It's like watching a train wreck - you just can't stop!

[layla]

So it turns out that LJ advisory board candidate legomymalfoy received actual death threats urging her to drop out of the race. Rather than let the bastards win, she's staying in.

Former candidate (and buddy of jameth) cambler, who was losing anyway, dropped out yesterday over a rumor of death threats against an unspecified LJ-er. Now that it turns out he's not the target, rather than offering sympathy to legomymalfoy like a decent human being, he's accusing her of not caring about her family's safety and whining like a five-year-old that he was unfairly forced to drop out of the race [ETA: post is now locked] and that LJ should invalidate the whole election on his behalf. (Wahhhhh! Mommeeeeee! They made me drop out! It's somebody else's faaaauuuult!) And the commenters, who are pretty much the same group of Jameth-supporting trolls who have been acting like fuckwits all over every OTHER election post, are quick to claim the death threat's a fraud and any rise in her vote count at this point must be due to sockpuppetry. (Please note in regards to that last comment thread, the only "flak for cheating" that she's been getting, that I've seen, is from Jameth's camp's unsupported claims that she's been cheating, which is rather a different thing.)

I'm alternately horrified at these people's utter lack of human decency, and horrified at myself because I can't seem to leave it alone.

Here's a link to the voting page again, because god, I do not want to see this batch of scum win this election.

EDIT (5/30): The election's over, I'm about snarked out for a while, and so, I'm stepping away from this discussion for the moment. Non-friend comments are still screened, and I may be (very) tardy to unscreen/reply.

Comments

[thekamisama.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand why people are being encouraged to vote for a person based on the sole fact that they are in a "fandom", as if all fandoms are the same, much less that like or respect each other. I doubt that the whole of Harry Potter "fandom" even agrees with the smaller niche of Potter slash fiction fandom, so it seems hard to convince me that this person could represent ALL FANDOM ALL THE TIME like some discount 24-7 market. It is fluff and hyperbole in order to convince people to vote.

Further, These dramas also seem to display a very glaring and obvious fact that most of these candidates have no platform other than generic monikers and mudslinging.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

My above post doesn't mention fandom at all, so this rant is pretty much entirely off-topic and I'm not sure why you've posted it here. I've also been getting spammed with links to your journal lately; I'm not sure if that's you or someone else, since they're anonymous, but I banned you on general principles when I saw your username because of those. If it's someone doing it in your name, you need to tell them to knock it off, because it's giving you a bad rep.

However, I *do* agree with you that the whole election is a nasty, mud-slinging mess. I'll be glad when it's over.