Ask Different 2013 Moderator Election

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Caleb

13:49

Important: Please don't vote for me, I really don't want to come out of this with a responsibility I'm not going to be wholehearted in. If you've already voted for me, it's not to late to change your vote, please do so!

I have a vague fear as the clock ticks down that I'm going to get saddled with it as a half-way measure between None of the above and the more interested candidates. Maybe I'm just being silly. But not withdrawing when I had the chance was silly.

2 hours later…

bmike

15:41

No matter what happens - we have means and procedures to handle things if an elected moderator no longer has time / desire to serve.

Thanks for the clear communication, though.

Daniel Lawson

16:12

@Caleb If I recall correctly, you do have the opportunity to decline to serve if elected.

Shog9

@Caleb Although it's a PitA (compared to, say, removing yourself last week before voting started), I can withdraw you when calculating the results.

Daniel Lawson

16:47

@Shog9 Yay for input from someone who actually has facts rather than those of us just making things up!

Caleb

17:41

@Shog9 Ya well, the fact that we skipped the primaries phase and that there wouldn't be a chance to withdraw by the time THC happened were details I failed to note in time. If you run the election math and for some reason my name comes out on top, please do ping me up.

bmike

17:53

@DanielLawson There've been several elections where an "elected" mod declines to jump in and the staff (SE that is) usually decides to run with what they had or appoint one of the candidates or appoint anyone of their choosing.

Shog9

Well, the nice thing about STV is that with multiple votes you're not "throwing away" anyone's input if someone drops out. Of course, you can run into scenarios where this still falls apart (not enough votes, not enough candidates, etc), but we're usually good with just picking the next person down the list.

(If we ever end up with candiates <= positions in an election, we'd just have to cancel the whole thing; it's pretty much a joke at that point)

Jason Salaz

18:29

one hour left

jrg

the suspense is killing me, too bad i won't be able to get the results when they come in.

stupid schedules.

Jason Salaz

I will get the results and then go eat.

jrg

and then text them to me? ;)

stuffe

I will miss the results, and not be back for 3 hours or so.

jrg

oh, man, that's rough.

it's worse when you are running. :P

see, i'm just interested in what the new faces i'll be able to dump flags on.

Jason Salaz

18:35

@jrg I would be happy to do that.

AND I KEEP FORGETTING THERE ARE ONLY 2 POSITIONS

jrg

@JasonSalaz oh, i was joking.

Jason Salaz

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Well, I wasn't. But ok.

jrg

i do have someone doing that for the AU election, but that's more because I have a insane curiosity and direct involvement.

here it's more "oh, i'll wait."

Jason Salaz

I see how it is.

jrg

fine. guilt trip me into giving you my phone number, will you? ;)

Jason Salaz

18:40

now I'm worried that I'll be trolled :(

jrg

well, i do forget about timezones.

Jason Salaz

eh? whassis about timezones?

Jason Salaz

19:08

lol

the newsletter came out just as the election ended

oh, no, there's still an hour. never mind

Jason Salaz

19:54

217 votes...

5 minutes to go

bassplayer7

That seems like a very nice amount of votes.

I'm looking forward to getting the right two people elected. And with 217 people having a say-so, I think that will happen.

Jason Salaz

2 minutes omgijgiejiojawdioj

I will say, that historically speaking, votes usually follow rep to a tee

we're into seconds

bassplayer7

That's what I would think.

Jason Salaz

Winners are Ian C. and patrix.

bassplayer7

Super!

Jason Salaz

20:00

The full output

OpenSTV version 1.7 (OpenSTV.org)

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Loading ballots from file apple-stackexchange-com-2013-election-results.blt.
Ballot file contains 7 candidates and 217 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 217 non-empty ballots.

Caleb

Whew. <wipes brow>

bassplayer7

@patrix really nailed it. Kind of winning 1st and second place. Great work @patrix!

Caleb

Congratulations @patrix and @Ianc, and the whole AD community on two great new moderators.

Jason Salaz

well, I was right. election followed rep

however 2nd above 1st by rep, interestingly enough.

bmike

Wow - I was sure to be disappointed since I wanted more than 2 of you to win.

Jason Salaz

20:07

heh

bmike

Wow - it was close total votes for Ian and Stuffe and those that voted for Patrix swung their second choices to Ian. Is that the correct interpretation of the results.

Caleb

@JasonSalaz Actually it didn't. And there were major issues that coincidentally paralleled rep. Age and/or not being very serious nominations. It would be hard to say results followed rep from an election like this when the only two that were moderately comparable actually went the reverse of rep.

Jason Salaz

all I mean is that the top two candidates by rep were elected

in reverse order given the MeekSTV method, but still, the top two

bmike

Wow - this visualization is great.

opavote.org/results/876021/0

What a close race for the second moderator position. My earlier summary was off - all other candidates needed to be eliminated before the race could be called between @stuffe and Ianc

Caleb

20:27

@bmike Yes, very nice indeed. Interesting race.

And amusingly, "I'd make a good moderator but please don't vote for me" beats out "I won't moderate at all, please vote for me". By one vote.