Puzzling 2017 Moderator Election Chat

12:44 AM

right now we're at 19.25 hours remaining - like almost anything else that shows a time on the site, hovering over it will show the exact time UTC the event references.

Rubio

1:38 AM

                 LAST ELECTION  THIS ELECTION
first 24 hours:         260     295
first 48 hours:         303     323
first 72 hours:         395     343
first 96 hours:         416     364
first 120 hours:                372
first 132 hours:                373
first 144 hours:                375
first 156 hours:                379
first 168 hours:                383
TOTAL VOTES CAST:       416     388 (at 171 hours)

Marius

6:13 AM

@humn Sorry, I saw your message during the weekend but forgot to reply. I don't understand what you mean in your comment and I feel insulted by this :D

Techidiot

7:33 AM

12 Hrs to go.. All the best to all the candidates! :) May the best people win!

Mithrandir

:)

stack reader

8:23 AM

I have a feeling I know the outcome haha....

I got a feeling I will end up #5, but one can still wish!

Rubio

                 LAST ELECTION  THIS ELECTION
first 24 hours:         260     295
first 48 hours:         303     323
first 72 hours:         395     343
first 96 hours:         416     364
first 120 hours:                372
first 132 hours:                373
first 144 hours:                375
first 156 hours:                379
first 168 hours:                383
first 180 hours:                391
TOTAL VOTES CAST:       416     391 (at 179 hours)

Marius

3:33 PM

I won't be online when the results are in, so I want to say congrats in advance for the new mods. May your reign be long, fruitful and discrete at the same time.

Mithrandir

Oh, only 4 hours left?

Rubio

4h20m

Mithrandir

You're running out of time to bribe me, guys/gals! :P

Rubio

Elect me and there'll be ~~“a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.“~~ an upvote on every question and a Green Checkmark on every answer.

Mithrandir

...but i wanted a chicken...

Rubio

3:45 PM

talk to Herbert Hoover. :)

GentlePurpleRain

"In every pot he said a chicken / But Herbert Hoover he forgot / Not only don't we have a chicken / We ain't got the pot"

Mithrandir

wow, that's a landslide

Rubio

Electoral votes wise, yes. Popular vote a big win but not quite the landslide the electoral college votes make it look like.

But de people dey wants their chickens.

Also, he was running against Al "Who?" Smith

Sid

Don't know what else you call a landslide

Rubio

@GentlePurpleRain Hoovervilles were lovely places, I'm sure. :)

Anyway. I'd, er, like to thank you for bringing that song to mind.

Sid

4:01 PM

Man, this was close

Or however that link thing works ^

Mithrandir

no space

Rubio

btw @GentlePurpleRain if you're going through flags

there's two I raised for the same poster on different questions that are related; the issue has somewhat been addressed, but not by the poster themselves, so my concern such as it is remains.

GentlePurpleRain

@Rubio This probably isn't the place to discuss it, but your flags have been received, and will be looked at in due time.

Maybe in a few hours you'll be able to address them yourself... ;)

Rubio

Just mentioned it here as you're recently active here. :)

But.. but ... if I win, I have to ban myself, don't I? hehe

Mithrandir

I'm really interested in seeing the voting results of this one...

Rubio

4:09 PM

Yeah - vested interest notwithstanding, I am interested anyway in who the community is voting for

Sid

Last time, it was down to the wire between GPR and Alconja. Let's see what is in store this time around.

GentlePurpleRain

Last time there were two clear winners, and then it was down to the wire between me and Alconja about who would pick up the scraps...

n_palum

Poor GPR

GentlePurpleRain

4:29 PM

→ 18 messages moved to Puzzling Healthy Debate Room

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n_palum

Oh yeah, wrong room

Rubio

5:08 PM

oh sure. and I just left that room because it has sat idle for a week. :)

Rubio

6:14 PM

                 LAST ELECTION  THIS ELECTION
first 24 hours:         260     295
first 48 hours:         303     323
first 72 hours:         395     343
first 96 hours:         416     364
first 120 hours:                372
first 132 hours:                373
first 144 hours:                375
first 156 hours:                379
first 168 hours:                383
first 180 hours:                391
first 192 hours:                396
TOTAL VOTES CAST:       416     396 (at 190 hours)

Down to the final two hours

will we break 400?

Sconibulus

May 18 at 16:38, by Sconibulus

400 seems a more reasonable guess

n_palum

Nailed it, I overestimated our voters :P

Erik the Outgolfer

6:38 PM

election ends in an hour...am I able to wait that much?

@Rubio ok this is depressing

Techidiot

Should I sleep or wait for 60 mins more? :)

n_palum

W8 M8

Techidiot

Hmm.. I think that's the plan ;)

Rubio

76 minutes more, but close enough.

Techidiot

Aren't we allowed to play the prediction game ?

:p

Rubio

6:44 PM

No. It doesn't start with C

Techidiot

He he

n_palum

Haha

Techidiot

Be nice @Rubio and let us allow :p

Erik the Outgolfer

what doesn't start with c? vtc as unclear

Techidiot

Can we ever have a tie?

Rubio

6:46 PM

You have to play the CONTEMPLATION game. or if you really want to get out there with your predictions, the CONJECTURES game.

Erik the Outgolfer

but it doesn't start with c...?

Techidiot

Nice word for a longgg game

GentlePurpleRain

Rubio defending: C :P

Techidiot

Haha

Rubio

7:04 PM

I'm already playing Codenames sorry ;)

user61230

7:18 PM

42 minutes remaining. So. It comes to this.

n_palum

@Emrakul waves adieu

Mithrandir

2

@Emrakul go take a good look at all the deleted posts...

user61230

@Mithrandir [looks] Well I'm glad these are all deleted.

Mithrandir

:P

user61230

:P

Mithrandir

7:40 PM

Oh, @Emrak, are you going to change your parent user so that you're still blue and have access to the TL and everything?

GentlePurpleRain

20 minutes...

user61230

@Mithrandir Oh, that's a good idea

user61230

10 minutes...

GentlePurpleRain

I don't remember -- how long does it typically take for the results to be available after voting ends?

Mithrandir

Immediately

AFAIR

GentlePurpleRain

7:52 PM

So the Meek STV thing runs automatically and posts the results automatically?

Mithrandir

No, I don't think so.

user61230

It posts the ballot file automagically, but the results are manual.

GentlePurpleRain

So we either run the ballot file ourselves or wait for a CM to do so and post the results?

Mithrandir

The counts are available for you to download yourself and run whatever you want on it, but the official results are manual.

GentlePurpleRain

I wonder how many times the election page will be refreshed in the next 5 minutes or so...

ffao

7:57 PM

someone is going to run the ballot file within 30 seconds of it being posted anyway

at least that happened last election

I just noticed I'm the only black name in this whole page

Mithrandir

You're special.

n_palum

Joins the common folk :P

ffao

o/

Rubio

dun dun dun DUN

n_palum

2,485 voters were eligible, 978 visited the site during the election, 745 visited the election page, and 397 voted

That's a tad sad

Undo

8:00 PM

@ffao Usually my job, but I have a Real Job now

user61230

@n_palum Pretty normal turnout for SE, actually! If even a bit high.

ArtOfCode

Usually my fallback, but I also have a Real Job (and no SSH keys this week)

Deusovi

I'll run it.

n_palum

@Emrakul I just meant the visited vs actual votes

Deusovi

Gareth and Rubio!

2

ffao

8:02 PM

and no one is surprised

Mithrandir

*claps*

Mike Q

* confetti *

user61230

@GarethMcCaughan and @Rubio, congratulations! You've won a shiny diamond!

Rubio

Yahoo!

ffao

I'm just hoping you keep your campaign promises, @Rubio

3

Deusovi

8:04 PM

@ffao What? "Keeping campaign promises"? That's a thing that people do?

3

Mike Q

@Rubio So when do you ban yourself?

Sconibulus

hmm, that went about as I would have predicted, although I thought 5th and 7th would have switched places

Undo

Two non-mods, right? So completely fresh blood?

user61230

@Undo Fresh blood, mmmm...

ffao

can we get a screenshot of the final results?

Deusovi

8:05 PM

Yup.

ffao

I can't run OpenSTV here

user61230

@ffao Check meta!

ffao

oh, will do

Sconibulus

opavote.com/results/5647403835195392/0

Deusovi

user61230

8:05 PM

Detailed election results!

n_palum

@Sconibulus Marius and I?

Sconibulus

Yeah

n_palum

Hm. Thanks for what it's worth :P

Rubio

I apparently have to wait for the formalities of my Diamond's appearance before I can carry out my election platform. :)

GentlePurpleRain

I was looking at the results, and kept wondering why this "Exhausted" guy wasn't being eliminated...

Rubio

8:09 PM

I voted for him

Mithrandir

ffao

this election needed a lot less rounds

I remember we needed like 20 rounds to disambiguate between GPR and Alconja last time

GentlePurpleRain

Yeah, it was close.

Sconibulus

@Mithrandir charge your phone

2

Mithrandir

@Sconibulus at 4 percent I will

ffao

8:12 PM

that's actually bad for your battery

user61230

@GentlePurpleRain Exhausted was too tired to be eliminated.

Erik the Outgolfer

9:04 PM

@Emrakul your...about me

@GarethMcCaughan remember to change parent site

also don't worry about your flair, blame cache

user61230

@EriktheOutgolfer Hmm? Which one?

Erik the Outgolfer

on your about me (not chat) it says you've got a diamond collection

> Moderator for Puzzling.SE

yeah you're not under that pressure anymore...sorry to see you go btw

user61230

Hey! One can be a collection! Just not a very big one.

user61230

But thanks for reminding me, I should update that.

stack reader

11:48 PM

Is my name color different???

boboquack

No

stack reader

nope haha.... well time to go see the results

boboquack

And Emrak is only blue because of lit

stack reader

Wait... I finished last??? really???

I guess I will have to rejoice that 16 people actually thought I was worth being first choice.

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Puzzling 2017 Moderator Election Chat