Does anybody know if the motivation for this election is somebody resigning or just a need for more hands on deck? I haven't been in chat much for a while and have missed any community chat to this effect...

Never mind, the questionnaire questions suggests the latter (based on chat). I'll go with that unless I hear otherwise ;-)

@Caleb They're just adding more people. It's been discussed here.

Though I don't have a link off hand.

Nobody is resigning. But I think more manpower is definitely needed.

@terdon Moved to a house, lots of other things to do. And the next badge (legendary) looked to far out of reach for the time I was willing to spend :-D

@Anthon Well, nice to have you back, anyway! :)

@JNat Thanks.

What are the problems with welcoming new users? (Point 3 on Questionnaire refereed to slm's item 1? /cc @slm can you explain/elaborate bit? Thanks

Btw, these 10 questions are very interesting, especially I like "Where do you draw the line!" This directly touches with well known "moderator discretion :)

@Caleb were just adding ppl

@Pandya My comment around new users was more in people that are new to Unix & Linux technologies, not so much to our site. But there's def. room for improvement in how we as a site deal w/ people that are new to all of this.

@JeffSchaller you interested in the election at all?

@Anthon hey, long time no see, hope all is well on your end!

@Kiwy - nice avatar

@slm Hiya slm! I am, actually. If you can keep a secret, I've been polishing up my "I'm a candidate too" posting.

@JeffSchaller glad to hear that, good luck.

It's a little bit longer than the sudo -i one, so I'm just trying to polish it up a bit :)

@JeffSchaller YAY!

lol

@StephenKitt did you decide on what you were going to do?

Good luck to @Kusalananda as well

@slm not yet, still pondering — at least if Kusalananda and Jeff stand we’ve got a good chance of ending up with two more great moderators ;-)

Agreed, we can't really go wrong here 8-)

@terdon, I suppose this is the better room to ask/respond in: Out of curiosity, is there U&L-mod-only chat room? I'd hate to bother the entire SE mod crew for something that could be U&L specific.

@slm yup, that’s how I took your question

You and K have been our more active A'ers and so it's completely understandable if some ppl want to hang back and focus on that aspect of the site vs. mod'ing it.

@slm hey! you stole my entire election platform :)

Yeah we have a mod only room just for the 3 of us and there's a larger one called teachers lounge for all mods

@JeffSchaller 8-)

"don't elect those superstars! they have way better answers than me!"

When I look for Q's to A'er they always do such great jobs it leaves little room for the rest of us 8-).

What TZ are you in @JeffSchaller?

I'm in EDT/EST

I think Michael's in CST

Terdon's in Spain/Greece?

@slm ShutupShutupShutupShutupShutup! That's the whole point of my pushing Stephen and Kusalananda to run!

whoops...

@slm London, UK these days.

@terdon - nice didn't know you moved to UK.

Yep. Been a bit more than a year now.

How's the whole Brexit thing going....

Don't ask.

We hear about it every day.

The interviews w/ ppl that say they voted for it but didn't really understand what they were getting into is hilarious and sad at the same time.

We have our own fun w/ our president, I have a countdown clock going.

@slm I'm EST, too. Trying to switch to EDT, still. :)

Yeah me too. Drove all the way to the office yday and realized I forgot my laptop, had to drive home to get it.

If I was 5% more organized, I'd have a list of all the non-connected clocks I have to reset twice a year.

but I'm drifting off-topic, so I'll try to stop :)

nice

we have a puns channel in slack at work, it's filled w/ these all day.

@JeffSchaller Nicely!

@Kusalananda you managed to finish thinking about it before I did :)

must be the keyboard ;)

@slm It's horrible. I just don't really want to go off on a brexit tangent in this room. But this is a particularly important day: theguardian.com/uk-news

I've been thinking about ti a long time. When the opportunity presented itself I just needed to spend some time actually deciding.

@terdon - yeah been watching today as well to see how it unfolds.

@slm Hmm. Ok. How about writing some guidelines and linking it to the space editable at help center?. e.g. check this help center where we have added link to some useful resources to get scriptures. Another case is this one more precisely.

@slm Hi slm doing fine and you, whe're you now at?

I moved to North Carolina from New York.

Weather's better. I work at a telecom company here. See a lot of Red Hat ppl.

The head quarters of RH are here.

I know the feeling of someone else always getting better answers in than I could produce ...

8-)

@slm Thanks. Personnaly I think it is AWESOME !

Yeah the new movie was hilarious as well.

@slm Raleigh?

yeah

been here since 2015.

I'm answering the Q&A... I've been at it the whole evening... About to start on question 5. There's so much in there!

I just wish more people would make nominate themselves.

@Kusalananda you'll get my vote