FYI - checking in with you about the December contest - which I cannot yet run [View all]

[Mira]

There have been two threads in the "Help and Meta discussion" forum concerning polls.
I'm linking you to show what's been said, and why I have not as promised been able to start the contest today.
As you know, the switchover to DU3 caught me in the middle of the contest preparations, and left us with no ability to poll.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12406733

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12406747

basically, I'm on it to the degree I can be.
I'm writing this post in order to report it to you.

I don't want to cave to a contrived alternative way of polling for two reasons:
1) I'm not savvy enough to pull it off in the first way suggested which is to find an outside polling place.
If I were, as I said, I would have made sure we have a calendar this year.
I also don't like the idea of running the contest in DU2. Though I love it, am comfortable in it, DU2 is our history, and we need to move on.

2) I am POed that I never got an official answer or nod about the contest and the timing of when we can poll again, because it makes me feel like our value is only in our heads, and I know it is not.
You gotta have art.

Bottom line: Indulge me while I make the decision for us to wait for having our polls restored and our normal way of running the contest enabled whenever that may be.

Anyone who wants to do it differently, creatively, NOW, can just say so and I'll turn it over.
If this offer does not come, let's just say I'm on top of it, and I'll do it ASAP