2016 Programming Puzzles & Code Golf Moderator Election

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Anonymous

15:23

@quartata I feel similarly, but I'm staying in because being elected means more when you actually have competition

Anonymous

@ChrisJester-Young Any feedback on my answers? I'm interested in your opinions :)

Chris Jester-Young

@Mego Haven't had a chance to read yet, sorry!

(Haven't read Doorknob's one either, nor PhiNotPi's.)

Anonymous

~~wow you slacker~~ Ok, I look forward to your comments :)

Chris Jester-Young

;-)

PhiNotPi

16:03

Look's like somebody downvoted mine. ;-; (And doorknob's and digitaltrauma's)

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Digital Trauma

17:36

To be honest, if I was a normal (non-candidate) voter, I think the combined length of all the answers would be off-putting, and I could understand the urge to downvote simply out of frustration. As it is, I also haven't read all the answers

I suspect the number of people to read all answers may easily be counted on the fingers of one hand

I guess there are a couple of possible ways to handle this

1) restrict the number of questionnaire questions

2) restrict answer length

I don't know the right answer

its a fine line between giving voters the information they need, and giving so much information its overwhelming

PhiNotPi

It might be a good idea to restrict answer length. (This is coming from the person who authored one of the longest responses).

I think that would actually make the questionnaire easier to answer.

Geobits

18:06

True. Everyone knows it's easier to golf an answer than write a lengthy one :P

Dennis

19:05

There are too many questions. Keeping the list short and rememberable would also mean there's no need to copy to questions into each answer.

Geobits

Eh, maybe for us in this election. For some sites that get 30 candidates in the primary, you'd still need the questions in there in some form. Either that or some kind of sidebar, something.

Martin Büttner

19:52

Q: Improve election schedule with respect to the questionnaire

The questionnaire is a great part of the election process, but during my first (first-hand) experience with an election, over on Code Golf, I've found that the timing of the questionnaire is a bit unfortunate. Others have noted that too in the election chat, so I'm quite surprised that this hasn'...