2016 ELL Moderator Election Chat

DEAD

14:51

Again there a deadly silence in this chat.

Common people, only five hours until all is over. No hypes? No tears? No blood and guts?

No attacks on candidates? I miss the last election.

It looked like a real-life thing.

My endorsers attacking Nathan and Nathan's attacking me.

Who are we kidding? I'm not really excited this time myself.

What happens after the election will be interesting though.

Providing that the meta be active enough that I can work with.

J.R.

Five hours to go! If you were procrastinating your vote, it's time to vote.

DEAD

How many constituents?

J.R.

15:06

I noticed 10 people voted in the past 24 hours. That's pretty cool.

DEAD

Oh.

Darn it. We're getting closet to Nathan's estimation.

379?

That's way too close to Nathan's estimation. I smell a rat.

J.R.

626 - 257 = 369

DEAD

ಠ_ಠ

Oh. Thank God

Oh yeah, my math finished for a moment there

I calculated 100-31=79.

J.R.

We reached my goal. I was hoping for 365.

DEAD

In my defense, I've never touched a calculator in 35 days.

At least.

J.R.

15:11

35 days?? That's like six weeks!

;-)

DEAD

@J.R. There's always a majority in the election that rarely participate on the site and only appear at the time of elections. I wonder who they voted for this time.

J.R.

I'm not going to judge anyone for how often or infrequently they visit the site.

Newcomers, regulars, chatters, commenters, questioners, answerers, and lurkers... they all offer a unique perspective.

DEAD

I feel unique alright

@J.R. I'm not judging, but it's interesting to think who they vote for with little to no background.

J.R.

We are all unique but some are more unique than others. You are one of those folks who is uniquely unique :-)

DEAD

I'M MOAR UNIQUE

J.R.

15:18

Maybe they pay more attention to the questionnaires and metrics, and base their votes on that.

DEAD

Rep means almost everything I guess

But I wouldn't complain, since then I'd see Snail elected.

Jackpot

J.R.

When you put a decision like this in the hands of the people, you gotta include everyone. Otherwise, it's not really in the hands of the people.

It would be interesting to check the other elections going on around SE, and see how strong the correlation is between rep and electability.

DEAD

Other metas are usually more active, and there's a bunch of highly respected users, some of whom are existing mods.

Those users have the chance to win the election.

In ELL's case, I don't see an active meta, so I have no idea.

But Colleen has a good chance of winning because of her help in meta.

That's in accordance with other sites' results.

J.R.

I don't know that a sleepy meta is a bad thing.

A lot of times an active meta means a lot of people griping and carping :-)

DEAD

@J.R. It's not that bad

It's just much better to get stuff done with meta.

J.R.

15:24

Anyway, I'll be back to check in 5 hours or so.

DEAD

Cya

J.R.

The slate of candidates was long and strong. This will be good for ELL.

DEAD

Except mine. I talk too much

And do nothing

Although I've promised myself to do something after the election whether I get elected or not.

I already started doing something on Chem.

ColleenV

17:09

@J.R. Amen to that. I think it is a testament to the ELL community that we don't have too much that needs to get sorted out on meta.I think our active chatters help with that too.

I'm putting my money on sailplane and Nathan. I think enough votes are in that I can start speculating

Ugh and auto-complete once again helps me to look like a terrible typist

Anonymous

17:44

@ColleenV Only two hours left :-)

undo

18:58

Test incoming...

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

And it works.

DEAD

Oh, just an hour?

Should I be excited?

@ColleenV Yup, this is more likely.

You have a good chance too.

Araucaria

That's the kind of thing that annoys me about ELL. Apparently "Ends in one hour" means "Ends in one hour and fifty-nine minutes". Hmm someone should direct TPTB to an English Language learning website or summat. Grrr .... :D

ColleenV

@Araucaria But is it really a math or programming thing? Or maybe we should send them to User Experience

I share your annoyance with it :)

undo

19:14

@Araucaria Yeah, known bug. It just doesn't round right.

The relative timestamp algorithm is designed to work referencing the past; it's not optimized for future dates.

Araucaria

@ColleenV, @undo Harrumph. Back in an hour then ... ;)

Anonymous

I miss the UTC clock in the drop-down in the old top bar. I never know what time it is in UTC, but the site always gives me timestamps in that time zone.

undo

@snailplane It's still there, look in the achievements dropdown

Anonymous

Wow!

Araucaria

@snailplane Yes, it would be good to have utc clock on the page somewhere ...

Anonymous

19:17

All this time, and I never knew. Maybe because I don't look at the achievements thingy.

ColleenV

If you're on Windows, you can put a second clock in another time zone in your tray

Anonymous

I'll have to think of it as the Achievements And Also A Clock drop down.

Anonymous

Thank you :-)

undo

:)

Anonymous

Now I can see we have 42 minutes left!

ColleenV

19:18

Probably in other OSes as well I keep local US/Eastern, and UTC up

Anonymous

Which the site tells me anyway, but.

Anonymous

@ColleenV I use my phone to see what time it is in other time zones. I have it set to show the time in San Jose, Chicago, Bangkok, and Tokyo, I think.

DEAD

And Tabriz.

Not Tabriz? :(

Anonymous

I should get rid of Chicago to make more room. I can figure out Chicago time in my head :-)

ColleenV

I think your correspondence is more interesting than mine lol

Anonymous

19:21

@DEAD For you, I just swap A.M. with P.M. and call it close enough.

ColleenV

Chicago is easy for me since I'm in US/Central

DEAD

@snailplane Yay

ʕ ⊃･ ◡ ･ ʔ⊃︵┻━┻

Anonymous

It's 12:24 P.M. here, so it's 12:24 A.M. in Ekaterinburg, and 11:54 P.M. in Tabriz, I think.

DEAD

Yup

Anonymous

My clock is in a VM, so I'm probably a couple minutes off :-)

DEAD

19:23

11:52

ColleenV

2 precisely

DEAD

Jinx

Although I thought it's called Yekaterinburg

Anonymous

That's an alternate romanization.

ColleenV

So the real question is can I fool around in the breakroom long enough to see the results or will someone catch me slacking

Anonymous

It's like Yeltsin.

DEAD

19:24

Aha

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, Jul 13 at 19:53, by balpha

@JonEricson nice try, I'm reporting you to your manager anyway

ColleenV

That's harsh. I guess I should go work for 20 mins and try again

DEAD

Not that I'm not enjoying a possible mod's company.

ColleenV

19:43

We don't have any pollsters so I had no way to convince people I could make good on my quid pro quo in those backroom deals.

And an upvote on someone's post doesn't buy as much as it used to ;)

DEAD

@ColleenV Yeah, everything costs too much these days.

ColleenV

Especially now that we are out of beta!

DEAD

I don't feel anything has changed since beta.

Except perhaps me aging.

Thankfully getting maturer, not weaker.

ColleenV

I lost the ability to edit tags inline, hence the need to run for moderator

DEAD

I lost 10k tools, hence the need to run for mod.

Who am I kidding, I even considered withdrawing.

There is absolutely no need for me in this election.

There are great candidates with good chances of winning.

ColleenV

19:53

I think you will do better than you expect.

DEAD

It's not about doing better.

ColleenV

It's good to have real choices

DEAD

There isn't much to be done better regarding a bunch of flags.

The thing is, you guys deserve the place better than me.

Of course mod work is sometimes tough, but if you volunteer for it, you deserve the spot more than me.

Wait a sec

ColleenV

Oh stop it.

Catija

I think that mod work can be tough but most of it is mainly redundant.

DEAD

19:55

Election ends in 4 minutes

@Catija IKR, it's like reviewing

ColleenV

My breath is actually bated

DEAD

@ColleenV Stop what? I'm not being modest or depressing. It's just a fact.

From an outsider POV

ColleenV

It's not about deserving really

and stepping up to give folks a choice of candidates is something nice to do for the site

DEAD

Shrug

> election ends

in 1 minute

ColleenV

I really hate having to pick from just two obvious choices. I love SE voting because I can always make my first choice an underdog if I want to

Catija

20:00

only 370 voters... interesting. I wonder if that's a lot.

that's out of 2148 eligible, so I guess that's not too bad.

DEAD

The winners are Colleen and Snailplane!

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ColleenV

uh what?

DEAD

\o/

Catija

Congrats!

ColleenV

Thanks!

DEAD

20:02

Someone pin that please

Congrats! Woohoo

ColleenV

Oh wow, I didn't even prepare my acceptance speech

because I was so sure Nathan was a shoe-in

Catija

Wow, it was so amazingly close...

@DEAD I can do that :P

Nathan Tuggy

Congrats @snailplane and @ColleenV!

DEAD

in Language Overflow, 2 days ago, by DEAD

Now you're just showing off

Catija

@ColleenV You two were so close and it looks like a lot of his votes went to you, which pushed you over Jay... that's amazing.

Anonymous

20:04

Woo hoo! :-)

ColleenV

@NathanTuggy Thanks!

J.R.

20:27

Wow, that was close.

I want to say thank you to everyone who ran, with a special congrats to Nathan and Jay, who gave Colleen a run for her money.

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2016 ELL Moderator Election Chat