We can see how many people have voted in the Worldbuilding election by looking at the number of Constituent badges awarded.
This is a little friendly contest for no prize at all. Lets see who can post the number closest to the final number of constituents we have.
The rules are simple, post an ...
and for others as well... if you require exactly 1/N, if the votes are more or less equally distributed, you only qualify when there are only N candidates left
well the whole thing goes in several round. First you count the 1st choices of everyone. And either someone gets passed the threshold (20% of votes in our case) or the one with the lowest amount of votes gets eliminated
the next round you need to take into account the second choices of some people, and it starts to be much blurier, IMO
but it's possible to say, like first choices lead to N past the threshold with N votes. Etc.
e.g. for 300 votes, I get 2, MW gets 3, James gets 4, AoC gets 5, MK gets 6, ST gets 7, bowl gets 8, MC gets 65, Tim gets 90 and HDE gets 110. With that, the first 3 are qualified. End of first round.
@TimB did you get any info about when we would have the rep shift?
We've got a betting pool going for how many constituents we have at the end...you're passed the deadline to enter properly but feel free to post a guess anyway :)
We can see how many people have voted in the Worldbuilding election by looking at the number of Constituent badges awarded.
This is a little friendly contest for no prize at all. Lets see who can post the number closest to the final number of constituents we have.
The rules are simple, post an ...
@Undo Yeah, it's a really close one here. We had 2 or 3 people eliminated in the primaries that were already decent candidates so the top 10 is really tough
Trying to pick the top 10 in order might be an interesting challenge :)
1 point for each person you get in the right position
@TimB it is tempting to just keep the result of the primary for that... so 1. HDE, 2. Tim, 3. Monica, 4. bowlturner, 5. Serban, 6. Michael, 7. James, 8 Art', 9. Monty and finally myself.
Within moments of the end of the election a CM will run the official results. A meta post should go up within ten minutes or so (that's manual) and the election page will be updated (I don't know if that's manual). People who have the STV software might announce unofficial results a minute after it ends. (I'm at work and don't have the software installed here, so that won't be me.)
New moderators (or maybe pro-tems who get elected too?) have to accept the moderator agreement before getting their diamonds. Granting and removing diamonds is a manual CM action. So it's possible that Vincent and any other pro-tem who doesn't get elected will show up with a diamond for a few minutes after 20:00.
Yeah, that's a risk. My biggest risk today was actually the commute in -- a day of rain and snow melt-off followed by overnight sub-freezing temps (and continued precipitation). It didn't look as bad as it was, so that made for some white-knuckle driving. I should have worked from home, but I didn't realize the magnitude of the problem soon enough.
Okay, I might not be able to be here at 1 to run the results. If anyone here is interested, they can set up and run https://github.com/undo1/electionbot :)
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@James the forthcoming meta post should have a link to a page where you can see charts at each phase, seeing where the transferred votes went, who dropped out when, and so on.
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@randal'thor, well we discussed it at length in this very precise venue. For more casual users, the Candidate Score is a strong factor. And HDE is the best there. That does not make it all. But it gets on the top of all his other qualities, to push him above the others
@randal'thor casual voters can't know the candidates. They have to rely on something. Some vote for some of the only name they knew around (FWIW, that's how I voted for you on SFF ;-)). Some just use the CS.
and actually I think CS is terrible because on site with heavy activity, not having 40 on CS means losing all chance.
@bilbo_pingouin Heh, thanks :-) Yeah, just being around a lot (and being nice and friendly) is a good way to get plenty of votes, but the candidate score obviously has a big influence now. I guess badge-whoring can be useful after all ...
Were the winning candidates also the top 4 in candidate scores?
@randal'thor due to it being the first election, there is a bias. Two of them were pro-tem mods. Again that does not make everything, but that certainly helps
For me the big hit on candidate score was reputation. Yes there are a couple badges that it's hard (or impossible) for mods to get, but my real problem was 5k rep.
@bilbo_pingouin though that works in both directions; I'm pretty sure a few people followed me here from other sites just to vote against me, because we disagreed on policy on other sites.
@TimB I suggested in the blog room a couple days back that we should publish the election post "out of band" -- that is, publish it when it's ready but don't alter the schedule otherwise. So we get an extra post this week. It's a special occasion, and external readers won't care.
btw, mentioning the election blog post, if some of you have idea of statistics that could appear there, feel free to tell me around the chat :) otherwise I'll only put what comes to my mind ;)
I went ahead and locked the questionnaire to preserve the historical record, by the way, but I don't know if it's really necessary. Locks can be removed easily enough. Anyway, if you've got opinions, please let us know.
Well that's the excitement over for a while, thanks to everyone for taking part and making this a really close run thing.
And bah to @HDE226868 and @MonicaCellio for getting through in the first round when I needed the second choice votes. So near and yet so far. :p
In fact it looks like after @HDE226868's excess was transferred I had more 2nd choice votes than @MonicaCellio did so I'm claiming a 2nd place overall win :D
All joking aside I think the main election reflected the primary results pretty closely. I do find it amusing how it spent something like 5 rounds just bouncing votes back between Monica, HDE and myself as well.
I think @bowlturner was a casualty of the 3 vote limit. Considering he came 4th in the primary but serban had nearly twice as many votes in the actual election.
People who voted for Michael liked having you as their next pick Monica, a lot of votes came to the top 3 but particularly to you when Michael got eliminated
I noticed that. If you wanted to dig through the data you could see how much of that there was (among whatever candidates you like) for all votes as opposed to only exhausted ones. But you'd need to do some data-wrangling to answer the "people who liked Tim also liked" question.
@TimB Serban said that it took him until the 20-somethingth round to make it, and I instantly wondered what had happened in the intervening 20 or so rounds. . .
@MonicaCellio I went with Tim's prediction that two of the three of us would get in, but people would vote strategically for the fourth spot and actually bump the third out. And I figured I'd be that third.
@HDE226868 Actually that was a self-nullifying prediction. I deliberately said it in several places to encourage people not to do too much tactical voting in order to prevent exactly that scenario.
No idea if it made any difference but we got a good result so I'll take the win :)
Worldbuilding's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 4 new moderators are:
They will become you moderator team shortly. Please thank them for volunteering!
Also, please join me in thanking Vincent and Michael Kjörling who served as moderators ...
2016 Worldbuilding Moderator Election
2016 Worldbuilding Moderator Election