Be Excellent To Each Other

Your moderator elections are now on. Your candidates are below:

chinnyhill10
Craster
GazChap
Goddess Jasmine
Kalmar
myp

To cast your vote you need to PM your choices, up to a maximum of three (3), to the VoteCounters group (consisting of Grim..., DavPaz, and Bluecup) before the 1st April 2009. To do this:

1. Open Compose PM
2. Under "Groups" on the left hand side, select "Votecounters"
3. Click the button below that "Add [To]"
4. Type the names of your choices in the PM's subject line and not the body (this will save clicking for the vote counters)

Obviously, the votecounters will keep all votes confidential.

This is a bump to remind you all: you only have two more days to submit your votes.

Deadline midnight tonight, for those who haven't voted.

So...? Do we have some results?

I won

TO THE BARRICADES! FIGHT THE POWER!

BIGGIE AND 2PAC 4EVA!

So, c'mon, I'm sitting her drumming my fingers and everything. Who bloody won?

I hate to say this.. But I didn't vote in time. I hope the decision wasn't close!

Ok, I'm counting now.

I have my count, but I'm waiting for the other counters to confirm.

And yes, TheVision, it was close. One vote could have changed the result. Oops.

That probably gives it away as I always refuse to vote for myself Just seems wrong.

I'm saying nothing.

I didn't vote, I don't think anyone standing should.

When do we get the results? Do we have to wait for white smoke to rise from Grim..'s chimney?

I have also completed my count. One to go.

Special thanks to those of you that (a) voted for more than three people, and (b) didn't put the votes in the subject line.

I have a (crappy) graph standing by. Come on Bluecup!

Ah, so me voting for every member of the forum via SMS didn't help then?

Have you dressed Mr Chris up as Jeremy Vine?

What do you mean you don't need to?

I don't think me voting for Titler 400 times via the morse code translater helped much either.

Yay for graphs! Also, were my instructions at the top of the page really not clear enough?

It was useful the learn your nicknames for people.

Who was kissy-kissy-love-monkey again?

I was about to apologise for the latter, automatically assuming that I'd ballsed it up. To my surprise, my sent items seem to show I managed to vote properly. Woohoo!

Dave, obviously.

*panics. Realises that you don't mean me. Relaxes*

I used semaphore to vote 316 times for the mod dream team of CUS, Stu, and Dudley. I hope the telescopes I posted to the vote counters were sufficiently powerful to allow them to read my flag configurations.

You use massive flags, so I doubt they'd miss it.

I just stood outside the polling station reading all the electoral by-laws.

Dudley should be stood outside your office right now. CUS is ALREADY THERE.

We have a result....

Do we get the full results?

I can tell you your total if you wish. I've been asked to hold off on complete numbers.

We weren't going to, no.

I demand a recount!

Oh, wait, no I don't

_{edit: thanks everyone, honoured to be your servant in moderal duties and that}

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW PINK AVATARRED MODERATOR

Remember what I was saying about transparency?

Well done to all the new mods, And thanks to the old ones.

Kalmar???? I wish I had voted now!

This is not a moderating decision, and if doesn't affect anything. If you really want to know, send a PM.

This is bullshit. I'm starting my own forum.

I can't believe I didn't get elected. Youse are all fuckers.

Why WOULDN'T you post actual results?

GLHF. Remember to come back and save us next election time.

Let us rub salt in the wounds of the unelected!



I'm happy to see figures or not. Whichever.

Because I was asked not to.

If all of the participants concurred, I would post the results.

I think it just makes a mockery of things. If you don't want the trouble makers lobbing stones in (and they will at somepoint in the future) then you need to be transparent. Otherwise the first accusation will be that the elections here are a conspiracy and the mods are puppets.

Of course the elections were conducted fairly (and thanks to the vote counters by the way) but why set yourself up for a fall the first time the new mods come up against some opposition?

It just seems, odd.

BTW: Davpaz, I got your PM but deleted it. Not because I'm rude but if it contained any details of the result then I don't want to know unless everyone else knows.

Sorry, I understand why you wouldn't if they asked.

What seems more odd to me is that there is now a wait before the new mods take over.

Who gives a shit about the results?

I don't see how a list of numbers of votes is any more transparent though? Accusations the results were made up can just as easily be applied to a list of numbers. Hypothetically, if anyone stood and received nul point (hey, there's a reason my name ain't up there), it's probably kinder to spare their blushes.

Also, I've been saving this for, ooh, an hour now until an opportunity presented itself:



I'm amenable to speeding that up. Bring it, bitch. Demod me. PULL THE TRIGGER.