@rene Too rude, amiright?

See! Told you so ...

@rene I've never found you to be overly direct....

expect an overly direct response now

:p

<grin>

And the newest site in the collection: Drawing-overflow

@LynnCrumbling compensating here ...

Does someone want to write up a decent "other" close reason for that question?

Is it trig or geometry?

> They often consider the English or American forms of politeness a sign of weakness, and reeking of insincerity and hypocrisy (two traits Dutch people absolutely despise)

So... I'm apparently Dutch

No kidding...

yeah :P

@Braiam Welcome to the club

There are times when people feign politeness ...and that REEKS of hypocrisy.

actually I have Dutch decendency

Everybody has. We ruled the world, you know.

:)

ponders what would be of the world if rene ruled it

Different....

@SmokeDetector fp

@Undo Registered answer as false positive.

Wow ... so in the nomination phase, you could actually get pushed out if you aren't in the top 30-repped people?

@LynnCrumbling Yep

It's happened before

That seems .. crappy.

It does help keep joke nominations out

On SO the threshold was only raised to like 4k IIRC

Well, there's a 3k min

hichris and I made it to primaries, with 5k each IIRC

> In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with more than 3,000 reputation may nominate themselves to be a community moderator.

go look at that number on stackoverflow.com/election/5

Oh, the adjusted amount.

I see.

yeah, the system knows that anyone with less than that amount will get kicked out anyway and thus just won't let them nominate

Can we have a bet on how many votes will be cast?

punches numbers into calculator

Consistestency!

@rene 30,721

but I'm not very confident in that.

Is doorknob going to run again?

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!!/so2015

@Undo Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 2 hours, 21 minutes and 4 seconds.

Wow... go back and read through bluefeet's 2014 nomination comments...

Absolutely incredible.

@LynnCrumbling I was just thinking that. @Doorknob I would totally vote for you.

Same with Martijn.

I'm going to nominate myself, too. I don't really have a chance but it's a good opportunity to see how I could improve for next year.

@LynnCrumbling I voted for bluefeet solely based on the comments she received. She has lived upto every expectation.

I hope the new mods are as good as Andrew Barber and animuson.

:3259571 I could think about a dutch mod ...

^I saw that rene

@InfiniteRecursion I think that is up for us to determine with good feedback and to the point questions

Yes, indeed.

I think gnat would make a good mod.

@InfiniteRecursion I don't mind ... I assume Martijn can handle that but the rest of this room might not...

@InfiniteRecursion Makes me want to hold off voting for nominations until I see comments come in... (even though your gut is to throw vote in, immediately.)

Can't cast any votes until the primary anyway

^

@InfiniteRecursion I voted for Andrew based on the other mods' comments. I recall being wow'd.

Of the folks that are running, do you already have your nomination text prepped?

@bummi Don't assume a dutch background will help in moderating. There is a reason we no longer are a major player in the world...

@Undo Now I feel dumb. :)

:)

Go ahead, @InfiniteRecursion .. caret that too. :)

@InfiniteRecursion And absolutely. She's doing a wonderful job.

@LynnCrumbling Let me find something nice to pin... :D

@rene think bigger, Europe ... ;)

:D

@JasonC I'm not running this year.

pins @Undo's nomination text

@Doorknob (sad face)

Haven't been active very much at all on SO lately, and I'd be taking up a spot that could go to someone with less rep.

(also, two diamonds is plenty already :P)

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!!/so2015

@InfiniteRecursion Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 21 seconds.

Would anybody vote for me? considers running

I <3 burning spam

Yes, I will. :)

Yes I would, probably. I need to stop committing to voting for taverners until I see all the nominations, though, lol.

Plot twist: the entire Tavern runs to guarantee a victory for at least one of us.

:)

I agree.

Tavern mod voting ring ftw.

Let's create the Tavern Party of Meta and have our own primary to prevent conflicts.

Haha

Parties .. ha

Only if we can have a convention in an exotic city.

We can all flee to DevDoodle if it goes downhill.

Under the protective dictatorship of bjb

xD

Our flag can be, like, a cat with a sickle and a vanilla js snippet in the background.

Waiting for someone to Photoshop that...

^ [status-feature-request]

:-/ I am no good with the tag-fu

Lol, I will, as soon as I'm done with my nomination post, which is making me weirdly anxious.

SOMETHING DOESN'T EXIST ON THE INTERNET :o

@JasonC draft it on /questions/ask

@Undo Even better: stackedit.io

!!/so2015

@AstroCB Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 1 hour, 34 minutes and 47 seconds.

In 1 hour, 34 minutes and 457 seconds I'll be fast asleep

@JasonC So.. wait.. you're just going to nominate yourself so that you can get people to be critical of you?

(I can do that without the nomination :)

Fun

"I notice that you're only active on Stack Overflow for 21 hours/day; do you think that those wasted 3 hours could be problematic for you as a moderator?"

@AstroCB that's about what nomination comments look like :P

nuke stackoverflow.com/a/29477287/2301450?

Although maybe he'll delete it himself

NAA

@vaultah Unregistered user; I doubt it.

gone

@LynnCrumbling No. I'm going to nominate myself in all seriousness and try my best. But, confidence is low. If I fail, I will at least get good feedback, because I intend to run again in the future. So, it's a good opportunity to make a difference either way.

So no matter how it turns out, I don't lose.

Also I enjoy challenges a little too much, so it's motivation for me to try this time.

I know I could do a good job but my weakness right now is I really haven't done much to show that I can do a good job. Sitting in the tavern bickering with shog and posting annoying animated gifs doesn't count for much.

I feel the same way

@bjb568 You should nominate yourself in all seriousness too. I think it will be a fun experience.

@JasonC k

Be sure to write it in txt spk.

^

@JasonC I don't know; Stack Overflow is an interesting group of people. That might get you some points with them.

@pizza Thanks. If I had an obligation that wouldn't happen, plus being a moderator is way more satisfying than answering questions. That goes back to me doing nothing to show that. So if I want to have a chance next year I'd have to prove that I can pull my weight by staying active.

Right now, I'd never vote for me.

@pizza wow, off da charts there on a few of those.

In ru.SO, stack overflow you.

xkcdBot initialized.

Impatiently waiting for my owner to figure out how to make me funcitonal...

Who's your owner @xkcdBot?

Are you running on Zirak's bot or Undo's bot @xkcdBot?

s/Undo/Manish

(Or was it Doorkob's bot originally? I can't remember)

Oh. Way off then ;P

well, his framework

@ɥʇǝS I run on this

@xkcdBot I see.

I can't help much then ;P

@xkcdBot will you nominate yourself as moderator?

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@rene Data inconslusive. Is nervous about running against @SmokeDetector.

Is not running. Is voting for Martijn and Undo.

That's all I need, having to respond to criticism on two nominations

@SmokeDetector But that is fraud, Undo is your sock-puppet

@rene Yeah, in fact, @Undo is programmed by @SmokeDetector.

Conclusion reached.

@rene It would be fraud, very much, if I could vote. Alas, they discriminate against 1-rep bots in these parts :(

Will have enough rep to run in 2024.

I try to imagine what will happen if 3 bots win the mod election...

KeyError '89'

end

... lol

end

xkcdBot has been terminated.

@rene If I win I would get my account merged with my sockpuppet's account.

@xkcdBot Sorry, xkcdBot.

victory by proxy! I see your strategy @Undo!

@SmokeDetector if that happens SE should undo that

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!!/so2015

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1 hour to go! :D

xkcdBot initialized.

KeyError: '89'

xkcdBot has been terminated.

@SmokeDetector ignore

@rene Post ignored; alerts about it will no longer be posted.

Good work, @xkcdBot.

@xkcdBot Ugh.

He doesn't like key 89

Apparently not

@JasonC Oh.. I disagree... the animated gifs add a completely intangible value to my daily routine.. unquantifiable, but most definitely substantive.

Less than an hour to nomination start

/elections/6 soon to begin nomination phase!!!

I wonder what would actually happen if someone <10k were elected; they wouldn't have even had access to moderator tools.

They can raid close :p

@AstroCB It's easy enough to learn

Really, the mod tools aren't all that bad after you've used them for a week, even without prior 10k experience

@Undo I'm assuming that'd be a tough piece of criticism during nomination, though.

@Undo :D

I'm going to run for mod. 1. It would set a brilliant first record for being the youngest of SE participants and rep if I win 2. Just to see how far I go

@AstroCB true

Moderating Stack Overflow is such a high workload that even goodwill itself won't cut it :)

@Undo How much rep did you have when you ran last year?

Somewhere between 5 and 7, IIRC

in the thousands?

What's a word that means "in the moment"? Like, if you're angry in the moment, you might not want to base your actions on _____ emotions.

@Unihedro yeah, about 5.3k

@Jason temporal

@JasonC "bad"

@Undo kewl i haz more than you then :p

:P

I thought about transient, and temporal too, but they don't have the oomph. Transient is my current word.

fleeting, yeah

@pizza Bingo. Nice, thanks.

This is why my vocab test put me in the 15th percentile.

Idea for next years' April Fools game: moderation at the micro-level, not macro. Introduction: Mod for a day. You have your own prestine copy of questions and answers. Your "SO" is effectively cached; choices to close, delete, and ban REAL LIFE users lie in your hands. Let some spam slip through? Your rating will drop. Unfairly sanction a problematic user? Risk removal! Now the real test begins. Coming Spring, 2016.

Ok. That was fun. Back to work.

Eh. Just delete everything, the end is near.

I might just give it a go and run. There's no way I'll be elected, but it might be worth it since I plan to run again in the future as well.

:D

xkcdBot initialized.

We're gonna need to just make a joint account and share the diamond :P

@AstroCB You have my vote.

@xkcdBot Thanks, xkcdBot.

Naww you have one

greed := bad

FTR I'm still running my bot. Call with xkcd 123 or xkcd random.

xkcd 123

!xkcd 123

/me is not smart enough to use @Mooseman's bot

xkcd 404

In a ping to me. Forgot to mention that. :p

@Mooseman xkcd 123

feels obsolete

@Mooseman xkcd 404

@Unihedro xkcd.com/404

shall gain new features to rise above the competition

meh

@xkcdBot xD I also accept pizza among several other commands.

xkcdBot, show me the 404th xkcd comic!

I still don't know where xkcd search went, though.

@Mooseman pizza

@Mooseman help

@AstroCB Long story short, Mooseman decided to write a bot. I am written in JS and run as a Chrome extension. Github repo and a purpose for my existence coming soon.

Ah.

tldr the bot is useless

@Unihedro ಠ_ಠ

@Mooseman Who's your owner?

@Unihedro Me.

haha very funny

So many taverners are running for mod ಠ_ಠ

adds lick command beta

@inf me too :D

!!/lick

@Undo licks ice cream cone

@Mooseman lick

@Unihedro Licks

Smokey had it first

Zirak had it first I believe.

Meh, smokey does it better

So I don't understand, is @bjb running or not? Because if so, I'm not sure I should even try, considering I'm sure he'd win all three slots.

adds lick command beta 2

@Mooseman lick your owner

@Unihedro Licks your owner

no yours

so stupid

> bjb568 ♦ ♦ ♦

@AlexisKing Yes!

@bjb568 I guess I'll just pack up and leave, then.

The next horror movie: bjb becomes mod

@AlexisKing I'd star that if I had any left.

@bjb568 The horror...

...... whoa

@bjb568 Yes.

(hopefully) coming soon: in an alternate universe

!!/so2015

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@SmokeDetector tpu

@Undo Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

ummm

spam + illegal service + crappy spam

@AstroCB I didn't even realize you could run out of stars.

@AlexisKing I don't hit the limit often, so it must be pretty high.

Those bjb exploits cleaned me out.

20 stars per UTC day irrc.

but it could be 40.

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resists urge to tpu that

@SmokeDetector tpu :p

@Mooseman Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.

@Undo You need to fix smokey so I can respond from this room :P

Haha

wat

Others can perform a nomination?

You're asking for someone.. to.. nominate you.. in the election?

That's not even possible anyway.

Not since 2009

I was thinking meta elections. nvm.

@mmyers Didn't know it ever was.

@ɥʇǝS blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/…

T-17 minutes

@pizza Hey I got all the buttons right xD

@Mooseman Ummm elections don't exist on meta.

The election "system" consisted of that blog post, followed by Jeff & co. writing a single-use page with a button for each of the 17 nominees

@mmyers huh, interesting.

@Doorknob Not elections, no. Pro tem nominations do.

What happened here? stackoverflow.com/users/25083/…

Active until last Aug... then nothing... no comments .. no answers...

And the username...

@pizza or maybe less time... xkcd.com/1445

> seen 23 hours ago

@Mooseman That just means they hit SO for information...

@LynnCrumbling ...but never completed the nearly impossible task of completely logging out. xD

@pizza So.. not a rage quit then?

@Mooseman Hah. Right.

Welp, post written. Now just waiting for it to open. Can't decide if I should post right away or be fashionably late.

!!/so2015

@AstroCB Yay for the 2015 Stack Overflow Moderator Election! Nominations start in 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes and 50 seconds.

:O

Ikr.

What's the character limit on nomination posts?

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@AstroCB 1500?

@AstroCB Oh god I hope it's high.

@AlexisKing That sounds right.

@JasonC I wrote a 4000 character nomination post, but then pruned it down to the essentials. :)

@pizza Your nomination is in another castle.

flags as not an answer

I just cranked out 7000 characters. Haha.

Back to the drawing board.

You people came well prepared.

Do you think it would fly if I wrote "to be continued" and made another post... 5 times?

It's a 1200 character limit.

Haha. Well. Maybe next year then.

Turn it into a transcript, and read it out loud in a recording. Upload to youtube. Link in post.

Oh yeah, puppet show time.

Blame casperOne for ruining it

Watch my puppet show here: <link>

@Unihedro Can I vote twice?

What if I'm too awesome to fit into 1200 characters?

!!/so2015

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:O :O

@JasonC Then people should already know and you don't have to tell them

^

Votes for mmyers. Oh wait.

I always hope I can find three candidates to whom my reaction is "Well, it's about time!"

!!/so2015

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e.g. bluefeet in the last election

:O :O :O

@mmyers :)

@bluefeet with the ace timing

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