15 mins...

@Casebash wait, what? Disable chat until chat is used?

Two minutes left.

I think Casebash means that chat for specific *.SX sites should be disabled until the number of users for that site reaches "critical mass". Though it is slightly unclear to me whether that would actually help.

20!

Finished

> 394 voters were eligible and 174 voted

Results

Ah. I was wondering what you were counting down to.

Yeah, well, pretty uninteresting stuff right? :)

Heh. Is it published somewhere the file format for the results?

I guess it's something that OpenSTV can take immediately

I'm installing it this moment.

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Loading ballots from file election-results.blt.
Ballot file contains 5 candidates and 174 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 174 non-empty ballots.

> Winners are Robin Chapman, Qiaochu Yuan, and Willie Wong.

Congratulations!

Awesome. Congrats Willie!

Ah. Thanks.

Well, my 2nd and 3rd choices won =)

And now I'm going to go read-up on Single Transferable Vote to figure out what that output actually meant. =p

Only one of my choices won, but it's all good. :D

Nite.

Good night. @J.M. if it makes you feel any better, reading the STV system and the above out-put, Akhil and I were basically in a dead-tie until the very end.

Well, I should head to sleep too.

Hmm, yeah... the only disappointing part of this for me is the voter turnout. Oh well.

@J.M. you just needed 150 rep to vote... the lower the bar, the more likely you're counting in people that don't really care or know

I cared about having at least one diamond that didn't come from MO for example :P

@badp: I'd opine it's more "don't care" than "don't know" ; there were banners... though to be fair they weren't that attention-getting. :)

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