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For what reasons would an animal species NOT cross a *horizontal* land bridge?

Would an alien lifeform be able to achieve space travel if lacking in vision?

Make it rain characters

"... to apply for a visa" or "... and applied for a visa"?

ELI5: Why do they say that Israel would have been the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon and why do they call it low cost?

What to do when moving next to a bird sanctuary with a loosely-domesticated cat?

Why are PDP-7-style microprogrammed instructions out of vogue?

How to read αἱμύλιος or when to aspirate

Does Parliament need to approve the new Brexit delay to 31 October 2019?

Working through the single responsibility principle (SRP) in Python when calls are expensive

What aspect of planet Earth must be changed to prevent the industrial revolution?

Is every episode of "Where are my Pants?" identical?

Intergalactic human space ship encounters another ship, character gets shunted off beyond known universe, reality starts collapsing

What is the padding with red substance inside of steak packaging?

Sub-subscripts in strings cause different spacings than subscripts

How do I design a circuit to convert a 100 mV and 50 Hz sine wave to a square wave?

Why doesn't shell automatically fix "useless use of cat"?

Using dividends to reduce short term capital gains?

Mortgage adviser recommends a longer term than necessary combined with overpayments

Why can't devices on different VLANs, but on the same subnet, communicate?

What's the point in a preamp?

Why can't wing-mounted spoilers be used to steepen approaches?

"is" operation returns false even though two objects have same id

What was the last x86 CPU that did not have the x87 floating-point unit built in?

2019 Community Moderator Election Results

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Unix & Linux's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:

They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!

For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results here, or view a summary report online.

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  Thanks for linking to the Opavote summary report. It’s an informative explanation of how the votes were transferred after Kusulananda reached the quota. I was curious about how the threshold was calculated but after re-reading, I saw that the Droop formula was used, of which Wikipedia has a good explanation. Congratulations to Kusulananda and Jeff. I, for one, welcome our new multitasking, multiuser, Bell Labs-inspired overlords!
  
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Unix & Linux's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:

They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!

For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results here, or view a summary report online.

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  Thanks for linking to the Opavote summary report. It’s an informative explanation of how the votes were transferred after Kusulananda reached the quota. I was curious about how the threshold was calculated but after re-reading, I saw that the Droop formula was used, of which Wikipedia has a good explanation. Congratulations to Kusulananda and Jeff. I, for one, welcome our new multitasking, multiuser, Bell Labs-inspired overlords!
  
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  @AnthonyGeoghegan: Yes, that report is excellent. STV systems are more complicated than traditional vote counting systems, but having access to that sort of summary helps a ton.
  
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  Mar 27 at 16:42
  

  
  
  
  

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Unix & Linux's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the two new moderators are:

They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they learn the ropes!

For details on how the voting played out, you can download the election results here, or view a summary report online.

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Welcome aboard guys! I only hope you won't regret it! >:)

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answered Mar 26 at 20:07

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  Thank you, and ditto! :)
  
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  Echoing Jeff, thanks and I hope so too :-)
  
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  Congratulations @Kusalananda and Jeff! :-)
  
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  Yay, my #1 and #2 votes won ;-) They've definitely got more patience than me for some of the more problematic edge cases caused by an open community like this!
  
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  Mar 28 at 1:38
  

  
  
  
  

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Thank you to everyone that considered nominating themselves, as well to Arcabard, cnst, ilkkachu, and Kusalananda who decided to actually put themselves up for consideration. I said it in the chat for this election -- and I believe it in general -- that having a variety of choices leads to a better outcome. Special congratulations to Kusalananda who (deservedly) won nearly twice as many votes as I did, and so I look forward to doing half as much work as he does ;)

A special thank you to Stephen Kitt for his question "What’s it like being a Unix & Linux moderator?" and to terdon, slm, and Michael Mrozek for taking time to answer it. It was a huge help to me to learn about the benefits and challenges of being a moderator while I was deciding whether to nominate myself or not.

Thank you to Jon Ericson and Grace Note their help in this election, in particular for putting out the Question Collection and follow-up Questionnaire, and to everyone who submitted questions for it:

• Faheem Mitha


• JdeBP


• K7AAY


• Tim


• Tomasz


• Undercat


• and yes, even Fabby :)

I think threads like these are important because they call out what the community feels is important -- both for site and in a moderator. An open discussion thread like that is a great place for nominees to be able to expand on their ideas and for the community to get a better sense for how the nominees would perform the moderation tasks. Thank you also to JNat for opening up the separate Election chat room so that the community could haven even more discussion around the election and the candidates.

Finally, personal thanks to everyone who expressed support for me, both on the nomination page and in the chat rooms. Seeing comments on (all of) the nominations tells me that people care enough about the site to consider the nominees carefully. It was rewarding to see the comments that were directly supportive of the work I’ve done. I look forward to learning even more about how the site works, and to helping keep the site clean, positive, and moving forward together!

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Welcome aboard guys! I only hope you won't regret it! >:)

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answered Mar 26 at 20:07

terdon♦terdon

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  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  youtube.com/watch?v=1QQBB3cwNM0#t=2m10
  
  – Michael Mrozek♦
  Mar 26 at 20:10
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thank you, and ditto! :)
  
  – Jeff Schaller♦
  Mar 26 at 20:33
  

  
  
  
  


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  Echoing Jeff, thanks and I hope so too :-)
  
  – Kusalananda♦
  Mar 26 at 21:49
  

  
  
  
  


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  Congratulations @Kusalananda and Jeff! :-)
  
  – Inian
  Mar 27 at 9:24
  

  
  
  
  


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  Yay, my #1 and #2 votes won ;-) They've definitely got more patience than me for some of the more problematic edge cases caused by an open community like this!
  
  – Stephen Harris
  Mar 28 at 1:38
  

  
  
  
  

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Welcome aboard guys! I only hope you won't regret it! >:)

share

answered Mar 26 at 20:07

terdon♦terdon

134k15195

• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  youtube.com/watch?v=1QQBB3cwNM0#t=2m10
  
  – Michael Mrozek♦
  Mar 26 at 20:10
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Thank you, and ditto! :)
  
  – Jeff Schaller♦
  Mar 26 at 20:33
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Echoing Jeff, thanks and I hope so too :-)
  
  – Kusalananda♦
  Mar 26 at 21:49
  

  
  
  
  


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  Congratulations @Kusalananda and Jeff! :-)
  
  – Inian
  Mar 27 at 9:24
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Yay, my #1 and #2 votes won ;-) They've definitely got more patience than me for some of the more problematic edge cases caused by an open community like this!
  
  – Stephen Harris
  Mar 28 at 1:38
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Welcome aboard guys! I only hope you won't regret it! >:)

share

answered Mar 26 at 20:07

terdon♦terdon

134k15195

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terdon♦terdon

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Thank you to everyone that considered nominating themselves, as well to Arcabard, cnst, ilkkachu, and Kusalananda who decided to actually put themselves up for consideration. I said it in the chat for this election -- and I believe it in general -- that having a variety of choices leads to a better outcome. Special congratulations to Kusalananda who (deservedly) won nearly twice as many votes as I did, and so I look forward to doing half as much work as he does ;)

A special thank you to Stephen Kitt for his question "What’s it like being a Unix & Linux moderator?" and to terdon, slm, and Michael Mrozek for taking time to answer it. It was a huge help to me to learn about the benefits and challenges of being a moderator while I was deciding whether to nominate myself or not.

Thank you to Jon Ericson and Grace Note their help in this election, in particular for putting out the Question Collection and follow-up Questionnaire, and to everyone who submitted questions for it:

• Faheem Mitha


• JdeBP


• K7AAY


• Tim


• Tomasz


• Undercat


• and yes, even Fabby :)

I think threads like these are important because they call out what the community feels is important -- both for site and in a moderator. An open discussion thread like that is a great place for nominees to be able to expand on their ideas and for the community to get a better sense for how the nominees would perform the moderation tasks. Thank you also to JNat for opening up the separate Election chat room so that the community could haven even more discussion around the election and the candidates.

Finally, personal thanks to everyone who expressed support for me, both on the nomination page and in the chat rooms. Seeing comments on (all of) the nominations tells me that people care enough about the site to consider the nominees carefully. It was rewarding to see the comments that were directly supportive of the work I’ve done. I look forward to learning even more about how the site works, and to helping keep the site clean, positive, and moving forward together!

share

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

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20

Thank you to everyone that considered nominating themselves, as well to Arcabard, cnst, ilkkachu, and Kusalananda who decided to actually put themselves up for consideration. I said it in the chat for this election -- and I believe it in general -- that having a variety of choices leads to a better outcome. Special congratulations to Kusalananda who (deservedly) won nearly twice as many votes as I did, and so I look forward to doing half as much work as he does ;)

A special thank you to Stephen Kitt for his question "What’s it like being a Unix & Linux moderator?" and to terdon, slm, and Michael Mrozek for taking time to answer it. It was a huge help to me to learn about the benefits and challenges of being a moderator while I was deciding whether to nominate myself or not.

Thank you to Jon Ericson and Grace Note their help in this election, in particular for putting out the Question Collection and follow-up Questionnaire, and to everyone who submitted questions for it:

• Faheem Mitha


• JdeBP


• K7AAY


• Tim


• Tomasz


• Undercat


• and yes, even Fabby :)

I think threads like these are important because they call out what the community feels is important -- both for site and in a moderator. An open discussion thread like that is a great place for nominees to be able to expand on their ideas and for the community to get a better sense for how the nominees would perform the moderation tasks. Thank you also to JNat for opening up the separate Election chat room so that the community could haven even more discussion around the election and the candidates.

Finally, personal thanks to everyone who expressed support for me, both on the nomination page and in the chat rooms. Seeing comments on (all of) the nominations tells me that people care enough about the site to consider the nominees carefully. It was rewarding to see the comments that were directly supportive of the work I’ve done. I look forward to learning even more about how the site works, and to helping keep the site clean, positive, and moving forward together!

share

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

45k11746

add a comment | 

Thank you to everyone that considered nominating themselves, as well to Arcabard, cnst, ilkkachu, and Kusalananda who decided to actually put themselves up for consideration. I said it in the chat for this election -- and I believe it in general -- that having a variety of choices leads to a better outcome. Special congratulations to Kusalananda who (deservedly) won nearly twice as many votes as I did, and so I look forward to doing half as much work as he does ;)

A special thank you to Stephen Kitt for his question "What’s it like being a Unix & Linux moderator?" and to terdon, slm, and Michael Mrozek for taking time to answer it. It was a huge help to me to learn about the benefits and challenges of being a moderator while I was deciding whether to nominate myself or not.

Thank you to Jon Ericson and Grace Note their help in this election, in particular for putting out the Question Collection and follow-up Questionnaire, and to everyone who submitted questions for it:

• Faheem Mitha


• JdeBP


• K7AAY


• Tim


• Tomasz


• Undercat


• and yes, even Fabby :)

I think threads like these are important because they call out what the community feels is important -- both for site and in a moderator. An open discussion thread like that is a great place for nominees to be able to expand on their ideas and for the community to get a better sense for how the nominees would perform the moderation tasks. Thank you also to JNat for opening up the separate Election chat room so that the community could haven even more discussion around the election and the candidates.

Finally, personal thanks to everyone who expressed support for me, both on the nomination page and in the chat rooms. Seeing comments on (all of) the nominations tells me that people care enough about the site to consider the nominees carefully. It was rewarding to see the comments that were directly supportive of the work I’ve done. I look forward to learning even more about how the site works, and to helping keep the site clean, positive, and moving forward together!

share

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

45k11746

share

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

45k11746

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

45k11746

answered Mar 27 at 1:00

Jeff Schaller♦Jeff Schaller

45k11746