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

[node-ue.livejournal.com]

Well, the whole argument about the seizure icons is moot. James has asked people to stop trolling in his names and to stop using those icons.

I didn't say that nobody from the fandom community was planning on voting for James, I'm saying that you in particular had issues with him anyways, and a lot of the vitriol being circulated against him (including a "credible" death threat, according to LJ staff) is either totally false (he didn't start LJ Drama, Frienditto, ED; he does NOT hate gay people because he's gay himself) or stretching the truth (he did NOT go into epilepsy-related communities and make seizure-inducing posts). I personally think you're taking the whole post about cheating the wrong way, after all, what he said did turn out to be 100% true, no matter how you spin it. Regardless of "James' people are probably doing the same thing", "it's only a couple of isolated cases", etc., the fact remains that the premise of his post has been proven to be true.

And with that, I am done with this. The fact that a "credible" death threat has been made means to me that this election wank is no longer worth it. I am grateful for your civility towards me. Good luck campaigning against James getting a cardboard badge.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd never heard of him before Saturday. On Friday I was just skimming through platforms to figure out who to vote for.

Let's go through the list:

- I'd never heard of LJ Drama (and still don't know what that is)
- Frienditto I remember vaguely from a year or so ago
- ED is something that I encountered for the first time yesterday
- Where on earth did anyone get the idea that he hates gay people?

I never said that he put flashing icons on an epileptic's journal. His supporters did. In retaliation. I went to his LJ and said he should post about it and tell people to knock it off, that this is more important than an election.

He told me, bottom line, no. I grew to dislike him after that. Then I went hunting through his campaign posts to see how he'd conducted this race and I grew less and less impressed.

Did he finally tell people to knock it off? When?

I personally think you're taking the whole post about cheating the wrong way

It's what pissed fandom off. He didn't say "there's voter fraud going on," he said legomymalfoy's supporters were cheating--namely, me--and I certainly haven't. It's insulting.

cambler never provided any evidence. So I looked. I found screencaps of people committing voter fraud on behalf of Cambler and Jameth, and the same screencap of non-RPGers I saw before. What that proves is that LJ hasn't set up this election very well, big surprise. But he assumed fandom was voting en masse against him before fandom even knew the vote was going on.

jameth has pretty much done all of legomymalfoy's campaigning for her.