Admin Elections 3: Questions/Discussion Go Here

[Narv]

Greetings all,

Webster's defines 'Democracy' as 'The thing that's happening now, in this thread, so let's get on with it'. So let's get on with it: our third Plaza Election!

Between now and June 5th, please send up to FOUR admin nominations to lotrplazaelection [at] gmail.com, using this kinda format for each if you like:

Your Plaza Username:
Plaza Name of your Nominee:
[Optional] brief description of why you are nominating them:

Again, that email is a private one that only Narv has access to. So please don't post nominations here, but do feel free to say that you sent them in so I can confirm that they got through correctly. As ever, self-nominations are heartily encouraged if you feel like giving adminning a try!

From June 5th to 7th, I'll get in touch with the nominees to find out if they're interested in accepting the nomination and be included on the ballot. If they are, I'll ask them to write a little blurb like these ones (FYI for any repeat nominees, I hereby declare copy/pasting blurbs from last time to be entirely acceptable and perhaps even commendable for the efficiency it demonstrates)

Then from June 8th to 12th, we'll vote! As before, 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 top three vote-getters get in no matter what, and then the fourth is chosen by me. The last 2 times I've taken the bold choice of taking the next highest vote-getter for my Narv Pick, but I may also take things like availability, needed skills, or general mixing-it-up-ness into account.

And finally from June 13th to the end of the month we'll transition in the new crew - how long exactly that will take will of course somewhat depend on how many new admins we have coming on board (last election was a pretty easy transition phase for me, I will admit..). As before, the team decided here will have a go at it for 6 months.

Thanks everyone for participating! Please let me know of any questions/comments/concerns/whatevers, either here or any of the various private ways of getting a hold of me.

[Nessa Saelind]

My nominations are sent. This was harder than deciding which Eurovision song this year was the best

[Winddancer]

Same. Except the Eurovision part, that's not mah thang :P

[Tharmáras]

Sent mine in yesterday and got confirmed it was received.

[Ercassie]

Sent.

[Baphởmet]

Sent my nominations in

[Lailyn]

Sent!

[Narv]

Noms received from all in here, thanks!

(So if you sent them in before this post and didn't get a confirmation from me, then something funky may be up)

[Marceline]

Just sent mine!

[Raisins]

Sent

[Moriel]

Sent!

[Afird Splitax]

Sent

[Narv]

Thanks all! Noms received from everyone in here plus others. I will start contacting our nominees and we'll move on to the next stage shortly, hopefully in the next couple days.

[Narv]

Quick update: just confirming with a couple more nominees, with luck we'll have the candidate list ready in the next day or so, then we'll get blurbs going and start the voting.

[Tharmáras]

Thanks for the heads up, Narv!

[Narv]

Alright, our nominee list is up! viewtopic.php?f=8&t=772

Please use this thread for any questions / discussions / spam / i don't know what about election stuff so we'll keep that other thread pure for our nominee blurbs.

[Nessa Saelind]

Good evening Middle Earth!

The jury consisting of me, myself and I have come to an agreement and cast their votes. Aka I sent my votes now, hope the e-mail finds you well etc. etc.

[Ercassie]

Sent.

[Baphởmet]

Sent in my votes, now I can reward myself with cookies and beer

[Raisins]

Votes are sent now for some crisps

[Lailyn]

Sent my vote and discovered something very nifty. When you c/p lotrplazaelection (at) gmail (dot) com into gmail's Sender box, it auto-formats it to an actual address! too cool.

[Narv]

Thanks all! I've now sent a confirmation to everyone whose votes I've received so far. If you sent in votes but didn't get a response, please let me know! And please send your votes by the end of today aka the 13th (in western north america, so whatever strange future time that comes out to for most of you)!

[Narv]

Ok all, I'm going to bed - still a few hours before the supposed deadline but if any additional votes trickle in overnight they'll be included too, and then we'll call it at that. I will reach out to folks after that and hopefully announce the team by end of day tomorrow. Thanks everyone!