Uh oh. For at least the third time today, I feel as though I'm not smart enough for the task at hand. There are four open mod spots, but I only get three votes. If I vote for my top 3, I can't support the fourth place, which is going to be the most hotly contested. But if I don't vote for my top three, there's a chance everyone else will do the same
right now, 155 people voted, so to be elected, one needs 31 votes on the first round.
I suppose a lot of people will "simply" choose the top 3 candidates in various order.... so they may be qualified directly on the first round
but then, in such scenario, the fight for the 4th place will be unpredictable
or people will think about that and vote typically for 2 from the 3 and another one (bowlturner or Serban were the stronger contender, closely followed by AoC and Michael). The "fourth" position would be more clear... but careful that the votes on the 2 from 3 is equally distributed... otherwise the third one gets lost
for those who like maths... if we sum the final scores of the 10 candidates and we use the ratio of individual/sum are a representation of first vote choice. For currently about 160 voters, we would get 6.6 votes for me (lowest) and 27.8 votes for HDE (highest)
if those values can be used, no-one gets elected at the first round
USA AndyD273 profile xx Riley Santos xx fi12 USA DaaaahWoosh profile USA James profile xx Anders Gustafson USA Serban Tanasa profile RO origin? USA bowlturner F bilbo_pingouin S Michael Kjörling ? USA Monica Cellio CA Aify AUS Monty Wild USA HDE 226868 USA Jim2B profile UK ArtOfCode profile USA JDługosz profile UK TimB profile USA Samuel profile
So I have no indication for the 3 lowest reputation candidates... For Michael, the name plus a website in .se, seems to indicate Sweden
however from the profiles, I get where people live, not necessarily the origin.
I remember reading that Serban is native Romanian. And I think JD has some Polish origin... well it's not that important, I just don't want to offend anyone :)
2016 Worldbuilding Moderator Election
2016 Worldbuilding Moderator Election