Questions tagged [election]
Elections are held to choose moderators for the Mathematics Stack Exchange site.
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2024 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
The 2024 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winner of the 2024 moderator elections, who is:
Shaun
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Does the "How to vote" pop-up on the election page disappear immediately for others too?
I have clicked over to the election page to vote, and I briefly see a browser modal dialog titled "How to vote" that disappears almost immediately before I have any interaction with the page....
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Are there some differences from the previous election?
It was recently announced that there is going to be moderator election soon: Upcoming Moderator Election.
In January 2024 one of the CMs made this post: What would you like to change about the ...
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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Upcoming Moderator Election
As a few people have noticed, we are down a moderator: quid has been inactive for a while, hence their moderator status has been suspended in accordance with the process outlined on the main Meta ...
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How many people voted in the 2021 Moderator Election?
In 2021 Moderator Election the participation at the recent election is reported as
52,685 voters were eligible, 12,611 visited the site during the election, 5,834 visited the election page, and 1,905 ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results [duplicate]
Moderator election #9 on Mathematics has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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2021 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderators!
The 2021 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winners of the 2021 moderators elections::
Paramanand Singh
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Is the font difference of 'history' of the answers of a nominated user for the election different from 'link' and 'flag' intentional?
Maybe the impact of this is not significant, but here is the image (I used MS Edge, 200% for the image):
I inspected the elements, and both link and ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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The unofficial 2021 elections nomination post
We will have an election soon to elect 2 new moderators. Continuing the tradition from past elections (2014, 2017, 2018, 2020) we have a thread where people can nominate other people. Since candidacy ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Who Created the Community User. There is a Saying on Their Account that “They are not Really a Person”, But Who Made Their About Page?
It has been interesting to see the robot user editing other people’s posts as if a person is editing them. I understand that there are a pattern of posts, but some of them seem human like. This ...
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Low voter turnout in elections
Before the election mania is over let us do some analysis of the trends in elections so far. The relevant data is presented in the following table
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results [duplicate]
Mathematics's eighth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and ...
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2020 Election Results: Congratulations to our new moderator!
The 2020 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, I'd like to welcome to the moderators' team the winner of the 2020 moderator elections, who is:
You can see the results ...
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What are the Moderation/Editing/Participation badges?
For each candidate for the election, the number of badges Moderation/Editing/Participation are listed.
Going the badges section of the help center did not help in figuring out exactly which badges ...
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How does the voting in the election work?
How does the voting in the elections work?
I know that we elect two moderators and I see that I can rank all the candidates.
How does this work exactly? What are the implications of ranking more than ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the 2020 moderator election, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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The unofficial 2020 elections nomination thread
We will have an election soon to elect 1 new moderator. Continuing the tradition from past elections (2014, 2017, 2018) we have a thread where people can nominate other people. Since candidacy is ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection [closed]
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled to begin an election next ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Mathematics's seventh moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Election page comment anchors don't work
It's pretty straightforward. You get a comment reply on the election page, it shows up on your inbox, and you click it... and you only get to the top of the election page. Nothing more.
Even worse. ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Inadequate Notification and Timeline for 2018 Election
I apologize for complaining, but I'm rather taken aback by how the site has decided to run the 2018 election.
I don't check the main site on a daily basis, and I visit Meta even more infrequently---...
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The unofficial 2018 elections nomination post
There is a moderator election about to happen; we shall elect two new moderators that will reinforce the team.
The procedure dictates that candidates self-nominate (this is not yet possible). ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Mathematics Stack Exchange will be hosting an election on July 30th, 2018. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the ...
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Some lessons to learn from the 2017 elections
So, the election are over. Some statistics and factoids of interest.
From the election page:
22,919 voters were eligible, 9,261 visited the site during the election, 4,655 visited the election ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election Results [duplicate]
Mathematics's sixth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2017 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
The 2017 elections are over. By analyzing the OpaSTV file with the voting data, the result of the 2017 moderator elections are as follows (with no particular order):
In the name of all the users on ...
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What does the expression "gamification of MSE" mean?
I see the term "gamification" appearing in two moderator election candidates' messages, and there are several questions and answers here that contain references to it.
Is it possible do write a short,...
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Do I have to cast three votes in the election?
We are given three votes to cast in the moderator election. What happens if one casts only one or two votes?
And how does such behavior plays within the STV system used?
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What are the reasons for organizing the October 2017 moderator election?
@arjafi has detailed some reasons that require the organization of elections in SE communities. What conditions have been met that triggered the organization of this election? Is is that some current ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election
The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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What is the deal with this “troll” question? [closed]
About an hour ago, an apparently brand-new user posted this absurd question. Because I suspect it will be deleted soon, here it is in full:
Physics teacher gave really hard math problem
I really need ...
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2017 Moderator Election: Nominating another user to consider running for a moderation slot.
I'm sort of modeling this post after Aaron Maroja's 2014 meta post posted prior to the last moderator election, held in 2014. (So his post inspired this post.)
I think that some of the best leaders, ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Mathematics Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, October 2nd.In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of ...
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Have there been no moderator elections since December 2014?
Have there been no moderator elections since December 2014?
Are moderators elected to serve for some specified period of time?
The tag wiki for the election tag says
Moderator elections are held ...
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Is voting encouraged in elections?
Is it encouraged that all users must vote for a moderator, like in a democracy?
The only time I ever voted was on this site, a few months back. I had no idea about any of the users, so I just voted ...
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2014 Election Results: Congratulations to the new moderators!
The 2014 elections are over. Analyzing the OpenSTV file (you may view an online summary report here as well) the results are as follows (with no particular order):
At the same time, I'd like to thank ...
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Where do the (many) voters in the 2014 community moderator election come from?
Togeter with the results, it would be interesting to get an analysis to see where generally the many active voters in this election have come from.
This could for example be done by looking (...
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Number of candidates allowed in the final election.
10 candidates are allowed to participate in the election phase to choose moderators in this election. Is there any reason for the number 10? I've been reading the answers to the questions serious ...
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In activity log, no link to election comments
If you made or make a comment on the nomination page of the election it shows up in your activity log. However, unlike comments to questions, there is no link shown to the actual comment.
Is this a ...
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Adding to, and highlighting, Q&A link to primary election (candidates) page
I assume that many not so regular users come to the election page by following a notification on top of the user interface. Hence, they might miss the Q&A that, at the time of this writing, 6 ...
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Downvoting nominees in primaries
Why do we have downvoting in primaries?
It doesn't seem democratic (some may see it as the ultimate democracy in voting) to me. If the candidate has put no effort in fair enough don't upvote them. ...
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How did a candidate nominate themselves after the deadline?
User Way to infinity nominated themselves at 20:11:59 UTC:
And yet the nomination period ended 20:00:00 UTC:
This isn't really normal, I believe. If I had to guess, the user opened the nomination ...
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