Oldvatr
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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?)
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?)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
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?
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
Spiker hasn't been on the forum since September 2015! Lovely chap but would he be classed as an absentee moderator?
Who has won ?
This is dragging on longer than the US Presidential primaries
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
I'm probably asking a dumb question but how do you vote?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.As said above, the remaining 2 will have the opportunity to be mods,
Ah - missed the change vote button. That can be removed by @Administrator.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.
You do need to be logged in so you can post in the Forum.I'm probably asking a dumb question but how do you vote?
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.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...
Yup. Just asking for trouble there. Mods do not like being referred to as 'old' I should know, being a Rocker myself !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....
You should have seen the other adjectives I was going to use before I decided on 'old'Yup. Just asking for trouble there. Mods do not like being referred to as 'old' I should know, being a Rocker myself !
Ah, good point. We'll take him out.
That'll be my stance too.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 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
Thanks for pointing this out.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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