Timeline for For moderator elections, bring back the system banner *and* put in the community bulletin box
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| Jun 7, 2012 at 8:37 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Shog9 The community bulletin is right next to the ads. I tune out the ads. Anything next to it is calling for being ignored. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 2:57 | comment | added | user50049 | @Shog9 The community bulletin is awesome, I'm just not sure about its placement. The right side bar is something that has not contained information that people regularly read for the last few years (Tags, who got what badge recently, ad for something, etc). Even though it's right in front of me I have to remember to look for it. That will eventually change as my brain gets used to doing that, unfortunately I have no suggestions on how to make it more visible where it is currently placed. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 1:15 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | @Shog9 Excellent! I should've checked it myself before posting. I thought the community bulletin was home-page only. I now have no qualms about not having the banner. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 1:13 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | @yoda: the bulletin board is visible on tag pages, and on every single question. There are a bunch of more obscure pages where it isn't visible, but the goal was to make it as ubiquitous as possible. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 1:01 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | I guess one big failure of putting it in the community bulletin box is that people who launch SO from tag pages and always stay inside them or inside /review or /tools will miss them. I will concede that I hadn't thought about that, and I personally never used to visit the homepage when I was more active | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 0:56 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | @Gilles No, I did mean the THC — I think one of casper's points was that it is not possible to vet after the nomination phase. I'm saying that it still is possible, although it might not have the shock value from comments from several users (a la genesis 2011). If everyone's doling out anecdotal evidence, then well, I first learnt about it from the sidebar on Gardening & Landscaping | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 0:48 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @yoda There's an observation bias: the people you see here tend to be part of the MSO crowd. The election chatroom (I think you meant that, and not the town hall chat which happens after the nominations) is irrelevant for visibility: you'd need to know about the election first. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 0:45 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | A moderator doesn't have to be in the "meta crowd" for them to be informed... note that the nomination is 7 days long. Most people here are freaking out because they didn't see it within 10 seconds of the announcement. Yet, they somehow managed to read about it within the next 24 hours, leaving them with 6 more days... I can understand the visibility argument for vetting purposes, but there still are other options like the town hall chat. I'm not opposed to using the system banner per se, but rather the notion that we might miss out on candidates because the message was not in-their-face. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 0:30 | comment | added | casperOne Mod | Hell, even some of the candidates and meta regulars didn't know about the election until they were told or until they read my post about being nice. | |
| Jun 7, 2012 at 0:26 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |