All Questions
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Why is this election summary in past tense even before an election has started?
An election will be held in a couple weeks on Code Review SE. Near the bottom of the main content is an <aside> using past tense wording:
17,568 voters were eligible, 0 visited the site during ...
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A couple of typos in the moderator questionnaire
There are some minor bugs in the 2023 Moderator Election Questionnaire:
(e.g. at https://music.stackexchange.com/election)
Question 1 has a grammar mistake:
How would you deal with a user who ...
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In election primaries, the voting breakdown tooltip misidentifies election nominations as "questions"
Tooltip on expanded votes on nomination post says the following:
But this nomination notice is not a question!
As far as I see in translation data base this is the one source string (with plural ...
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Newsletter says to cast a vote "by" the date of the end of the nomination phase instead of after
Recently I got an email with the MathOverflow newsletter (digest) which contained the following text:
2022 Community Moderator Election
The community moderator election is currently in the nomination ...
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Reword "and 18 or up" on election pages
The blurb at the top of the nomination tab on each election page (example) now says:
In the nomination phase, any community member in good standing with more than 300 reputation (and 18 or up) may ...
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“You should only rank the candidates you think would make good moderators.” – really?
The current election interface advises:
You should only rank the candidates you think would make good moderators.
Why?
I see two potential scenarios, both of which are dissatisfying:
The STV system ...
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Improve election results message
When an election is finished, the following message is shown:
The results of this election can be viewed online via OpaVote.Download the election data and use OpenSTV for windows or mac to audit ...
GlorfindelMod
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Modify message about voting data due to OpenSTV merging into OpaVote
Messages on moderator election page which showing for an anonymous:
or logged in user:
should be fixed to refer to "OpaVote" which was early an "OpenSTV".
Related bug report already fixed ...
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Confusing information on moderator elections
It is asserted on the election info page that moderator elections are held periodically. "Periodically" means the time from one election to the next is always the same. There is no truth ...
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Wording of election-phase sidebar is misleading and needs repair
For elections, the election phase page has a sidebar with the following wording (and the wording at issue is bolded):
In the election phase, 10 candidates advance to final community
voting. Any ...
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Remove redundant text from the text containing redundancy on the election page
I was voting in the Super User election, and noticed this in the sidebar:
Each community member has 3 votes. Please cast your votes in order of preference, starting with the most desirable ...
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Clarify the election ballot privacy policy
During an election current example, the sidebar reads (in part):
The vote tallies are private until the election is complete.
After 8 days, the final voting results will be freely downloadable from ...
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Bad informations on 2011 elections page?
On 2011 SO election page there is written that minimal reputation to nominate themself is 32645 - but I saw that elected moderator Tim Post has only 19687 reputation points ! Is possible to lose ...
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Is the number of users who visited the site during election wrong, or does "election" refer to the last phase where users vote?
Looking at the page at https://drupal.stackexchange.com/election?cb=1, I read the following phrase:
712 voters were eligible, 0 visited the site during the election, 112 visited the election page, ...
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