2016 ELL Moderator Election Chat

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Anonymous

17:35

@ColleenV Alternatively, I suppose you could count how many people voted in the first election once, then subtract that number from whatever number is shown in the "Awarded N times" indicator.

Anonymous

I count 311, so 606 - 311 = 295 so far.

Anonymous

I must have done that wrong, though :-)

Anonymous

Because I count 349 in this election so far.

Anonymous

That doesn't seem to add up.

Anonymous

A-ha!

Anonymous

17:38

I counted the last page as 60, when I should have counted it as 6 :-)

Anonymous

So there were 257 last election, and 606 - 257 = 349.

DEAD

17:58

349 sounds like it won't reach 350 ever.

StoneyB

@DEAD An asymptotic electorate?

DEAD

Perhaps

NVZ

Counting stars, are we?

DEAD

18:13

Calculating stars, to be more precise.

It's 2016. We don't count anymore.

StoneyB

We don't have enough fingers. Even with toes.

NVZ

@DEAD Yea, we don't matter anymore.

DEAD

@NVZ WE'RE THE 99 PERCENT

NVZ

@StoneyB Well, you can't have everything. :)

StoneyB

@NVZ That's a defeatist attitude :)

NVZ

18:25

@DEAD We're shouting using all caps, too! ;)

@StoneyB and that is why we can't have nice things.

I know, I'm not making any sense. I'm half asleep.

Or half awake? Which is it?

DEAD

Which is it.

NVZ

@DEAD Let's ask Schrödinger.

DEAD

Yo @Schrödinger

What is NVZ?

NVZ

Not Very Zealous, maybe?

DEAD

Oh huh? What is that? Oh? You're sick of being pinged for all binary situations while most of them don't relate to quantum?

Aha.

NVZ

18:32

I quantum plate a lot, about life, the universe, and everything.

DEAD

That deserves a table flip

(/¯◡ ‿ ◡)/¯ ~ ┻━┻

NVZ

@DEAD We all deserve more. :)

StoneyB

@NVZ You certainly do. I feel that so strongly that I am going to give you title to my table flip.

NVZ

Aha!

NVZ

19:09

@Catija hello

Nathan Tuggy

19:51

@DEAD So far, this election's vote-time distribution has followed the previous one fairly well, so I suspect we'll end up with 360-375 votes when all is said and done.

(At this time in the election last year, 94.94% of the votes had come in, so 349 / .9494 = 367.6…. Past estimates have ranged from 362.77 to 385.34.)

NVZ

@NathanTuggy Numbers... Nice! :)

Nathan Tuggy

NVZ

@DEAD Look alive! :)

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Anonymous

21:10

Even better, do whatever Nathan is doing. Data exploring? :-)

Anonymous

@NathanTuggy Can you link to the queries you're using?

Nathan Tuggy

data.stackexchange.com/ell/query/526405/… and ell.stackexchange.com/help/badges/81/constituent

(I've been recalculating every so often and tracking the results; there's no query that lets you see the vote distributions for this election directly yet)

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