RationalWiki talk:RationalMedia Foundation/Voter registration

Date of Election
It's after Sept 17 right? (My account will turn three months old then.) —Bigljbigl (talk/stalk) 01:09, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
 * It's currently assumed to start 12 August. I'd suggest you make a post on the Saloon Bar asking for an exception or a rule change. 02:20, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Username changes
Does it matter if some of the users listed have changed their username? Should they register again? CowHouse (talk) 05:42, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * does it matter that some of these users are permabanned that and some are socks of the permabanned? AMassiveGay (talk) 07:56, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a good question that should probably be raised where more people will see it. I could be incorrect but my understanding is that users are still considered eligible if they are blocked (RationalWiki:Eligible users says nothing about blocks/bans or sockpuppets). As to whether or not they should be allowed to vote, I'll leave that decision to the rest of the community. By the way,, you're not on the list.
 * In case anyone is curious, and please correct me if I'm wrong, there are four users on the list that are currently blocked and all of them were blocked in 2016 or earlier: Arisboch, Conservapedian Troll (as ), 𐌈FedoraTippingSkeptic𐌈 (as "Kosterortiizbrock") and Miekal (as "Mikal"). CowHouse (talk) 09:56, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

Reminder to register to vote
You have been tagged in this post if you have:
 * Made at least one edit in 2018
 * Indicated you may be interested in the RationalWiki:2018 board of trustees election
 * Not registered to vote

I have assumed you are interested if you have edited the nominations, campaigning or voter registration pages.

All of these users are eligible to vote:

These users are registered to vote under an old username (I'm unsure if this is a problem): CowHouse (talk) 12:56, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

2 questions
First, am I allowed to vote if I’m running? And two, if I’m registered under my previous username (same account tho), do I need to reregister? Grazie mille 12:02, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The answer to the first question is most definitely "Yes". I've been voting for myself for about half a decade now. This will be the first time I'll vote for all three of the other candidates as well.


 * I think the answer to the second question is "No." Users rename themselves a lot, after all. But I'm ot 100% sure. Spud (talk) 12:08, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks a bunch! I may just re-register to be safe tbh 01:24, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Banned users
A number of banned users like GR and Dysklyver are listed here, should they be removed or kept on a historical basis? Plutocow (talk) 04:50, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Is there a reason they should be removed? I'm not exactly seeing a provision that says that banned users cannot vote. 06:39, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I would have thought it’d be a given that banned users cannot vote. 10:23, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Easy enough to test once mod elections start, unless someone wants to look through the code on github before then.
 * When I looked through the code a while ago I couldn’t find anything suggesting this page worked as advertised. Maybe votes are removed manually but that seems like it’d compromise anonymity, shouldn’t be possible. Christopher (talk) 10:31, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * At the very least it makes us look stupid to have banned users on the voter page. 11:40, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I don't see why we need to engage in felon disenfranchisement >:V 22:41, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * GR didn't get felonied. GR got fuckin' executed. 23:03, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
 * No, he got sent to the sun. He's out there somewhere. We don't believe in capital punishment! 23:11, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

Blocked users are unable to vote - see line 165 or so here: https://github.com/RationalWiki/mediawiki-extensions-RWElection/blob/master/Election.body.php. Christopher (talk) 21:09, 4 November 2022 (UTC)