Moderator voting thread
 

Please vote for no more than two people, to be Cellar moderators through the end of the year. The top two will be selected. The term of this office will be through 12/31/2008.

Nominees are listed in order of nomination. All user names are lower case because I was too lazy to look up 22 entries to check on upper-lower case.

The job is:
This is not a popularity contest but a way to figure out who should have additional power for the benefit of the community. Full disclosure: although I have the ability to see who voted for whom, I won't peek, I sincerely promise.

The vote will be open for four days, ending at approx. 5:30 pm EST Jan. 10. Thanks all for participating.

You may want to expand the term of office to go beyond the past. ;)

Year edited, thanks :D

Please don't vote for me. As I mentioned, my future visiting the cellar is very uncertain, and I'd have to decline.
I guess I was a bit too diplomatic about it. By Japanese standards that was a blatant refusal. I have to keep recalibrating my social expectations every time I log in to visit you noisy rude pushy westerners ;)

VOTE ZENGUM '08
ZenGum for FreeDum

Recycle
 

I originally wrote a longer version of the following for a different thread, but seeing zero votes by so many names (including, thankfully, mine :sniff:), I thought it would be fun to recycle it (really, I'm just too lazy to write something new). I hope nobody takes it seriously.

This thread makes me feel
a little bit sad -
no, not for those who didn't make the list,
that's not so bad -
but for those who did
but still have a lonely little zero
sitting by their name.

...

Eyes sting, ears ring,
dry lips twitch, and nostrils flair,
fingers run through sweat-soaked hair,
and in the center, the popular people
tell themselves it's not polite to stare.

I think you just got a vote for your campaign poem. Way to go, there. :D

Ibram, if I do get elected, your posts are going to suffer. :p
;)

I understand that results will likely change by the end of the voting period. But it seems appropriate to ask now, when a final outcome is still hypothetical.

At the moment there is a tie for first place between three different people. Is there a procedure in place for tie-breaking?

I suggest runoff voting

I'm certain that we can figure a way.

I concur

"Three Dwellars enter, two Dwellars leave.
Three Dwellars enter, two Dwellars leave."

'Cmon, chant it with me.

i was all excited when i saw that i had 6 votes.....then i was relieved when i saw bruce, wolf, and the other 2 serious candidates(glatt, and clobble) out pacing me. There's not a lot of glory or revenge in it, afterall...

WTF!!!!?