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animuson

19:00

I think this is a great idea, though. The Town hall Chat thing was always so disorganized and having it at a set time meant not everyone could participate anyways, so everyone always ended up coming in later to answer all the questions and posting after-the-fact.

Might as well just have everyone do that.

hichris123

30 candidates.

Undo

NOOOOOOO!!!

I mean, wonderful!

hichris123

Must. Get. 20. More. Rep. So. I'm. Not. Kicked. Out.

animuson

> You must have at least 5 reputation on Software Recommendations Stack Exchange to answer a question.

Lol I can't even answer my own meta question. xD

hichris123

That's... sad.

Manishearth

19:13

@hichris123 ?

Bart

So a >10k user nominates himself just to see how stuff works, potentially pushing out valid candidates with one more nomination ... nice

Undo

rofl

@Bart I know... ;(

Geobits

So if I'm feeling spiteful I should just go ahead and nominate myself, right? Wait, who's on the bottom again?

Undo

@Geobits Well... hichris is ;(

hichris123

@Undo Um... maybe not. :P

Undo

19:16

oh?

Geobits

Huh. Well I probably shouldn't do it then. I mean, he's right there.

Undo

lol

hichris123

sigh someone just upvoted me twice.

Which means... apparently I'm not on the bottom.

Bart

Let me downvote you in compensation.

Undo

so... who is?

hichris123

19:17

@Bart Heh. You would do that...

Geobits

After him it should be the Wobbuffet.

hichris123

Yeah.

Undo

I don't know why I'm worried about getting kicked off in nominations, it's not like I'd make it through primaries :P

hichris123

In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with more than 3,045 reputation may nominate themselves to be a community moderator.

Um... what? Why 3,045?

animuson

LowerClassOverflowian

19:19

@animuson Haha. You should start a new meta question complaining relentlessly about this downright violation of your freedoms.

Undo

he can't :P

Bart

@hichris123 It adapts based on the lowest rep nominee

animuson

@hichris123 Only 30 nominations can move on, so once it hits 30, the minimum reputation threshold starts increasing so that there's only 30.

Geobits

Wait, do nominess still get swag just for being a nominee? If so, I'm totally going to knock someone out when the timer gets down to two minutes.

Undo

ahhhh!

hichris123

19:19

Ah, since they would just be kicked off...

Undo

@Geobits no, you have to make it through primaries too.

animuson

Someone with less than your reputation can no longer nominate themselves, because they'd get DQ'd anyways.

@Geobits AFAIK only the final 10 candidates get a t-shirt.

Geobits

Well that makes more sense.

hichris123

Ug.. why do you have to get into the middle of messages @animuson?

LowerClassOverflowian

Quick, someone say something nice about me or I'm running for mod!

animuson

19:21

Because I am always the center of attention. pose

Undo

@LowerClassOverflowian you are awesome.

Wait, I have more rep than you.

goes to answer SO questions

hichris123

@LowerClassOverflowian I'M GOING TO CLICK THE CINDER Spam BUTTON ON YOUR NOMINATION IF YOU NOMINATE YOURSELF. :P

Should I do that to @Undo too? :P

Undo

D:

Doorknob

nooooo hichris must get to primaries

serial upvotes

:P

Undo

Grrr I cheat myself out of rep because I end up voting to close all the questions I have enough knowledge to answer -_-

hichris123

19:23

@Undo Exactly.

@Doorknob If two more people nominate then I'm out.

Doorknob

:(

hichris123

One more is fine, though.

animuson

I'm going to be upset if after this election I'm still the lowest-rep moderator.

hichris123

So... vote for @Undo and me? (@Doorknob you're 20k right?)

LowerClassOverflowian

@animuson Don't worry, you'll still be our 15th most favorite mod!

Doorknob

19:24

@hichris123 yes

(yes I'm 20k, and yes I'll vote for you in the primary :D)

hichris123

Okay then... stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4083621. You do realize that if the Lizard closed something, then it really is NARQ?

LowerClassOverflowian

I'm going to have a hard time choosing who to vote for when I haven't been hearing any candidate sound bites.

Undo

sound bites?

Doorknob

delicious

Undo

bites on microphone

LowerClassOverflowian

19:27

Or seeing who looks moderator enough.

Undo

32 minutes.

hichris123

Well... who's the most evil?

Bart

Sigh, really ... meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/221571/revisions

Geobits

We should get them all in a panel ("by satellite" of course), and watch them talk over each other for a few minutes. That'll make it feel more familiar.

Undo

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/questions/21835426/…

LowerClassOverflowian

19:28

Now's the time to start the negative ads undo.. release them!! hahaah!

hichris123

@Undo Last CV of the day. :P

Undo

tries to think of a negative ad

if I tried to run a negative ad campaign I would screw up and bash myself.

LowerClassOverflowian

@Undo Just blame them of being robo-reviewers

it doesn't have to be true

Undo

rofl

hichris123

If you don't vote for me I'll ban you. As a regular user. I know how to hack stuff like that...

Doorknob

19:30

Undo

@Doorknob No, the many diamond part points to ChrisF, not you :P

Doorknob

:P

Undo

@LowerClassOverflowian Was that a good enough negative thing? I couldn't think of anything else.

LowerClassOverflowian

Sorry, I charge 1000 reputation points per hour to be someones campaign manager

Undo

D:

such rep

hichris123

19:32

@LowerClassOverflowian Bounties don't come that big. Sorry, you're out of luck. next

Doorknob

@LowerClassOverflowian SO or meta? :P

Geobits

I'll do it for 500/hr

Undo

Hmmm....

Geobits

SO only, no meta points.

Undo

If I don't win, do I still have to pay you?

Geobits

19:34

Yes. That's why I'm running a campaign instead of running for moderator.

Undo

If I got an mSO diamond, I would go all minitech and give bounties to everyone.

Doorknob

I do it for only 1 rep per hour! offer only valid precisely on the hour. offer void after primary begins. further terms and conditions may apply.

hichris123

@Doorknob How do we pay you?

Doorknob

@hichris123 okay, 5 rep per hour. just upvote one of my questions :P

Undo

I'd pay you 1000 rep per hour to be your campaign manager!*

*offer invalid in some countries. Void where prohibited. May be a lie in some states

hichris123

19:35

An upvote on a question then two downvotes maybe?

Doorknob

(make sure to read the ~~fine~~ italic print)

@hichris You're no longer the lowest rep nominee :D

hichris123

@Doorknob Yeah, I know. :P

Undo

yay!

Doorknob

now we hope that in these 21 minutes 2 more people don't nominate themself.

Undo

That would make me sad.

hichris123

19:38

20 mins ago, by hichris123

Which means... apparently I'm not on the bottom.

@Doorknob ^ You're a little late... :P

Doorknob

lol, just a little

hichris123

Okay... we're betting on primary votes now.

How many votes after the first minute? :P

Doorknob

I bet 500 rep that I will get up to 5 votes or more in the first five minutes!

Undo

Net votes?

up minus down, or just up?

Doorknob

doesn't matter; I always win anyway :P

> up to 5 votes or more

Undo

19:40

Does the serial downvote thing trip on elections?

hichris123

@Undo :P

Undo

oh ;(

hichris123

I know who's going to downvote everyone now... cough

Doorknob

suspcious stare

18 minutes

hichris123

19!

Undo

19:42

leaves room quietly

hichris123

Okay, now 18.

You can't really serial vote in an election anyway...

Doorknob

@hichris123 downvote everyone except you :P

Manishearth

@hichris123 you can do it over the period of a few years

Doorknob

3*10/2 minutes!

hichris123

@Manishearth That's not really serially voting... :P

Carrie Kendall

19:46

Is there a process of reporting a possible robo-reviewer?

Undo

@CarrieKendall Yes. Flag one of their posts.

hichris123

@CarrieKendall Yeah... flag one of their posts with an other flag.

Doorknob

out of curiosity @Carrie, who do you think is a robo-reviewer?

Undo

hope minitech handles the flag.

hichris123

@Doorknob Probably you. :P

Carrie Kendall

19:48

stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/4083762

hichris123

Since we all know Doorknob's are robots.

Carrie Kendall

the reject, if the reviewer visited the question and read the summary, was a good edit and no reason for rejection

Doorknob

@hichris123 Approve approve appr- I mean, what? Huh? What are you talking about...

> approved 145 edit suggestions and rejected 38 edit suggestions

seems okay to me

Bart

6

Q: Serial edit approving; a problem?

Well, while approving edits today.. in my opinion I came across a slight problem. Users serial-approving edits without even checking the content. I question whether there should be some sort of penalty for this.. if x amount of approvals a user has made have been rejected by every other user do...

animuson

That doesn't make them a robo-reviewer, though.

hichris123

19:49

10 minutes...

LowerClassOverflowian

Oh no, that scared me @CarrieKendall I was part of that ! Thank goodness I approved

Doorknob

hmmm, robo-reviewer gold mine?

Carrie Kendall

@animuson out of curiousity, what would you classify that as?

Bart

I might have actually rejected that one

Carrie Kendall

@Bart why?

Bart

19:51

Would have been wrong @CarrieKendall, but at first glance that does indeed look strange.

animuson

@CarrieKendall Some people make mistakes. I can't say I haven't accidentally declined a flag because I didn't read the flag comment correctly.

Carrie Kendall

@Bart is the edit summary unclear?

Bart

Nope, that is the thing that would have tripped it for me. But at a quick glance I overlooked that and thought "what the..."

Merely saying I could see the honest mistake by the other reviewer

hichris123

@Doorknob Mm... why?

Carrie Kendall

yeah, i just meant this as a reference, thanks for the helpful pointers

3ventic

19:53

@TimPost Did you just send me an email?

Doorknob

@hichris123 that edit most definitely should have been rejected

it changes code

hichris123

sigh cv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/21838092/…

Carrie Kendall

i am weary of flagging unrelated content (as suggested here) simply because of that @animuson :)

Doorknob

review stats - 35/8, 419/24, 70/4 (rejects/approves)

Jeroen Vannevel

http://stackoverflow.com/election/5#post-21820676
Am I the only one that's never seen his name pass by, or is he active here under a different account?

Carrie Kendall

19:54

anyways, off to a meeting, thanks

hichris123

@Doorknob Oh, I didn't see the braces changes and else added.

Doorknob

...why did someone star that message I posted? :P

4 minutes

LowerClassOverflowian

Why hasn't anyone starred any of my messages?

rene

Didn't know this existed: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/221592/158100

Doorknob

here's hoping two people don't randomly nominate themselves just to troll @hichris :O

animuson

19:56

Go dress up as a giant star and we will.

hichris123

@LowerClassOverflowian Better? :P

@Doorknob Okay, @animuson go nominate yourself. :P

Doorknob

can a mod nominate themself? :P

animuson

I don't think the post will actually submit, but the link to do it is there.

hichris123

Feb 10 at 21:00, by animuson

Lol why does the "nominate yourself" link appear for moderators?

Doorknob

lol

rene

19:57

Hmmm, Safari doesn't support JS Navigation timing...

hichris123

@animuson Try it? :P

Doorknob

T-2:00

animuson

I'd rather not break things.

Doorknob

if it works, someone will be kicked out :P

hichris123

That's... not the point of being a mod @animuson. Mods are supposed to break things.

Undo

19:59

1 minute...

Doorknob

1 minute

ha! I was faster

animuson

We break hopes and dreams, not the site.

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hichris123

> Nominations close in 52 seconds.

Doorknob

37 secs

LowerClassOverflowian

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Undo

19:59

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