@tchrist You're probably right; Grace Note is really an excellent CM. Still, his comments are so... distorting. I think it's unfair to the nominees he's attacked.
@anongoodnurse I think it's fair and even necessary to raise such things in the election posts. That way, the complaints can be out in the open and the candidates can respond.
@anongoodnurse I guess the idea is that outright lies will be called out as such. My point is that I am in favor of open debate. If that degenerates into name calling, that's another matter of course.
@terdon I think it muddies up the page and might turn people off to even reading through to the other nominees' posts. This room is underutilized; this is where (imo) that stuff should be occurring. Few enough people participate in the actual voting that to turn people off at such an early stage does nothing positive for the process. But, it is what it is, I guess.
Yeah but, as you said, this room is not seem by the vast majority of users who vote in an election. That's why I think having any complaints against particular candidates out there on the election page is better.
@tchrist Very true. Mods are evil power-hungry tyrants, and the users of a site should be made aware of that frequently in meta and in comments. :/
@terdon Unfortunately true, but under each entry, there should be a link to this room and directions to post opinions here. I just think it would be cleaner.
@tchrist: I have a question for you. You once closed a question as a duplicate which was [clearly not a duplicate](http://meta.english.stackexchange.com/q/6672/58761). It never occurred to me (as it did to the commenter) that it was done either in jest or in sarcasm.
Why did you close that as a dupe when it clearly wasn't? What does that say for your judgement in a position of increased ability to moderate?
@anongoodnurse When you use ⇧+⏎ in a message, (some?) other tools (like Italic type, bold type, linking, etc) won't work. :)
When you use ⇧+⏎ in a message, (some?) other tools (like _Italic type_, **bold type**, [linking](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/31670433#31670433), etc) won't work. :)
2016 English Language Moderator Election
2016 English Language Moderator Election