Jun 24, 2014 20:19
I am dying to pull this election file into Excel and start playing with it.
Jun 24, 2014 20:18
@medica - Don't say that too soon... you would be a good moderator.
Jun 24, 2014 20:18
@medica - The whole election ended up being about what we can do to be more friendly to newcomers. So in that sense I feel like I won.
Jun 24, 2014 20:16
@medica - It's very unlikely that I'll run again... especially if we see some of the changes I've been hoping for, as I am optimistic will happen.
Jun 24, 2014 20:07
@medica - likewise.
Jun 24, 2014 20:06
@medica - Best possible result for me: enough support to prove that my issues matter to a lot of people, but not enough support that I actually have to be a moderator.
Jun 24, 2014 20:03
Now I get my life back.
Jun 24, 2014 20:02
congratulations winners!
Jun 24, 2014 19:58
Well, good luck everyone.
Jun 24, 2014 19:52
@MattЭллен - On the Stack Exchange bar at the top of the screen on the normal site.
Jun 24, 2014 19:50
Thing I learned today: If you click the Achievements button (the bar graph thing), it shows you the current server time in UTC.
Jun 24, 2014 19:49
@medica - 10 minutes.
Jun 24, 2014 18:14
I wonder if it's feasible to make certain close options, like migration options, only available to people above a certain rep level.
Jun 24, 2014 18:12
@KitFox - Well, that's good.
Jun 24, 2014 18:11
@KitFox - As moderators, how much latitude will we have to unilaterally migrate a question to ELL if (trying to word the question very carefully here) we believe it would provide greater benefit to the asker than allowing it to remain here?
Jun 24, 2014 18:08
I see questions go by all the time that I believe would clearly benefit their askers better if they went to ELL.
Jun 24, 2014 18:06
@KitFox - Is there anything we can do on our end to get that conversation started again?
Jun 24, 2014 18:06
ahem... :)
Jun 24, 2014 18:05
It needs to be picked back up.
Jun 24, 2014 18:05
@tchrist - I understand your frustration. You did your due diligence. The ball was dropped elsewhere.
Jun 24, 2014 18:05
@Emrakul - True, but it remains a good, representative list of the kinds of questions that could be migrated.
Jun 24, 2014 18:03
@tchrist - Then that seems like the place where dialogue needs to start.
Jun 24, 2014 18:03
@tchrist, you asked this question a year and a half ago - did anything ever come of it?
Jun 24, 2014 18:02
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Q: Fifty Migration Candidates from ELU > ELL

tchristSome weeks ago now, Grace asked that we please assemble a list of candidate ELU-to-ELL questions instead of flagging them. I compiled such a list based on people’s nominations, but it is a bit hard to find in this posting. So here is that list of migration nominees again, nearly all of which ar...

Jun 24, 2014 18:01
@medica - If so, that's incredibly inefficient.
Jun 24, 2014 18:00
We should open a dialogue with ELL to come to a meeting of the minds about what kinds of questions they would welcome, and which ones they'd rather us not send over.
Jun 24, 2014 17:59
@Cerberus - I believe that most truly basic grammar questions are likely to be a better fit for ELL. I have no problem seeing those migrated over there.
Jun 24, 2014 17:58
@medica - hello
Jun 23, 2014 21:39
oh hey, we're back in business.
Jun 23, 2014 21:38
At least those of us who lose this election will be able to tie it up in court for years over the voting irregularities.
Jun 23, 2014 21:36
We lost multiple internet providers simultaneously, we are working on getting Oregon stable as quickly as we can.
Jun 23, 2014 21:07
ample use of the word "sustainable" is encouraged.
Jun 23, 2014 21:07
just in case, everyone prepare to make your answers more... Oregon-like.
Jun 23, 2014 21:06
That was 8 minutes ago. Apparently WE'RE not MAJOR enough for OREGON.
Jun 23, 2014 21:06
We are bringing the major sites up in Oregon now.
Jun 23, 2014 20:33
@tchrist - Okay, so a view indicates one or more views by a single user during a generously-defined "session". That still suggests that not many more (and probably significantly less) than 514 distinct warm bodies have ever viewed the questionnaire question.
Jun 23, 2014 20:29
@tchrist ...actually, you're right; I just tried it and it didn't work. I must have hallucinated that.
Jun 23, 2014 20:28
@tchrist - I think I've tested this: when I view a question and then hit Refresh 4 times, the view count goes up by 5.
Jun 23, 2014 20:26
@tchrist - flimsical? Been shopping in the aisle, have we?
Jun 23, 2014 20:21
@medica - ah, so I am. That's probably some sort of mistake.
Jun 23, 2014 20:20
eh?
Jun 23, 2014 20:19
@Mitch - Oh yes, that's certainly true. I assume that most people vote based on our opening statements and questionnaire answers (although I note with interest that we currently have more voters than the questionnaire has views).
Jun 23, 2014 20:12
@YoichiOishi - In the very early days of the network, questions and answers were both worth 10 points per upvote. This was changed because it was believed to be slanted in favor of questions at the expense of answers.
Jun 23, 2014 20:10
@Mitch - You assume the bulk of the voters are familiar with the personalities involved. I'm sure we all like to think we stick out in people's minds, but that's not necessarily true.
Jun 23, 2014 20:09
Greetings @YoichiOishi
Jun 23, 2014 20:06
@Shog9 - And people can change their votes after casting them, after all.
Jun 23, 2014 19:59
I've participated in elections for other SE sites where I didn't really know the candidates very well ahead of time, and it can be pretty bewildering.
Jun 23, 2014 19:57
It's possible that people have been checking the transcripts.
Jun 23, 2014 19:51
I think when there's less than a day left it will start counting down the number of hours.