What am I electing the community manager for - to represent my interests in whatever
Both candidates say nothing about what interests they intend to represent going forward and instead just say they will poll and listen, so there is nothing to determine for who represents my interests better. Instead all I can do is read platforms for what people intend to do and theoretically hope my interests get represented in those intentions.
Penguin made several concrete proposals on how to actually do anything, Deribus has made nothing because I have no idea what his history is supposed to show me when it isn't showcased to lead to anything new. Like why do I care that you trained people, you aren't applying for a trainer role. Likewise what is making a Discord channel supposed to show me about anything. Are you going to make some poll channel ran like #cute-animals or are you going to make more #cute-animal tier channels or are you just going to add random channels and see if people use them? Why don't you talk about the survey you ran before and ways to optimize your process of data collection or something? Did it lead to anything? If it didn't, why didn't it. How can you fix that in the future.
Like what issues are you going to survey? Who are you going to contact both on contributor and user side? Any issues that are currently pressing that you intend to investigate? How would you decide the correct sample pool for data collection? Did the poll you ran prior teach you anything about data pruning/massaging/analysis? Hiding behind "we'll see later" when you also haven't taken a definitive stance on anything means there is nothing for me to even review nor any promises to uphold you to nor any milestones to look forward to. I'd be electing a moderator that sometimes trains and talks to dudes to (maybe) do more of the same. (depending on board convos could even do less!)
I mean I hate to beat a dead horse but seriously the 1 new thing you proposed you'd do, a rehash of This Week in Slack, you then immediately walked back and said you might not do it because it could be a lot of reading.