Announcing a Pro Tempore election

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Summary: Hinduism Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on February 1 to bring in one more moderator.

For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack Exchange. The timeline:

• Starting on February 1, users can nominate themselves. Users can also ask questions on meta for potential moderators to answer. (Use the discussion and election tags.)

• On February 8, if there are two or more candidates, we'll run an election. If not, I'll simply appoint the candidate. (There's a small chance we'll need to remove a nomination, but I doubt that will come up.)

• If there is an election, I'll announce the results on meta on February 16.

(Note for current moderators: there's no need to nominate yourself even though you'll likely get an email saying you should. The system assumes the first election is a graduation election, which would mean moderators would need to be re-elected. This isn't that sort of election.)

If you have any questions about the process, please stick them in an answer here.

Answer 1

The system assumes the first election is a graduation election, which would mean moderators would need to be re-elected.

Better late than never, why isn't HSE graduated and then have an election? I don't think it is Area51 stats, considering other religion SE sites graduation. Maybe letting us know what is being expected through a new meta post will be great, either by mod or cmod.

I have my own assumptions of what is being expected, but I don't think there is a general common understanding of it.