@JeffSchaller @Kusalananda @terdon They both use vi/vim/gvim you've got my votes.

Philistines. Ignoramuses.

@terdon change is hard, but we're here to help. alias emacs=vi, and :wq is all you need to get started on the road to enlightenment

I know q, wq, !q and i. That's all I've ever needed those few times I have been forced to forgo my digital calisthenics and use vi.

change is in the air; if Kusalananda is elected, we're at risk of being converted to Dvorak , too!

If enlightenment means vim, I'm definitely not interested in enlightenment.

@JeffSchaller wbic16.xedoloh.com/dvorak.html

"Jeff Schaller" converted into Dvorak is "H.uu Ojdann.p".

@Kusalananda back atcha, Vf;apalalha

:-) Apalalha, I like that!

or I suppose you'd be Tgoanababea

Looks Tibetan.

Except for the "babe" part.

H.uu Ojdann.p looks vaguely Swedish to me. Did I ever tell you I tried Dvorak for a couple weeks?

@Kusalananda yes; i think someone wrote a patch for mg to use aps(4) to perform the undo command. :-)

Is that like an Etch-A-Sketch -- shake to erase?

@JeffSchaller "Huu Ojdå!" would be something one may say. It translates roughly into "Yikes, oops!"

@Kusalananda LOL! If elected, Huu Ojdå! will be my motto

@JeffSchaller yes, mdoc.su/o/aps.4 — it's an accelerometer on ThinkPad. :-)

@cnst lucky Google-fu on my part, then. I love it when people are creative like that

@JeffSchaller "Huu" is not a real word though, just a sound you'd make.

@Kusalananda that's why Google Translate was failing me, then. I was hoping to be able to prounounce it

Possibly in relation to something that stinks.

Is "hoo oydo" too far off?

@JeffSchaller That's probably a good approximation, yes.

My day is complete. I can say "^%$ oops!" in Swedish

:-)

@cnst That's... um... useful. ;-)

You just have to make sure you type lightly.

vad f**, måste man prata svenska nu för att bli moderator?

@ilkkachu Det hjälper :-)

Now, back to on-topic.

@Kusalananda please, let's. (and sorry for the language abuse)

(I think it was my and Jeff's fault)

Using a certain editor on a certain keyboard in a certain language to communicate with others... this all could be on topic, if we squint.

but certainly it's not doing much to distinguish our actual thoughts on the subject of moderation

I still think it would be nice to see a few more nominees.

I am a fan of variety, so that the community has a good selection to choose from.

And it doesn't have to be the usual suspects whose names have been mentioned in the past few days.

I wish there was a way to ping all users who were eligible, with a "score" of 30+/40 or something.

I remember being surprised at how few active users there are on the site (for some reasonable definition of "active"), and then to realize that not everyone looks at the Meta site, so I worry a bit that interested people would have enough time. I suppose it is featured on the main page on the right-hand side ... if you're not conditioned to ignore it.

@Kusalananda I suppose you could look at the monthly/yearly rep lists to find active-ish users and then check their candidate score. With a bit of manual work though.

But I was also going to say that the active ones must have at least seen the note in red print about the mod election. And gotten a notification about it.

I mean I did notice from the notifications that there was another election going on too. (On SO, it's in the primary voting phase now.)

@ilkkachu yeah I got that notification, I don’t remember getting one for the U&L election though.

Oh I did, it’s still in my notification history.

@Kusalananda not my SEDE query, but in that direction: data.stackexchange.com/unix/query/586005/…

seems to be about 60 U&L users with scores >= 30, if I'm not missing anything

ohh - with >= 10k rep

the 10k cutoff doesn't remove anyone (after re-running with minrep=1)

@JeffSchaller Not really, no. Currently two names would win by a knockout. And I think we all know which two names those are.

@JeffSchaller If you run with a cut-off at 60k, you get 10 people that could be nominated without much question. But then again, having high reputation is no guarantee for actually wanting to moderate (or being good at it).

I’d say having a high rep makes it easier for people to vote for you, because your name will be familiar ;-). That’s about it though, I can think of a few high-rep users who I would hope wouldn’t end up being moderators.

I made up for high-rep by editing everything in sight, so my name gets spread around that way. Yeah, subversive long-term moderator goal...

@JeffSchaller You do realize you are a high rep user, right?

@terdon I don't. I mean, I'm past the 20k "trusted user" but I don't count myself in the big leagues here

did I write it down somewhere election-related? I'm not an encyclopedia of UNIX; I don't test my answers in 20 shells like Kusalananda does; I enjoy the quirky Q's & A's

@JeffSchaller You're on the 1st page of users by rep. A so-called "front page user". That's pretty much the definition of high-rep.

@terdon alright, I admit defeat with your logic; I can't stop comparing myself to better answerers.

@JeffSchaller Enough with the impostor syndrome! :P

@terdon I'm good with moderate-rep user :)

9239 users with 200+ rep. Being in the top 30 or so has to mean something. (and that's ignoring the reeally long tail below 200)

@JeffSchaller oh come on :)

@ilkkachu I don't think he can help it. You know he still thinks he's an SE newbie?

@ilkkachu ok; I'm not trying to disclaim my fake internet points. I just have a different goal here, and I'm impressed by the quality of Answerers we do have.

#28 user on the site by rep, out of 1,642 users with >1k rep. And an active member for 3 years and 9 months.

And he still thinks he's a newbie and low rep!

we have a couple moderators who have been here since the beginning of the site -- twice as long as I've even been here. So I have to compromise with terdon here: I know a few things about SE and I have a moderate amount of rep.

@terdon I'll try not to answer with "well, so am I". But I think the experience distribution is pretty steep, there are people who have been here from the start or so, and surely know more. So you can always compare yourself up...

@JeffSchaller Just one, I think. Michael was born here or something, slm and I came later. He about a year before me.

But I have the best user ID of all of us: 22222

@terdon thank you for the positive feedback!

there's a good moderator for you -- stroking the egos of the site's users!

@terdon In my home town, that was someone's private phone number. I remember calling it just to see if someone would answer, and they did. Much later, I just happened to become friends with the daughter in that family (we went to the same school). This was in the 80s.

@Kusalananda I hope you dialed all the other 5 same digit strings too.

33333 was (and still is) a toy shop :-)

:)

@Kusalananda I'll take that as a yes.

@terdon Now that my secret Identity has been revealed I am afraid to say it but it has always been VIM I moved to it after learning old Java Processing