@quid I mentioned to @GraceNote that the answers should have come before the primary voting since those who are out of it may be looked over. This is now coming to terms if people are taking @Behaviour post as how to do it by skipping those deemed to be too far gone.
@quid if I lose I lose, but I at least want a chance based on presenting my views and if no one reads it, I don't get that chance. That is what frustrates me.
@Shog9 In SF election every nomination had a bold link to candidate's answers to questionnaire on top. Was it something they decided themselves, or did someone from SE edit them in? (The links look uniform, and some are TODO stubs.) Anyway, I proposed that this practice be adopted here.
@quid Yes, three candidates nearly tied for the last two slots, and it was that way for a while.
Yes, and dustin is not too far away either (at -7 and 20 votes behind). It's a bit surprising the other candidates for the contested slots did not write anything.
But then... si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses
did not yet write is what I should have said.
It is also amusing that the young candidates as far as I can see are all packed together; the three mentioned by Behaviour
@Behaviour do you happen to know if it is a known issue that the -100 is written as 100 on the election page?
It's all manual - I was planning to put this off until the field was narrowed to 10. Because I'm lazy. But since you had to go & call me out here, I've done it now - I'll update them as folks add answers and I get around to it. — Shog9 ♦1 min ago
Thanks! Hopefully, @dustin @DanielFischer @IlmariKaronen @PedroTamaroff @Arkamis (and other candidates, after they are done with writing) will make the link more convenient for voters to follow.
@dustin Cool. Sorry if I sounded dismissive (implicitly) about your answers to the Questionnaire. My remark about Ilmari's post begin with if you have time to read just one...
@JackD'Aurizio You may want to change the link at the top of your nomination so that it points directly to your answers, instead of the beginning of that long thread.
The candidates' answers are slowly being reordered by reputation. I wonder how many people are actually reading them compared to how many are voting on them.
The placement of candidates' answers is never going to be representative of their chances in the actual election. It's determined by a very different, and much smaller, set of voters.
@Behaviour Already retracted. I have read the Help Center in the past. It's the fine like about the History of Math that got me over there. No major deal. ;)
Top 11 as of now: Daniel Fischer 763, Jyrki Lahtonen 573, Pedro Tamaroff 457, Jack D'Aurizio 317, Ilmari Karonen 315, Thomas 287, Arkamis 241, Shaun 109, Anastasiya-Romanova 秀 24, Ahaan S. Rungta 21, Sanath 14
Tight battle for #4 between Jack and Ilmari. Sanath is in danger of staying in 11th.
@Behaviour Thanks for the reminder. :) I never got around to fixing the missing minus signs in expanded vote counts before, but it's in the devel branch of SOUP now.
@Behaviour Ah, that one. The problem with that is that it's just the tip of the iceberg -- the link colors on math.SE are messed up in dozens of different and interesting ways. I started looking into it once before, and got hopelessly lost in a maze of twisty little CSS rules, all alike. :(
You could just overrule them without untwisting, I suppose. I just use .result-link a:visited { color: #507070 !important; }. Don't remember where I got the color from, possibly made it up myself. Otherwise the search is far less usable.
@IlmariKaronen I recall that Jin is refactoring all of the sites' CSS, so perhaps it's not worth the effort to make it perfect. A temp patch could be worthwhile still.
This is a recent illustration of PSQ / dupe situation. I understand the desire to close; but it does not take much more work to close as a duplicate.
All I had to do was copy-paste a part of question into search box, click my "Google SE" bookmarklet, and there was a canonical reference post on the subject. Dupe-closing, as Daniel Fischer noted above, is far less controversial than off-topic.
I'd like to see more of the effort to identify dupes, both on the part of question askers and the voters. And this is a scenario where moderators should feel free to exercise their vote to close.
> the same thing happened on Usenet, where... 1. .... It was literally impossible to search the archives. 2. ... newbies would frequently ask the same beginner questions. 3. ... Ye Olde Timers got Ye Olde Tired of this.
More seriously, I am pretty new to this site. Of course in some abstract sense I could know that presumably this was asked before but it is not that ingrained either. Also I do search sometimes for dupes; did so quiet recently but had no success in that case.
Mathematics 2014 Moderator Election
Mathematics 2014 Moderator Election