Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza

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Update June 6:

Update: voting is open!

We ended up with juuust the right number of nominees to keep this whole election process thing relevant: 4 :)

Our nominees for the upcoming term are:

@Arothir
@Drífa
@Moriel
@Uruloki

Thanks very much to these four for being willing to take on the adminning gig for the rest of 2026. We have a delightful mix here of experience & fresh perspectives, any combination of which would make a great team IMO. So I'm glad I don't have to choose, and can leave that in all of your capable hands.

Nominees, please feel free to use this thread to add any info / thoughts / sloganeering etc that you think might be relevant for folks making their decision. For voters:

- If you've voted in one of these before (and have logged in in the last 2 years), you may have already received a ballot link in your email which you can use to select your ranked picks for the admin team.

- If you haven't voted before or didn't receive the email (good chance it went to spam), you can get a ballot link by going here:
https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl
and entering the email address associated with your Plaza account. That should send an email to that address with a little code you can use to access the ballot.

- If anything goes weird with that process, or if you want to use a different email, let me know here or at lotrplazaelection [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll get you sorted out.

I think that's everything - thanks again everyone for your participation / patience so far! I'll leave voting up for at least a week and will update with a firmer timeline at that point.

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(original post:
Hello everybody -- sorry as usual to keep you all waiting on this, and sorry especially to our extraordinarily patient admins @Drífa @Pele Alarion and @Silky Gooseness who have been stoically bearing an interminably extended admin term while I bumbled around with IRL distractions and did not set up this election. But now I am ready to set up this election.

Like last time, I'm not totally sure how this will go given the numbers we're working with, but we can figure it out together. We'll start out as usual with this: Ballot Request / Nomination Form

Wherein you can request a ballot link to your email and nominate yourself or others for a term in the admin team.

Then I'd also like to use this thread if anyone has any thoughts on the admin election process in general, whether it's about something like term lengths, team size, the concept of democracy in general as it applies to internet fan forums... anything that's on your mind. One thing I'd say for this upcoming term, for anyone considering running: I hope to get back to something closer to the 6 month range going forward, but realistically with election process and life timing I think it might be realistic to say that the next cohort of admins might expect to be on the hook for the rest of 2026 -- but this is very much negotiable and really up to the team themselves (short of installing themselves as admins for life etc, i guess, though that would free up my schedule a bit......)

Thanks all and please let me know any questions or if anything is acting up with the above form. Otherwise, I'll have an update in the next week or 2 as we collect nominees!)

Thank you, Narv

Narv,

Update: Thanks everyone who responded on the form so far. It got more soak time than I intended as I wound up very swamped with RL things the last few weeks -- but I can report that we have some confirmed nominees and some potentials that's I've reached out to, so hopefully we'll moving to the next phase shortly. And if you're just seeing this and think you wouldn't mind being on the admin ballot, feel free to send in the form and let me know!

Thanks, Chef!

Update: voting is open!

We ended up with juuust the right number of nominees to keep this whole election process thing relevant: 4 :)

Our nominees for the upcoming term are:

@Arothir
@Drífa
@Moriel
@Uruloki

Thanks very much to these four for being willing to take on the adminning gig for the rest of 2026. We have a delightful mix here of experience & fresh perspectives, any combination of which would make a great team IMO. So I'm glad I don't have to choose, and can leave that in all of your capable hands.

Nominees, please feel free to use this thread to add any info / thoughts / sloganeering etc that you think might be relevant for folks making their decision. For voters:

- If you've voted in one of these before (and have logged in in the last 2 years), you may have already received a ballot link in your email which you can use to select your ranked picks for the admin team.

- If you haven't voted before or didn't receive the email (good chance it went to spam), you can get a ballot link by going here:
https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/opt_in.pl
and entering the email address associated with your Plaza account. That should send an email to that address with a little code you can use to access the ballot.

- If anything goes weird with that process, or if you want to use a different email, let me know here or at lotrplazaelection [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll get you sorted out.

I think that's everything - thanks again everyone for your participation / patience so far! I'll leave voting up for at least a week and will update with a firmer timeline at that point.

Thanks, Narv!