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Inaugural Coin Return Board of Directors Election [2025] - VOTING closed. Results soon.
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I would vouch for @Richy as a solid candidate. I don't know him personally but he's a voice I've enjoyed in the Canadian Politics thread. I've enjoyed that he feels more moderate and varied in his views than a lot of the other thread regulars, which I believe would be a positive trait in this role. Also on a note of general "nice guy"-ness, after I mentioned I was running low on tea since I was laid off, he reached out by PM to offer to send me some he had around. Does this count as bribery or buying my vote? Maybe! But he did announce his claim to run on a platform of corruption and bribery early in the thread, so I view this as sticking to his guns and keeping election promises~
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
It's usually a capuck up here.
I do not think the forums have a particular history of "driving away" LGBT folks, as the question implied. I understand you may disagree with that, and I accept that, we won't agree on everything.
Presumably we do agree that the future of the forums on CoRe needs to be better than the PA forums have been in the past on a variety of issues, including this. If you do have any questions about how I would handle any specific situation in this space, feel free to ask
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Alrighty, when I asked for an AI art ban in the G&T Discord you were pretty flippant and rude to me about it, and frankly doesn't seem like behavior anyone in leadership should be displaying. You have a snarky, condescending side to you that isn't obvious and that isn't something a leader should possess imo. I am no longer in that discord and a large part of that is because of that conversation and your contributions to it. Just so you know!
Actively want to see on the board:
Tynic, Fishman, Amateurhour. I think all three have generally been a positive influence on the boards in basically any topic they've been involved in.
Positive:
Tef, Spono, Raijin, Solysp/Kayne Red Robe. I have a positive experience with all of them but don't feel as certain that temperament + experience makes them the best candidates, but they will still be on my list.
Forum profile private, not voting for:
Kelor, Ahava. If I can't check your profile to refresh myself then I can't consider voting for you, and I also personally think that being a board member will require as much/more scrutiny than having an open profile on the current forums.
Would be extremely unhappy on the board:
ElJeffe. This has been litigated quite a lot but I neither trust him with access to user information nor think he would be a positive influence on the direction of the forums.
Neutral/no opinion:
The rest.
You went away for, what, 4 hours and cobbled that shit together?
Do something good for the community that you supposedly care about. Hang the ambition up for a bit.
If you're still interested a year from now then put your hat in the ring, but right now you're not even giving the impression that you care enough to be self reflective. You blew up the previous thread and made yourself the main character. You're clearly too petty to be given any responsibility.
Pull out and save us all the headaches.
I am mostly alarmed by your dismissal of the issue as a forum beef rather than taking it at face value.
I'd agree with much of this
What are you most excited for about moving to a community lead model vs what we have had in the recent past?[/quote]
Added batsignals as is the fashion[/quote]
We’ve been basically rudderless for the better part of ten years.
Allowed to exist but mostly ignored.
I’m excited to finally be able to work to improve the community based directly on their input. The forum is a place for the forumers and there word should mean something and it will at Coin Return
Just vote against him good gods. We had an entire thread of this. This thread is for the elections, and it's already hard enough to keep up with the questions
The most divisive candidate yet!
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Octopath Traveler - MY BLADE IS UNBENDING
There's voting against someone because you're like "ah maybe not them" and there's voting against someone cos you think they're an awful choice
Making it clear which one is kinda important.
Hopefully this doesn't seem like too much of a direct follow up to the other thread; it is genuinely not intended to be. But a genuine question regarding your plans if elected:
Do you think retired mods should have access mod forums and reports in an advisory role on CoRe?
Any other candidates can feel free to weigh in on how they'd rule this one.
Twitter is kind of an abomination these days. I think with the rise of Bluesky, there are increasingly few reasons to stick around on the Nazi platform. On the one hand, there are still a handful of voices on there who say relevant things. On the other hand, I think a community premised on progressive values and modeling what we think of as exemplary behavior has an ethical responsibility that likely precludes engaging with a place like Twitter. I won't say I'm hard in the paint in favor of a ban, but I strongly lean that way.
Legos are cool, MOCs are cool, check me out on Rebrickable!
The continued suggestion that people just had issue with your shiny bit a flare and not the fact that you had access to mod privileges is increasingly frustrating me.
I for one didn't give a flying rip about the badge; you honestly could have kept it for all I cared: people were just told it was the reason you were still able to get into the mod areas and I was genuinely surprised to learn that you retained those privileges despite visibly having the "Retired Mod" status revoked and being reduced to a normal "User," just like me and the other 2000 citizens that inhabit this forum.
Starting to realize I have zero knowledge of like 75% of the drama going on the boards. Wondering if that's a positive or a negative...
I feel like there’s really just the one drama going on, it’s just been going on for years and years
For life in general it is definitely the former.
i have a strong opinion
1v1 Murky vs Murky, winner takes the losers votes!
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Sorry yeah, your tone here is just screaming "this is nonsense" it doesn't feel genuine at all. Maybe this is simply a vibes based thing but that response is terrible and not one I wanna see from potential leadership. I was not requesting a ban just because I disliked it, I wanted to avoid difficult conversations around AI in a casual discord setting. Instead you made it about my preferences. The DnD threads on AI were... A spectacle to say the least. Personally your whole attitude towards AI alone makes you a shaky candidate at best.
Hopefully the board is a mixture of personalities, interests, and all that. We have a mixture of lurkers and hyperactive posters, folks who frequent a few threads and those who are prolific across the site. It wouldnt be ideal for everyone running to be hyperaware with drama!
The most important job is just getting us to the 2nd election intact, the last year has shown that dysfunctional as the place can be, the wheels generally stay on despite frustrations. You dont have to solve everything year one for everyone!
Its great to be running!
Y'all get my vote for leadership. Good luck!
A quick word before I scurry back into the shadows: Whatever weird beef people have with Tef, I want to tell you right now that he is absolutely the best person that you don't deserve to have for this job. Along with the other four candidates I just listed, Tef has a heart the size of the outside world, and the magnanimity to match. Not one single fucking time on these here boards has that man every abused his station or overstepped his bounds. He's worked tirelessly through tragedy and terror to build a bridge from this place to the next, prepared to tenderly shepherd every one of us miscreants across it as the old world collapses around our ears. All the good things he's done both before and during this transition period have come from the deepest chambers of his heart, and anyone who would suspect otherwise of his intentions or moral fortitude is probably a shitty judge of character. Among the tens of thousands of active and inactive posters who've called this place home over the past two decades+, he's been one of the few who's been consistently kind and beneficent the whole time (with that trademark Aussie charm to back it up!). I don't know if you can do better when it comes to a potential candidate for the Board of Governors, but you can sure as shit do a lot worse. A lot a lot worse.
@Disco11 You and me both, brother.
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I don't feel strongly whether Twitter usage should be banned on the forums or not, just wanted to establish those capabilities.
Maybe that's just me
The issue isn't just with advocating for certain groups it was about you commenting on reports about you.
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And I'm trying to get across what a poor character jeffe is for the position he's put himself up for. I'm not trying to start beef, or part of any clique with a grudge. I've been here 23 years and am as milquetoast as they come. I lurk. I read threads. Sometimes I post something if I feel strongly, or think I have something to say, or am frustrated with something and have no other outlet for.
So when I load the voting thread up and read Jeffe's name as part of a potential list of board members despite everything that has happened in very recent history then I felt the need to say something. And that should say something by itself. I think I average a post a week but I've posted more than that in this thread just because of how outraged I am by it.
This is a thread for questions for potential board members. He ignored my question of why he was putting himself up for the position despite everything that he's done when given a position of authority so I asked again. I thought it was a good example of what someone on the board would do when faced with unhappy board members and an inflammatory environment. Turns out his answer was "make flippant remarks and be avoidant"
So I'll keep this on topic and I'll ask again, if you'd like.
Hey jeffe, why not do as you said and wait until the next election period? Why, when everyone is already stressed out, are you pouring petrol on the fire and putting yourself up for this? What makes you think you're singularly qualified?
I am getting the picture that there are multiple (?) discord servers set up where people go to rehash their grievances instead of letting things be settled on the forum and moving on.
Just popping in to say I'm starting up a spreadsheet with each candidate's answers to specific topics.
My aim is to try to have responses to similar questions put in the same place, as well as a little bit of summarizing in case people want a quick refresh instead of reading lengthy forum posts.
My goal is to be as unbiased as possible, although I understand that a truly unbiased summary is not possible.
That said I will not exclude any candidate from the summary, and I will strive to use their own words as much as possible (while still attempting to summarize).
Anyway, if people think this will be a useful resource, I would like to go ahead with this.
If not, I won't continue, since I anticipate this will absolutely eat up a lot of my free time.
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There is a very real chance that the Board could end up having a majority of AUS/NZ people leading it. We've got tynic, Tef, Kelor, Fishman, ahava, and whoever else currently (or formerly) living/from that area, running for election.
is tynic in Oceania? why did I think they were in the UK?