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

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

Your response was not, I gather, actually directed at me. Still, I'll play along.

From my perspective, jameth's supporters have been vocal about thinking the LJ Advisory Council is something to not be taken seriously and have flooded rm's LJ and ljunited with comments and then bragged about whatever reaction they've earned.

nebris was attacked here, and there's no excuse for that.

Should jameth be held responsible for what his supporters are doing in his name? Yes and no. No, because we all have free will; yes, because (at least in public posts) I don't see him asking people to cease exhibiting bad behavior in his name.

Personally, I do not blame him for the behavior of his supporters, though I do wish he'd use some of his influence to ask people to cease and desist. Such e-chatter becomes just that - chatter. Let the candidates speak for themselves.

If there has been history enough between rm and jameth to warrant her banning him back in 2005, I think that should remain between the two of them. My opinion, your opinion, doesn't really matter. Her LJ. Her history. Her choice.

Posts from rm about the Advisory Council have been well thought out, insightful, and indicative of someone that truly wants to see positive change and growth come from this new venture.

I've yet to see that from jameth. Your claims about his volunteerism et al may be true. But from looking at his LJ - and in this electronic world, we are judged by what we put out there for the public to see - he is not someone I view as a viable candidate for this position.

(And out of respect for the request for a cease fire, this is my last post to you on the subject.)

[amandathegreat.livejournal.com]

nebris was the one doing the attacking. I did not post any comments to him until he had commented to me, as did the others in discussion with him. I tried to handle him as reasonably as possible, and I do not see him as a representation of rm by any means, but any "attacking" was solely on his end.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I saw nothing from him that warranted the abuse he received.

End of my part of this discussion.