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A few opening things:
1. The subforums are unlocked.
2. I am the current (temporary) owner of the guild.
3. I'm not interested in this thread devolving into dramatics.

Now, before I even dive into what this thread is really about- I want to clarify something. I am doing this because I am the only active (non-honorary) crew member left. Which means that is the reason why I am currently captain and that's the reason I'm going to run this election. I was elected to the position of VC and so I am now simply doing what is expected of me. I'm not "seizing power" or anything to that effect- I am simply trying to get things running smoothly again.

Now, the actual POINT of this thread is to accomplish the following things:
1. Nominate and elect a new leader. (2nd post)
3. Hammer out some assorted other issues (3rd post)

There have been some other issues with this guild as a whole- and right now is prime time to discuss them. Essentially without a leader we're all on the same level here.
Feel free to use this thread not only as a means of nominating your favorite prospect for guild leader- but to discuss your feelings about the guild as it currently is.

I SHALL BE YOUR NEW LEADER AND ALL SHALL BURN WI-

Oh wait, wrong chat.

Nah, I'd be a terrible leader more than likely. I do agree with Gynne though, we need to be more active in the forums as a whole, not leave skype altogether, but be more active in here. On that front, I would be more than willing to help set up a couple of competitions, important issue of the day-type-things and maybe even a few RP's. I love this guild, you guys are the best friends I have online and I'd hate to see it go under.

As for nominations, I think insomnesiac would suit the role in my own personal opinion.

I would like to nominate myself, plus 2nd the noms for Graphie and Insom smile

I'm just going to throw this out now and say that locking the subforums does not help activity in the guild. I'm just going say that this was not an attack on anyone and was just an observation of mine.

My other suggestion for the guld is one i put out a few months ago in the bussiness subforum were we rotate in guild games with in thread games. I still think this might be a good idea that will help bring in more new members more often than just doing an in thread game every 10 games. I can run the in thread game if need be.

And of course the main cause to the guilds decline in activity are really RL stuff and alternative sources of communications. There is really nothing we can do about the RL stuff, and the only thing to be done fr the alternate sources of communications is for those using those sources to also use the guild.

I'm just going to side step the noms this time. G'luck everyone. :]

I hereby nominate Insomnomnom. I think she'd be an awesome captain and she has skills in handling tough situations. That, and as far as I know, no one has a bone to pick with her at the moment. owo In response to the issues over Skype... As one of the original people of the Skypechat (the original mind you. Which was way back when and created by Kitty so we could discuss our alliance.) I can only tell you that I, myself, never intended for it to get so huge. As a solution to this problem, we could always start posting chat transcripts in the forums (with editing out of cusses and such) for everyone to discuss. I think this idea should be approved by everyone in the guild before it goes through though, not just the people in the Skype chat itself.