Advisory Board Elections

[theljstaff]

Now that we have invited members to be on the Advisory Board, and created a clear mandate for the work of the board, it is time to begin talking about the elections for the user representatives

Comments

[manifestress]

I would be very interested.

[shanaqui]

I approve. Keep going.

[shanaqui]

I agree, I don't think two users is enough in the first place.

[marta]

At this point, Cyrillic-language users are about 20% of LiveJournal users. In addition to having different types of community concerns (LiveJournal is *the* major blogging platform in Russia), there are a lot of Russian users who have over 10,000 active friends and/or are pretty famous. In the interest of making sure that both major communities were represented, and that neither carried the entire election, we split the election into two parts.

[maidenmorticia]

Can you give us the % breakdown for all language groups, please? It is only fair. 20% is hardly an overwhelming majority.

[cofax7]

How will nominations work? Will individuals be required to nominate themselves, or may they be drafted?

[marta]

Individuals will be required to nominate themselves. We'll have a community to do that and then other users can "support" (like seconding a motion) a nomination.

[thevelvetsun]

LOL. Another community? Wonderful.

[averysmallthing]

Why? Why not just do it out of this community or another that already exists? Not being wangsty here, just really want to know the rationale for another teamLJ community.

[odontomachus]

Here's a little hint from a freelance advisor, completely gratis: if you want to create an "open dialogue", don't split up everything that's important into a billion and one different communities. It's pointless, stupid and only obscures the issue.
Also? *anticipatory.

[ghoststrider]

+1

[pbristow]

+1