Live Journal Elections

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Hey all, we've made a point of keeping this community on-topic over the last 4+ years, however I think the current situation with the Live Journal Advisory Board elections is worth mentioning here, and relevant to all of us.

A few days ago, there was a flurry of discussion in [candidate] jameth's journal, trying to figure out how they could get more votes. brendan (of ohnotheydidnt which has at least 50,000 members) was brought up. Jameth asked "omg how can we get ontd," qweerdo went to Brenden's friends only journal and begged, and today Brenden came through.

Earlier this evening, he posted a very strong, very cyber-loud endorsement, and since that post - just a few hours ago - Jameth's gone from 17% of the vote to 20.4% (growing rapidly) of the vote because Brenden has made sure they know that "SOME LAME ASS HARRY POTTER FANDOM DORK IS IN THE LEAD."

icarusancalion has compiled a comprehensive list of ways in which Jameth has based his campaign upon attacking fandom's place on livejournal in this post. He has shown that he has no respect for fandom as a voting body, does not understand the issues fandom is facing in this election, and is willing to play up negative fandom stereotyping in order to gain votes.


Please CAST YOUR VOTE for one of the fandom candidates: legomymalfoy, rm, or vichan. More info on all three found here.



Much of the above text lifted straight from my flist.

Comments

[ningengirai.livejournal.com]

Many people don't think that he really needs to win that badly, but that he's mostly doing it "for fun".