@Mitch If level headedness is the most relevant, I would think you were the man for the job.

@Mitch Well, you would probably be a good mod.

But thanks for the vote of confidence

Me too.

So that way, you don't have to worry about burn out.

jaja

:)

555

It's all good. We have good candidates.

yeah. I couldn't compete.

Mostly, I'd just like to have a primary.

fun!

seriously!

let's give em something to talk about!

not just fatigue. in debt

wait, that's the most orthogonal of mixed metphors.

@KitZ.Fox wait...I'm looking all over but I can't figure out what actually happens during the primary phase.

Just a round of voting to narrow it down to 10.

Sure, at the end, 10 nominees are left, but what actions are people doing then to do that that won't also be done during the actual election?

kind of pointless if you only have 11 anyway.

are people saying 'I like this dude because he promises free words for all'?

and then the following week you say 'Just kidding'

Do primary phase give 3 votes per user?

I don't remember. I can't remember if we've had one before. I think so, that time Evan ran.

Any current mods from Mid-East and Asia?

@KitZ.Fox No, I believe in primaries you can vote as often as you please.

So, the usual upvotes in primaries, right?

And the special 3 votes in main election.

I say this because I remember Shog saying you can't much predict final votes from primary votes because of this.

I did vote in Android. Don't remember it clearly though.

@NVZ I think so.

Except you can also downvote in primaries if you care to, and without reputation loss.

I think tchrist is already a mod minus the diamond. :)

Good luck to you, sir. :)

You just because of the blue afterimage that come of staring at my gravatar. :)

Which is completely unintentional.

Only one SE member besides myself has yet ID'd me in that regard.

Gravatar! Aha.

Well, or icon if you prefer a real word.

I mean, since joining, I've always seen your name in almost every reviewed post.

How so?

Isn't it obvious? You've done the most reviews. So naturally.. :)

I hope I'm not making this awkward.

Ok, just to see for sure that's what you meant.

It's not awkward. It's public record.

Not that those two things are mutually exclusive.

Haha. I see. :)

I also wish DanBron was a mod. He just doesn't want to.

His comments are what kept me on ELU initially. So helpful.

He's one of our many gems.

The guy posts all his answers in comments, doesn't care for reputation.

KitZ is my current fav mod. :)

MariLouA is so kind to me always. She could also be a mod.

Even if she didn't run for mod, I hope she gets an honorary mod badge or something. Just like Yoichi has.

We've asked her whether she might please run before, but she politely demured.

I'd asked DanBron and Sven Yargs. They, too, didn't want the extra responsibilities.

A diamond badge is what they deserve, though they don't need it.

Sven is magnificent.

Sven is magnificent.

@NVZ primaries allow N votes per user where N is the number of candidates. The votes may be up or down.

When the questionnaire goes up, and folks post answers, please also edit in a link to those answers (link text = nominee username) at the top of the question. Putting those in order of when the answers are posted (since some fixed order is needed) helps incentivize prompt answers.

@tchrist already has a diamond after his name, at least for short chat messages ;-)

@KitZ.Fox, @MattE.Эллен, other mods: Wow, there is a lot of hostility on the nominees' page; one user seems pretty vociferous in a not so good way. Should comments be disabled on that page? These are issues that can and should be raised right here in the election chat room.

@anongoodnurse I don't think we want to disable comments. If there is a specific user issue, that can be dealt with individually, at least for now. I believe @Grace keeps their eye out for things getting out of hand.

I confess that I was myself wracking my brains trying to figure out what that was all about.