2016 Physics Stack Exchange Election

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Danu

05:02

@heather did you look through the already asked questions? Yours seem close duplicates of some of them.

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Danu

08:44

Thanks for the answers @rob.

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Qmechanic

10:54

Tip: To get the current number of cast votes, see how many constituent badges have been awarded, and subtract 255 votes from previous elections...Update Oct 10th, 2016: Oh, that info is also available on the election page.

This year the voting is already twice the other elections combined.

Danu

@Qmechanic Neat trick. And you can even see who voted!

tpg2114

11:21

@Danu Even better -- I was the first to vote and you were the second ;)

Danu

@tpg2114 But I only picked my first vote quickly---I picked you second only yesterday :)

tpg2114

@Danu Ah --- well, thanks for your support!

I initially picked all 3, but I did adjust the order of 2nd and 3rd yesterday

Should be interesting -- I think the group is genuinely good and anybody in it would be do a great job. I'm not really worried about the outcome, I think we'll be in good hands no matter what

Danu

Yeah, I agree. Else I would've nominated, too.

tpg2114

There's a few people I was surprised didn't nominate

Danu

@tpg2114 Yeah, who? Daniel Sank?

tpg2114

11:32

@Danu Yeah, and Emilio

I wouldn't have been surprised if JohnRennie did, although with the amount of rep he has, he pretty much has access to most of the tools anyway

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David Z

15:24

@tpg2114 he's consistently said in the past that he doesn't want to be a moderator (if I remember correctly)

Jim

15:54

6 more days of the election. I hate the waiting game

tpg2114

@DavidZ I seem to recall that as well. But I thought maybe he would have been more inclined since he's taken on more duties like chat room maintenance

@Jim It would be interesting if we could see the votes with time. I wonder at what point it saturates and few changes/new votes happen

Jim

I suppose it's a moot point now that nominations are over

@tpg2114 Yes, I'd love it if mods and/or candidates could see who was leading in the election

Danu

I think that's not a great idea

tpg2114

I feel like that might lead to some weird problems in the voting. I'd be fine just seeing the aggregate totals after the fact

But see how it changes with time. Like, did the chat session result in more voting or changed voting?

The election period is 7 days, but was the election decided by the 3rd?

It would also be cool if they tracked how many users visited the election page but did not vote

Jim

@tpg2114 That would be worth seeing, I'd guess that the election is already decided by now

tpg2114

16:02

@Jim I suspect the same. I wonder if the data explorer can report back badges awarded and at what time

We can pull the award time data for the constituent badge, filtered for this year so we only get this election

Plot the histogram in, I don't know, 6 hour bins

Jim

But that doesn't tell us when it was decided. For all we know, the margins could be decided early on and then a uniform layer of votes could be applied to everyone in the following days

tpg2114

Sure, it doesn't answer all of the questions

Jim

that said, it's the best we have

tpg2114

But I would also suspect that the majority of users vote once and forget about it

So presumably, once the CDF of the votes > 0.5 or something, we could assume the election is decided

Or I guess CDF > highest winning vote percent... I don't know, there's gotta be a decent threshold based on the preferential voting system algorithm

tpg2114

16:18

data.stackexchange.com/physics/query/551108/…

It's a bit wonky for our site for some reason. It will take some playing with/refining