Sleziak
Martin Sleziak
9:11 AM
@MartinSleziak To some extent, this can be considered status-completed.
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Q: Make rules about candidate eligibility due to suspension more apparent

BosoneandoSome background The nomination phase of the election at Physics.SE started yesterday. When I first visited the nomination page, 7 users had nominated themselves. A few hours later, the number was quite smaller. Digging in the chat transcript, it turns out that two candidates were disqualified be...

feature-request status-completed election account-suspension nominations
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A: Make rules about candidate eligibility due to suspension more apparent

Patrick HofmanIndeed. It should be made clear from that FAQ. I updated the FAQ to reflect that and referred to the existing post from Shog9.

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A: Make rules about candidate eligibility due to suspension more apparent

Shog9For a couple of years now, candidates with recent suspensions are shown a message like this when nominating: This, coupled with the meta FAQ, should make it clear to nominees that they're not being singled out.

in 2020 Moderator Election Chatroom, 3 hours ago, by Faded Giant
It's also in the FAQ: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/135361
in 2020 Moderator Election Chatroom, 3 hours ago, by Faded Giant
> A nominee must be "in good standing." Any nominee who was [suspended at any time during the past year][6] on any site in the network will not be allowed to take part in the election (unless the suspension was in error or was reversed on appeal).
Although this is not automated:
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A: Make rules about candidate eligibility due to suspension more apparent

ArtOfCodeI agree - and more than that, the entire thing should be automated. Firstly, it should be clearly stated that you can't run it you've been suspended in the last year, somewhere prominent on the election page. Secondly, if there's a script that detects and removes these people, why don't we us...

There isn't a script, nor (IMO) should there be. In Shog's original post about this, it's noted that exceptions would be made if "the suspension was clearly in error" or if there were other extenuating circumstances such as suspensions "For Science". As far as I know, there's no way to make the system automatically recognise a suspension as invalid. — Rand al'Thor Sep 29 '16 at 14:17
 

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