Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

Hi all and thanks once again for another smooth election round! It was great to see a full slate of nominees and lots of people voting & participating. The Google Sheet has officially been tallied, offers sent & confirmed, and I am happy to announce our admin crew for the next 6 months, in alphabetical order:
As you see, the results are a little more eventful than last time around, and we're welcoming two new faces to the crew: Lail and Nessa! Both received very broad support from members and I think we will continue to be in great hands with these two joining the team. So, welcome to you both!

Of course the other side of the admin-turnover coin is that 2 awesome admins, Winddancer and Sil, will be swapping the fancy Elf (?) / dragon faces for regular ol icons and hopping into member mode come July. This was a super close election this time around, with a separation of only a few vote points among the top 6 or so candidates, so in no way were the results any kind of judgment of their tenures, which have been widely acclaimed. One of the hoped-for advantages of this rotation system of ours is that there's no need for a break from adminship to be any more permanent than an admin term itself - I'm looking forward to both of these wonderful souls continuing to be a huge part of what makes this site what it is, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to be welcoming them back into the great mundanity of adminship again before long should they wish that. But for now, we say thank you to these two titans of Plaza Old and Nu, and we unleash them to wreak havoc once more upon Middle-Earth, unbound at last by the chains of dignity that have held back their true minion ways. or something like that. Thank you Winddy and Sil, we love you v much

So let's all welcome back our new and returning admins, and thank our outgoing ones for everything they've given to this place so far!

(I am also interested, like last time, in getting people's opinions about how the process went. I'm thinking let's keep this thread just for the good vibes and well wishes, and please either 1) send me a message at lotrplazaelection (at) gmail (dot) com with any private feedback, or 2) post in the 'Election Questions & Discussions' thread for any public discussions you'd like to start about the process, democracy, plaza, life, etc. etc.). Thanks again everyone!

OH MY GLOB!!! CONGRATS YOU GUYS!!!!!!

@Tarawen keep up that coding genius! I am super stoked you mi amiga!
@Moriel this means I get more bear emojis, right?
@Lailyn I am going to make you change my name so many times just kidding, but really congrats, you deserve this!
@Nessa Saelind as a bear of a certain age, I am beyond happy that you, the woman of a certain age has finally gotten the recognition you deserve!

@YggdraSil you were the best Arien I've ever seen, we were blessed to have your guidance, now it's time to have fun and chaos havoc with the goblins
@Winddancer you will always be the best god damn dragon in the entire world, thank you for all the work you put in as an admin, the Plaza would not have been so wonderful without you

Thank you for having faith in me. I honestly thought every candidate would make a wonderful admin and I'm honored to even have been in their company. I feel like I have enormous shoes to fill and I will strive to do my best for all of you!

Windy and Sil, you two are so fantastic. I have so much respect for you both as people, members and admins. I hope you enjoy kicking up your feet and just getting to have fun and write more stories! Thank you so much for everything you have done for us all in your time as admins. <3

Moriel, Tara, Nessa, Narv, I am excited to work with you all and keep this wonderful place ticking along!

@Prometherion well at least then I'll be able to keep track! thanks

Congratulations to Lailyn and Nessa on your new adminship! I am very excited to see how you both do in your new positions and I am certain that Tarawen and Moriel will do the same as always.

Hopefully though Nessa this won't affect all the crazy planning we've done over the last few days!

Grats to all the new (and old) admins! It is well deserved and I am happy to see Plaza will stay in good hands <3

And thanks for all the kind words, it is really appreciated <3 I will kill you guys last, I promise

Just wanted to drop by to firstly thank Windy and Sil for all of your incredible hard work over the past year (and longer!). You two are both absolutely awesome people, and I know you've worked unbelievably hard behind the scenes to take such good care of this special lil home of ours. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! (and I promise this was not written to avoid being killed by minions!!).

Secondly, I wanted to wish an enormous congratulations to the newly/re-elected admin team. Tara, Moriel, Lail, Nessa - you guys are all brilliant, and I know the plaza continues to be in a wonderfully safe sets of hands with you all. Particular shout-out to the newbies on the team, Lail and Nessa - I know you will both be utterly fantastic - congratulations!!

Finally, big thanks to Narv for once again providing us with another example of a fantastically smooth and well-run slice of the ole democracy-pie.

Huge congratulations to @Nessa Saelind and @Lailyn! I am delighted to see you coming on board to the admin team - I have a great deal of confidence in you both and I’m really excited to see what fresh ideas you bring.

Congratulations and thanks also to @Moriel and @Tarawen! You guys are the best team mates and I know you’ll make a great group of four. Thanks for all the work you put in and which I know you will continue to do, but also for all the good times and for your friendship. You both bring so much to the team in different ways and you are huge assets to the plaza.

Thank you my sweet troll @Narv for overseeing this process again so smoothly

And a huge, huge thanks and tribute to my favourite dragon @Winddancer, who has done so much behind the scenes - tirelessly monitoring the emails and awarding tribute and a dozen other little tiny things as well as the more obvious and visible stuff. I barely knew you except for a notorious horror of Mordor before we started our adminship together and I can now confirm that as well as being a dreadful and terrifying wraith she is also the sweetest person, slow to judge and quick to listen, always ready to help and try and solve a problem.

And thanks plaza members, for being so much fun and letting me stay in post as long as I have! I must say I am looking forward to being unshackled from @Narv’s admin troll cave where we are only permitted to eat weevilly peanuts and are obliged to spend an hour a day listening to his poetry, which doesn’t even rhyme. (Nessa and Lail this is definitely a joke and also brush up on your haiku.) I am full of plans for enjoying being a NKR by changing kingdom every five minutes, failing the Halls of Knowledge tests I wrote myself, looking forward to being surprised at Halloween and maybe even possibly receiving trib for the first time ever

Eglerio!

Congrats to all of you! And thank you for taking on the role, the responsibility, giving of your time and all your effort!

Windy and Sil! Thank you!

Huge congratulations to @Moriel, @Nessa Saelind, and @Lailyn! I'm so excited to work with you three and our benevolent creator troll in the coming months.

@Winddancer and @YggdraSil - I can't adequately articulate just how incredible you both have been in your admin roles. I've learned so much from you and, more importantly, have gained and grown wonderful friendships with you two over the last year. I value and appreciate you both so very much and am excited to continue playing together on site and trying to keep up with Sil's name changes. Maybe I'll even submit a character for Windy to torture.

I'm honestly floored to have been elected again and will do my utmost this term, as always, to keep the code safe and the Plaza a welcoming place for all to enjoy. Thank you to all who participated in the election - whether by nominating, voting, or presenting yourselves as candidates. It's amazing to see the continued community investment in this weird and amazing corner of the internet.

Congratulations to the wonderful, new and not-so-new admins ! I know you will do a wonderful job and keep us all safe and informed and entertained.

To Moriel and Tarawen, thankyou for all that you continue to do, especially when it is not so easy. If all you've done this far is anything to go by, we are definitely in very understanding and patient hands.

To Nessa and Lailyn, so happy and excited for you both ! I'm looking forward to seeing which admin personalities/icons you each select and I have great faith in your ability to be fantastic admins for the site.

To Winddancer and Sil, thankyou for all that you have done to get us here. It will not be forgotten, and I hope you get to relax and enjoy yourselves without the extra responsibilities now !

To Narv, as ever. Nice work, sir.

@Winddancer and @YggdraSil or whatever her name is now have been released to the regular icon pool, but they'll keep their admin access / powers for a couple weeks probably for purposes of bringing Lail and Nessa up to speed. Apparently underneath the fancy facades Winddy was a new soul and Sil was secretly a minstrel of lothlorien - i swear i had nothing to do with that

I KEPT TELLING YOU PEOPLE I WAS AN ELF

Also - thank you so much to all the people who have said nice things about me; I love you too!

Congrats @Lailyn and @Nessa Saelind! I know you two will make wonderful admins and I’m looking forward to the quirks you’ll continue to add to this corner of the internet.

And yay, another shiny Lorien icon @YggdraSil!

*swings by just a little bit late* Was blinded by the last two Elvish sparkly things and bumped into the wall, so excuse my lateness.

@Winddancer and @YggdraSil - thanks for all the work as admins, though I'm sure you'll keep doing the 'visible' part of being great and causing havoc (fun) and such, even when you'll no longer have the 'invisible' powers.

@Tarawen and @Moriel What is there to say? Keep up the awesome work!

@Nessa Saelind and @Lailyn Ooooh, ladies! I'm looking forward to see what additional qualities adminship will bring out of you! *settles down to observe expectantly*

Pretty much same as Annunfalas! RL and all that

CONGRATS TO YOU ALL!

Nothing to add to what hasn't been said to all the old and new admins, so a huge congratulations to @Lailyn @Moriel @Nessa Saelind and @Tarawen ! And a huge thank you for all the work and time and effort put into this little haven, @Winddancer and @Sillionaire !