RationalWiki:2024 board of trustees election/Campaigning

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Two trustees will be elected to serve 2024-2026.

"Campaigning" is for candidate promises & arguments in favor of their trustee-ship.

"Question time" is to ask candidates about their scandalous, hypocritical, and generally shitty behavior -- or anything at all you'd like to know their thoughts on.

"Endorsement sheet" is to endorse candidates.

Question time

Questions for Candidates

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say a lot of shit don't get done because of lack of time/skill/energy to get them done (not an attack on nobody, after all we all have RL and all that...) Does anybody have any ideas on how to possibly deal with this? KarmaPolice (talk) 23:12, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Adding to this, specifically RW now has a reasonable amount of funds from the last fundraiser to hire someone to upgrade our systems. This should be a priority, as the current DDoS-prevention fix that David Gerard implemented should not be thought of as a long-term solution. Other upgrades have also been mentioned. Bongolian (talk) 23:54, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

We have a meeting space set up on the RW Discord. It's just been difficult to get us all in one place at one time for an official meeting. Our next one is scheduled for the 18th of August. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 00:12, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

Okay, now we actually have candidates, I am going to ask - what you do propose to get RW out of this [relative] rut? All is clearly not well; we almost didn't pay the server bill, there's a lawsuit on-hand, there's at least one DCMA case which needs sorting, we need a proper fix for the DDoS attacks, we don't appear to have a decent mobile mode... KarmaPolice (talk) 00:41, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Lawsuit? Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 23:16, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Saloon_bar#RationalWiki_has_been_sued KarmaPolice (talk) 00:39, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

We’re open to suggestions and especially assistance. All Board members are currently busy IRL, and I know I’m mostly here to keep the Board seat filled. Any help you or anyone else can give is welcome. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 01:10, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Personally, I think the answer involves an increased amount of traffic, therefore giving the website a larger userbase and, with that, more people who would be willing to support it if it comes on tough times. Ephrom (talk) 4:30, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

How, exactly, would one do that? This wiki is already fairly notorious. Carthage (talk) 04:43, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Do we even know at the moment the size of the userbase? KarmaPolice (talk) 11:51, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Elephant in the room (without saying things that will get us in trouble): what will you do to prevent further SLAPP lawsuits in the future and what will you do if we are faced with another one? We have navigated previous SLAPP threats much more successfully than current ones. Wellawellawell (talk)

Candidate endorsement sheet

1. Cosmikdebris (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · vandal log · block log)

Endorsements

1. Has taken on doing some technical work with the server, makes sense for him to stay on. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 11:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
2. Cosmik has done great work. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 23:08, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
3. More than capable of organizing a booze up in a brewery and therefore the sort of person that we badly need. Spud (talk) 12:17, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
4. Long-time, high-quality contributor. Bongolian (talk) 18:44, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
5. Yuppers ShabiDOO 11:57, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
6. Carthage (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
7. TheOneAndOnlyCirrusMan (talk) 00:59, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Anti-endorsements

Goat

2. Ephrom (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · vandal log · block log)

Endorsements

1. Has made substantial quality contributions for more than a year. ^{— Unsigned, by: Bongolian / talk / contribs}
2. Carthage (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
3. Sincerely, Postuhenin the neurodivergent doodlebug! (say hi! ^^) 07:53, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Anti-endorsements

Goat

Stepping down from the board

Not sure where else to put this, but just to advise you I'm stepping down from the board early. I'm sure the two new people will do a great job. ShabiDOO 23:33, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Since nominations for this election already ended, it would seem to be too late to get anyone else to run. I believe the board has functioned without the full number of members in the past, so a special election may not be necessary. Bongolian (talk) 01:27, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

It's only until after the election. Shabidoo is one of the 2 board members this election replaces (in the other case by nominating the same person again, it'll be uncontested as there's only 2 noms), so we'll have the usual number after the election. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 08:13, 21 August 2024 (UTC)