Ask Ubuntu 2013 Moderator Elections

Seth

12:00 AM

@ObsessiveSSOℲ Even if I did run, I don't know how I'd get past all the good candidates already there.

FEichinger

I only have long hair because I'm too gorram lazy to get a cut anyway...

Luis Alvarado

I cut mine myself but only when it goes wild

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@Seth Don;t underestimate yourself. You're a very viable candidate if you ran.

Honestly, I feared you would run.

Luis Alvarado

then I get an axe and it's him or me

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ Wow, if all I needed was support I'd have been the first candidate :)

@LuisAlvarado eh, you've got my vote. No need for an axe. (They don't work against phasers anyway :P)

FEichinger

12:02 AM

@fossfreedom This year's posts have a very low character limit. Hence why there's a shortage on long-drawn bios. (And why probably noone will be able to add the answers to their post)

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Well, we can't all be moderators. Our robotics team had this trouble.

Seth

hmmm

Luis Alvarado

ok am going to nominate myself. Is that correct?

Seth

we just need a couple hackers...

Luis Alvarado

nominate myself

shouldn't it be like "I will apply for nomination"

Seth

12:03 AM

@LuisAlvarado If you don't I WILL nominate you.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

So on oyr robotics team, there were 60 people, 30 captains... :(

Luis Alvarado

ok thanks for the positive cheer

its kind of funny because you will vote for me and ill vote for obsessive lol

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ that's sad :( esp. when most of them would have made awesome mods.

@LuisAlvarado you're not the only one I'm gonna vote for. We get three votes ;)

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Yeah, I ended up aggregating a few disgruntled teams into... A 12 person team as originally intended.

Seth

yeah...

Journeyman Geek

12:05 AM

@LuisAlvarado: yeah. thats an oddity with the SE election system

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@Shog9 Is the nomination character limit shorter this year?

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ it is.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Oh, how much was it in previous years?

Seth

(you need to see Roland's nomination from last time)

@ObsessiveSSOℲ I don't know what it used to be :/

ObsessiveSSOℲ

OK, I'll take a look.

FEichinger

12:08 AM

I think it just was a full meta post?

Seth

link?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Ah, OK.

FEichinger

But 1.2k chars is pretty darn low.

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ObsessiveSSOℲ

Just over twice a comment.

Seth

@FEichinger If it was bigger I wouldn't run for sure!

no way I could come up with too much more :/

FEichinger

12:11 AM

@Seth Oh, stop being so miserable. I only posted mine because I had a surprisingly good draft after I finally said to myself "At least try and see what it'd look like!"

Then I saw the character limit.

And rammed my head into the wall.

Seth

@FEichinger I'm not miserable, honest. I'm just fine.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

I couldn't answer any questions posed in comments, and jad to use comments myself.

Seth

Writing is just what I do worst unfortunately. I'm going to shut up about this election.

I keep getting misunderstood.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

English isn't even my native language! I moved to the US from Russia,

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ I've always wanted to go over there!

FEichinger

12:13 AM

@Seth You'd make a great moderator. You just have to start writing something up and tinker with it until you believe it says all it has to say.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

I do agree. Your meta posts are outstanding.

Seth

Good advice @FEichinger.

FEichinger

@ObsessiveSSOℲ Same here. I went with bold question at the beginning and one answer per comment.

Seth

16

Q: A happy Oli♦ day!

Today is November 11, so that means... Oli♦ day! We'd just like to congratulate our well-known moderator, author of thepcspy, and second-highest user by reputation here on a happy birthday. Many of us have changed our gravatars to be Oli♦: and last year, it was even better. If you browse t...

I love that @ObsessiveSSOℲ :D

ObsessiveSSOℲ

It was kind of off-topic...

Seth

12:15 AM

oh, I don't care.

FEichinger

It was also kind of hilarious, though.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

@Seth Your meta posts are awesome, and on-topic.

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ So are your meta posts.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Thanks!

I don't know if my clinical OCD is a good or bad thing for moderation.

Would I become meticulous, or pedantic?

Seth

oh great. Another word to look up.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

12:20 AM

Overly controlling.

That is, would my OCD help clean up the site, or stir up unhappiness?

Seth

I love this:

@ObsessiveSSOℲ I think it would help clean up.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

I agree.

Seth

its hard to become a bad SE mod

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Well, I was thrown off coxing the crew team since my ~~precision~~ arrant pedantry annoyed all eight rowers. Then the next coxswain was incompetent, so they put me back on, to the dissatisfaction of eight people who never think for themselves when they need to.

Seth

shrug

Most people don't understand how a good team works.

this is getting rather off-topicish though

Luis Alvarado

12:28 AM

@Seth Lol with the pedantic image

@Seth they could easily have said "Because I said so!" lol

Seth

hehe

@LuisAlvarado It's nice to see that you have 999 helpful flags, IMO that is a very important part of a candidate. Seeing that a moderators job is to review flags.

Luis Alvarado

O.o

omg i do

Seth

go get one more ;)

Luis Alvarado

hey omg yeah i have that many wow

am going to get one more then

then retire

Seth

lol

becoming a mod certainly is retiring.. FROM FLAGGING!!

Luis Alvarado

12:32 AM

hahahahah

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: on the other hand, you can't get your marshal badge if you haven't already

Seth

@JourneymanGeek what? If I'm running I don't get badges?

:O

Journeyman Geek

@Seth: if you get elected as a mod, you have much less chances to flag ;p

Seth

ah, I see.

lol, that's true.

Journeyman Geek

there's apparently (and I forget how) ONE type of flag you can still do

Luis Alvarado

12:42 AM

@Seth hey thanks for the comment in nomination hehe

Seth

np :)

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Well, I feel the pressure rising.

Seth

@ObsessiveSSOℲ oh? In what way?

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Many good candidates.

Seth

lol

That's what I feel like, hehe

But, in the current setting, you have my vote.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

12:55 AM

Thanks!

maggotbrain

1:09 AM

Dumb question, perhaps. Why isn't @Jorge Castro a moderator?

Marco Ceppi

@maggotbrain because he doesn't want to be one?

maggotbrain

@Marco That's what I figured.

Marco Ceppi

Moderating is a time consuming, grueling, tedious, daily process

Where you have to be an emotionless human logic computer and can never make any "right" decisions

I'm surprised we have any candidates at all

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maggotbrain

@Marco So, considering how much clean-up work he does around here, being a moderator would not help, but hinder his work here?

Marco Ceppi

Pretty much, when you're a power user you have all the tools you need to be a "moderator", we're pretty much trash people doing the 5% of the work that no one wants to do

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maggotbrain

1:17 AM

That totally makes sense. I'm not seeing any mods pipe up and say "Hey, c'mon in, the water is nice, here".

Shog9

@ObsessiveSSOℲ If there was a limit, it was ridiculously large. Folks were writing books in those things. Summarize why you want to be / think you'd make a good mod, and let your activity on the site speak for the rest.

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Ah, OK.

Thanks!

Shog9

Also, y'know, there's chat if you wanna schmooze

Marco Ceppi

But I want to write a novel! Stack Exchange Elections: The self-publishing platform

Shog9

It was the best of answers, it was the worst of answers

6

Journeyman Geek

1:38 AM

lol

/me blames EC >_>

ObsessiveSSOℲ

Good night, everyone!

Shog9

SWEET DREAMS, POLITICIAN

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jrg

2:38 AM

@Shog9 I wrote a book in mine, because I integrated allllll the questions people asked me at the bottom.

i thought it was ok.

@maggotbrain The water is not nice. It gets uncomfortably hot every time one of you guys posts on meta.

Seth

3:17 AM

lol

Shog9

3:35 AM

@jrg It was, except when more than a few people nominate, and then it becomes an awful lot of scrolling to read them all. There was a suggestion to hide more than a small portion of the nominations (with "click to show" of course)... But then you're pretty much in the same position you are with comments, and the folks writing novels have to try and summarize the whole thing in the first section anyway.

Incidentally, I'm impressed: 9 nominations in the first day, with some good feedback on them even.

Marco Ceppi

@Shog9 Good feedback will be a think of the past when I'm done with them hahaha

Shog9

Journeyman Geek

3:54 AM

hmm

threw my hat into the ring. Hope there's no issues with my use of url shorteners ;p

Seth

why did you use URL shorteners?

would you have passed the character limit otherwise?

Marco Ceppi

4:11 AM

@JourneymanGeek please don't use URL shortners

Seth

4:43 AM

Hi @Ringtail

long time no see

Ringtail

hey there

been busy

was thinking bout throwing my hat in the ring.....hahaha

Seth

@Ringtail I bet :)

@Ringtail it's getting interesting

Ringtail

saw that

could be a good turn out

Seth

I think it will be

(I am multi-tasking)

jokerdino

Hm, 10 nominations already?

Seth

4:53 AM

yep.

Nice turn out huh?

On another note, I hit 3k today :D

jokerdino

Congrats!

Being able to close vote is pretty nice.

Seth

Thanks!

Yeah, I feel like I can contribute more now.

though I can't do 40 TL anymore

@jokerdino are you going to make that 11?

jokerdino

I have a couple days to decide, aye?

Seth

that's true.

jokerdino

I haven't seen your nomination yet.

Seth

5:04 AM

I'm going to reply with a quote ;)

45 secs ago, by jokerdino

I have a couple days to decide, aye?

jokerdino

:P

I have been lazy for the past 4 months or so. So, I am definitely not in the form.

Seth

A good advantage you have are your Electorate, Marshal and Copy Editor badges.

jokerdino

Do they really count?

Seth

big time.

@jokerdino Foss added them to his

So did Bruno

jokerdino

Good lord, I have all four of those :P

Seth

5:09 AM

And James

@jokerdino that's what I was trying to say :P

jokerdino

Haha

Seth

Copy Editor is eluding me... but I plan on catching it some day.

jokerdino

Are you on your holidays?

Seth

@jokerdino nah, I homeschool.

jokerdino

So many people who do. Interesting.

Seth

5:11 AM

You're in Singapore right?

jokerdino

Not now.

I live in my home town. GMT +5.30

Seth

oh, I see.

jokerdino

well, I am at Chennai, India right now.

Seth

Cool!

That's a good ways from Singapore though

(we're getting rather off-topic too)

jokerdino

It's a 4 hour flight from Singapore.

Seth

5:13 AM

That's not bad.

Well, bed time in UTC-8.

jokerdino

Nighters.

Seth

Good luck @jokerdino!

jokerdino

Thanks and same to you.

jokerdino

5:47 AM

Well, I gave in and wrote up my nomination post.

George Edison

7:31 AM

I can't believe this.

askubuntu.com/election/3#post-251490

Why is Evan Carroll running on Ask Ubuntu???

smartboyhw

8:55 AM

LOL I nominated myself (really):P

gertvdijk

9:08 AM

WHAT! I woke up and I see 14(!) candidates!? cool!

smartboyhw

@gertvdijk Yeah:D

@jokerdino add oil

gertvdijk

> I can continue with the same way I mean answering the posts and flagging , review , editing the posts.

in the one of snow

that means he is actually saying "I don't need to be a mod"?

smartboyhw

@gertvdijk Dunno

jokerdino

9:22 AM

@smartboyhw Hm?

smartboyhw

@jokerdino add oil to get yourself elected (I nominated myself too BTW)

jokerdino

All the best :)

Bruno Pereira

@GeorgeEdison A better question is: why is his nomination even being considered serious?

jokerdino

I lost count of the number of sites he nominated himself.

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smartboyhw

@jokerdino Good one:P

jokerdino

9:37 AM

I'll be back in the evening.

Journeyman Geek

11:11 AM

@Seth naw, I would not have. Should I remove them?

ok, edited to not use the URL shorteners.

@GeorgeEdison: he does it everywhere

@MarcoCeppi: fixed, sorry about that.

smartboyhw

@JourneymanGeek real weird

I thought you had a lot of rep

But then actually in AskUbuntu you didn't

Journeyman Geek

@smartboyhw: on AU? sadly I use ubuntu as a server mainly

so there is not much I can do

smartboyhw

@JourneymanGeek ouch

Journeyman Geek

I also favour KDE over Unity so...

yeah

smartboyhw

@JourneymanGeek /metoo

ObsessiveSSOℲ

11:30 AM

Well, the election is heating up... Good luck to everyone!

smartboyhw

@ObsessiveSSOℲ You are one of the big chances I think

ObsessiveSSOℲ

I don't know about that... Anyway, I have to run now,

Marco Ceppi

12:57 PM

Weee Meta becomes so active during election season!

smartboyhw

@MarcoCeppi lol

Mahesh

1:33 PM

o/

fossfreedom

2:12 PM

hmmm ... everybody is so nice with each other at nomination stage...

let the fun begin...

thinking of some very nice questions to roast you all with.

Gui

I am here to kiss babes, and shake hands....

5

err... I mean kiss babies...

4

fossfreedom

:)

Gui

I have no hope at wining... so I am just along for the ride...

fossfreedom

in that case - I'll give you a light grilling rather than a roast.

FEichinger

Roast 'em all.

Gui

2:17 PM

lol thanks...

fossfreedom

... and when it comes to the election itself - we'll make a Flambé Special out of all of you.

FEichinger

Sounds awesome!

Gui

I don't know what that is so I am going to just say "thanks" and move on...

Journeyman Geek

@Gui: I mainly want to see how I do

(and it would be interesting to see if my record elsewhere will affect voting in any way ;p)

Gui

@JourneymanGeek well your not getting my vote :=P

Journeyman Geek

2:20 PM

@Gui: aww

Gui

I am joking... I will vote for the candidates I think will do the best job (or whoever pays me the most)....

Journeyman Geek

mainly the latter? ;p

Gui

Yeah mainly...

jrg

2:41 PM

@George show him the same respect you would any other candidate.

Journeyman Geek

2:54 PM

@jrg: well, he probably wouldn't make it past the first round. I just dread what happens when there's a statistical anomaly and he wins an election

jrg

He won't be a moderator if he violates the agreement.

That's not a thing specific to him, that's a legal problem.

Journeyman Geek

de-modding someone would nonetheless raise a ****storm.

especially someone who .. well has a interesting history

Gui

I think he is just trolling the boards...?

jrg

If I post your IP address, or any of the information I have access to, then I get demodded, suspended network-wide, and depending on how stupid I am, maybe a lawsuit.

Journeyman Geek

pretty much

@jrg: by which time things just get messier

Gui

2:57 PM

@jrg... oh so that is how my IP address got out there??

jrg

So far it hasn't happened throughout the history of the network.

Journeyman Geek

cause we've been pretty good with mods

other than the occational burnout

jrg

@gui I don't know what you're talking about.

Gui

Yeah you guys do a fairly good job...

@jrg of course that is what you would say...

smartboyhw

3:16 PM

Suddenly the nomination rate goes down....

ZZZZ 404

LOL

jrg

we still have 14 people running.

and about a week left.

Marco Ceppi

3:34 PM

We'll probably have around 25 nominations

Now that the people biting the bullet to be a moderator have thrown their hat in, 10 others are sitting on their hands thinking "Should I run?"

RolandiXor

<--- is number 11.

Luis Alvarado

@MarcoCeppi am with the "should I get out while I still can" team ^^

Marco Ceppi

@LuisAlvarado Yeah, so you're in the "potential smart people" group ;)

Luis Alvarado

hehe

Marco Ceppi

Also, @LuisAlvarado I had no idea you were from Venezuela! Where abouts are you?

Luis Alvarado

3:37 PM

Maracaibo

Gui

@RolandiXor you can have my vote (for a certain price)

Luis Alvarado

Soon to be in the US once I get hired by Ubuntu hehe

Marco Ceppi

A large portion of my family lives in Caracas and Puerto Das

Luis Alvarado

really??

RolandiXor

@Gui name your price?

Luis Alvarado

3:39 PM

tell me the truth, they stay here because of the food right

its the #2 reason for anybody that visits Venezuela

jrg

the third reason is because we all want to visit you.

Gui

10 Billion chocolate covered aunts....

Luis Alvarado

yeah!!

Marco Ceppi

The 4th is Chavez ;)

Luis Alvarado

anytime buddy

free place to stay and free food on me

Gui

3:40 PM

@LuisAlvarado what is the first?

Luis Alvarado

@Gui - You could not resist asking right ^^

Gui

naturally...

Luis Alvarado

girls, way too many model type girls here

Gui

When is the next flight out?

Luis Alvarado

but also way too many "HEY WHY THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT HER" girlfriend

smartboyhw

3:42 PM

What did I miss!?

jrg

@smartboyhw everything.

Luis Alvarado

so seriously, anytime you want to come here, do not worry about staying some place paid, you can have food and a place to stay free

jrg

you're only saying that because you know the odds of us making it down there are pretty slim. ;)

Luis Alvarado

hehe maybe

but hey, it's cheaper for you to come than me to go

jrg

true.

Gui

3:44 PM

@LuisAlvarado for who though?

fossfreedom

@LuisAlvarado 70,000 AU members are about to descend on your place ... quick move!

smartboyhw

@jrg damn

Gui

You? Me? the fence post?

Luis Alvarado

hahahaha

RolandiXor

My favourite mouse is drying off...

Luis Alvarado

3:47 PM

is anybody here using 13.04

smartboyhw

@LuisAlvarado I am

Luis Alvarado

does you gwibber work? I mean with FB and Twitter?

Just tried to test it right now and.. empty

smartboyhw

@LuisAlvarado I don't use it:P

jrg

@LuisAlvarado i was hearing the same thing from somebody yesterday

smartboyhw

I don't have fb (I have Twitter but rarely used)

jrg

3:50 PM

maybe it was @RolandiXor?

Luis Alvarado

oki doki. Was testing it right now to see how it behaved

yeah same, am starting to use twitter

RolandiXor

@LuisAlvarado I am

It's not empty for me though

Luis Alvarado

That's how it shows for me

@jrg - Just for curiosity I was checking the American Airlines prices from Miami to Venezuela. HOLY MOTHER! I think only rich people can fly now.

The prices range from 1800$ to 2400$. I rather go there walking.

jrg

@LuisAlvarado i did the math, it's cheaper for me to drive with 6 people to las vegas (2K miles, or 3.2K KM) than it is to fly.

Luis Alvarado

yeah man

RolandiXor

3:56 PM

I thought I was in the general room here haha

Luis Alvarado

are the oil prices still up over there?

jrg

yeah.

Luis Alvarado

@RolandiXor - Lol I thought so too. I swear clicked on it

jrg

i did the math off of $4/gallon, which is likely.

RolandiXor

So...

who's running for mod?

Luis Alvarado

3:57 PM

well, we recommended some dude called Roland

since he was a mod, now he'll be a super mod

RolandiXor

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