2016 Programming Puzzles & Code Golf Moderator Election

PhiNotPi

03:33

Are nominations editable once the election actually starts? I'm assuming no.

Zach Gates

04:20

@PhiNotPi I would assume not, but I have no supporting evidence.

Dennis

05:03

Well, we'll find out soon enough.

quartata

14:46

Primary starts in 5 hours

Dennis

15:01

Unless somebody else drops out.

Martin Büttner

In which case elections start instead.

Either way we'll have to write up our answers to the questionnaire.

quartata

Have the questions all been picked yet?

Martin Büttner

I don't think so.

PhiNotPi

16:01

I'm assuming, since nobody has said anything negative about my nomination, that they think it's okay. I'm asking because right now will probably be my last chance to edit it before the primary starts.

Shog9

@PhiNotPi Should contain the phrase, "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."

PhiNotPi

@Shog9 Some people have said moderation is difficult, but I don't think I'm literally going to die from it.

Shog9

that's the spirit! Optimism! Yeah!

quartata

hahaha

Shog9

There's always hope. You could die from something else first!

PhiNotPi

17:44

I wonder if I should dust off my "Phi For Mod" ~~party~~ chat room.

TBH, nothing serious ever happened in there.

Actually, I don't think I will.

@MartinBüttner here's a question for you (or any other current mod)... how much discussion typically occurs between mods about various site issues and stuff? I get that most stuff probably doesn't require discussion, but on [website I mod] we tend to make email chains / "annotations" about various things.

Zach Gates

17:59

> The last message was posted 200 days ago.

Dennis

@PhiNotPi We discuss stuff in private on a daily basis.

Zach Gates

Hehe I had a good laugh

PhiNotPi

@Dennis okay cool, that's good to know

Doorknob

19:12

Any last-hour nominations? :P

quartata

20:00

Primary has begun.

PhiNotPi

Woo! Primary!

Doorknob

\o/

quartata

Whoa, Mego is getting a lot of upvotes. That surprised me.

Damn Alex has 14 upvotes. I didn't even know 14 people were on PPCG at the moment.

2

PhiNotPi

Also, apparently I can't vote for myself but can vote for other candidates.

Undo

@quartata Inbox notification drew people in

Including me.

epicTCK

20:04

elendia and quartata and phi, which I had 150 rep to vote for you.....

quartata

Also, it seems like scores can't go below -1 for whatever reason.

Zach Gates

I'm at -4

PhiNotPi

I'm getting rekt right now.

;-;

Zach Gates

^^

quartata

Ooh, questionnaire time

Doorknob

20:07

oh yeah

Dennis

Martin is crushing the pop con. Business as usual.

Doorknob

hahaha

Zach Gates

Not sure why @El'endiaStarman is getting downvotes. That's disappointing /:

El'endia Starman

@ZachGates ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Apparently I'm not as well-liked as I thought I was. Oh well.

quartata

Lots of good questions on the questionnaire

Dennis

20:12

@El'endiaStarman I don't think that's the issue. If you say in your nomination that you don't intend to win, you won't.

quartata

Hopefully I can get this done today

El'endia Starman

@Dennis Ah, good point.

Zach Gates

@El'endiaStarman Haha, I feel you there

Dennis

@PhiNotPi Looks like they're still editable.

Digital Trauma

travel.SE also has 11 candidates

Undo

20:22

+----+------------------+---------------+
| id | display_name     | current_score |
+----+------------------+---------------+
|    | Martin Büttner   | 60            |
|    | Doorknob         | 53            |
|    | Dennis           | 49            |
|    | Alex A.          | 41            |
|    | Digital Trauma   | 24            |
|    | PhiNotPi         | 7             |
|    | quartata         | 5             |
|    | Mego             | 0             |
|    | El'endia Starman | 0             |

quartata

Martin has a score of 60? Whoa

Undo

68 now

Dennis

20:44

80 now. Meanwhile, I'm at 62. weeps

Anonymous

@quartata +15/-18 :(

quartata

21:00

6 out of 10 questions done.

Pretty tricky stuff here

Digital Trauma

21:20

Is it ok to post a partial set of answers to the questionnaire and update as time allows?

Martin Büttner

sure, why not?

Sparr

Martin has the highest score on a PPCG contest. Color me surprised :)

In related news: I hate getting spammed with stackexchange election notifications. That red [1] (or [2] today, or [4] a couple of weeks ago) is such a tease.

sadly my most-downvoted meta suggestion... meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250148/…

Doorknob

21:51

Might try to get this working on my Pi so I can serve it

Although it doesn't show negative scores, making it slightly useless...

Undo

@Doorknob hard to do without being logged in

Doorknob

right

quartata

I just posted a partially completed (7/10) questionnaire; I hope that is OK.

Martin Büttner

no that'll get you disqualified immediately.

Chris Jester-Young

@quartata For item 2, don't forget about historical locks, which may be better than nuking, especially if the answer in question is really, really ancient but still has value in the context of its time of posting.

quartata

22:00

I am mostly thinking about answers that are low quality even by the standards of the time but which never got deleted.

Chris Jester-Young

@quartata Right, you can prune those, for sure (well, if it's not a high-scoring answer, at least).

quartata

A downvote on my questionnaire? I knew I shouldn't have done partial :(

Martin Büttner

2 hour writing session done... I should really get some sleep -.-

looking forward to reading everyone's answers tomorrow

Chris Jester-Young

@quartata Oh no, my downvote wasn't because of your absent answers.

It's actually because of your actual answers.

It doesn't mean anything more than "I don't agree with your moderation style based on the answers you've given", so please don't take it personally. :-)

quartata

Oh, that's fine then

Quill

22:15

meta downvotes are usually people disagreeing with you. you shouldn't take meta personally pretty much ever

quartata

@Quill I wasn't, I was more just surprised because it came pretty quickly so I assumed it was because it was partial

Chris Jester-Young

@quartata I read your answer in full before I cast my vote (and I was the first person to vote on it).

Just like, right now I'm reading Martin's answer in full before I vote on it.

Undo

ProTip: Being able to say "meh" is a vital part of being a moderator.

Chris Jester-Young

Since I'm not running for moderatorship this time, I see it as my responsibility as an outgoing mod to ensure the site is going to arrive in safe hands. :-)

@Undo Meh.

quartata

I'm probably going to withdraw in a few days anyways: the pro-tems are gonna crush this election (as they deserve to) and if on the off chance I actually win I will probably feel guilty for displacing a protem anyways

Chris Jester-Young

22:19

@Undo I'd love for us to keep in touch after I finish being a moderator. Feel free to email me at [email protected] and I'll be happy to keep you up to date with the goings-on with my new endeavour. :-)

quartata

@Undo All right, lemme give it a try... mehhhh?

Chris Jester-Young

@quartata That was actually a factor in my decision not to run. :-)

Undo

@quartata A little heavy on the 'h' part. Try being a little more jaded.

quartata

Mehh

Quill

If one of the candidates changes their avatar to Bill Lumbergh, they can immediately have my vote

El'endia Starman

22:22

@quartata You're doing better than I and I haven't considered dropping out. I'm gonna see this through to the end.

Chris Jester-Young

@El'endiaStarman Good luck!

El'endia Starman

Thanks! I'll use it for something else though. :P

Quill

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A: 2016 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Martin Büttner A new-ish user posts a well-posed challenge that quickly gets many answers. An hour later, they edit in a restriction that invalidates most of the existing answers. An experienced user whose answer was invalidated comments that doing this is bad, and rolls back the edit. T...

wow

Chris Jester-Young

@Quill I'm curious to hear what inspired the "wow".

Quill

it's quite large

also quality

Experience truly is better than passion

Chris Jester-Young

22:33

Yes, there's a very good reason why I chose him as my replacement when I joined the company way back when. :-P

And now that I'm no longer at the company any more, I'd still endorse him.

PhiNotPi

Should I intentionally avoid reading what others have written?

Dennis

Before you post your own? Probably.

Quill

yes

Chris Jester-Young

I certainly wrote my own piece before reading Alex's (who was the only person to have posted before mine).

Undo

23:42

+----+------------------+---------------+
| id | display_name     | current_score |
+----+------------------+---------------+
|    | Martin Büttner   | 166           |
|    | Doorknob         | 146           |
|    | Dennis           | 139           |
|    | Alex A.          | 100           |
|    | Digital Trauma   | 73            |
|    | PhiNotPi         | 30            |
|    | quartata         | 9             |
|    | Mego             | 4             |
|    | El'endia Starman | 0             |

PhiNotPi

Woo! 6th place!

Dennis

@Undo quartata withdrew, actually.

Quill

I'm hesitant to vote for anyone besides the protems without the questionaires being up

PhiNotPi

I'm working on mine right now.

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