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Quote:Off the top of my head, and keep in mind I've had a few drinks and haven't fully thought this through, what if the endorsement cap is fixed to the number of endorsements the delegate has at any given time. If a stated challenger ever comes within, say, fifty endorsements of the delegate, it will automatically force a forum vote, and the forum vote becomes the deciding factor in whether or not a nation gets the chance to become the delegate or gets rejected. I think that the active members of the forum, the shepards, should decide who gets the opportunity to lead the flocks, but it still leaves the region, who we can admit are more or less sheep, the decisive vote or votes; therefore, leaving both gameplay and forum elements intact, but making the gameplay elements more fair. In fact, it makes our own election process more similar to the game because any given nation can become delegate at any given time, but it still give the previously elected delegate time to keep foreign nations in check while balancing the inequalities in the current system. All that isn't to say that we still couldn't or wouldn't have regularly scheduled delegate elections, but a delegate who loses an election would be more akin to a recall or impeachment than an incumbant losin' an election. That's the idea, anyway. What'd ya think?
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No. You can get the on-site on-side, but if you haven't schmoozed the right handful of forumites, you can't get in. Un-democratic.
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The nations on-site don't make educated choices. They endorsement swap, and don't regard an endorsement as a 'vote'.
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Which is why I'm also not a fan or Elu's system. Givin' uneducated nations a real vote just makes it an uneducated vote, and that's not the kinda reform I want.
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All it takes to vote on our forum is to "register" just like you register to vote in real life.
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All eligible voters never register.
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Quote:All it takes to vote on our forum is to "register" just like you register to vote in real life.
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Which is the conclusion I've come to recently; what we call 'citizenship' is really just voter registration, but that's a topic for another thread.
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I don't want us to become an oligarchy.
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Which is why I wanted to open up the delegate election to most nations that are able to garner enough endorsements.
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If we are going to go this route I would suggest the old Brave Little Toaster rules.
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I 2nd a Brave Little Toaster Route
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Please please please no.We are not an "oligarchy" we are a region that wants people to "vote" not endorse. You endorse nations because their flag is cool or motto is unique. Non-gameplayers do not see it as a vote, and we cannot change that.
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No to my system, or Brave Li'l Toaster rules?Nations endorse for endorsement tradin', but any nation can endorsement trade. Delegates have endorsements that strategically unendorse. Non-gamers don't.
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I have a compromise bill that I will draft up this weekend and post.
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