Appealing to fellow region-mates

[Sandaoguo]

How do I blind myself to the dangers of centralization?


Because I believe to judge people on their work in TSP?

 

Because you, like a lot of other people in GCR governance, look past the inherent dangers by instead focusing on myopic personality characteristics. Todd McCloud may be the most trustworthy person in this game, but on principle it would be bad for him to be a full admin on more than one GCR forum. I think centralization of authority is a huge problem in the whole of GCRs, and pretty much everybody who's been leading the GCRs in the past few years has been part and parcel to the problem.

 

We don't need external caretakers. If we need full admins to counter against the inherent risk that another one might go rogue, then those people should be native to TSP. This region should be their No. 1 priority. If somebody simply wants to help curate and moderate the forums, they can be global moderators. If they want to help with citizenship, then there's a very easy way in IP.Board to restrict their ACP access to changing group memberships. To me, Todd would fit in those groups, rather than being somebody granted full admin status just because you view his contributions as positive. Lots of people make positive contributions to the region. But we shouldn't outsource our forum security to external agencies.