Code Review Moderator Election 2015

Donald.McLean

12:21

@Hosch250 No, I wouldn't have joined the election just to be nice. That was just the tipping point that moved me towards deciding to run.

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Malachi

14:11

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Q: Moderator Cheat Sheet

As an alternative to the other FAQ format being fleshed out here on Meta Stack Exchange, I'd like to propose something far more terse that covers the bare essential mechanics of being a moderator. Feel free to add more questions, but keep them short: this isn't the place to get into complex mod...

rolfl

As some homework for the potential mods: The help page the Theory of moderation, the mod agreement, the Mod Cheat Sheet and Mod FAQ

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Malachi

even better

Malachi

18:47

12 minutes and change

Vogel612

~confused

Malachi

19:03

oh buggar

I am off by an hour

Malachi

19:25

if I would have just looked at my Computer clock, I have Stack time up there....

Stack Exchange

20:03

2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

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Vogel612

requesting pin ^^

okay wat... 4 candidates with ~40 score right now.

the rest is at 10 and below.

one interesting thing about primaries... the display score will not go into negative..

Malachi

if you have the right rep on site you can see how many downvotes they have

Vogel612

true, but it's still interesting to know :)

things look pretty clear though..

Jamal

I wonder if someone will eventually reach 100. There are a lot of users with 150 rep, but not all of them will vote.

Vogel612

well there's 450 caucus badges as of now. I think there's a good chance :)

Hosch250

20:18

My 5 predictions score the highest.

Vogel612

@Hosch250 interestingly that makes the election phase just more interesting.

depending on how the votes work out, one of the "underdog" candidates may as well recieve enough votes to get a position over someone who fared well in the primaries

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Hosch250

True.

I don't have to worry about getting elected, I see.

I had a feeling that low comment count wasn't so good.

Mat's Mug

20:46

holy carp, this community is on fire!

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Jamal

Yep, some are going to reach 100 soon. 200 may reach it first, especially with no downvotes.

Mat's Mug

@Jamal you two are 3 votes apart!

wait no, you're ahead!

~~STAHP VOTING SO FAST!!~~

Jamal

No wonder these don't refresh automatically.

janos

I'm impressed by the turnout

more than 100 voters in the first hour

Vogel612

hmm. It's not really surprising who got the votes

it's surprising how fast it happens though.

Mat's Mug

20:55

It's not over till another 4 days. That's just 1 hour, picture has plenty of time to change.

And it's just the preliminaries

Vogel612

@Mat'sMug hmm.. you just don't want to get elected ;)

there we go, 200 got the 100

janos

the first 1-hour didn't surprise, I don't think the next 4 days will ;-)

Vogel612

jamal also got 100 up (but 3 down)

and we're at 100 more caucus badges

Jamal

I guess the notification also "woke up" inactive users from other sites, mostly SO.

Vogel612

hmm.. but the nominations also get you a notification...

soo... the questionnaire already got 3 answers.

are you still killing stl or are you frantically typing, @Jamal ?

Malachi

21:06

@SimonAndréForsberg and @200_success are the only ones without downvotes so far...weird

Ethan Bierlein

Jeez. I got 12 Upvotes and 11 downvotes. Yikes.

Vogel612

@EthanBierlein you're a controversial topic

just like Quill, btw.

Ethan Bierlein

Oh. Okay.

Vogel612

interestingly the "middle field" suffers from general "vote starvation"

I mean... 200 got 100 votes, and Phrancis got 20-something

Jamal

@Vogel612 Typing what?

Ethan Bierlein

21:08

What, may I ask, is so controversial about me and Quill?

Vogel612

your answers to the questionnaire :)

Jamal

I'm not doing that quite yet.

Vogel612

@EthanBierlein I figure the age will be one of the primary reasons you get downvotes.

Ethan Bierlein

Bah. Oh well.

Vogel612

hiya @r3wt welcome to the Election Chatroom!

r3wt

21:09

I'm torn between Jamal and 200_success

both great moderators

Vogel612

upvote both! :)

r3wt

@Vogel612 i upvoted every candidate.

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Ethan Bierlein

Maybe if people see my answers to the questions they'll reconsider...

Jamal

In the last phase, you will have three choices.

Ethan Bierlein

Once I answer them, of course.

r3wt

21:10

like rock, paper, scissors?

Vogel612

more like "pudding, chocolate ice and marshmallows"

order by how much you like them

Mast

Wow, a lot of votes have already come in.

Just put my round of votes down.

I could write a meta about how STV-like voting systems work, but it might be superfluous and not CR-specific.

Vogel612

why not? I think there's some nice stuff on parent meta, but nothing wrong with a CW / selfie explanation on CR meta

@EthanBierlein just for the record.. you got more total votes than me right now..

Ethan Bierlein

21:26

@Vogel612 What... Wow..

Vogel612

like.. 2 upvotes less than me

and a huge bunch of downvotes more...

Ethan Bierlein

Yeah...

I'm sure most of those downvotes stem from my age.

Vogel612

unfortunately, yes.

Phrancis

I see the voting is coming along nicely

Ethan Bierlein

Mhm

Malachi

21:43

there really should ~~have been~~ be 5 moderator spots

Vogel612

hmm...

you'd get one then?

Malachi

no

I am in 6th place I think

I am trailing Janos who is in 5th place

but there is a big gap between Janos and I, and between Janos and Simon

like 30-40 votes

Vogel612

hmm..

eh well.. House MD, then bed...

I'll just check back if tomorrow looks more promising for me :)

Hosch250

Jamal and 200 are going on 150. I wouldn't be surprised if they made it over 200 - everyone on the site got a notification.

Mast

Keep in mind, these are just primaries.

It's completely possible for the 5th to be appointed and for the 4th to be not.

This is only to select which 10 will go through to the next round, nothing more.

@Vogel612 Perhaps. But what would I tag it? It's not a discussion.

Hosch250

21:58

Yes it is.

It's a discussion on the community approach to voting.

Mast

More of a 'how-stuff-works'

Ethan Bierlein

22:28

I feel like I'm on a roll here with these candidate questions.

Hosch250

Jamal and 200 hit 150+ votes.

Ethan Bierlein

Cool. They're totally gonna be moderators.

Hosch250

I'm pretty sure it's going to up to the five I guessed to battle it out.

I'm hardly going to squeak past the primaries.

If I even do.

You or Quill could still beat me out.

Quill

^^ 10 > 0

I doubt it

Ethan Bierlein

I don't think I even have a chance. Last I checked I only had 14 upvotes and 13 downvotes.

Quill

22:32

That's a thing

right

I have 19 down

@200 has 2 down

Ethan Bierlein

Okay guys, poke holes in this in, 3, 2, 1 go!

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A: 2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Ethan Bierlein A question is flagged: Please delete this question - my boss has seen it and says it contains confidential code - he's freaking out and wants me to remove it, but I can't delete it. The question was asked 3 days before, it has 2 answers, one is accepted. How do you respond? T...

Quill

@EthanBierlein See my edit

Ethan Bierlein

thanks

Quill

Don't worry, I'm in the bushiness of editing on CR :P

Undo

@Malachi OpenSTV always plays havoc with the results

Election results are almost never equal to primary results

Ethan Bierlein

22:45

@Quill What would we call you? The Quillilizer?

Hosch250

I think we can agree that 10 of us are running for 2 spots, though.

Ethan Bierlein

What. 2 spots?

Hosch250

Yes, just two spots.

Jamal and 200 have nailed theirs.

Quill

2 mins ago, by Undo

Election results are almost never equal to primary results

Ethan Bierlein

@Undo Example?

Quill

22:46

Although, they've got in the bag

Hosch250

Jamal and 200 are going to lead the polls by a long shot.

Undo

@EthanBierlein 2015 SO election

Jeremy Banks barely beat me out for 10th in the primaries, then won 3rd in the election

Hosch250

In 2014, IIRC, one of the moderators won in the first round.

Ethan Bierlein

Oh yah.

Hosch250

You mean I might actually have a chance? Uh-oh ;)

I'm not betting anything on it.

Quill

22:51

Well, @Hosch250, the primaries are designed to slim the pool down to 10 candidates, and out of 12, you're 10th

This meta

Hosch250

@Quill Yeah, I've followed a few elections on SO.

RubberDuck

23:10

Getting a pretty good turnout. I hope all those people come back around for the final round of voting.

rolfl

YEah, I ran this query which I use to rank Code Review participation against other sites: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/199310/…

In this case the important thing is that I use the presence of "Caucus" badges to indicate whether a site is graduated.

Using that column differently, though, it is apparent that our site is now ranked abour 18th on the network already, with our 668 awarded badges.

See: codereview.stackexchange.com/help/badges/84/caucus

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Code Review Moderator Election 2015