Super User moderator election 2017

Super User held its fourth moderator election this month, with exactly one seat open. I like helping keep Super User clean, and moderators have a lot of tools that do that, so I ran.

Results came out today. As expected, DavidPostill won - he has a ton of activity in all aspects of the site, and his victory is well deserved. I (Ben N) came in second, though! I'm very happy with that; it was an honor to be in the same race, and second is the highest I can get without having to actually do any of the work, heh. The third-place candidate was music2myear, who has also been a prolific contributor. In all, the race had eight candidates.

Each voter ranks their top three choices in order of preference, but that didn't really come into play this time because David flew by the threshold, so no vote transference had to occur.

Interesting fact: the most common ballots (descending order of preference) were:

1. DavidPostill, Ben N, music2myear (612 instances)
2. DavidPostill, music2myear, Ben N (230)
3. Ben N, DavidPostill, music2myear (95)
4. music2myear, DavidPostill, Ben N (75)
5. music2myear, Ben N, DavidPostill (62)
6. DavidPostill, other slots blank (55)
7. Ben N, music2myear, DavidPostill (50)
8. DavidPostill, Ben N, last slot blank (39)
9. DavidPostill, Ben N, td512 (22)
10. DavidPostill, Ben N, nicorellius (21)
11. Ben N, DavidPostill, djsmiley2k (13)
12. Ben N, DavidPostill, nicorellius (12)
13. Ben N, other slots blank (11)
14. DavidPostill, Ben N, djsmiley2k (11)
15. Ben N, DavidPostill, last slot blank (10)

There were 106 completely unique (i.e. appearing only once) ballots. DavidPostill appeared (in any position) on 1602 of the 1887 ballots; I appeared on 1502 ballots. David had 1139 of the first-choice votes, easily passing the threshold of 944. I had 288 first-choice votes and music2myear was close behind with 237.

Congratulations, DavidPostill!