(06-01-2021, 02:05 AM)Kherty Wrote: Giving power to only a handful of person, and excluding the rest is plain ol' discrimination. I agree with Karlotta, however, ensuring that official members "have more fun" compared to the indies is rather meh.
These very persons will dictate how decisions are made, like Saronsen said; if true, majority vote should be the norm, and if the contrary was enforced, this should be concerning.
LibGov consists of 1iCs and 2iCs of all official factions in Liberty(* and **). Duplicates (Two LSF, Two LN) only have one representative, though I believe this rule change has forced it to be two reps per faction again. I wonder who lobbied the Admins for that.
It was fairly simple, two votes per NPC faction. At one time we used to have non-voting advisors too.
*IC was deemed to be Inter-House, and LibGov (at the time, dunno if IC is back in) decided to leave them out of the voting process.
**[LIA] was deemed highly problematic as first, their roleplay was just a Civilian intelligence agency that supposedly had as much agency as the government backed agency, and the whole purpose of existing was the 1iC wanting a leadership position when returning to =LSF= after being away ten years, being upset I didn't want to give them it, and making their own faction. They were quickly backed up by the certain vote-manipulating person, and he took over as 2iC. Some extremely hostile back and forth, mostly from this certain banned person, combined with this certain person claiming we were biased against them solely because Saronsen didn't want another LSF faction resulted in LibGov voting to leave them of the government voting process. And it was a full majority, with a resounding 'No'. After a few months, there was another vote to allow in an LIA representative, one to replace one of the LSF reps if approved. I abstained at first, but the then 1iC started DMing people after being told the vote was in progress (One of the things we liked to avoid) and begin begging for a 'Yes' vote.
I left LibGov because it seems like integrity was given up that day in favor of 'giving them a chance'
Quote:Moreover, if governments are so secretive like SquigglyKey said, this is also, very much concerning, because this is technically proof that they're doing stuff that's either violating the rules, ensuring pixel power stays in their hands, or just, you know, politics. But that's just speculation.
I'll be more than happy to tell you every little thing about LibGovs voting and thought process. We might have been the biggest willing congregation of people who actively disliked each other for any number of reasons on the server that isn't the dev chats. Thus voting in favor/against things was specifically for things related to the game, and generally not related to personal grudges.
Everything was within the rules, and every single change we voted for was always vetted by the Admins/Mods before being approved and applied.
