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If I'm counting correctly, the current tally is:

• Lily Winterwood: 12, 11 if we don't count Zing's statement about her being a "fine pick".
• Kittyauthor: 11, 10 if we don't count Zing's statement about them being a "fine pick".
• Thoth: 7

Scapegrace has 3 votes, but has not yet accepted or declined her nomination. I view my current concerns as more of an abstention than a vote against, especially since Scape has not yet responded to them or accepted/declined the nomination. Additionally, in a previous election, Scape declined to be nominated, so I would find it unfair to foist a Hat onto her before she even has the chance to express her thoughts on being nominated this time around.

Feel free to correct me! I'm worried I might have double-counted someone's vote.

I'm going to throw my support behind Thoth, Scape (should she accept), and KA.

I just posted this in the reply where it was initially brought up, but I am also declining my own nomination.

Which would be Kittyauthor, Lily Winterwood and Thoth at the moment.

Source comments:

Scarlett, resident bi idiot: I vote everyone who signed for PG says the person who's too lazy to sign in on her phone

Genderplasma Time! (kA): How do you mean?

Scarlett, resident bi idiot: I'm leaving where I have wifi soon and I can't sign into the board because no internet connection. Sorry!

Genderplasma Time!: No, I mean about the signed for PG part. As in, everyone who accepted PG nomination or everyone who is nominated?

Scarlett, resident bi idiot: Everyone who has accepted yeah

-kA

Maybe in the future I'll be willing to take on the responsibility, but I haven't even touched the canon PPC... literally at all in at least a year. Reading or writing.

I'm happy to provide advice and concrit, but I won't be that final arbiter.

From the Discord:

Umbre (sercretly money?????): After looking over the thread to the extent of my spoons I vote for kittyauthor and thoth My reasons for this are that they are cool and to my knowledge good at writing things

-kA

I'll throw my support behind Lily, kA, Thoth, and Cal, though lesss certain about Cal than the other three. I'm not so sure about Scape, unfortunately, and I can't really articulate why. (Also, my apologies for not checking in earlier - I find the Board 's formatting hard to follow.)

Thank you!

-kA

(Edit: I think it's worth noting that I'm personally using the website Discord on mobile, and thus probably have a different screen than in the app (probably). However, I can work around it and see the pins without crashing Discord. Also, didn't they discontinue mobile site support?)

when you view the members list in mobile mode. It should be right under the channel name and description.

There's no button for it, unless I put the website in Desktop Mode, but that's annoying and it crashes Discord a lot.

I think maybe other mobile users might be in the same boat? I don't know how the app works, tbh.

-kA

Unless they actually don't care who gets the authority to decide who gets Permission. Which is allowed, I suppose, but makes me sad if true.

~Neshomeh happens to know the link to this thread is pinned in Discord, too, but has no idea if anyone checks pins.

But not everyone is in all the time and not everyone sees everything. So it's hard to say. We might want to put out another reminder maybe?

Honestly, I've been worrying more about my actual character-writing recently, so it's nice to hear you enjoy them! And I'm glad you liked the interlude as well!

I know some of the people on my list (Voyd and a couple others. I can't exactly recall who at the moment) have stated in the past that they don't interact with the Board/rarely interact because either it's intimidating or other reasons, but mostly (I think) intimidating...

Actually, looking back in the backlogs (as in, this was a while back (May 17, 2022). Things could've changed.), Voyd, Umbre, and Badger all mentioned that they didn't post on the Board in a while, with Umbre specifically mentioning that she's bad at keeping up with messaging boards. Badger noted that it takes more spoons (energy) to post on the Board than on the Discord, and I noted it was the opposite for me, but I also had to go onto Discord in private. So, at least three have difficulties with the Board, though through no fault of any member.

So, three members, that I know of, might not vote. That brings it down to... 29 active members.

-kA

(Edit 2: Added date to "a while back.")

Bold indicates a current PG, underline indicates at least one nomination, and >>arrows indicate they have posted in this thread.

(It feels weird that neither >>Tomash nor >>Iximaz are on this list, but I'm trying to go by the data, not 'they feel active', and in May they weren't.)

• Badger
• >>Calliope
• >>Cicada
• Damian Brighte
• >>doctorlit
• Eatpraylove
• Ekwy
• GoodModAddict
• Granz
• Grundleplith
• Hidaney
• >>Huinesoron
• >>Ki no Shirayuki
• >>Kittyauthor
• Lily Winterwood
• >>Linstar
• Maslab
• Mel
• >>Neshomeh
• Novastorme
• Oculus
• >>OrangeFox
• owosphere
• Scapegrace
• Scarlett
• >>Sergio Turbo
• Sierpinksi
• >>TheBefuddledBookworm
• >>Thoth
• Umbre
• Voyd
• >>Zingenmir

So that's 13/32 "active" members who have chosen to take part in the election so far. Even if all of those have made every vote they're planning to, it would be very easy for a new candidate to rake in 10+ votes, so please don't anybody think it's "not worth nominating any more" or anything!

hS

We've got less people around than we did four years ago, and a lot of the people on your Discord Active list haven't posted here, so that cuts the numbers further. What we're really looking for is people who are getting a lot of positive reactions, and no or few negative ones. Right now that's you and Lily, but there's no reason Thoth, Calliope, or other yet-unnominated people couldn't get more votes.

(This sort of trickling in of nominations is a good argument for a separate voting thread, for what it's worth; the later nominees are sitting at less votes partly because nobody has come back to place them. Lessons for next time.)

I think we can count doc out, given that he's basically declined (though I tried to decline my election back in the day, and was told I couldn't). Scape would need a bunch more votes (like Thoth and Calliope), and would probably need to address Lily's concerns in person, but that's perfectly possible.

Does anyone (looking at you, Kitty) know if the Discord people from your list are deliberately not voting, not aware of the election, or just haven't found the time yet? Any of those are fine, but it would help to get a feel for how long the thread should run.

hS should probably vote soon

• Lily: 8/9¹
• kA: 7/8¹
• Scapegrace: 3/-1 (has not accepted or declined nomination)²
• Thoth: 2
• Cal: 1 (has not accepted or declined nomination)

Note that these numbers include the intial nomination vote.

¹ Zingenmir has said that Lily and kA "seem like fine picks" but has not said anything more specific. I'm not sure whether that counts or not, so I provided both numbers. Ix, although not under the nominations, has seconded kA and Lily.

² Lily has noted that she has reservations about making Scape PG, but I can't tell if that's a no vote or not. Both numbers are provided just in case.

One or two more votes would give Lily the hat, giving us our second 2022 PG (and our first 2022 PG to be elected PG), as long as no one has any reservations.

Hoping this helps because the thread is kinda messy/long-ish, and I think some people would like to see clear numbers.

-kA, who had to recount Lily's six times to get the right number, but that might be because they woke up forty minutes ago.

Cal has been a fairly active member over on the Discord (I forgot to list them in the Discord Active Users, apologies!) and is extremely helpful and knowledgable in PPC matters. They have beta'd for me in the past and provided great concrit that wasn't too harsh nor too hard to understand.

I personally think they would make a great PG, especially because of the above.

-kA