I wish all the candidates "mazal tov" even if "en mazal l'yisra'el". This election, so far, is going more smoothly and is more civilized than Trump vs. Clinton!
Just one mod id being elected, or more than one? Is this a replacement or addition? If replacement, who's leaving, or is this a surprise?
The data file contains the complete ballots (anonymized). You can see how many people voted for any given candidate as first, second, or third choice by slogging through the data by hand or writing code. You cannot see who cast those ballots, and nobody can see that data until the election is over -- there's no access to votes in progress. (I did some post-election analysis to understand how the voters felt about me, BTW.) — Monica Cellio ♦11 hours ago
I've been thinking about that
do we happen to know that the order of the votes in the data file aren't in the order they were cast?
because if they are in that order, we could cross-reference with the order the constituent badges were awarded to figure out who voted for whom
Why do we say "Mazel Tov" when something good happens to a person? Doesn't that mean "good luck?" Are we saying that what happened, happened because of luck?
As this article on Balashon makes clear, mazal tov was originally used in the same way as we would say "good luck" in English - ie: an expression of goodwill for an event yet to occur. It was an expression, therefore, that was used when congratulating pregnant women, and not said after the child'...
@Daniel I think this was addressed in an earlier election but let me doublecheck
Yeah, we changed it so that the order of the ballots is by who was voted for, not who voted or when they voted, so those two are no longer retrievable in such a fashion
Why do we say "Mazel Tov" when something good happens to a person? Doesn't that mean "good luck?" Are we saying that what happened, happened because of luck?
Mi Yodeya 2017 Moderator Election Chat
Mi Yodeya 2017 Moderator Election Chat