LJ advisory board elections

[helenic]

I've just cast my vote - if you haven't yet, please do so today. The voting ends at 9:00 p.m. PDT Thursday, May 29, 2008, although I'm not entirely certain when that is BST. 5am on Friday morning, I think.



deathboy got my first vote, because I know him and he's a good bloke with a sense of humour and liberal politics. Basically I think my LJ usage is pretty well represented by him and I trust him to not fuck it up. His campaign manifesto is here.

sollitaire got my second vote, even though I don't know her at all, because I liked her answers to the election questions and she seems to represent my interests. Plus she's the only candidate I've come across who self-defines as feminist, although I admit I haven't looked through all of them - my process here as been to read the manifestos that are recommended to me or which I otherwise happen across, on the basis that if I haven't heard of someone, they probably aren't interesting enough or close enough to my corner of LJ to merit my attention. With LJ stuff, you tend to hear about the stuff that's worth hearing about. I don't have time to research all the candidates from scratch, so instead I'm trusting in the power of meme theory.

legomymalfoy got my third vote, because she has the personal recommendation of a few people I trust. I don't think being involved in fandom is a crippling bias, and in any case it looks like she's more practical than partisan. Her campaign manifesto is here.

I don't actually know how much power the user representative will have, but since jameth started winning by virtue of being a troll and cambler started winning by spamming LJ with objectifying pictures of women, I've started caring about someone decent getting in for the right reasons. (Yes, he's a professional photographer and the models signed releases. I still find him slapping photos of half-clad women everywhere on LJ to garner votes for himself exploitative. "All electrions are popularity contests! At least I'm upfront about this being a beauty pageant!" he squeaks. Er, mate, sorry to break this to you, but it's not your beauty you're capitalising on. Or perhaps I'm just biased because his photography is such tedious lads-mag shite.)

I'm not sure I could say for certain which of the three candidates above would actually be best at the job, without knowing more than one of them well. But they all seem to have their heads in the right place, by contrast with certain of the other candidates. LJ has lots of decent people in it. It would be a bit rubbish if we elected a troll or a misogynist out of apathy.

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[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

cambler has dropped out it seems, and there have been "credible threats" made against candidates and "law enforcement are involved" according to LJ. cambler and jameth's journals make for interesting reading...