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Shroom Man 777 wrote:With all these decent members, I'll probably never have a shot at becoming a Senator.

Yeah, but nominating a few oddballs forces people to take notice and nominate people that really should have been senators already, dude. It's for the Greater Good or some shit, yo.

Shroom Man 777 wrote:With all these decent members, I'll probably never have a shot at becoming a Senator.

*blink*Shroomy can construct decent sentences without mashing them up? I must on something.

Don't worry Shroom-meister, I'm sure you'll get some votes.

Mr. Coffee wrote:

Shroom Man 777 wrote:With all these decent members, I'll probably never have a shot at becoming a Senator.

Yeah, but nominating a few oddballs forces people to take notice and nominate people that really should have been senators already, dude. It's for the Greater Good or some shit, yo.

We can always wait for a lull in the nominating, maybe in March or something, and put on a concerted effort to get Shroomy in as Senator from the PRFY in there. Regular folk can be douchebags Senators too!

Incidentally, March is where mein birthday is at too! It'll be a perfect present!

Aw, shucks! I love you guys!

CmdrWilkens wrote:Current Nominations (that have been seconded) for January:

Colefax (by which I assume it was meant Schuyler Colfax)

Wow, I wonder how far this is gonna go.

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Incidentally, March is where mein birthday is at too! It'll be a perfect present!

Aw, shucks! I love you guys!

We got ya covered, buddy.

Schuyler Colfax wrote:

CmdrWilkens wrote:Current Nominations (that have been seconded) for January:

Colefax (by which I assume it was meant Schuyler Colfax)

Wow, I wonder how far this is gonna go.

Not far. If you keep improving though, and you really want to be in, then you have a goal to shoot for in the future.

Current Nominations (that have been seconded) for January:

Schuyler Colfax

Shroom Man 777

ray245

Ace Pace

Bounty

J

and

Thanas

The nomination period will close at 1200 GMT (or 700 EST) and the vote will run from whenever I wake up tomorrow morning through that time on January 31st.

Nominations are open for the month of February and will close in time for a vote on the 21st.

Do we have to renominate people who have been nominated in the past?

I believe that is how it works.

Thanas wrote:Do we have to renominate people who have been nominated in the past?

Yes, if someone was nominated in a previous round of elections, and wasn't elected to the Senate, they must be re-nominated for the current nomination period. Precedent.

Hmm, I'd nominate Stuart, his contributions to the board have been excellent and AFAIK he's done a good job of moderating the HPCA forum. However, I don't know if he actually wants the position. I'll PM him and ask.

General note, I'm gonna be bringing back the Chancellor's Discretion provision so if anybody doesn't bother to:

a) check to ensure their candidate actual wants the job
b) link to their profile in the initial nomination
c) actually provide some evidence of support

then the nominee is gonna be kicked.

I again nominate Bounty

A few of his many (so many that almost every thread has meaningful posts in them) contributions to the Pure Star Trek Forum:

Size of Borg Space

Size of the new Enterprise

Info on USS Kelvin

And those are just from the first 2 pages. The guy is a fucking font of Trek Knowledge and would be a worthy addition to the Senate.

I'll second Bounty.

Stuart wrote:

Starglider wrote:Would you like to be nominated for the Senate? Your comments on dealing with miscreants are usually amusing (and sensible), and AFAIK the minimum participation is just voting on something twice a month or so.

I would be very pleased to serve should I be honored by nomination and election. Thank you for considering me for this position.

Right, if someone would like to second that, I will see about digging up some sample posts. (Stuart's user profile)

I'll third that. I've wondered why Stuart wasn't put up for nomination a long time ago; my assumption was that he was too busy with work and life for it. I guess I was wrong, so definitely yes to nomination for Stuart.

I feel obliged to post here, due to Skimmers posts in the senate and some questions. I am not nominatable for the near future. It's for IRL reasons and not for any "the senate is dumb lol" stuff.

Ace Pace wrote:I feel obliged to post here, due to Skimmers posts in the senate and some questions. I am not nominatable for the near future. It's for IRL reasons and not for any "the senate is dumb lol" stuff.

As Ace is clearly back from his hiatus, I nominated him for the Senate.

Seriously though, don't nominate Ace, he'll cry.

Starglider wrote:

Stuart wrote:

Starglider wrote:Would you like to be nominated for the Senate? Your comments on dealing with miscreants are usually amusing (and sensible), and AFAIK the minimum participation is just voting on something twice a month or so.

I would be very pleased to serve should I be honored by nomination and election. Thank you for considering me for this position.

Right, if someone would like to second that, I will see about digging up some sample posts. (Stuart's user profile)

I shall take a stab at legitimizing this particular nomination.

Stuart on reverse engineering.

Stuart on nuclear war.

Stuart on the Chinese milk scandal.

Don't forget Armageddon.

Stuart and Bounty are good candidates and worthy to be seated. I would vote for them any time.

I do believe another member to be deserving as well. He was considered for senate membership in the past, and while not being one of the more active Posters, is certainly worthy of a Senate seat in my opinion: Balrog.

He has indicated that he is willing to serve in such a capacity via PM.

Anyone who has spent some time in the Fantasy section of the board must have noticed his contributions, especially regarding LotR.

A sample of his posts:

Bestiary of Middle-Earth, his magnum opus on this board.
Discussion on endurance feats in the LotR universe
The war in the North (fanfic)

I read the entirety of the Bestiary and his OP for the endurance thread. I don't follow STGOD or fanfics, and his posting history otherwise is modest but didn't turn up any egregious examples. On the basis of the legwork for his long-term projects and staying out of trouble otherwise, I will second Balrog's nomination.

The following nominations are accepted pending the vote:

Bounty

Stuart

Balrog

Nominations close on the 21st.