ILX Mods for 2009: Nominations Thread

DG

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though i think people should nominate themselves since we don't want to force people into modship

it hasn't been determined democratically whether an election should be called

I've considered offering my time, since I work from home and hang around on this accursed board all the time anyway. I'd probably limit myself to thread-moving, image-linkifying, that kind of housekeeping, and leave the banning and the drama to mods who seem to enjoy that sort of stuff.

hardy: a rock solid choice

hmm

yeah, i said to nominate self

Voter intimidation and coercion

Intimidation of voters that prevents them from voting, such as by voter suppression.

Disrupting voting in polling stations in areas with unwanted political tendencies for example with bomb threats to polling places[12] or other sabotage, including ballots, ballot boxes, or voting machines.

Using caging lists for voter suppression

For example, in 2004, police stationed outside a Cook County, Illinois, polling place were allegedly requesting photo ID and telling voters (falsely) that if they had been convicted of a felony, they could not vote.[13]

Also in 2004, for example, In Pima, Arizona, voters at multiple polls were allegedly confronted by an individual, wearing a black t-shirt with “US Constitution Enforcer” and a military-style belt that gave the appearance he was armed. He asked voters if they were citizens, accompanied by a cameraman who filmed the encounters.[13]

Voters often complain about misinformation campaigns via flyers or phone calls encouraging them to vote on a day other than election day or spreading false information regarding their right to vote. In Polk County, Florida, in 2004, for example, voters allegedly received a call telling them to vote on November 3 (the election was on November 2).

Also in 2004, in Wisconsin and elsewhere voters allegedly received flyers that said, “If you already voted in any election this year, you can’t vote in the Presidential Election”, implying that those who had voted in earlier primary elections were ineligible to vote. Also, “If anybody in your family has ever been found guilty of anything you can’t vote in the Presidential Election.” Finally, “If you violate any of these laws, you can get 10 years in prison and your children will be taken away from you.”[14][15]

Another simple, but notorious method of voter intimidation is the shoe polish method, which is often used in company towns. This method entails coating the voting machines lever or button of the opposing candidate(s) with shoe polish. To understand how this works, take the example of an employee of the company who, against the advice of the party in power, votes for the opposing candidate(s). After they leave the voting booth, a conspirator to the fraud (a precinct captain or other local V.I.P.) will handshake the voter. The conspirator will then subtly check their hand for any shoe polish and will note that the voter has left some shoe polish after the handshake. Soon afterward that unfortunate voter gets fired from his job.

Buying or coercing votes from persons who would normally vote for another candidate or would not vote at all, but who are nevertheless eligible to vote.

Intimidation of voters that alters their vote. "Four-legged voting," where precinct workers would pull the levers on voting machines instead of the voter.

Absentee and other remote voting can be more open to some forms of intimidation and coercion as the voter does not have the protection and privacy of the polling location.

In Britain, one historically popular technique has been long known as granny farming, after a contemptuous slang designation for retirement homes. In this, party activists visit retirement homes, purportedly to help the elderly and immobile exercise their voting rights. Residents are asked to fill out 'absentee voter' forms, allowing them a proxy or postal vote. When the forms are signed and gathered, they are then secretly rewritten as applications for proxy votes, naming party activists or their friends and relatives as the proxies. These people, unknown to the voter, then cast the vote for the party of their choice. This trick relies on elderly care home residents typically being absent-minded, or suffering from dementia. A case for this had occurred into the United States, when Kwame Kilpatrick was running for reelection as mayor of Detroit. Kilpatrick supporters had nursing home residents sign absentee ballots which were either already marked or later marked as voting for Kilpatrick.

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am0n

you can only nominate yourself, dude

lol @ stevem gettin mugabe upthread

i nominate myself then

harbl: the name you can trust

in '08

harbl: solid as marble

^^^REAL good

i guess i'll go ahead and nominate myself too

lol just like mugabe

Cincinnatus was a Roman farmer, dictator, and consul from the legendary period of Roman history. He gained fame as a model of Roman virtue. He was a farmer above all, but when called to serve his country he did so well, efficiently, and without question, even though a prolonged stay away from his farm could mean starvation for his family. When he served his country, he made his stint as dictator as brief as possible. He was also admirable for his lack of ambition.

is ned a mod? he should be imo. also gear and horseshoe.

yes, EXACTLY LIKE mugabe is what i was saying

i'd vote for you. i mean, i'd HAVE to, right?

yr really flippin the scrip here

these are the kind of mind games you will have to deal with if you succeed

perhaps the development of a sense of humor will help

definitely :D

o shit, a sense of humor too? I'm out of practice.

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jaymc would be a good mod

harblkitty 4 prez

coolin' mah harbls, on da marbles

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DG

-- special guest stars mark bronson, Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:35 AM (8 hours ago)

cosign

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leave the banning and the drama to mods who seem to enjoy that sort of stuff

isn't this kinda the problem?

cankles has the best suggestions so far but think this is like being president where the people who would be best at it are too smart to want to do it

yeah I agree cankles and DG it is

1 year from now we'll all be saying the same things

Me?

I am a responsible and caring woman with judicious ways. If you take the time to train me, I promise I will do a great job. (That last sentence is a good one to say in job interviews.)

"Keepin' it Positive in the Zero-Nine"

abbott: reach out and grab it

Roxy?

Nice.

NICE.

i srsly wd do this

you guys know that mods don't get paid right?

That's okay, I rake in mad bells on Animal Crossing.

i think i would be good, but i am a brilliant fucking narcissist.

me - I would not do a thing! (like the last time I was a mod)

I nominate Dr. Morbius.

Morbius: More for Us

more be us.

Yah Mo B Us

I nominate Aimless but I'm sure he's rolling out his driveway right now like "You're wasting your time, I'm not the guy"

so, in summary, me

Abbott would be good at this; also i realize i put myself in l0u1s jagg3r's company in saying this but Curtis seems absurdly nice and fair and would therefore be good at this.

gear is a good call but he is leaving. i would suck at this because i would never ban anyone unless they were threatening another poster or were deeznuts.

I will rep for Abbott!

Don't make me a mod, I barely get my work done as it is

what xp

poor deeznuts

http://www.misanthropundit.com/CowboyOverMdE1.jpg

^^ this drawing of GWB looks more like that George McGovern pin than GWB

abbott would be a great mod

abbott would be a great mod

My only worry is people would get all sexist on me is I did something ''''controversial'''''.

anyone want to photoshop Abbott into this?:
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd115/Podesta27/mods.jpg

horseshoe yr like the only poster left (apart from caek and he's allowed coz he's my spiritual opposite) who still voices some sort of problem w/ me, perhaps we shd reason thru this all cordial like

its pretty selfdefeating to worry about that abbott

also i've got your back

I want Abbott to be Abbott.
I think someone who is invested is important. I think being kind and not trigger happy is important.
If Abbott wants it, I'm for it.
But it makes me nervous to think about someone we love so much suddenly having all of that pressure.

Plus, Abbott, I sort of want you to have a year of being married and such.

I nominate nabisco and Jaymc.

But I am biased.

-- Abbott, Friday, August 29, 2008 3:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I have no grasp of context!

-- Abbott, Friday, August 29, 2008 3:37 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^shouldnt be a mod

-- gr8080, Friday, August 29, 2008 3:45 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

what is your problem sir

damn chill son

btw has it been confirmed that the results of this nomination/poll process will actually mean anything

will the winner be a mod

the mods in power have never signed onto this its from the ground up make it grow

love abbott but she'd be almost as bad a mod as me

I like that I suddenly have a Big Campaign for Vote Me as ILX Mod. ???

-- Abbott, Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:25 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

By which I mean I think everyone's thinkin baout this a lot harder than I am.

Nabisco and Jaymc. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

make me a mod and i swear to god deeznuts and captainlorax will never post again

and then ill retire

If elected I promise to DELETE ILX.

I like Rock Hardy for modding. He's old and grumpy and can't be arsed.

do i really deserve to be lumped in w/ camptain lorax

sorry Louis, that was bitchy.

do i really deserve to be lumped in w/ camptain lorax

-- deeznuts, Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:15 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

good point

Call me a batty old feminist warhorse, but I do think we should have some more female mods...

not sure but i think abbott is a female

I am a female 4 real.

I hate that Kate and I have to compete for the batty feminist warhorse title.
I totally agree, but who wants to mod? Maybe women are smarter, not volunteering for a thankless task.

Abbott cannot be a mod. I'm sorry, Abbott. it's too intense, and you would end up getting hurt.

Maria would be great but she is way busy. Sunny? Would sunny want to mod?
Sara R-C would also be great, but I want her to be modding ITR, which she already does so well.
I wish Archel would come back and mod.
Nath would be a great mod.
tehresa would be a great mod.

there's a whole pile of female mods just waiting to be tapped.

I recuse myself, of course.

there's a whole pile of female mods just waiting to be tapped.

So I'm sure I have high negatives and maybe I'm too amiable to be a mod but I nominate myself.

i support this nomination

i also support tapping the pile of female mods

I would like to be a mod, and may I say to the current mods that it would spare you 100+ posts in the Mod Request Forum asking you to fix all my BBCode fuckups when I do the 2009 albums & trax poll. And I'm female so = affirmative action amirite

That said, I'm hardly an ILX celeb so I'm not holding my breath!

wow, didn't mean to channel McCain or anything there

do you read boards other than ilm?

do i really deserve to be lumped in w/ camptain lorax

captain lorax is rather more tolerable and entertaining (t/s magic mind crystals vs. "quattro/mach 3") - at least he never steps outside the circle

i submit that all of us shave but not all of us move crystals with out mind

i submit that all of us shave but not all of us move crystals with out mind

I'll support all sorts of people as mods, but if you aren't going to do anything, there's not much point. Being a mod requires that you be able to make simple decisions, like temp banning dom passantino when he acts the goat, and taking small amounts of boring meta shit for those decisions, from responsible posters like gr8080, who thinks that Heave Ho is acceptable. It's a lot of weight on your shoulders.

what is happening to this borad?

posters like you are ruining it for old drunks like me, duh

(gr80 be sure and bookmark that)

So I'm sure I have high negatives and maybe I'm too amiable to be a mod but I nominate myself.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:13 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

As footnotes I'll add that I already have something of a presence across the boards except I Love NFL & De Subjectivisteinsinesase, I spend the full workday on ILX already, and I think I'm levelheaded enough to do the job fairly and justify mod actions as necessary.

not enough passive-agressiveness in this thread

not enough passive-agressiveness in this thread

why- because you called me responsible or because you called yourself a drunk?

xxxp

And for what it's worth, I'm willing to take shit from everybody and anybody.

yeah but do you have what it takes to ban a troll

BIG HOOS you would get so emo over the burden of being a mod.

it's hard, you have to click like three times

do you read boards other than ilm?

is this part of the vetting process? I have "Site New Answers" as my homepage so I don't read one board in particular. I assume most people do that, anyway.

hoos makes shit disappear for a living motherfucker, what do you do xps

there should really be an application form.

BIG HOOS you would get so emo over the burden of being a mod.

-- gr8080, Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:59 AM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

I know where you're coming from (viz "people be mad butthurt lately") but given the responsibility of modship I'd be making hard decisions for the good of the community out of necessity. I can do that.

Contrary to popular belief I would not hold a poll to decide every temp ban.

i'm sure i'll regret this cos i shouldn't be realing ilx as much as i do, but, wtf, i'll throw my hat in.

i'm utterly indifferent to all of your feelings.

Hoos. HOOS! You can't be a mod.
You're a character. You're this well loved guy who charms everyone...and there is no way you could possibly handle being both.
I mean this in the best way possible. I need you to be you.
ILX would suffer if the big Hoos was compromised.

aimurchie otm once again

aimurchie youre misguided dont listen to max, he's a dick

deez prove that this is untrue: ILX would suffer if the big Hoos was compromised.

you can compromise the hoos you fucking asshole

you can compromise the hoos you fucking asshole

cant

l-r: deeznuts, max
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(gr80 be sure and bookmark that)

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH i like that! xp

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH i like that! xp

Oh deezie. Could you stop trying so hard to get banned?

what???

Whatever. I defend you most of the time. Not that my word is a ringing endorsement!
I think you're smart, and funny. But I guess you piss people off a lot.

what???

I need you to be you.

hi jergins you're here now

(gr80 be sure and bookmark that)

i need u to be u
ILX 2
You have tried to insert a duplicate message.

(gr80 be sure and bookmark that)

Musically has my vote. Not that we're voting.

favorite posters of the night

1) aimurchie
2) gr8080
3) jergins
4) tombot
60) deeznuts

bronze is cool

i http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/heart.gif u to http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/heart.gif u

Well, thanks Max and I just gotta say that I did it without any graphics.
Some folks think being a top poster can be handled by the graphics. I'm old school. I like to keep it right here with the alphabet.

hey alison have you ever wondered what max's little brother looked like well here he is ----> http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/anim_9e65a36d-9244-b544-b5bf-9ce3af.gif

I don't get it. The thing is, I don't get it. I have no idea what any of the graphics are meant to, well, mean.

I'm entertained by the graphics. But if an elaborate joke is being played out? I'm not your gal.
Why is it funny that the dizzying preppy guy is Max's little brother?

hes not preppy its his senior portrait

Why is that funny -besides the fact that it's sort of funny.
I DO love those animations that ZS does.
Anyway, I am totally being made fun of for saying "I need you to be you."

So Max? I really need you to be true to yourself. You totally have the talent and skills to move mountains. But please stay true to yourself. I will be right here, on this thread, holding your post.

Grady - same goes for you.

thank you alison! be true to yourself too, and i do agree that ilx cant compromise the big Hoos, i think hes too valuable as a friend to be a mod.

much love to u justin <3<3<3<3

i submit that hoos is too valuable as a human not to be a mod & that you should stop being a selfish dick

deez whats your first name

its justen dude, cmon xpost

greg

max come to aim chatz babe

Who else would be a good mod? or wait is that an oxymoron?

I'm going to go off the charts and nominate Dr. Morbius. Because he hates everyone equally. therefore trustworthy.

Jaq would be an awesome mod!
Now i am going to sleep.

I sort of love you all. Maybe I'm wicked tired and drunk.
You are swell. Love, Alison.

i think there should be a one question application:

1. if you became a sitewide mod, would you ban captainlorax?

anyone who answers yes can become a mod

Surely anyone who actually wants to be a mod is not qualified.

i'd like to understand what the fuck is wrong with captainlorax pls

am i just too nice? what's happening with that

Yeah I am starting to conclude he is just a goofy & harmless young guy.

goole would be a good mod.

who

i'd vote for sunny and [nabisco] any day

although i guess being in bed with any subboarders is gonna result in an instant "negatory"

::) <in bbc code this is an eyeroll

Is this all a moot exercise, or are the Illuminati actively recruiting?

am i just too nice? what's happening with that

-- Surmounter, Sunday, August 31, 2008 8:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yes

I am starting to conclude he is just a goofy & harmless young guy.

i have been thinking this too, i wouldn't ban him.

DG

ban who, surms?!

crazy talk

none of you has the stomach for this kind of work

oh and i nominate me

DG supporters list

lol i don't think they were talking about banning me. something about lorax maybe, i dunno

"lol"