The 'Shroom talk:Issue 203/Poll Committee Chairperson Election

Election Process

This page is where members of the community may make nominations and vote for candidates to oversee the Poll Committee for the next year. The rules for the election process may be viewed on the election rules article.

Voting starts on Saturday, February 24th, 2024 at 00:01 GMT.

Candidates and Voting

Candidates post their campaigns and receive votes here!

MightyMario

Hi, I’m MightyMario! I’m running for Poll Committee Chairperson in order to obtain some useful leadership experience. I am almost always on time with deadlines, and I am friendly toward fellow users.

My goals as Chairperson:

1. Ensure that polls are up on time.
2. Make sure to listen to any and all criticisms that my committee may have and improve upon them.
3. Create polls that everyone will enjoy voting in.

I look forward to potentially being on the Poll Committee, I love this community and I hope we can make some great polls together!

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Ninja Squid (talk) / Goombuigi (talk)

Booyah! It is none other than your 'Shroom basement dweller, Ninja Squid (talk). Obviously, I think you should already know by now what I'm here for, otherwise, why would I be posting this in the Poll Chair Election if running wasn't part of the plan, right? Well, this is exactly why I am here. Today, alongside my running mate Goombuigi, we are starting our Ninja domina- whoops, sorry, I meant my campaign for the position of Poll Committee Chairperson! Yeah, forget whatever I said prior. ;-)

In case you are out of the loop about me, here are my past credentials:

• Director of The 'Shroom (2022)
• Statistics Manager of The 'Shroom (2018-2022)
• Poll Committee Chairperson (2019-2020)
• Poll Committee member (2016-2018, 2019-2022)
• Awards Committee member (2021-2022)

Like I mentioned prior, my running mate for the position of Vice-Chairperson is none other than my ninja assistant Goombuigi. Goombuigi has been a member of the Poll Committee in the past and is one of the newest members of The 'Shroom Staff as a consultant behind-the-scenes. I already had many opportunities to work with him, such as with the Ultimate Location Battle and The 'Shroom Mafia 4, and as both candidates for the 2020 'Shroom Director Election, so I know we're going to be able to coordinate well together. Like I said above, Goombuigi also has previous experiences with the Poll Committee, and I think with my own experiences as both member and former Chairperson of the Poll Committee, I will also be able to provide Goombuigi with good leadership experiences, which is why I have the confidence that he will be a good person for the role of Vice-Chairperson.

Before moving forward with our plans for the year, allow me to turn it over to Goombuigi for his own introduction!

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Greetings, readers! My name is Goombuigi (talk), and I'm running for the position of Vice-Chairperson of the 14th Poll Committee, alongside Ninja Squid. I joined the community in March 2020, and have since become a writer for The 'Shroom, a member of the Poll Committee during its 11th and 12th term, and participated in various events across the community.

The Poll Committee was the first community position I was involved in, back when I had only been around for a few months, and it made for a good "gateway" position. I'm running for Vice-Chairperson because, as of now, I don't have much in the way of leadership experience, and I believe the Poll Committee would likewise be a great gateway to gaining experience in that area; and I'm always looking for ways to be involved in the community. I believe that I am a strong candidate for this position because I'm passionate and dedicated to projects that I pursue, and my prior experience in the Poll Committee has prepared me well for this position. I'm confident that Ninja Squid and I will make a strong team, as we have collaborated on several projects in the past, such as The 'Shroom Mafia 4 and the Ultimate Location Battle, and have worked well together.

These are my credentials:

• writer for The 'Shroom from Issue 157 to Issue 185 (April 2020 - August 2022) and from Issue 201 (December 2023) onward
• staff consultant for The 'Shroom from January 2024 onward
• member of the 11th and 12th Poll Committees (July 2020 - June 2022)
• member of the 2021 Awards Committee

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Our goal for this year is to create a fun, relaxing and engaging experience with the Poll Committee. All we are expecting is a great collaborative effort from our members and to create some good polls for the wiki's main page. This should be the main focus of the Poll Committee. Why would we need more stuff than that when we can strive at making this a fun experience?

Here are some details about our planning and intentions for the year:

Poll Committee size: We would be looking for at least five members to join us this year. This number may seem low at first, but the reality is that we don't want this to be a limit, per se. Therefore, we would like to look for five more members that would be joining the committee, and open the door for additional members to join us through the year if the need arises.

Change the expectation of the poll system: One thing we would like to strive for is not expecting our members to come up with a complete poll for our nomination process. In the past, members were expected to at least create a poll with a question and several options. We would like to scratch that necessity. Even if it was not exactly a requirement, so to speak, we would like to erase that level of expectation entirely for the next term. Essentially, we want to create a more collaborative-effort environment when it comes down to the creation of the polls.

So, say, a member comes up with an idea for a poll, but they aren't sure about its execution - we want them to open up a discussion about a poll idea they have and have us, the Poll Committee, all put our heads together about what could be done to make the idea a reality. We want to remove those barriers to the creation of the polls to be as creative as possible. We plan on making a "New Poll Incubator" thread for such discussion, in which members would be able to toss around ideas for new polls, and other members could build on these concepts.

Expanding the rotating leadership system: We plan on keeping the rotating leadership system that Hooded Pitohui (talk) introduced in the 11th Poll Committee, on an opt-in basis. We would like to expand the system to allow the particular member in charge to post the poll(s) during their period in the MarioWiki Poll Discussion forum thread, and to update the poll ID for the main page (if they have a wiki account, though it is not a requirement - if the member doesn't have a wiki account, the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson will still demonstrate that part of the job and offer assistance as necessary). While all administrative duties, such as creating the poll in Crowdsignal, would continue to be performed by the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson, incorporating the aforementioned two tasks in the leadership system would involve members more intricately in the poll creation process, and would be of help if they would like to lead the Poll Committee themselves later down the road.

Potential PC collaboration effort: This is a potential idea that will entirely depend on the mood and interest of the Poll Committee, but that we still wanted to address. As our goal is to create an engaging experience, we are interested in the potential of the Poll Committee doing fun collaborative work outside of their tasks - something that would feel in a similar vein to our traditional April Fools poll project, that is built mainly with the input of the entire committee.

For example, the Poll Committee could create fun Fake News sections such as News Flushes or Clogged Pipe, or funny stories with the polls thematic in mind for The 'Shroom that all of the committee would create together with the goal of making this both a creative environment and something that could create engagement between our members.

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That concludes some of our objectives for the year! We haven't mentioned the poll schedule and the Poll Committee Discussion section, since we don't plan to make any significant changes to them - polls will be published biweekly, and Poll Committee Discussion will be rotated monthly between various committee members, as was the case before. You may also notice that we omitted to talk about another staple of the Poll Committee - Awards Analysis, and there is a reason for that. We would want this project to be a decision that will be made collectively, rather than a clear goal and expectation from us to the members of the Poll Committee.

Our goal, as we said prior, is to make sure that the Poll Committee is something fun first and foremost. The reasoning behind this decision is that the Poll Committee is often seen as a good first step at gaining and learning experiences with community projects, and we would rather make that our focus this year by keeping it with a lower-scale goal in mind, thus making it less of an heavy burden regarding the expectations for our future members.

Thank you for your time and for considering us!

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