Admin Elections: Questions & Discussions Go Here

[Narv]

Welcome to what we know you all just can’t get enough of, more elections!

This will work similarly to last time, for those of you who were around 6 months ago when our previous team was elected. For those of you who didn’t participate, or can’t remember, here’s a quick reminder of how this will work.

NOMINATIONS: 1-5 DEC (aka now!)

You can make UP TO FOUR NOMINATIONS, but you can make fewer if you wish. Please email your nominations to lotrplazaelection [at] gmail.com, using the form at the bottom of this post. That's a private email that only Narv has access to. Don't post your nominations here - I won't delete them, but you'll look a lil silly.

I am still kinda needed for tech reasons, so I'll be hanging around undemocratically for now. Other than that however, the current admin team will not receive automatic nominations. If you want them to stick around, by all means renominate; if you’d like fresh faces, nominate someone new. You may also nominate yourself and are encouraged to do so if you feel up for it! Only Narv will see your emails.

You may also express any other thoughts you have about your chosen nominees, or other potential nominees, or me, or anything, in confidence.

CANDIDATES, 5-7 DEC
Once we have the nominations in, Narv will approach the candidates and ask if they want to accept a nomination to run for admin. If so they’ll be asked to give a short paragraph about themselves which will posted in a thread for members to see.

VOTING, 7-12 DEC
You get to vote! It will operate similarly to last time: you’ll be able to cast four votes. Your top choice will get 4 points, your second 3, your third 2 and your last choice will get 1 point. The points will all be tallied up and the top three choices will become admins. As before, Narv will also have the option to pick a Narv’s Choice as a fourth admin to ensure we have a fully balanced team. We expect there to be 5 admins again (including Narv).

TRANSITION
12 DEC- 1 JAN
We’ll welcome our new admin team! Our old admin team will doff their icons, but retain admin powers until January to show the new team where we keep all the hammers.
Nomination Template - Please copy this template into an email and send it to lotrplazaelection[at]gmail.com from the email you signed up to plaza with.

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Your CURRENT Plaza Username

Plaza Name of your First Nominee:

Brief description of why you are nominating them:


Plaza Name of your Second Nominee:

Brief description of why you are nominating them:


Plaza Name of your Third Nominee:

Brief description of why you are nominating them:


Plaza Name of your Fourth Nominee:

Brief description of why you are nominating them:


If you nominated yourself, approximately how much time will you be able to commit to your Plaza-related duties?

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Please let loose with any questions or concerns about this process below. Happy Electioning!

NOTE that this is a kinda relaxed sorta Plaza and the timeline may be adjusted to reflect that, for instance if I have a hard time tracking all the nominees down. I won't extend things too much though as I don't wanna be counting votes on Christmas or anything like that.

[Narv]

If you didn't feel like reading that, the important part is to email your (up to) 4 admin nominations to

lotrplazaelection [at] gmail.com

by the end of December 5th (Pacific Time, ish, to be precise)!

[Tharmáras]

I've sent in my nominations!

[Narv]

Received, thanks!

[Nessa Saelind]

My nominations are sent and should be sitting pretty in the inbox. ^_^

[Baphởmet]

Nominations sent in!

[Raisins]

Sent.

[Marceline]

Sent you some noms

[Taethowen]

Nominations sent!

[Galadrihell]

Oh yeah please also state your plaza username when you email in as this’ll make it easier for Narv to verify emails.

[Narv]

(if you already sent your noms without your plaza name don't worry about it, I'll follow up if I can't verify somebody. but yeah it's easier if folks include their usernames, thanks Sil)

[Baphởmet]

This ruins my plans of flooding in nominations! curses!

[Narv]

Everyone who posted in here is confirmed, thanks all!

Also, everyone who sent in nominations prior to this moment when I'm typing this should have received an email confirmation. If you didn't, please let me know and we'll figure out where they ended up.

[Afird Splitax]

I sent mine and got the email confirmation.

[Narv]

confirmation confirmation confirmed

[Lailyn]

Sent the noms but I am not sure totally what Cave Trolls like to eat...

[Nessa Saelind]

Oh yeah please also state your plaza username when you email in as this’ll make it easier for Narv to verify emails.

I was wondering why there wasn't please state your Plaza user name in the forms so I just signed the e-mail with my user name which was weirdly nostalgic

[Narv]

Everyone who sent nominations up to now should have a confirmation - if you didn't get one, let me know!

And remember to get your picks in by TOMORROW*, Dec 5, 11:50pm Pacific Time**!

* i haven't done the time zone math but you know what i mean
** ish

[Narv]

"why 11:50pm and not 11:59pm?" you might be asking

but i won't tell you

[Ercassie]

Sent

[Winddancer]

Last day for voting!

[Sur Vanar Utírieste]

I have submitted my nominations via email. On the last day but I have sent them nonetheless. *laughs*

[Dimcairien Luiniel]

Nominations sent in!

[Narv]

Alright friends that about does it for nominations. Thanks everyone for sending in your picks! Looks like we'll have another great slate of candidates to choose from once again. I've started getting in touch with the nominees and will try to have that wrapped up tonight. If you see this after the fact and haven't sent in your nominations yet, then well hurry up and do it ya goose

The next stage will be to create a thread in a couple days (once I've been in touch with all the nominees) where all the willing can post a little blurb about themselves, and then we'll start the voting! Thanks again for everyone's participation so far.

[Narv]

Our nominees list is up in the other announcement thread -- gonna leave this one open too for any questions or comments about the process.

[Nessa Saelind]

Good evening Plaza!

Split calling! My results are sent and looking forward to seeing who gets the most douze points Is it a Plaza admin election if I don't make a Eurovision joke? No.

[Galadrihell]

ooh do we get shiny badges that say “I voted”?

[Winddancer]

Could do this..

[Tharmáras]

I sent in my votes today!

[Narv]

Thanks everyone! Vote received from everyone who's posted so far, and a bunch of others of course

Like before I've been sending confirmations once your votes are entered on the Secret Spreadsheet. If you don't get a response after, say, a day, please let me know as it's possible your vote may have been missed!

[Sur Vanar Utírieste]

I have also sent in my votes. :)

[Dimcairien Luiniel]

Votes sent! Everyone is a great pick, so it's so difficult to narrow it down to four!