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That is basically what British media, up to respectable publications such as the Times, have been doing for years, albeit to varying degrees. I've always found the reporting in British newspapers to...

Since you made that claim, if you can please demonstrate it - with the limitations to your possible knowledge I mentioned accounted for. I doubt you can.
I won't address the subsequent strawman.

No, you're just asserting that your personal intrinsic value is actually extrinsic (whatever that may mean) while discarding everyone else's value as intrinsic and thus for some reason irrelevant.
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I don't think we can ascertain why citizens make few recommendations in the Curia. Considering that many citizens are staffers I daresay we cannot even say they make few recommendations at all. The...

Footnotes and main text are equally binding. Stating specifications in the footnotes is completely sufficient and precisely what they are meant for.

The Constitution does not require that, Pike.

Thanks for your considerate answers, you two. :)

What would differentiate that from simple off-topic posting? Can you think of a disruptive post that is not off-topic?

*sings*

... well apart from medicine, irrigation, health, roads, cheese!, and education, the baths and the circus maximus - what have the romans ever done for us?

You just disqualified your opinion from being worthy of consideration. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberrrrries. Hon Hon Hon. There is never any reason not to use a python...

Opposed.

"You aren't even American." and "Is English your second language?" are clear off-topic personal references and while not derogatory still breaches of the ToS. Another poster's nationality or reading...

Aye :yes:

While I do like his debating in re very much I cannot condone his debating in modo, in particular personal references by someone aspiring to be a citizen. Maybe a retraction would be the best course...

As nice at it sounds, I'd be sceptical of the positive impact of such a Citizens' Assembly for several reasons:

1) Choosing an appropriately representative number of citizens with all sources of...

I don't think you can infer anything on the influence moderation has on the mudpit as you lack both knowledge of moderation practice and a „control group“ unmoderated mudpit for comparison.

Certainly not. Not all opinions are equally valid and the best rhetorics cannot compensate an inconsistent or contrafactual position. The idea that debating is a merely rhetorical exercise to defend...

Support, great work :)

That is incorrect.

I find 60% of non-abstaining votes to pretty clearly exclude all "Abstain" votes from the calculation. Also, the forum mechanic automatically highlights successful votes in green.

I have always made it clear that I dislike the instrument of referrals and prefer to make criticism of uncitizenlike behaviour public, at least when it is flagrant in the Curia, so that others may...

Since I doubt that you have mind reading capabilities I think you should refrain from making (not very positive) assumptions on why people do things. In this particular case insinuating Hader is...

There is no legislative or executive structure on the site and the Curia has no power to shift around at all. All authority rests with the Administration at the behest of the site owner and any...

Repeating already addressed points - reference to "historical research" on the site - irrelevant statement about oneself - teaching reference.

Thanks but no thanks. There is only so much bad...

You keep talking of the supposed devaluation of the Curia and Citizenship as if they were equivalent. However, the vast majority of Citizens on this site does not care squat about the Curia at all...

How many citizens are there? And how many of them have actively participated in the Curia for the past years? Our discussions rarely feature more than 5 active posters, 10 at most, and there are...

If permament appointment of the Primus Prefect is a problem, then just reduce their indefinite term to one year terms. That way you can still vote them out of office without having to find reasons...

I'll support this as well. While I do not have much hope for the Curia left as a whole I do not think it has any chance to survive if it continues to ask for special treatment regarding Moderation...

The existence of false positives (people claiming something is a violation and Moderation telling them it isn't) does not preclude the existence of false negatives (actual violations going...

A) You don't have access to what actions were taken without someone pointing it out in public beforehand and what other incidents Moderation would consider a ToS violation but leaving it to the local...

Then you should reread the ToS. There have been plenty in the past.

I particularly like Cedric's and Katsumoto's submissions, although the other submissions are great in themselves as well, setting a very high minimum standard if you will.
Cedric's badges carry over...

So how are we gonna proceed? Send out invitations to those we think might be interested in this and/or post an announcement in the D&D?

So, who's in on this? Can we get a rough list of commitments? We can also set up a group for this.

In contrast to "remoaners" the "brexiteer" thing does not contain an insulting wordplay, as far as I can see. For what it matters it reminds me of musqueteers, grenadiers, etc. if anything.

Instead of the signature thing we could all add "HND" behind our nicknames, as is the custom with some knights' orders in the UK (KG, CBE, etc.) So that would be "Iskar HND" for me.

With the slight but important difference that while the Jews didn't start or instigate the war the nationalist propaganda of either side did a lot to kindle the cinders that lit the great fire.
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Let's be fair, the two Consules thing was Aik's and Brewster's idea to begin with, sparked by their close run for the Curatorship. There would be merit in a simple proposal just adding a second...

A simple enough change, why not. Support :)

Maybe you should not imply that people disagreeing with your view on citizen-elitism are foolish. Also, discussing a proposal without referencing any of your own proposals would be a welcome change....