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Well, to be fair to the OP, Stack Overflow is the only place where we do not have chat house ads enabled -- which increases the visibility of chat substantially.

> we're a little afraid to deploy the chat ad on Stack Overflow because it's so large..

saywhat? Are they afraid the infrastructure won't support a sudden massive influx of new people?

Tim Stone

11:24 PM

It's possible that the chat ad itself may cause trouble :P

Rebecca Chernoff

How is it that 2 THCs have their best fit time match at the same time? |:

drachenstern

@RebeccaChernoff that sounds totally logical, however unfair it is

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff THC?

Rebecca Chernoff

Town Hall Chat (:

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

ah

Makes sense. Weekends and work schedules are usually the same for the average person

Tim Stone

11:26 PM

Ah, that makes a bit more sense. I thought it was "Town Hall Candidates", and I was confused why their overlapping times were an issue, heh.

Rebecca Chernoff

If it were two smaller ones I'd probably be ok running both at the same time. But I have a feeling the SOTHC is gonna need my 100% attention.

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff I think you are right

Rebecca Chernoff

Will just do them one after the other. Oh boy.

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff When are the times?

Rebecca Chernoff

SO's will be Sunday at 8pm UTC / 3pm EST I'm a'thinking.

Josh

11:34 PM

Ug, I was caught up on the phone for a whole hour witha customer

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

Okie dokie, gotta clear my calendar

Thanks

Josh

Didn't get to finish up anything I was trying to finish this afternoon!

@RebeccaChernoff Is there anything I can do to help? Maybe my lack of modship prevents this but I am glad to do anything I can!

You can feel fre to contact me offsite if you need to

Rebecca Chernoff

I think it'll be ok. CSTheory will go first, and that will be a smaller one. It may not even go the full hour as I'm told they don't really use chat, so who knows who will show up. Then SO will go next and I can concentrate on that and if people stick around and it goes long I won't have to scurry off.

Josh

Well if nothing else, I will help star questions :-)

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff I think it's gonna be chaos...That's my prediction.

Josh

11:37 PM

But seriously, I am happy to do anything I can, even helping you with the summary afterwards

@JustinjjnguyNelson I'm thinking the same thing :-)

Rebecca Chernoff

I'm also secretly glad it is on a Sunday/weekend...less traffic may just make it manageable. hopes prays

Josh

@JustinjjnguyNelson Were you at the ServerFault one?

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff That will deff help.

Josh

Agreed

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh No. But I tried reading the transcript. Pretty crazy

Josh

11:39 PM

@JustinjjnguyNelson Yeah. You want to talk crazy? I tried chatting in the room during it! :-)

@RebeccaChernoff, are you open to a different format?

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

Well, however it turns out. I'm looking forward to it.

Josh

Same here!

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

I need to sway some voters! :)

Rebecca Chernoff

hehe

@Josh, I've been pondering it but I'm leaning towards rolling with an open format.

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff Here's what I'm thinking as a possible alternative, and keep in mind I am just brainstorming: Maybe two rooms, one a gallery where only the candidates can talk, and a second a free-for-all. Everyone joins both rooms, and the questions get asked by everyone in the free-for-all, and you (or other mods) ask them one by one, by moving them, in the gallery...

This would allow each candicate to address each question once in the gallery, and then discussion to happen in the open room

but, it will be possibly more confusing and thus less will participate :-(

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

11:43 PM

2 rooms at a time. Can't say I've ever done that before.

Josh

Hoepfully you'd only ever need to talk in the gallery once every few minutes

each question gets asked there sequentially and you answer each one once. Then answer followups and discussion in the free for all

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

Hmm, I kinda like that idea. It might be confusing though.

Josh

Yeah. I can't find a way around the confusing part

Thoughts @RebeccaChernoff?

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh My guess is she is draftin emails to the candidates.

Josh

@JustinjjnguyNelson I think you're right :-)

So if you want one more vote @Justin, convince me that @MichaelMrozek is a horrible candidate and I should vote for you instead of him ;-)

I'm torn between him and Lasse for my #1 choice

Rebecca Chernoff

11:50 PM

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Q: 2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat: 8pm UTC on the 30th

In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of moderation. Participation is completely voluntary. I am working with the can...

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

The only bad thing I have to say about him is that he is new. Other than that I think he'd be a good candidate. I've been a member since the beginning, and I've seen the site grow and change.

He has only been a member for 9 months.

But, I have nothing bad to say about him.

Josh

Michael Mrozek, Indiana, US

12k 1 12 36

discussion feature-request support bug status-completed stackoverflow reputation

Huh, you're right, he has only been around for 9 months

For some reason I thought he was around for longer than I was, maybe just because I see him everywhere, LOL

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

That is probably why.

Rebecca Chernoff

A lot can happen in a short few months. (:

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff Yey, I'm registrant #3! :-)

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

11:53 PM

@RebeccaChernoff Agreed. He is great. Like I said, I have nothing bad to say about him.

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff especially these past few months!

@JustinjjnguyNelson wow, 2 years 5 months, impressive!

That is a really good selling point @Justin!

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh Thanks. (That's almost as old as you can get)

Rebecca Chernoff

@Josh q:

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh Lasse is older than I. (By probably a month) (But his meta participation is lacking for me)

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff sorry actually s/few/seven/

Rebecca Chernoff

11:55 PM

The last 206 days (:

Josh

@RebeccaChernoff is that how long chat's been around?

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff Is that how long you have been a member?

Rebecca Chernoff

> visited 213 days, 206 consecutive

Josh

HAHA!

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@RebeccaChernoff Ha. I'm at 207 consec.

Rebecca Chernoff

11:56 PM

I've been a member for over a year, but really only participated the last, well apparently 206 days. (:

Josh

The network is definetly a better place with you on it @RebeccaChernoff

It's absolutely a better place with you as an employee :-D

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh You know she can't vote for you as mod :P

Josh

LOL

I spend too much time in here to be a mod :-)

er, s/spend/waste/

mootinator

goes to SO to post 135 lines of code not in a code block, followed by "Why I get NullReference?"

Josh

My goal is to chat in here enough to skip modship altogether and end up working under @Zypher ;-)

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

11:58 PM

@Josh shouldn't you be in the SF chat then?

Josh

LOL. I am in there also, but in seriousness I'm joking. I love StackOverflow and all the rest of the sites, but I am a very happy business part-owner :-)

Justin 'jjnguy' Nelson

@Josh You are a part owner of SO?

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