Quote:What is your interest on the outcome of PA election?
At last. A civil question.
You probably do not know. I am an Original Member of PA going back fifteen years. It was a magnificent political Forum larger than OzPol ever has been. I have been a Mod there (first appointed almost 15 years ago) and later the elected Admin. This was years before it was hosted by Effendi. That is another long story.
At the time of my first Adminship, NOIQ turned up and from that moment, the place went down hill, despite my efforts to prevent that decline. I refused to be the stamp licker for Effendi, and he (acting outside his own Constitution) without vote or Referendum, withdrew my access to buttons.
That was years ago. NOIQ saw off more and more Members and a succession of useless Admins like AiA, Animal Mother, Super Nova and skippy have overseen further decline.
The only reason people from here are there now is because I have been referring to the place. The only times Membership there increased occurred was when I asked people I knew (like Cabbies) to register. They did in their dozens only to be told by AiA that they were not welcome, because they might be people who would vote or support me.
I do not want to see it die. I'd love to see it back to its glory days but that will take a lot of hard work and steely determination. It may even be impossible now.
There is no chance of PA improving if the current control freak clique remain in power.
You are the first candidate (other than myself) who, not being part of that PA suffocating clique, has had a go at being elected.
I wish you success. I do not seek or expect that you unban me, whatsoever. What I want is to see that place I was significant part of the birth of, have a chance at political legitimacy again.
Cheers.
I am only a candidate in an election with an unknown outcome , I won't be endorsing your return should the voters consider me a suitable applicant , that would be suicidal, I am unfamiliar with the PA history but what I do know is there is a perrenial animosity between yourself and the regulars their that frankly gives the casual observer the chits