Headmin election 17, March 2023

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Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NgWVqFIQg

Headmin Election 17
There are 17 syllables in a traditional haiku, a Japanese three-line poem, so here is a haiku about democracy, written by chatGPT

Voters' voice heard loud
Equal power, all opinions
Democracy shines bright

How the vote works - viewtopic.php?f=38&t=9965


Rules:
1)Only post a candidate thread in this forum if you are planning on running - viewforum.php?f=38
2)You must not be permabanned or blacklisted
3)Do not ask headmins about a particular players conduct, generalise your question, this is not a forum to use the headmin candidates to attack other people
4)If you want to ask every single headmin a question, post your question here - viewforum.php?f=52 - read the rules, this subforum is strict, spamming your question across every candidate thread is a good way to get your question deleted.
5)Low effort posts deleted on candidate request
6)No bribes, or offers/things that could be construed as bribes, you'll get one warning, then you'll be disqualified. This includes coding PR's for votes.
7)Don't advertise on the codebase or abuse it's PR announcer for your own means
8)Do not campaign in the game in an IC fashion, such as Captains Announcements or Stations names etc. Keep it OOC and do not abuse your admin privileges such as global narrates, talking on ooc while its disabled, and so forth.
9)Only players with 90 minutes of playtime in the past 45 days may reply to candidate threads or talk in the debate forum.[/u]

General Discussion on elections/policy/stuff goes in here


Timelines
The election period starts on the Wed 8th Feb 2023, when this thread officially becomes a global sticky.
Candidate pre-entry opens - 12th of Feb New threads can be made, but no posting may happen.
Discussion starts - 15th Feb, forums unlocked, this thread is postable in.
Candidate entries close - 17th Feb
Voting begins - DDAY - 22nd Feb
Voting complete, results announced - 1st March

~15 day handover period for the old Head admins to hand over to the new ones, with the official switchover date being the 15th of March 2023

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A note on how timelines are calculated

14 days after the election for transitional period.
7 days of voting.
7 days of discussion.
3 days for candidate entries only mode.
5 days for candidate entries total. (we really don't get many quality candidate threads byond the first 2 days, its hard to justify leaving these open for all that long after discussion starts, given late comers are very unlikely to make up momentum losses, and its hard to justify more than 7 days of discussion given theres also 7 days of discussion+voting)
4 days of headmin election thread existing preamble.

adding that up:

dday:15th
dday-35 create headmin election thread.
dday-31 thread creation enabled. (we should also consider allowing the creation of debate threads, but not replies)
dday-28 forums unlocked
dday-26 candidate entries close
dday-21 vote starts
dday-14 vote ends
dday-0, term changeover

Reversing the directions
Create thread: TDay.
Unlock candidate entries: TDay+4
Unlock discussion: TDay+7
Close candidate entries: TDay+9
Start vote: TDay+14
Announce vote results: TDay+21

Winners:
Host Vote (Usually granted to the headmins) - Misdoubtful (Hugs)
Admin Vote - tbc
Player Vote - tbc

Past Winners:
October 2014: anon3, hornygranny, ikkarus
March 2015: sticky, hornygranny, stp
August 2015: jordie, ausops, lollerderby
January 2016: shadowlight, kor, hornygranny
June 2016: shaps, kor, lzimann
October 2016: tehsteveo, okand(replaced by lzimann), krusvik
Mar 2017: ausops, pkpenguin, joan
Sep 2017: kor, ausops, armhulen
Mar 2018: rustledjimm, armhulen(replaced by owegno), citrusgender
Sep 2018: naatli, arianya, nervere
Mar 2019: wubli, nervere, hulk
Sep 2019: karp, hulk, mortosasye(replaced by plapatin)
Mar 2020: phuzzylodgik, coconut, twat
Sep 2020: domitius, naloac, coconut
Mar 2021: jimmius, naloac, coconut
Sep 2021: NamelessFairy, Dragomagol/Tattle, RaveRadbury
Mar 2022: Timberpoes, Mothblocks, MrMelbert (all coder supremacy win)
Sep 2022:Spookuni, Raveradbury, San7890
Mar 2023: TBC

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reserved for candidate thread list

[Bawhoppennn]

You retroactively changed the dates of previous elections? I want to yell conspiracy, but what benefit could this serve? The only thing it does is... make the list look more... neat. Oh.

[oranges]

I just adjusted the dates to reflect when the election ended, not when it started also you're not allowed to post in this thread yet go away

[oranges]

Misdoubtful (Hugs) is selected as the host vote candidate.

[oranges]

You may now post in candidate threads and post debate threads for candidates.

reminder, you cannot post in debate threads if you are not a candidate, your opinion is irrelevant.

[Cheshify]

I'd like to announce the February 2023 Headmin Election Debates!
They'll be taking place on 2023/02/25 10:00 PM (UTC). We ask all headmin candidates that intend on participating to prepare a sub minute introduction to themselves, their platform, and their history with TGstation. We'll have CitrusGender as our caster for the event, with help from the events and admin team!

For the audience, you guys will have the opportunity to ask the candidates your own questions, please keep in mind that questions should be short, open ended, and not directed at an individual candidate. We're also going to have a community-made bingo sheet for anything funny that might happen during the debate! You can submit bingo tile suggestions to the form below:
https://forms.gle/hegHReQm9VTXx1Ng7

As for headmin candidates, please sign up well ahead of time by contacting @Nineball#0562 on discord, the earlier you can say you'll arrive the better!

We hope to see you there!

Also, this is not an official debate, it's a for-fun event and you're not obliged to show up.

[MrStonedOne]

I'd like to announce the February 2023 Headmin Election Debates!
They'll be taking place on 2023/02/25 10:00 PM (UTC).

(The 25th is a saturday)

[oranges]

I'd like to announce the February 2023 Headmin Election Debates!
They'll be taking place on 2023/02/25 10:00 PM (UTC).

(The 25th is a saturday)

it's a sunday for me

[Featherfield]

Headmin elections but no goof or oranges

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The polls are now open on the servers

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The provisional results of the headmin election 17 are in.

Raw results, thank you to all 374 voters who took part
https://tgstation13.org/tgdb/irvpolltally.php?id=292

Player result after filtering
https://tgstation13.org/tgdb/irvpolltal ... k2Rw%3D%3D

Winner Lukas#0375 keith4

Admin vote after filtering:
https://tgstation13.org/tgdb/irvpolltal ... wvTg%3D%3D

Winner Timberpoes#4951 Timberpoes

These results are provisional, until approved by Mrstonedone to ensure that I didn't fuck up the filter results

[RedBaronFlyer]

Forgive my ignorance but I got no idea how to read some of these results. What are "first pick votes" and "total vote value?"

I'm stupid it was right there: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=9965