Why Should You Vote Ler? - Comradeler's Campaign Thread

Greetings, friends.
I would like to make known that I will once again be running for the position of Tribune, this election, and I would like YOUR vote to get in.

So, why should you vote for me? Having previously served as Tribune, I have an understanding of both the position, and the system on which our community operates. I believe also that I have proven my ability to represent fairly the community.
Admittedly, I did not achieve as much as I had hoped in my last election, due to a number of reasons. This time, however, I come back with greater experience; with also far more clear, and focused objectives.

My main three goals this time can be summarized as - To build up and restructure the Tribunal system, more transparency, and giving the community a greater say in the running of things.

Here is what I hope to achieve if elected -
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1.The Implementation of a ‘Co-Tribunal’ system. Basically, once elected, each tribune will be allowed to choose his or her own Co-Tribune. In the moderators corner, each Co-Tribunes vote will count as a half a vote. Although this may seem at first unnecessary, I believe it will help to speed up the legislative system, Whilst allowing for a greater flow of opinion, and wider representation into the Moderators corner. It will also help the people of the forum, making response time to any suggestions, or questions much faster, and hopefully allow for a smoother, faster-response PA.

1b.I will also consider the possibility of ‘Co-Election’, meaning that both Tribune and Co-Tribune must run together in election.

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2. The Implementation of ‘Political Group Forums’. Essentially, this will mean that each major political group will get their own private forum, where they can discuss and debate issues free from interference from other groups.

2b.‘Elected Representative Moderators’ - Basically, the group would be able to vote on any of the current global-moderators to moderate their sub-forum. This will hopefully allow people to debate, and discuss things more securely, and without unnecessary interference.

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3. A Community livestream, located on the website. Community members will be able to book streaming-time in advance, and stream Video-games, and open-source Movies, Television seriesor music. This would also allow for new community events, Karaoke, Voice-Chat debate, etc.

3b.Investigate the idea of a Community Radio/Talkshow, possibly working from the Livestream.

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4. Start a community debate on the fair definitions of the rules. Unfortunately, some of the rules are somewhat vague and unclear, especially Rules 1, 2, and 5. (For reference, the site rules can be found here - http://josefvstalin.com/wiki/site-rules/ )

5. Implement a ‘Community-Helper’ position. These will be, basically, veteran members with limited moderator abilities, although with no access to the moderator’s board – Primarily They will be able to lock threads, and edit/delete posts. Community helpers will outstanding members of the community, with no history of warnings or bans, and will be chosen by Stalin and the mods. Any abuse of power will be punished by a ban, and permanent removal from the position. This will hopefully encourage good behavior, whilst allowing for greater community involvement in management of the forum.

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6. Reorganization of the Tribune election. The last election was chaotic, at best, and there are no formal rules or regulation in place regarding it. This would most likely be accomplished via a new amendment, although a Community-Debate may be possible on the subject.

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7. A rule which will enforce transparency regarding all legislation and amendment proposed, and passed by the tribunes. An exception may be given in ‘Critical’ circumstances, when agreed upon by 2/3 of the moderating team, or Stalin.

7b. Look into the possibility of a rule which will make mandatory the announcement of any banned member. (Spambots excluded, of course. May be subject to the ‘Critical circumstances’ rule, as mentioned above)

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8. Enforce Legislature that Moderators cannot run for Tribune. I believe this defeat’s the entire purpose of the tribune position, which exists to represent the community to the Moderator-Senate.

8b. Look into the possibility of legislature that an early election may be called by popular vote of the community (2/3 or 3/4 of active members maybe?)
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Got any questions? Anything you would like to see implemented? Suggest it here!

(I was given the Go-ahead by a mod to start campaigning, so I figured I would post this now.)

FYI, mods already can't run for tribune. I was just fucking with you guys, but it was pretty funny.

Eh, I don't really see how it would speed things up but I don't really care either way.

I definitely don't like this idea. The forums are meant to be an area for open discussion, not a series of corners where everyone can pat each other on the back for being an x-ist. As well, deciding who belongs where or what we should even include as part of this arrangement is bound to involve enormous amounts of bias.

This idea is silly for a number of reasons, but particularly due to the new site configuration. Until the next update (whenever that is), at least, it would simply be mechanically impractical to allow this.

Sure.

Sure, but the PA already kind of exists for this purpose.

Not practical for the same reason as 2b.

Again, solving these kinds of problems is kind of why the PA already exists.

Whatevs.

Some of us are already trying to do this, but I can tell you here and now that there's some fierce opposition.

Aside from some of the administrative problems this might cause, the new site configuration is, in part, a barrier to this.

Sure.

I just don't see this being feasible due to the lack of a definition for our 'active' member base and the unreliability of conventional polls, but I don't see what's wrong with it on principle.

Ill nominate Ler. We seem to share similar thoughts.

I nominate Ler.

Thanks Sly. Also, I'm gonna edit in some clarification into my post. I don't think my goals have been interpreted in the way that I meant for them to be.

Edit: Thanks Chels.

I also Nominate Ler.

i hope you win mate.

I nominate Ler.

Yay Ler! I voted for you.

Thanks guys. Things are looking good so far. Fingers crossed.

I support Ler he will make an excellent tribune. He and Ronald are winning so it looks like were getting the first tribunes back.

4th election we should re-elect Demondaze and Coexistance for the lulz.

Thanks for the support guys. I've already got some planning going on, for if/when I win the election. Right now, my plan is to put forward a bunch of propositions on day one. A big mistake on my behalf last time, was that I waited some weeks before putting forward the bulk of my ideas. This meant that most of them either didn't get passed before my term expired. This time, I am going in prepared, with a full understanding of how everything works, and an actual plan.

Right now, I'm about to start drawing up the first proposition which I hope to put forward. 'CL-01', which will deal with 3 main issues - Tribune-transparency, co-tribune's, and tribunal elections.

After that, I'm thinking 'CL-02' will likely deal with Political-ideology sections, defining the rules, and something else (Which I have not decided on yet.)