RationalWiki:Moderator elections/Nominations/Archive10

 Moderator election schedule Nominations and campaigning will run: 24 December 2017 – 07 January 2018 Voting will run: 11 January – 17 January 2018 (Results) We will be electing: 6 mods, 2 alternates

We will be electing 6 moderators and 2 alternates via The mods are the 1st-6th highest-ranked candidates of the STV vote. The alternates are the 7th and 8th highest-ranked candidates of the STV vote.

We would like to have at least 1 non-candidate OpenSTV reader. It's pretty easy -- you need only have 1 hour of free time on 14/15 January 2018.

Accepted nominations

 * For a job well done, vote DiamondDisc1!- 21:55, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Purge our governance of the old guard! 𝔊𝔬𝔞𝔱-𝔈𝔪𝔭𝔢𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔅𝔦𝔤𝔰 (𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔡𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔡𝔬𝔪/𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰) 00:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Bongolian (talk) 04:49, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Ye. 05:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Why are we pinging? —Kazitor, pending 23:50, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Go on then. Christopher (talk) 10:56, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I am delighted to accept the nomination. Spud (talk) 14:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Happy to be considered for the moderator role. Regards, Cosmikdebris (talk) 15:39, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'll have a try this year. 20:05, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I humbly accept the nomination. Nerd (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I humbly accept the nomination. -Xbony2 (talk) 02:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I humbly accept the nomination. 03:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * If I'm going to do this, I should get on with it already. CowHouse (talk) 16:11, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Declined nominations

 * I don't think I've got quite the right demeanor. And it looks like we have twice as many perfectly decent candidates as we need.  Unless I'm forgetting that I detest some of the people above for some reason.  ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 15:02, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the nomination, but I don't think I have the time or energy to be a moderator. 00:35, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sadly I am not ready to lead the glorious revolution become a moderator just yet. GrammarCommie (talk) 00:39, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Nah. Don't wanna. —ClickerClock (talk) 07:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I also appreciate the honor, but my health is erratic and I may have prolonged absences that make it seem imprudent for me to be in charge of anything. - Smerdis of Tlön, LOAD "*", 8, 1. 03:07, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I honestly have no interest whatsoever in being a moderator!!!S.H. DeLong (talk) 06:48, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Probably one of the worst choices for mod at the moment. RoninMacbeth (talk) 20:08, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm hardly here any more, so shouldn't run for mod when I'm largely unavailable - David Gerard (talk) 14:31, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks but I think I'm done. 15:24, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, but no thanks.  22:34, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm out. 10:06, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

OpenSTV ballot readers
Please please please sign up. Cherry on top. Your name will be remembered for all history. 19:48, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi. What is a ballot reader? —ClickerClock (talk) 04:44, 28 December 2017 (UTC)