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Advisory Board Elections, New Themes, Green by Design Contest
Advisory Board Elections
New Green Themes
Green by Design Contest

The Polls Are Open!

Calling LJ users to the polls—voting starts today, June 22, for user representatives to the LiveJournal Advisory Board! Voting takes place in

lj_election_ru for Cyrillic-language users and in

lj_election_en for all other users. Here's what you need to know to be an informed voter:

Polls are open from 9:00 a.m. PDT and MSD, June 22, to 4:30 p.m. PDT and MSD, June 26.

Only accounts created before March 31, 2009, are eligible to vote in this year’s election.

Only one account per registered email address may vote.

The candidates in lj_election_en are webqatch, vichan, kylecassidy, jameth, and daphaknee. Click on the username to see a candidate's nomination statement.

If no candidate receives a clear 51% of the first-choice vote, the winners will be determined using an Instant Runoff process.

We'll announce the winners and the results Monday, June 29, 2009, after the results have been examined for accuracy and veracity, and (if needed) run through the Instant Runoff tallying program.

The new user representatives to the LJ Advisory Board will be seated and begin their terms on July 1, 2009.

Now get out there and vote!

New Green Themes

Although Kermit the Frog might have struggled with being green, we think it's not really that hard to go green. And we have some new green themes for your journal to help make it even easier for you.

We've partnered with One Million Acts of Green, brought to you by Cisco to bring you these three new themes:

A green theme is the perfect way to show the world just how much you love our planet. Plus, by adding a green theme to your journal, you’ll be supporting One Million Acts of Green, a collaborative environmental campaign encouraging everyone to go green one act at a time. The goal? A million acts of green.

After you add a green theme to your journal, visit the One Million Acts of Green site and record your own Acts of Green. Whether you turn the lights off when they're not in use, ride your bike to school/work, or just get your friends to start recording their Acts of Green, every single act makes a difference.

Green by Design Contest

While we're on the green theme, we thought the designers among you might be interested in this Green by Design contest. To enter, all you have to do is create a Green Badge with an earth-friendly design and/or eco-minded message. The winning badge will link to the One Million Acts of Green site. You can get full details and information on how to enter at

lj_contests.

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	crowgrl13 2009-06-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Let the crap fest begin! (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	3circledsun 2009-06-22 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Yea, damn straight! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingfox 2009-06-22 07:47 pm UTC (link)
	Get your sockpuppets out? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	3circledsun 2009-06-22 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Got mine ready. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cambler 2009-06-22 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	Let the socks loose! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	vichan 2009-06-22 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	Kudos for LJ actually adding this into the poll post, though: "One vote per user, not one vote per account." That's new compared to last year. (Still wonder how they'll figure out which accounts are sockpuppets, though.) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	semiramis 2009-06-22 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	PSSST. THE LINK FOR THE THEMES IS BORKED YOU'RE MISSING A COLON IN THE "http://" (Reply to this)

	kotomichi 2009-06-22 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Can I whine here about a la carte userpics? (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	funkybrewsta 2009-06-22 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	Ahaha I've given up on ever getting those. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	outoftime 2009-06-22 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	Do Support Requests ever get answered? I'm having a problem with my LJ email and I need the problem resolved. http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=985294& (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	shutter 2009-06-22 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	it takes forever. it's ridiculous. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	desh 2009-06-22 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	Can you explain more about what you mean? The only way this vote differs from my understanding of "true instant runoff" is the lack of a "4th choice" option. Is that what you mean? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	adventurat 2009-06-22 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	Me neither. They don't come up on a search for 'green', either. Please fix! (Not you, loopily; I mean the LJ peeps.) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	loopily 2009-06-22 07:55 pm UTC (link)
	I can't seem to find the new green layouts on the Journal setup pages... (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	matgb 2009-06-22 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Link for the new themes has an extra bogus http, and even when I remove that it goes to custom themes but without any actual themes to look at. looks at nominees So, KyleCassidy vs Jameth in the final round then? (Reply to this)

	cparamo 2009-06-22 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	(Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	shatterstripes 2009-06-22 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, hey, thanks for reminding me to vote for anyone but the lulz candidate! I probably would've blown it off without shit like this. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	xenosphobatic 2009-06-22 07:59 pm UTC (link)
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	wicked_g 2009-06-22 08:04 pm UTC (link)
	Can't we say we're going green for the protesters in Iran? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stylishbastard 2009-06-22 08:08 pm UTC (link)
	You're really helping. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	drowsyfantasy 2009-06-22 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	So when will the new green themes ACTUALLY be accessible/useable? Please don't tease us like this. They don't show up when you click (and correct the html). Put the release date/time in there somewhere so we don't immediately try to check out something that isn't live yet. (Reply to this)

	schonste 2009-06-22 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa, there's only like 5 people? Hah. (Reply to this)

	babylon_burning 2009-06-22 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	lol i am so not voting for anyone that nebris is supporting. sorry, kylecassidy, whoever you are. Edited at 2009-06-22 08:11 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

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	cambler 2009-06-22 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Jeremiah Wright eat your heart out! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	KyleCassidy to win radiantsoul 2009-06-22 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	It looks like Kyle will win and he seems to have only one objective to have some sort of back up/recovery...if LJ doesn't implement some sort of backup within a few months they are going to look ridiculous. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: KyleCassidy to win cambler 2009-06-22 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Less than 24 hours in and you're already calling the winner? Wow, that takes balls ;) Want to bet? Real cash money. You game? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

	funnel101 2009-06-22 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	And here I thought that LJ was joining the online revolution of support for Iran. Not that kind of green, I see. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mackiedockie 2009-06-22 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	No. It's just a new kind of ad. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	therru 2009-06-22 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	Can't find those green themes anywhere. Either the link is wrong, or the themes are supposed to give me many hours of looking-for-easter-eggs fun, or they don't actually exist yet. (Reply to this)

	Is it possible to get this on the balllot: fannyfae 2009-06-22 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	Could we please find a way to have LJ / SUP etc. quit spamming our email boxes for three weeks straight about this?! (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	imc 2009-06-22 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	I certainly haven't had any email about it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gully_moe 2009-06-22 08:41 pm UTC (link)
	. (Reply to this)

	brewsternorth 2009-06-22 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	The poll post's at the top of the election comm (at least for election_en), but I suppose it might be as well to disambiguate. that's a lovely kitty. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)