Raspberry Pi 2017 Moderator Election Chat

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anonymous2

19:37

20 minutes before the end of the election and None of the candidates are in here? Absolutely pitiful. :(

sir_ian

19:50

@anonymous2 whats pitiful about that? I was busy repartition and formatting a hard drive, I'm sure everyone else was also otherwise engaged.

anonymous2

@sir_ian I know. @Ghanima will tell you that I was teasing. :)

BTW, I was homeschooled too.

sir_ian

30 seconds!!!!

anonymous2

Congratulations to our new moderators: @jacobm001 and @goobering!

sir_ian

I second that

anonymous2

  Candidate | Count
===================
HeatfanJohn |    18
  jacobm001 |   104
pandalion98 |     7
Darth Vader |    14
  goobering |    31
    sir_ian |     3
   tlhIngan |    14
  Exhausted |     0

sir_ian

20:06

Is there ceremony or do they just go right into doing it?

anonymous2

@sir_ian They get right to work... that is as soon as the SE team gets them into place.

goobering

If there's a manual nobody's shown me it yet.

anonymous2

It usually doesn't take long, though. I've seen it done in about 5 minutes before.

@goobering They will, don't worry. At least... they give pro-tems about half an hour's worth of reading. ;)

Ghanima

@anonymous2 we call it right away (tm)

sir_ian

Only a quarter of eligible voters visited the election page and even fewer voted, really not good.

Ghanima

20:10

but it's better than during last elections

I wouldn't expect participation to be too high

sir_ian

@Ghanima By number or percent?

Ghanima

I guess there is plenta of "inactive" users who are eligible for voting

@sir_ian your right, the percentage is even lower :(

goldilocks

Yikes a landslide! There is still the possibility for someone to team up with Darth + tlhIngan and oust @goobering with a coalition...

goobering

@goldilocks Amazing count for @JacobMastel! I'm really pleased to have snuck in second, and am planning some seriously authoritarian stuff that should see off upstart coalitions, guerilla action and coups d'état. I'm just waiting for them to add the Banhammer button alongside Flag and Edit.

@goldilocks Speak of the devil, there's a whole bunch of worrying new controls on my questions.

goldilocks

Yes you can see the Matrix now.

Ghanima

20:22

there must be a way to undo this

goldilocks

Nope the whippersnapper won. :O

goobering

It'll all be fine. It's going to take me a couple of days to figure out how not to break things!

Undo

@goobering ProTip: Most all of the buttons and labels have hover text.

also, chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/4/teachers-lounge likes to answer questions.

Ghanima

don't destroy users and don't turn posts community wiki, everything else could be reversed ;)

Undo

we can un-wiki posts. Merges are the iffy thing.

goldilocks

20:25

@goobering meta.stackexchange.com/questions/118972/…

I know Jacob has been studying that already for months.

Ghanima

@Undo sure you can undo them :-P

Undo

@Ghanima You can too. Should be the third item in the mod menu on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/23464/11200

Ghanima

@Undo the statement above was not to be taken too seriously

but you're right, the button is there

goldilocks

@goobering And if you want to catch up on the latest in Ghanima selfies: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/29445/mod-gossip

goobering

@goldilocks Cheers for that! I'll get digging.

tlhIngan

20:40

Congrats to the winners! Please don't ban me :)

sir_ian

@tlhIngan Why would you be baned?

Ghanima

@tlhIngan maybe just a little ;)

goldilocks

20:53

We may each add a vowel to your username :P

Ghanima

Gldilocks, you want to donate an "o"?

tlhIngan

21:16

@sir_ian In some parts of the world, it is customary to eliminate the opposition after somebody new takes power. :)

@sir_ian Ask not why you should be banned, rather ask why shouldn't you be banned. :D

@goldilocks That'd be vandalism!

sir_ian

@tlhIngan I know but i didn't expect our new mods to be so cruel.

tlhIngan

@goldilocks Besides, the alphabet has 21 consonants and 5 vowels, that's a 4:1 ratio. My username has 6 consonants and 2 vowels, that's a 3:1 ratio. If anything, I need more consonants!

goldilocks

21:35

@tlhIngan Fair point. I see "Servant of Cthulhu" somewhere in there..

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tlhIngan

22:42

@goldilocks Nope, never read it. I'm a Star Trek guy. "tlhIngan" means "Klingon" in the Klingon language. :)

Ghanima

Qapla'

tlhIngan

@Ghanima Qapla'

Ghanima