losing has never felt so good

[rm]

Well, I lost the election for the LJ Advisory Board. But I lost it with a good showing, grace, dignity and my mental health intact. The results are something I can definitely live with, and the process introduced me to a lot of cool new people on LJ and really helped change my mind on my ability to deal with bullies and trolls and the like. If you ignore it, it will go away, but that doesn't mean you have to stop fighting for a second. This has been a fantastic lesson well learned, and I just wish Patty, who only got to see the bad end of this process with me before she went to her dig in Syria was around for this.

Meanwhile, LJ has announced several policy updates. They include removing restrictive policies on non-sexualized nudity (the greast breastfeedig icon debacle is finally over among other things) and non-photographic images of minors. These are Good Things, and I don't know why it took so long and so much pain for them to happen. Details here: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_policy/1935.html

Finally, a lot of new people are on my friends list thanks to the election. Despite the size of my list I do skim all of it every day. I am reading you, so I hope you will stick around. The last week has been hectic though, so if you want to take a moment to tell me a little bit about yourself in the comments, that would be awesome. Similarly if you have any questions about what's on the journal or my deal, feel free to ask here.

Thanks for your support. Losing has never felt so good.

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I still believe you are the best person for the job, but I am not unhappy with legomymalfoy's election. And I'm glad you came out of this election feeling good about it, particularly as so much of this process got ugly.

[kaifoxx.livejournal.com]

:)

It was I think, an interesting experience all around, and yeah, the best part of it is adding new folks. (I'm still working on it there lol.)

A little bit about myself....um...introductions (make me suddenly feel like Im trapped under a spotlight and asked for 'ze papers'..just kidding, not quite THAT bad, but they do tend to make me feel a little self-conscious lol.)

In all seriousness, I've no idea where to start, other than I've been on livejournal since late 2001...and my interests run the gamut, though I apparently give the impression of obsessive fixations at times. I checked you out after EruditeViking posted a promo at SOS_USA, and thought you were pretty cool. Too bad you didnt make it, but then too, you seem like a nice person and I dont think you deserve the hassle that job is gonna likely end up being.

And Im planning on sticking around lol. I've been enjoying reading your posts, and no worries on comments...I sometimes dont get much chance to post myself trying to keep up with reading.

Nice to meet you.
:)

[nostariel]

You're awesome. I'm totally keeping my "Vote RM!" icon just in case you decide to run again someday. :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And we'll see/. Depends on whether LJ needs me. Now that their policy decisions are starting to make more sense I may be off the hook.

[arcanetrivia]

I think I voted for you first and Squeaky second... I have no idea who legomymalfoy even is, heh, but it sounds like it's good she (?) won.

[elements.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to recall if I ever met you at any of the HP events I've been to (Nimbus, Witching Hour, Phoenix Rising, POA Imax are the main non-locally-focused ones) and sort of wondering why on earth I'd never connected with you before now. If nothing else I'm happy the election caused me to meet you anyway :).

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I was at Phoenix Rising, so very possibly. Are you going to Terminus?

[elements.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to Terminus - it conflicts with the start of the annual Balkan music & dance camp which is the one truly necessary thing in my year. And I kinda burned out on HP cons for a while - and on talking about fandom solely through the lens of HP, too.

I was at PR, tho ended up spending a little more time than I'd have liked holed up in my hotel room with bookshop so didn't get to as many social events as I'd hoped - we had 2 panels to prep for, one of which we were doing video editing til late the night before. I mainly went to stuff on slash, and legal/copyright stuff (ah yes - I also work at a law school internet research center). Bookshop & I organized one of the main slash panels. Hmm, I don't have any great pics of me on the interwebs. I was hanging around with Aja/Bookshop a ton at PR so if you met her odds are you met me too.

[elements.livejournal.com]

I have a pic on my work bio, which is linked in my locked post here. I feel like I might have seen you but not actually met you, yaknow? :D

[elements.livejournal.com]

Oh, and now I see the "introduce yourself" bit of your post :). In brief: geeky, fannish, Jewish, bi, in love with dancing & folk cultures, fond of analyzing & critiquing & pushing social systems, employed in online communications/community management, too busy to be on LJ nearly as much as I want to be, but with both the election and the new policy changes starting to feel more connected to LJ again, which makes the hole in my heart that Strikethrough created just a little less hurty. :)

[aquaviann.livejournal.com]

I know you already added me back, but here's a belated intro anyway. I am a psychology student and a fanpoet (in other words, I fail at writing fic, and my main fannish contribution is poetry...and since the majority of the HP fandom is fic or art based, I have hard time finding active comms/events/etc. to contribute to). I moved my fannish journal to IJ, but my personal journal remains here. Things seem to be improving for fandom around LJ more recently, so I may move back with the fannish journal. It was through fandom that I found your journal, started to read it now and then, and voted for you as my first pick in the recent election.