LJ Advisory Board: can you help with community access?

[rm]

Do you run an LJ community that has been or could be directly affected by unclear TOS on freedom of speech issues (think: political, religious, abuse survivors, creative, academic, fannish, queer, kink, poly, adult lifestyle)?

Do you run an LJ community that has been or could be affected by sloppy attempts on LJ/SUPs part to massage LJ's image (think: mental health/illness, abuse survivors, fannish, queer, kink, poly, adult lifestyle)?

Do you run an LJ community whose users have accessibility issues with the site (those with vision impairments, etc.)?

Do you run a community on any topic whatsoever whose users would be interested in discussion the LJ Advisory Board elections?

If so, I'd like the opportunity to hear the concerns of your users and talk a bit about where I stand on those issues. I promise to make only a single post to talk about the election (unless invited to do otherwise) and my candidacy and not spam the community or its users in any way.

If you'd be willing to let me post in those communities please let me know here or email me at racheline @ gmail dot com. If you're not a community maintainer, but have ties to a community maintainer and want to broach this issue with them, I'd appreciate it.

Comments

[pete-diddy.livejournal.com]

Well, the cyberbullies part is not quite accurate. But you called me amusing, so flattery gets you everywhere.

You need a neutral person to set up the debate community for everyone, have 1 post for question submission, and then every day till the actual election, post a small handful of questions individually for your debate. Invite all sides, (including the dramacrats and rmpublicans.) And watch the feather's fly.

I will say you have osme really strange cats working your campaign. While internet is serious business, I hope you don't get caught up as bad as some. It's not like you're running for a million bucks. Its a trip to Istanbul.

And the other thing, setting the bar a bit high, eh? If they didn't listen to the Godfather of Blog, Brad, what makes you think they are gonna hold on to your every word? Mind you, I'd say the same thing to James.

In the end, this really is a popularity contest, no matter how you try to steer it towards issues, platforms, or extremely tightly wound cast of campaigners for your cause.

Good Luck, and may we all come out of this safe and sount....

[rm.livejournal.com]

In the past I had ban about 20 people from this journal in one fell swoop connected to the Frienditto drama which is very much connected with the other candidate in question and his supporters. It is not something I am interested in rehashing or recreating. I hope you can understand that.

[pete-diddy.livejournal.com]

I've been a supporter for a while. I remember the Frienditto goulash. He was more guilty by association with the author. It's still unknown who the originator was, but "he who shall not be named" in my own opinion, didn't have the time nor resource to pull that program off.

Not all of them are cyberbullies either. We're not bad, we're just drawn this way.

[shutter.livejournal.com]

i used frienditto. are you going to ban me?

[rhonan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I remember when all those spurious lists of suspected Frienditto Fellons were floating around. That was a long time ago. Sure makes a convenient excuse, especially since he had nothing to do with Frenditto, other then posting about it. Really suspicious, when you are associating with people trashing him for your benefit. Trust me, when any of your surrogates post to any community I belong to, they will get answered in force by people pointing out that you are the Hillary Clinton of the campaign. You're behind and can't win, so your friends will do anything to trash the opposition.

By the way, what is your position on sexually explicit default user picks?

[earle-gorgo.livejournal.com]

Testing for Frienditto related pre-emptive ban.

[(Anonymous)]

Then unban people.