The entire OTW Board just resigned

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Good things first: The NY Riveters won their second game against Boston! They were horribly outshot, but Nana Fujimoto was magic in goal. Apparently they are copying the Rangers' strategy. It's not sustainable in the long term, but the NWHL season is shorter... The Pride are playing very well.

Now... okay, I don't even know how to classify what just happened. I was almost done writing a post about the complete and utter bullshit that were the most recent decisions of the OTW Board, in which I expressed my confidence that the situation would get resolved. (I'd heard people complaining about the Board, but I honestly hadn't realized it was this bad.) Then, a few minutes ago, maybe three hours after the initial clusterfuck, the whole OTW Board resigned. Holy shit. The only appropriate reaction, but I did not expect it to happen this fast.

We still have two Board members - the two elected in the last election who were not yet voting-eligible - and now... I guess there will have to be a new election? I feel so sorry for the Election committee, they are already exhausted.

More info on Tumblr, Twitter, ff_a and other places. I should have gone to bed an hour ago, but wow would I have missed things, so probably not quite now yet. I wonder what I'll wake up to tomorrow. Staffers who haven't been online the past few hours will get quite a shock.

Comments

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I still haven't figured out how best to use Tumblr for updates. The tracked tag shows only new posts but not what others add, so you're reliant on what others reblog, doesn't seem very reliable. But maybe there are better ways.

I'm really pretty sure the old Board won't come back (unless they're voted back in in a membership election, which seems unlikely.) They resigned effective December 15, so they still have about three weeks to pass on their knowledge.

I'm planning to pay more attention too, let's see how that goes.

[myrdschaem]

Yeah, I doubt anyone will want them back, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going on in their heads. I mean. Anyway, good riddance to them. :)

I think for tumblr to get you updates you a) have to find people you like as your follows - if they're interested in topics or have diverse interests, yu get new information. And for general updates, I think tumblrs that collect stuff are good. I think for otw, there was one that was called unofficial otw election or similiar? So they reblog recipes, commentary and answers. And they're going to be alot faster on that because as a themed blog they have more followers, who can also alert them when stuff happens. I think these kind of blogs, if properly run, are not a bad idea to look into.

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I got it wrong: I know how to use Tumblr for updates, but not how to find the discussions. It's always about following the right people, and if it's a new topic you first have to figure out who that is. I prefer places like ffa for things like that.

[myrdschaem]

Ah, sorry! Yeah, ffa is probably good for that as an open discussionspace. Finding it on tumblr is hard... Either you get lucky or you have to start the discussion, which is not easy honestly. But I think that would be similiar to LJ? Outside of big communal spaces I wouldn't have known how to find discussions. But I was also only a lurker, so that might be my fault.

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On LJ you had communities, and if the discussions weren't happening there you could at least find the people who would probably be involved. DW has less of that, which is a shame, but at least the site search works better than Tumblr's and I use it a lot in cases like this.

[myrdschaem]

How would you do that? Look at the subscribers or search for people with that at their interest? I honestly have no clue, please enlighten me to your journal-wise fandom ways!

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I don't use LJ much anymore, so I don't know how it looks there. On DW, you could search by interest but in my experience interest don't always tend to be complete or up to date. What I do is I go to "home" and then search, either directly by "Search Dreamwidth" or via Explore -> Site and Journal search. I find it very useful.