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I would love to have this opportunity. I'll post my speech later.

Lucario621 wrote:

A few comments:

-Cool icon, with the Scratch Cat and Gobo! :3

-I like how you made it just for 6 months, so if somebody doesn't do a good job, or if they leave or lose interest, they can leave.

-There's some underlined text that says on this thread, but there's no link    I bet you're going to fix that soon...

So overall, I like the idea. Although I personally don't think we need more mods because in my opinion, mods only have a slightly higher rank in authority, and have a few more tools to keep the community close, so the current mods already fulfill all of those very well.

Two things about that:
1. I hate to sound like a nag, but terms are only 4 months. I do agree with you though that the term thing is a good idea, and 4 months may be even better than 6 if someone loses interest faster.
2. I do think we need more mods around here, with Lanie and MRN's disappearances as of late. I also haven't really seen cheddargirl around, and because of that, it's taking a lot longer for topics that need to be closed on here to be closed.

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gettysburg11 wrote:

I hate to sound like a nag, but terms are only 4 months. I do agree with you though that the term thing is a good idea, and 4 months may be even better than 6 if someone loses intrest faster.

Oh sorry - my bad. I wasn't looking closely 

gettysburg11 wrote:

I do think we need more mods around here, with Lanie and MRN's disappearances as of late. I also haven't really seen cheddargirl around, and because of that, it's taking a lot longer for topics that need to be closed on here to be closed.

That's the thing... mods don't care about miscellaneous - which is a good thing. So although they may not 'seem' active, by posting on miscellaneous, believe me, THEY ARE HERE. PADDLE2SEE AND CHEDDARGIRL WILL FIND YOU XD. As for closing topics, you have the facts all wrong. Ever heard of the 'report' button? Yeah - the one used for closing topics. Well, I have requested closure many of my threads before, believe me, from being bumped up, or other reasons - and each time I used the report to say "Close this please", it's always been done within a matter of minutes. People just have to learn to use the magical button.

gettysburg11 wrote:

OK. I guess that makes two application speeches/essays I've got to do today. (I've got one for something in school to do)

Rofl. I don't think you have to do a speech though.

It says "just a brief statement" not a "preamble"  .

Lucario621 wrote:

gettysburg11 wrote:

I hate to sound like a nag, but terms are only 4 months. I do agree with you though that the term thing is a good idea, and 4 months may be even better than 6 if someone loses intrest faster.

Oh sorry - my bad. I wasn't looking closely 

gettysburg11 wrote:

I do think we need more mods around here, with Lanie and MRN's disappearances as of late. I also haven't really seen cheddargirl around, and because of that, it's taking a lot longer for topics that need to be closed on here to be closed.

That's the thing... mods don't care about miscellaneous - which is a good thing. So although they may not 'seem' active, by posting on miscellaneous, believe me, THEY ARE HERE. PADDLE2SEE AND CHEDDARGIRL WILL FIND YOU XD. As for closing topics, you have the facts all wrong. Ever heard of the 'report' button? Yeah - the one used for closing topics. Well, I have requested closure many of my threads before, believe me, from being bumped up, or other reasons - and each time I used the report to say "Close this please", it's always been done within a matter of minutes. People just have to learn to use the magical button.

That does make a lot of sense. People don't often use the report button. I just said that because I know of at least one thread where there were about 5-7 posts in 15-20 minutes asking for the thread to be closed, and it took a while to be closed. I'm just saying that although people SHOULD use the report button, they don't most of the time, and there should be more mods to be able to read those posts and then close the thread.

Lucario621 wrote:

gettysburg11 wrote:

OK. I guess that makes two application speeches/essays I've got to do today. (I've got one for something in school to do)

Rofl. I don't think you have to do a speech though.

It says "just a brief statement" not a "preamble"  .

It actually says "short essay".

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Lucario621 wrote:

gettysburg11 wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

Rofl. I don't think you have to do a speech though.

It says "just a brief statement" not a "preamble"  .

It actually says "short essay".

It actually says "Then post a brief statement announcing your nomination in this thread. (No other comments please)."

Maybe you're looking on the wrong page 

Oh, I was talking about my school thing. 

Is there any way to vote for yourself? Because I don't think that would be fair in the slightest.

Lightnin wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

Is there any way to vote for yourself? Because I don't think that would be fair in the slightest.

Sure, you can vote for yourself! That's possible in most elections. It will take a lot more votes than one to win though.

And it's also a limit to online voting systems. Without individual IP identification and blocking people cannot be blocked from doing this.

I will be writing a speech soon. 

lonwol wrote:

Ok. Is anyone allowed to join the election?

I suppose so, but they only choose the people they think would be right

I'm worried that this might be a corrupt election. See, the majority of users post more in the "Miscellaneous" forums than not, correct? And if a user *doesn't* post in the Miscellaneous forum, but has been chosen as a near-finalist in the election, then they will be lesser-known to most users, and therefore, get less votes. In essence, they are not getting votes for being more helpful than not.

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coolstuff wrote:

I'm worried that this might be a corrupt election. See, the majority of users post more in the "Miscellaneous" forums than not, correct? And if a user *doesn't* post in the Miscellaneous forum, but has been chosen as a near-finalist in the election, then they will be lesser-known to most users, and therefore, get less votes. In essence, they are not getting votes for being more helpful than not.

In my opinion this system has been set up to combat the problem imposed by the "Miscellaneous" forum section which we have seen examples of recently. The scratch team and moderators have recently been under a lot of stress with this section, as it is even more popular than the "Text Based Games" section.

scmb1 wrote:

You're post says "no other comments please." Does that mean no speeches or no posts that aren't people applying? I'm just curious- I haven't decided if I will run or not.

I think that until you've been chosen as one of the finalists - for lack of a better term - you shouldn't post any sort of speeches. After that, you're trying to convince people to vote for you, so I think those should be okay.