2018 Academia Moderator Election Chat

3:02 PM

@Wrzlprmft Well, that is to be expected if the election is due to a rather popular mod being forced to step down due to (from what I gathered) simply causing more 'fuss and controversy' than mods should. So, yeah, things like that heat things up. I suppose election was nessecary due to mods being otherwise overworked, but waiting for things to simmer down would perhaps be better.

@MassimoOrtolano I must say that for at least 3 users, I'm almost certain that they'd be a good choice (so my voting wasn't hard). For the 4th, I simply don't have enough info, but I'd wager it wouldn't be a bad mod at the least

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StrongBad

4:21 PM

@Discretelizard but only 1 candidate has promised to make reviewer 2 pay.

Massimo Ortolano

4:35 PM

@StrongBad As a last-ditch effort, I promise the doubling of the h-index of every user! :-p

@StrongBad Ah, but I'm not an academic yet. I have no papers that need be reviewed.

StrongBad

@MassimoOrtolano you are going to have to publish a lot with a bunch of truly random citations.

Massimo Ortolano

@StrongBad It would be a nice social experiment, somehow in the same spirit of that in which it was submitted a computer-generated paper.

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7:21 PM

@MassimoOrtolano Will the paper contain a lot of chickens?

@Discretelizard Oh, that’s not even half of the drama. They elected one mod who was at that moment serving a one-year suspension on another site, as a result of which some former moderators had their accounts deleted.

@Wrzlprmft Oh wow. Could you point to some place that might provide a comprehensive overview of the mess? For eh, research purposes?

7:53 PM

@Discretelizard I don’t think so. I would have to search myself.

@Wrzlprmft Perhaps it is for the best. No need to start digging on my behalf.

But “for research purposes” makes for a good academia equivalent of “for a friend”.

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Hosea

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4,808 voters were eligible, 1,768 visited the site during the election, 1,009 visited the election page, and 458 voted

ArtOfCode

8:00 PM

in The Ivory Tower, 45 secs ago, by SmokeDetector

Unofficial results: Winner is Wrzlprmft.

in The Ivory Tower, 47 secs ago, by SmokeDetector

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Hosea

What does unofficial results mean?

Who has got highest vote.

@Hosea

ArtOfCode

I ran the election manually to get those results. They're almost certainly correct, but they're not Stack Exchange's official results.

Are all the top 3 going to be moderators?

StrongBad

@Hosea SmokeDetector is bot and the official result comes from SE.

@Coder no, there was only one spot. All the old mods are staying on.

ArtOfCode

8:03 PM

There's the official results.

Okay. Great then. You guys become a team of 5 to keep the site clean.

ff524

Yay! So excited to have you on board @Wrzlprmft

As expected, Congratulations @Wrzlprmft

Thanks everybody. I must say that I am really surprised how clear the result was, given the competition.

I congratulate other campaigner for the successful campaign. I am sure there may not be much difference in the vote counts.

In fact I would thank all the moderators and people around academia.SE from who I do learn a lot of things. It is impressive to see such clear election and results. See you all.

@Wrzlprmft got the diamond symbol beside his name. :-)

8:08 PM

@Wrzlprmft Indeed. I didn't expect such a landslide victory. Congratulations! I gather you will be doing some sort of official introduction soon, yes?

@StrongBad 'SmokeDetector' lol, what does this have to do with anything?

@Discretelizard I can’t really throw a round, can I?

@Wrzlprmft FREE CITATIONS FOR EVERYONE!

Also, we should attempt to get reviewer 2 to party too hard, so that the reviewer will be temporarily ... disabled.

@Discretelizard I am with you on this.

@all Can the moderators write in their CV about this achievement? That they are serving as Moderator for academia.SE.