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[svmadelyn]

ETA: Let's try this again.If you're not a member of fandom and you're not going to be voting for one of the ten people we are discussing, go somewhere else to discuss your candidate. I want this comments section on-topic. I have no desire to wade through anything extraneous in this community

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[sasha_davidovna]

I had some friends ask for help deciding who to vote for and started putting together a list of posts related to the elections here: http://sasha-davidovna.livejournal.com/293958.html

Linking it here in the hope that others might also find it useful, too.

[svmadelyn]

Awesome, thank you!

Legomymalfoy

[bookshop]

Hi, hi. I've already listed a bunch of reasons why I think legomymalfoy is our best candidate on my lj, but I also wanted to add something I said on the subject this morning:

Jen has been involved with the LJ support and abuse teams for years; she's also been involved in fandom for even longer. She's extremely passionate about fandom, but she's also never ever been one to cry havoc and let loose the trolls on the LJ mods. She's the only person on the nominee list who both understands LJ well *and* is a permanent and entrenched member of the largest fandom on the internet. She is the candidate who will be best able to understand and disseminate LJ Abuse policy and influence it in a way that will be most beneficial to fandom.

That's why I support her.

Re: Legomymalfoy

[aidenfire]

The question that what you say here brings to my mind is, (with no disrespect intended) if she was on the LJ abuse team--the people who were actually deleting the journals--how can we trust there won't be a strikethrough/boldthrough 2.0? I've asked this on her journal just a minute ago as well.

Re: Legomymalfoy

[elfwreck]

The abuse team--the volunteers who read the endless complaints about "she stole my icon!" and "I can't log in; I must've been hacked" and "make him unfriend me" and "someone said I'm a bitch and I want you to ban them"--didn't decide to do strikethrough. The order to remove journals based on profiles came from higher up.

Abuse team members weren't even allowed to talk about it, and they weren't all happy with the policy change.

One of LJ's ongoing problems is a lack of distinction between "inter-user dispute decisions; anyone with a brain can make this judgment call" and "official policy decisions; enforcing the business side of things." (Which is also separate from "technical assistance; no judgment necessary at all.") Someone who's been caught up in the process has a better chance of getting the policymakers to agree to inform users which type is relevant in any particular Support claim or Abuse ruling.

Re: Legomymalfoy

[elements]

I am also supporting Jen, for all the same reasons Aja outlines. She is levelheaded, and a longtime fandomer as well as a longtime very active and involved LJ user. I thoroughly trust Jen to support my interests and to listen to my concerns, both as a fandom member and as a user of LJ. I've seen Jen deal with difficult situations and people, and handle disagreements with tact, integrity and thoughtfulness. She absolutely deserves our votes.

RM

[spare_change]

I'd never heard of rm before the elections, but I really like her platform. Here's what I think sets her apart from the other candidates:

Fandom-specific issues

- She puts free speech issues foremost. She doesn't make any excuses for strikethrough, boldthrough, or LJ Abuse's treatment of breastfeeding moms.

My argument is for the broadest range of speech permissible under the laws of California (where LJ is incorporated). This level of free speech should be the right of all LJ users, regardless of location or topic. Political speech needs to be protected. Religious speech needs to be protected. Creative speech needs to be protected. If it's legal speech it should be permissible on LJ.

- She is the only candidate who is a member of OTW. (I'm not a fan of OTW personally, but I know a lot of fans find it very important.)

General LJ issues

- LJ needs to honor its original commitments made to the users. I value someone with a sense of LJ history, whose loyalty is in terms of its original community and that sense of promise.

Re: RM

[nicocoer]

All are the reasons she came up in my top choices. yay free speech! (She's my Number two, though. . .)

Re: RM

[zillah975]

She's my number one. I've already voted in the LJ elections, though, so I don't know that my vote counts - I'm not sure whether they're letting people change their votes.

Re: RM

[spare_change]

Yes, you can change your votes!
http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=1192389&mode=enter

[icarusancalion]

Right now two candidates are surging ahead, the others aren't even in the ballpark:

legomymalfoy and jameth.

I've scoped out jameth. He's been running a smear campaign against legomymalfoy and has this stick figure post about how the smart money is on him. I like legomymalfoy's platform. This jameth is contemptible.

[seperis]

I'm tracking the smear threads too. Four or five threads so far against legomymalfoy, one against rm.

I especially like the complete lack of evidence other than "BUT THEY ARE GETTING AHEAD TOO FAST!" *sighs*

[icarusancalion]

Smear threads against Legomymalfoy, and he makes general slams against fandom as a whole. Check out bethbethbeth's post.

[recommendation]

Sorry, where is jameth running a smear campaign against legomymalfoy?

for bigdecision08, not for me.

[synecdochic]

I support legomymalfoy, for reasons enumerated here; her LJ-related experience makes her the ideal candidate to translate fannish interests into language that the suits will understand.