I'm a little curious as to why users on the moderator election page can downvote a candidate. This actually does not make sense to me. Is this a bug? or a feature? and why.
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11Why not? In the primaries it shows your utter dissapproval of the candidate in question– Journeyman GeekCommented Nov 27, 2014 at 9:55
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4to be honest, i want to be able to throw shoes at them. :(– SirexCommented Nov 28, 2014 at 0:02
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5I wish I could downvote one twice. :P– Katherine VillyardCommented Nov 28, 2014 at 3:57
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It is a feature.
- Upvote is approval.
- No vote neutral.
- Downvote is disapproval.
This gives an overall sense of how the Server Fault community and the wider Stack Exchange users feel about a particular candidate.
To add to Iain's answer, to make it to the second Election round, I believe the candidate needs to have a positive net vote count. That is, more people approve than disapprove of the candidate.
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It seems that this is not true, at least 2 people in the election had overall negative scores.– user9517Commented Nov 28, 2014 at 20:29
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@Iain I'm on SE mobile, easier to just ask the question :) Commented Nov 28, 2014 at 22:27
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@sysadmin1138 I see two people who had net negative vote count in the election.– user9517Commented Nov 28, 2014 at 23:51
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@Iain my mistake, I was thinking about the election phase, not the true second (primary) phase. I've update my answer. Commented Nov 29, 2014 at 1:16
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@Iain Net-negative is a bit different than a value showing as -1. We had one of those in the primary, that candidate didn't make the general.– sysadmin1138 ModCommented Nov 29, 2014 at 3:04
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@sysadmin1138 Nope. the answer here says net positive which is wrong. The value showing as -1 is SE being
pink-and-fluffyand not showing a much bigger negative total that 2 candidates have. The candidate that didn't make it to the primary effectively came 11th in the primary.– user9517Commented Nov 29, 2014 at 7:49 -
Still wrong. The 2 candidates showing -1 at the end of the primary who got to the election proper had +19/-77 and +25/-81. They look like overall negative values to me. The one that failed to get through had +32/-165 and is therefore quite clearly the least fragrant of the candidates. All 3 show as -1 unless you expand the voting, you can see it clearly if you check out the primary tab– user9517Commented Nov 29, 2014 at 7:58
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2@Iain I don't see any primary tab on that bikeroutetoaster.com site. :p Commented Dec 1, 2014 at 18:57
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1hahahahah no you know where I cycled at the weekend :) @Zoredache– user9517Commented Dec 1, 2014 at 19:14