Ok so I ran and invited my entire friend list to join my group which probably pissed a few people off.
But...
I didn't send out a single message to members of the group, didn't hang outside the library or the union on election day throwing bundles of fliers at people, didn't plaster my face all over town.
And this is not because they weren't effective ways of campaigning I just didn't really want to piss everyone off.
I tried to do my campaigning by word of mouth and by a couple of my friends offering to change their facebook pictures and dutifully agreeing to being written on.
I realise this does get annoying but people are doing this because they care about the positions they are running for and are trying to get into a position to change things. Today was this first time since thursday I checked my facebook and I had 11 messages (mostly from election groups) and three group invitations. Rather than bitching and moaning we should be glad that we have people who care enough to invest so much time in trying to get elected and evolve student services.
But that is the elections over for another year. So no more spam!