Timeline for Inadequate Notification and Timeline for 2018 Election
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 14:47 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | @XanderHenderson You are welcome! | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 12:52 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | @астонвіллаолофмэллбэрг No, thank you. I don't feel that I have the seniority or experience on MSE to be qualified, I lack the time, and, frankly, there are already two candidates on the ballot that are far better qualified. But thank you. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 7:27 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | @XanderHenderson It is my intention to nominate you for moderator post. May I add your name to the following post : math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28686/… ? Please decline if you are not free enough. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 5:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMath/status/1019820889943298049 | ||
| Jul 17, 2018 at 17:33 | comment | added | user7530 | @amWhy I’ve deleted my comments and am not interested in engaging with you here further. If you wish to have a constructive conversation, I’m happy to reply on chat. | |
| Jul 17, 2018 at 17:17 | comment | added | amWhy | I'll just say that your behavior July 16th, was inconsistent with the "spirit" of this post. I'll delete the rest. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 20:51 | comment | added | user7530 | @Mason "Game theory is precisely the tool mathematicians use to argue that democracy is a terrible idea that never works" I mean, it's clearly optimal for the 51% to vote to kill the 49% and take their stuff... ;) | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 16:42 | answer | added | Shog9 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 18:45 | comment | added | Mason | Should we be thinking about how to boost election numbers? I was thinking about asking game theory questions that had to do specifically with elections. Then link them to relevant meta questions. I think this simply must be the tradition on the day before elections on a math site. Game theory is precisely the tool mathematicians use to argue that democracy is a terrible idea that never works (Err... I may be simplifying). Anyway I wasn't sure where we suppose to go to nominate @AsafKaragila for the job of improving the election turn out... | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 20:00 | comment | added | Andrew T. | AFAIK, a certain situation that could "extend the deadline" is when there are not enough candidates applying, but this might be seen as more problematic because it could mean lack of interest in moderation... unless this community doesn't really want new mods. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 19:49 | comment | added | quid Mod | Personally I am against an election right now too, so... But, let's see how it goes. For now the part that most people care about did not really start. I am not sure extending the deadline for nomination would help all that much. In practice it's often that users wait and see. And then it depends on the dynamic of the situation. Some complained that in the last election there were few candidates for example, but then there were several competitive candidate in since early on which likely discouraged some nominations. In contrast in some other elections the 'strong' ones joined late. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 19:37 | comment | added | user7530 | @quid I’m sorry, you’re right: I misinterpreted the deadline as the end rather than start of nominations. Nevertheless the heart of my concern—-that the election process is going by too quickly with insufficient community notification—-remains. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | quid Mod | "in 2017 about the low election turnout," that was more a myth though, and if not a myth then unreasonable expectations. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | quid Mod | @XanderHenderson is right; official nominations start on the 16th. "Until the nomination phase," means until the nomination phase starts. That said, I do not disagree completely. But the situation is not as bad as you think it might be, as for now this is merely preparation for an election we are seeing right now. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 18:14 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | Wait... nominations close in two days? I don't think that is quite right. While I agree that things are going too fast, my understanding is that official nominations open in two days. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 18:08 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Yeah, I raised some complaints about this on the Moderators chatroom. As far as official notifications, those are coming up when the nomination phase begins, so in two days. I do agree that it would be preferable if this was more visible, and more time before the nominations is given for people to even learn about this fact. | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 18:05 | history | asked | user7530 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |