A note to the ED folks.
Here, because where the hell else am I going to put it?

I'm only bothering to respond because I see the helpful little troll that linked to f_w in the news post named itself "white_mindset", and forgive me if I see that as targeted.


I said early on in the election process that I had nothing against ED, nothing against Jameth, and nothing against LJ Drama. This remains true. (I do, however, dislike what I've seen of rfjason.) Tfo was helpful on the f_w wiki, and he's welcome to keep editing as far as I'm concerned (though he's an ED mod, so I completely understand if he doesn't).

I did consider the invitation to edit the ED article simply because Tfo was helpful. (Though, you know, I'd have been more likely to do it if I were asked directly and if I knew who was doing the asking.)

If I get around to working on articles, I'm probably going to write them on the f_w wiki. No insult, just the way it is. I was also definitely not going to do any article writing in the midst of the election, because I was not interested in influencing the outcome. In general, FW doesn't care enough to influence the outcome-- which is probably why no one bothered running. So, sure, I think Aja's wanky and kind of ridiculous, but I'm not going to deliberately sabotage her.

I didn't vote for LMM in any of my three slots, and I didn't vote for Jameth, either. I voted for vichan (and, for the record, for qfemale-- she was scrappy!-- and for squeaky-- I knew those two votes wouldn't count). I told vichan that I had voted for her before the election closed. I think it was a crying shame that fandom_votes solidified behind LMM, because I liked what vichan said, and I liked her more and more as the election progressed.

I have no socks, and I have no RPing accounts. Even if I had them, I wouldn't have used them for voting.


As for Jameth: I said (and I think) that an association with LJD and ED and the potential resulting familiarity with law and how it's abused to suppress unwanted speech could make Jameth a very good candidate. I remain particularly concerned about the way DMCA notices are used by LJ. But. Jameth's campaign downplayed his involvement with both to the point that it didn't mean much. (Not that I believed it, but still.)

And then there was that post about the Snape/Harry noncon stuff.

Oh, sure, he was just quoting and raising the hard issues! Right. It was smear. You know why it was smear? I can't turn up Snape/Harry noncon on a Google search of LMM unless it was written by someone else on a site she also happens to use. I can't find it on Skyhawke. If it's in the locked community she's a member of, then it sure as fuck isn't going to turn up on a Google search, is it?

I don't like Snape/Harry. I've been pretty damned clear about that many times over the past six years. But you know what? I know a lot of people who write it. If he's running on a campaign of free speech, then he'd better fucking understand that that is "free speech," too. Posting that comment and refusing to take a stand saying that it was okay with him as "legal speech he didn't happen to like" undercut the entirety of his campaign platform. vichan told him that, and so did spare_change. And bringing in what media response to it might be? Oh, please. Even Aja didn't say, "Media response to someone affiliated with ED would be bad, so we shouldn't vote for him." Following that up with posting vichan's emails showed an utter lack of respect for her.

That, right there, almost certainly cost him the election.

As for the election, I still don't understand what the point was. Jameth's campaign was two-pronged: he was the best qualified for the job; LJ didn't take it seriously anyway and neither did he!

Pick one. Because the one impression I got was that the election was really fucking important, but I don't know why. And seeing that makes me suspicious.

Seeing that LJ Drama's been recently stripped out of Wayback doesn't help my suspicious nature when people affiliated with it are running around saying, "But you can't prove Jameth was ever involved!" I've run into that before-- "I'm going to delete what I said and then threaten to sue you for LIBEL for saying that I ever said it." And when I've actually invested in an attorney to deal with that before? Sorry, but it's not something I see as supportive of free speech.


I did laugh at a lot of the posts, and I found a lot of people (girlvinyl, for example) pretty entertaining. So I still don't dislike LJD, and I still have nothing against ED. I still have nothing against you. But that's not the same as voting for Jameth.

Yes, I screen anons, but if you want to respond, go ahead. To date, I've only ever used that to get rid of spambots. I don't see why their ad campaign ought to be visible to the masses while I get around to deleting it.