2016 Puzzling Moderator Election

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CodeNewbie

03:16

@GraceNote: How long after the end of the election phase do the results get announced? Does the meek STV algorithm run continuously in the background to calculcate who's winning? Or will it be done once all the votes are in?

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Mithrandir

12:15

I'm voting for @Emrakul because of his sense of humor. :P

Grace Note

12:26

@CodeNewbie We just run it once the election phase ends. It's generally a matter of human action time that determines when the results come in.

CodeNewbie

13:21

@GraceNote What is the SE policy on troll nominees? :P Because I had a strong urge to have a Trump style campaign ("Make Puzzling great again!") but then I caught up in things and gave it up because even though I planned to lose, I didn't want to do a half-assed campaign.

Sid

@CodeNewbie Exactly what I was thinking.... Just to lighten up the mood,.

CodeNewbie

13:35

(*Mock answer to the questionnaire*)

9. How would you deal with a user who produced a steady stream of valuable answers, but tends to generate a large number of arguments/flags from comments?

You know, this site, it's got a lot of users. Different kind of users. Sometimes they can be nasty. Because they are awful. Awful. But you see these users, they have some good answers. Great answers. Answers that need to be upvoted. But sometimes, they say these things, you know. Things that hurt other users. And I know these other users who have been hurt. Good users, god-fearing users. These users,…

Grace Note

14:33

@CodeNewbie Don't

If you don't look like you're seriously planning to run, we withdraw the nomination. We can appreciate the idea of lightening the mood but there's other vectors to make that kind of approach.

CodeNewbie

Welp, I guess it's better to know for the future. :) Not that I'm all for trolling, but I guess this idea for my creative juices flowing in a major way. Better to check before spilling the milk than crying over spilled milk.

got* my creatice juices

Lord of dark

I think you can still give a funny answer to the Questionnaire as it is just a post on the meta

Grace Note

Yeah. Just put a header at the top indicating that it's not a serious note - that way, people who want to actually look for vote-stuffs can skip over if it they don't want to waste their time on it.

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