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X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov), C++/Perl/Unix Consulting Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:08:27 GMT X-Envelope-To: uk-gay-lesbian-bi@usenet.org.uk X-Forwarding-To: uk-gay-lesbian-bi@usenet.org.uk From: Mark Goodge Newsgroups: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Subject: Result: uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2004 Organization: The Good Stuff Company of the UK Message-ID: <9e4mb0dnbqlmgh7qdurlbotpo83qns2gnp@news.markshouse.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.553 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: mark X-Complaints-To: abuse@markshouse.net Approved: uk-glb Moderators X-Moderator: Automatically Moderated Lines: 488 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RESULTS OF CALL FOR VOTES uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2004 Summary: All of the candidates are elected, in the following order: Paul Anderson Yaz Gregoire Kretz Dale Kate West paulG Stephen M Baines Jonathan Bratt Bryan - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 28th May 2004. Votetaker: Mark Goodge - ------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution: uk.gay-lesbian-bi - ------------------------------------------------------------- The Results: The results follow below in the following order: 1) Result 2) Particulars of the Vote 3) Votetakers comments 4) Voting and Appeal guidelines 5) Committee Elections Guidelines - ------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Result ukglb moderation panel 2004 31/05/2004 Reusing random seed. Stage 1 Quota = 1.70 Paul Anderson ELECTED with 4.00 over quota 1.70 Yaz ELECTED with 3.00 over quota 1.70 Gregoire Kretz ELECTED with 3.00 over quota 1.70 Dale ELECTED with 2.00 over quota 1.70 Kate West ELECTED with 2.00 over quota 1.70 Vote required for election now: 1.70 Stage 2 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Paul Anderson 4 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 4.00 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.57 paulG ELECTED with 2.71 over quota 1.70 Vote required for election now: 1.70 Stage 3 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Yaz 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 3.00 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.43 Stephen M Baines ELECTED with 2.00 over quota 1.70 Vote required for election now: 1.69 Stage 4 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Gregoire Kretz 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 3.00 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.43 Vote required for election now: 1.69 Stage 5 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of paulG 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 1.71 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.33 Jonathan Bratt ELECTED with 2.28 over quota 1.70 Vote required for election now: 1.67 Stage 6 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Jonathan Bratt 3 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 0.99 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.19 Vote required for election now: 1.67 Stage 7 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Dale 2 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 2.00 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.15 Stage 8 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Kate West 1 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 1.00 1 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.30 Stage 9 No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus Surplus of Stephen M Baines 1 papers transferred. Total Present Value: 0.43 0 papers non-transferable. Papers transferred at 0.30 Bryan ELECTED with 1.90 over quota 1.70 ***Finished*** The election is concluded with all candidates elected - ------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Particulars of the Vote The following people posted valid votes: Chris Hansen chrishansenhome?btinternet@com Dale ukglb?webeye@freeserve@co@uk Eileen treefieldplace?yahoo@co@uk Jonathan Bratt jonnybratt?aol@com Kate West Kate?fishbulb@fsnet@co@uk Lyn David Thomas lyn?trebute@fsnet@co@uk mark MarrkN19?aol@com Michael King kmichaelking?hotmail@com Neil Matthews neil?chaos@org@uk paul {voter}?watman@clara@co@uk PaulG notion?paddington@org@uk Pete Baggett pete?wulfrunian@net Richard Desmond mail?richarddesmond@org@uk Stephen M Baines usenet?kitschcamppalace@org@uk Stevie D newsgrope?sjd117@freeserve@co@uk THE Adrian usenet?diatom@net Yaz yaz?vamanchester@org@uk As per the charter: vii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the vote taker. They will be given a unique identification as part of their acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the result is published while protecting their identity from other voters. viii. The vote taker will publish the result and a voting list comprising voter identifiers and their vote. And therefore the following are the valid votes with the Unique ID for people to identify their votes and the way people voted: PA = Paul Anderson PG = paulG DL = Dale JB = Jonathan Bratt YZ = Yaz KW = Kate West GK = Gregoire Kretz SB = Stephen M Baines BN = Bryan RON = Re-Open Nominations Voter PA PG DL JB YZ KW GK SB BN RON 1134 - - 6 2 3 1 5 4 - - 2456 9 1 8 7 5 6 2 3 4 - 3145 - - - - - - - - - 1 3453 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 9 10 4113 1 3 - - - - 4 2 - - 4232 3 4 5 6 1 - 2 7 8 - 4242 10 7 1 8 6 5 2 4 3 9 4421 4 5 6 - 3 8 2 1 7 9 4433 10 6 7 5 4 3 1 9 2 8 4511 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 7 8 9 4632 1 2 5 4 3 6 7 8 9 10 4799 9 6 5 2 1 3 8 7 4 - 4856 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - 5219 - - - - - - 1 2 - 3 5351 4 3 7 8 1 5 2 6 9 - 5522 7 3 2 - 6 1 5 4 8 - 7380 2 3 1 4 6 7 8 5 9 10 A dash "-" indicates no preference. - ----------------------------------------------------------- 3) Votetaker Comments There were no problems at all runing this vote, although this was primarily due to the low turnout. Two people submitted invalid ballot papers (no name and address); one of these was resubmitted and has been counted, the other was not. I have to agree with previous votetakers that the procedure seems to be unnecesarily unwieldy, given the usage of the group and the number of moderators required. - ------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Voting and Appeal guidelines This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting. UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties. The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL: The UKVoting web pages can be found at There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to uk.gay-lesbian-bi Allegations of irregularity should be sent to ukvoting@ukvoting.org.uk. - ---------------------------------------------------------- 5) Moderation Panel Elections Guidelines - From the charter for uk.glb: Election 2 Initially moderators shall be the panel elected as part of the charter change process. 3. Then each year there after elections will be held for the posts of moderator. i. 11 months after moderation comes into effect (and every twelve months subsequently) the moderation panel will appoint a neutral party to conduct the election as vote taker. The vote taker will issue a call for nominations for a new moderation panel. ii. Nominations will be open for 10 days and to be valid each nominee will have to be proposed and seconded by white list posters (self-nomination is permitted). All white list posters shall have the right to vote, regardless as to whether they were white listed before or after the opening of nominations. iii. At the end of 10 days a list of candidates (including their proposers/seconders) will be published. iv. A five day period of hustings will be held during which the candidates will answer questions from posters to the group. v. The vote taker will issue the first call for votes, to be followed by a second call for votes five days later, the voting period lasting in all for 10 days, votes shall only be valid if submitted on official ballot forms. vi. Voting will be by the Single Transferable Vote method, with a reopen nominations candidate (RON) added to the ballot. If RON passes the quota then all the then unfilled places are void requiring a new election for those vacancies. vii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the vote taker. They will be given a unique identification as part of their acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the result is published while protecting their identity from other voters. viii. The vote taker will publish the result and a voting list comprising voter identifiers and their vote. xi. In the event of less than 4 moderators being elected or RON passing quota the vote taker will issue a second request for nominations no later than 1 month after the close of ballot and hold elections for the remaining vacancies. Those elected at this election shall serve until the annual round of elections are held. ======================================================= CANDIDATES: The following nominations were received and accepted: Please find below details of the people who nominated each candidate (Name & Email Address) and a short statement from each candidate: Candidate: Paul Anderson Nominator: Adrian Hadayah Nominator: Mark Smith Personal Statement: I value the group highly. Since moderation makes the group viable and the mod team perform the necessary tasks to ensure that uk.glb remains as open, readable and welcoming as possible, I'm willing to commit the resources to share in the task and offer myself for re-election. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: paulG Nominator: paulG Nominator: Laurence Jupp Personal Statement: I've done this job for 1 year with no complaints (to my knowledge) and quite enjoyed it. If I am voted in for a 2nd time I promise not to steal any gold bullion from anyone - I also intend to keep with the Group's ethos and reject the spam and other junk as permitted under the Charter. I shall admit to getting a personal sense of satisfaction from pressing the "Reject" button. I shall not stand next year so that some mug(gle) can pick up the whip without fear of me padding along to the next room or picking up the phone to say "Oi! Read your emails, as there's a moderator's decision I feel you can have useful input on" :) I am an regularish lurker, very occasional poster, chocolate bear and mostly proud of it! Hugs often available without request. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Dale Nominator: Dale Nominator: Neil Matthews Personal Statement: I've been reading UKGLB for longer than I really want to remember or admit! This was the first newsgroup that I cut my teeth on and have seen many changes within it, including the application and success of moderation. After years of usage I felt it was time I did a bit of work for the group that has supported me in the past. I currently moderate another newsgroup, alt.religion.wicca.moderated - which uses WebSTUMP, and feel that I have transferable "skills". I'm 32, living with my partner, work for an ISP and have been on UseNet for years. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Jonathan Bratt Nominator: Paul Anderson Nominator: Lyn David Thomas Personal Statement: Having been a member of the group on and off for several years, and a belief both in the principle of moderation and the right to free speech, I think I have the experience to know what should and should not pass moderation, the time, and technical know-how (i.e. not too much) to be able to carry out the role. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Yaz Nominator: Yaz Nominator: Lyn David Thomas Personal Statement: - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Kate West Nominator: Kate West Nominator: Lyn David Thomas Personal Statement: - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Gregoire Kretz Nominator: Gregoire Kretz Nominator: Neil Matthews Personal Statement: Keeping it simple, that's what I'd like to do for ukglb. First because sometimes we tend to forget its core subject and go hairsplitting about moderation and new procedures instead, and secondly because I don't understand anything the moment it becomes technical - and I have a feeling many find the subject as boring as I do. :) It's all based on volunteers and goodwill which worked so far, and imnho should remain an accessory to real life. And a lot of fun, if possible. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Stephen M Baines Nominator: Stephen M Baines Nominator: Gregoire Kretz Personal Statement: All about me at http://www.kitschcamppalace dot org dot uk Judge me on anything at all, I really don't care. - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Candidate: Bryan Nominator: Bryan Nominator: Neil Matthews Personal Statement: - ------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.7.96rc1 iD8DBQFAuxHEi38v2cswOLYRAuj3AKDWxIloAsQbC7EyUJpN3BSvyQkT6QCfTY5C rPsIJrRrqPWoKyf1nsows/M= =LgQV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----