Vote, vote, vote.

[icarus]

I have two favors to ask of you.

First: Vote.

Second: Post about the Livejournal representative election. Urge your friendslist to vote and then post about the vote.

If massive numbers of fandomers surge to vote, then we will have our pick of fandom candidates. Instead of being a race between an anti-fandom candidate, jameth and fandom candidate legomymalfoy, we can have a race between legomymalfoy and rm.

I know we can easily reach 14,000 fandomers. I've added up the f-lists of those who've posted about the vote already. And you don't have to wait. Because you can change your mind between now and Thursday.

The three top fandom candidates:

legomymalfoy
rm
vichan

As of this moment, the numbers are:

jameth - 2508 (17.8%)
legomymalfoy - 3785 (26.9%)
rm - 1522 (10.8%)
vichan - 707 (5.0%)

I've nothing against this guy personally, but I don't like his paranoid campaign and troll history.
jameth attacked fandom once he fell behind, accusing us of sockpuppeting with up to 200 puppets per fandomer (seriously?) all based on an "anonymous tip." (Other moments that smack of conspiracy theories include fears that LJ is locking in votes and jameth blaming legomymalfoy for a supporter being kicked off IRC chat by burr86. Let's not forget the backhanded pre-emptive swipes at all the candidates, with the caption "I don't think _my_ platform is going to change. Not sure about anyone else's, though." Not someone I would want to work with. For more paranoia: He now fears Legomymalfoy's ahead because the LJ support team doesn't like him.)

Longstanding fandomers like telesilla (whom you might remember from her reporting of strikethrough and FanLib) and caras_galadhon and others, remind us jameth is a known troll, while bethbethbeth points out the strongly anti-fandom attitude of his supporters, which he's made no effort to contradict.

But hey, let's plague an epileptic's journal with flashing icons!
So I guess it should come as no surprise that his supporters are deliberately posting flashing icons in the comments of an epileptic's journal. At least one other epileptic has been affected, so turn off graphics if you click to rydra_wong's journal. The bigdecision08 community which is run by three jameth supporters has posted about this, unfortunately directing jameth's supporters to her journal. I've asked jameth what, since he's seeking a leadership role and has been comfortable telling people to vote for him in all three categories, does he have to say about this? So far, although he's fine with directing people to vote for him and then null out in all categories, not a peep. To rydra_wong it's not his problem. Nice guy. ETA: I asked him about it and he replied "what post?" This guy's totally full of shit. He'd already replied to rydra_wong's post several times. He's attempting to run on his RL credentials, but I've learned in comments here that someone who's worked with him IRL "does not have complimentary things to say about his skills with dealing with people."

I've collected endorsements of legomymalfoy here.

I've collected endorsements of rm here.

We've got great candidates. The current second-place candidate is someone I don't want, I don't know about you. He is anti-fandom.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

(Edit to correct a doozy of a grammar error)

I really have to learn how to edit comments myself.

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

Hi, just jumping in here to note that editing comments is actually a paid account feature, IIRC, which is why you've been having trouble figuring out how to do so. The only way for non-paid accounts to edit is to delete comments and repost.

Anyway, thanks for the linkage in your election posts over the last couple days. ^_^

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Aha! Mystery solved.

I want to thank you. Without your post I would never have known that regardless of the influence of the LJ Advisor post, we just don't want him on the same board as Bob Lessing.

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

No problem. I'm glad to be of service. The Advisory Board is currently made up of Brad (of course), Lessig, danah boyd (a PhD candidate at Berkeley who is very involved in studying social identity and culture on the internet, and who has a background in activism), and Esther Dyson (philanthropist, journalist and business owner who is active in tracking emerging digital technologies, and who also speaks fluent Russian).

Here's the announcement of the Advisory Board (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_2008/3384.html), actually. So while I know you know this, the Board is no small potatoes, and it's incredibly important that any additions made to it are people who are well-situated to understand the issues under discussion, and are people who can be taken seriously as representatives of the userbase.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm getting frustrated with legomymalfoy's not showing up for her own campaign.

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

I can understand wanting to keep away from swirling controversy, and I can understand real-world obligations coming up, or even not budgeting time for what has turned out to be rather hotly-contested election campaigns, but yeah, it would be nice for her to pop out of the woodwork and keep up with the campaign in a more visible way.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

She may not have to. jameth has now done this (http://jameth.livejournal.com/4367477.html).

It's like someone knocked out jameth-the-candidate, locked him in a trunk, and hired MsScribe to play the perfect troll to advance legomymalfoy's campaign.

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

*groan* Ah, yes. Because claiming he's pro-fandom and then attacking fandom in the next breath (oh, wait, sorry, "quoting from elsewhere...so that users/voters can be informed of their choices") really does affirm his worth as a candidate. Geeze. -_- I hope all that mud is at least good for his skin.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I hope all that mud is at least good for his skin.

Heh. jinxed_wood theorizes that he's just trying to get maximum attention out of this now, because he doesn't think he can win.

[cheshyre]

MsScribe -- maybe she's the one with hundreds of voting accounts that's causing all the wank/drama? :)

[Been busy, so only tonite reading up on the election and candidates]

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The mystery is solved!