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Your election will be starting on Monday, November 30th. When we first made the announcement, the plan was to run down the remaining runs of elections for the remaining sites (Japanese, Music, and Software Recommendations). But then the system for design independent graduation we used... turned up a lot more bugs than we expected. Fixing most all of them (...

Thank you to the community for voting me as your new moderator. Many thanks to Undo for his great job as moderator and for helping to keep our community strong. A special thank you to Journeyman Geek for volunteering to serve and for participating in the election. I look forward to working with the other moderators to keep our community healthy and strong,...

As per the mod election page, 3 moderators will be elected. The previous pro-tem team has the option of standing as moderators, but it looks like Undo's the only one of the old mods standing. He'll need to be voted in as per any other mod.

Thank you for your great work helping to prove that this site could work, and make it work, Gilles and Journeyman Geek, thank you for being willing to keep doing this work, Undo, and congratulations on the election, Izzy, Nicolas Raoul, and Undo!

Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest?

Someone asked a question that only says "What is the best text editor?", and two people wrote very detailed answers about Notepad and Vi, each answer receiving several upvotes. What steps do you take (if you take any)? Well, the question is extremely broad and primarily opinion based. While I have a certain amount of empathy for the folks who answered, I ...

Hello to everyone here at our Software Recommendations StackExchange. I'm RockPaperLizard, and I'm happy to provide you with my answers to your questions: Someone asked a question that only says "What is the best text editor?", and two people wrote very detailed answers about Notepad and Vi, each answer receiving several upvotes. What steps do you ...

What do you think this site's biggest challenge is? (E.g. post quality or quantity, too many/few closures/deletion, bad tools/guidance, etc.) What do you think should be done about it (by anybody: moderators, users in general, Stack Exchange staff, ...)?

Congrats Undo, Izzy, and Nicolas! Thank you for all the time you volunteer! Software Recommendations will continue to grow with this great team.

Users with more than 150 reputation can vote in the election, according to the sidebar on the 'election' tab: Any community member with 150 reputation may vote in the election. Each voter may select up to three candidates. Please make your selections in order of preference, with the most desirable candidate as first choice. We're currently in the '...

I'm Undo. Here are my answers (on the short side right now because I'm pressed for time, will flesh them out later): Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest? Yes. It's served us well so far, and I don't see a reason to stop ...

Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). How ...

You don't need to make a third choice. Your first two choices will be counted, in that order, don't worry. The long-term solution is to post more answers and questions, gain reputation, do reviews, gain moderation experience, and nominate yourself next time :-)

Someone posts an answer of the form “if … then product A, if … then product B”. Another user edits the answer down to product A and says to post a separate answer for product B, citing this meta answer. The answerer edits the answer back. How do you settle this?

I'm new here, but I've participated in a couple of elections before, and a nice one to ask is: You close a question that's clearly off-topic and the user comes to Meta, not to ask what they did wrong, say you're a [mean word here]. How do you react?

This site has the lowest proportion of questions with an upvoted answer. What do you think the cause is? Is this a problem, and if so what should we do about it?

Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest? To me, there's a difference between "dark" and "black". If I attribute "low quality" to "willing, but inexperienced", I prefer giving newcomers a chance instead of scaring them away – which ...

Well in this case its moot. With two choices and one place, whoever gets more first choices is likely to win. STV gets interesting when there's two or more places with sufficiently high participation in the election, but here... it doesn't quite matter.

Imagine this scenario: Someone asked a question that only says "What is the best text editor?", and two people wrote very detailed answers about Notepad and Vi, each answer receiving several upvotes. What steps do you take (if you take any)?

We have some odd rules, compared to the rest of the network, around quality and scope. Do you think these are (still) necessary? Should they be changed or enforced differently in some way?

Here is a set of general questions, gathered as very common questions asked every election. As mentioned in the instructions, the first two questions are guaranteed to show up in the Q&A, while the others are if there aren't enough questions (or, if you like one enough, you may split it off as a separate answer for review within the community's 8). How ...

Imagine this scenario: Someone asked an extremely specific question that most probably does not have any solution ("I need an EPL-license driver to connect my ENIAC computer to my Whirlpool3276B washing machine via MTESRL-TSMR protocol and it must send me a log via SMS every Tuesday"). What steps do you take (if you take any)?

Nicolas Raoul Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest? I think it is OK, so that low-quality answers don't stay as a bad example for all to see. In cases of obvious good faith from a newcomer it is also perfectly acceptable to ...

I'm ᔕᖺᘎᕊ! Here are my answers: :) Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest? I don't think it should continue, especially if the poster is new to the site. If they're new, then I think it would seem a bit annoying to them to see ...

Tom Here are some short and simple answers to the questions asked, Do you think that the current policy of "delete-on-sight (with a comment)" for low quality answers should continue? What, if any, changes would you make / suggest? Yes; however, an informative explanation is required discussing why it was deleted, a link should be given to what ...

A moderator's votes are binding (aka „Thor's hammer“: if a mod votes to close, no other has to agree – the post is closed immediately). Will that change your voting behavior? Will you vote more/less/different?