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Moderator vote - 2016

Please select the people you'd like to elect as forum moderator (you can choose up to 5 people):

  • AndBreathe

    Votes: 46 64.8%

  • Andrew Colvin

    Votes: 33 46.5%

  • himtoo

    Votes: 36 50.7%

  • juicyj

    Votes: 20 28.2%

  • Spiker

    Votes: 23 32.4%

  • tim2000s

    Votes: 50 70.4%

  • urban racer

    Votes: 42 59.2%
  • Total voters
    71
  • Poll closed .
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Pinkorchid said:
How long and drawn out it has been first they asked us to nominate someone we thought would be good this resulted in dozens of nominations even though they may not have wanted the job. Then the mods had to ask every nominee if they wanted the job then out of those that did they then get it down to seven and now they are asking us to vote out two of them. I sure the majority of us do not want to vote and would rather leave it to the mods to just choose the five successful candidates
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Shades of #i'm a Celebrity? or Big Brother? But thankfully not like Eurovision Song Contest (but could still have Nil Point n'est ce pas?)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Bump.
This has already fallen down the order.
Maybe it should be made a sticky and pinned right at the top of the new posts and recent posts?
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Think it is a sticky, isn't it? We'll check! :)

Pinkorchid said:
How long and drawn out it has been first they asked us to nominate someone we thought would be good this resulted in dozens of nominations even though they may not have wanted the job. Then the mods had to ask every nominee if they wanted the job then out of those that did they then get it down to seven and now they are asking us to vote out two of them. I sure the majority of us do not want to vote and would rather leave it to the mods to just choose the five successful candidates
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Voting makes it democratic, it makes sense. We actually want all of them to be mods. It's just that we've found we can't manage 5 new mods at a time as there can be a lot of questions.

Ideally, if the 2 remaining mods were interested, we'd be happy for them to join too - but it may be a case of waiting a few weeks as it's a little tricky to manage in terms of time... especially for @Giverny! :) We have to manage the process, it's trickier than you'd think!

CarbsRok said:
Spiker hasn't been on the forum since September 2015! Lovely chap but would he be classed as an absentee moderator?
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Ah, good point. We'll take him out.

britishpub said:
Who has won ?

This is dragging on longer than the US Presidential primaries
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At least Trump isn't running! :eek:

Robinredbreast said:
I personally think it should be down to the site's admin and moderators, so lets hope it is all fair and above board regarding the voting system @Administrator
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Well, the voting system can't be edited. We can make it public so you can see who voted for whom, but people may not want to disclose that. Suggesting that the votes may be rigged is a bit OTT, we're happy for them *all* to be mods, this isn't George W Bush and the Florida vote scandal!

hels said:
I'm probably asking a dumb question but how do you vote?
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You can choose above, just above the forum thread.

iHs said:
Moderating a forum such as this one and holding down a job full time is not something I could do without making mistakes, probably with my work and that is something I would not want to risk.
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Everyone makes mistakes, that's not a problem. Learning from mistakes is the key.

BooJewels said:
It seems somewhat churlish to me to even hold a vote. If it's a voluntary position and seven worthy people have put themselves forward to undertake the task out of the goodness of their hearts, then eliminating two of them through a vote seems rather vulgar to me. Can't you just divvy up the responsibilities/forum areas 7 ways instead of 5? If you build in some overlap, that will cover for holiday periods, illness etc.

Edited to add: When you need to choose 5 from 7, it then becomes a negative vote - you're inevitably having to choose the ones you don't want.
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Choosing the ones you Do want, or the one's you Don't want - it's simply the way you look at it.

There is always going to be criticism(s). As said above, the remaining 2 will have the opportunity to be mods, it's just a case of managing the process.
 
tim2000s said:
I'd also note that until you vote, you can't see the results so tactical voting is fairly tricky unless you work together as a team to elect someone by having one person vote first and sharing the voting view at that point in time, but maybe I shouldn't have given you ideas ;)
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You can see the votes as soon as you cast a vote, and then have the option to change your vote(s) should you wish. Not that tricky really. Keeping them hidden until voting closes would eliminate all possibilities.
 
Administrator said:
As said above, the remaining 2 will have the opportunity to be mods,
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Except you're now removing one of them (how did they even get on the list if you haven't even spoken to them about doing it), so we are being asked to vote for the one of those we don't want and yes, that is my way of looking at it, flawed though you may consider it. If they all get the opportunity to be a mod anyway, why even have a vote, it doesn't even make sense. The admins could have decided all of this discreetly and just announced the decision. I think we all would have been happy with that - just asked for volunteers by PM and appointed suitable individuals.
 
@Administrator whatever you do, don't remove Spiker! I assume he's been asked and has consented and he'd make a brilliant moderator.
 
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Bluetit1802 said:
You can see the votes as soon as you cast a vote, and then have the option to change your vote(s) should you wish. Not that tricky really. Keeping them hidden until voting closes would eliminate all possibilities.
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Ah - missed the change vote button. That can be removed by @Administrator.
 
I like the percentages of votes cast. It seems that so far we have cast as a group 351.7% of available votes! I guess what it means is that at this point in time, according to the timestamp on my post, 58 people have voted... :borg::borg::borg:
 
tim2000s said:
I like the percentages of votes cast. It seems that so far we have cast as a group 351.7% of available votes! I guess what it means is that at this point in time, according to the timestamp on my post, 58 people have voted... :borg::borg::borg:
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LOL Of course this is assuming each voter used their full allocation of 5 votes. Statistics are wonderful. You can prove anything you want with them. The drugs companies would not survive without these tools.
 
Now what we could have done is put the 7 new names and all the old mods up for election together for however many positions there were....... I'll get me coat before I get a warning.... :bag:
 
zand said:
Now what we could have done is put the 7 new names and all the old mods up for election together for however many positions there were....... I'll get me coat before I get a warning.... :bag:
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Yup. Just asking for trouble there. Mods do not like being referred to as 'old' I should know, being a Rocker myself !
 
Oldvatr said:
Yup. Just asking for trouble there. Mods do not like being referred to as 'old' I should know, being a Rocker myself !
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You should have seen the other adjectives I was going to use before I decided on 'old' :woot:
 
I am confused now as I read in the blog section that someone had been nominated on the original thread, but not selected for the voting list. So has some voting already happened behind the scenes? @Administrator

I'll just abstain as I wouldn't want to be in any way responsible for the "also ran"/loser feeling unwanted by the community even though they were good enough to step up :(
 
I got all excited thinking that Spikeybabes had confirmed he was interested an would be returning to us.
He is a star and would make a FAB mod.
 
Robinredbreast said:
I personally think it should be down to the site's admin and moderators, so lets hope it is all fair and above board regarding the voting system @Administrator
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The thing about Change is if you always do as you have always done, you will always achieve the same results.

Maybe Admin wants some "new blood". Maybe the existing mods didn't want to choose the next batch, or couldn't agree on them.

One thing I found fascinating, and a point of note, is bearing in mind the proportions of site users T1/T2, the resultant nominees have a significant T1 skew. No judgements made, just an observation.

Maybe our T2s are more passive? Maybe the T1s see a greater desire for fresh blood? I have no idea.

In fact that last bit is just a little film-flam in all reality, but it piques my interest.
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
I am confused now as I read in the blog section that someone had been nominated on the original thread, but not selected for the voting list. So has some voting already happened behind the scenes? @Administrator

I'll just abstain as I wouldn't want to be in any way responsible for the "also ran"/loser feeling unwanted by the community even though they were good enough to step up :(
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Thanks for pointing this out.
 
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