Townhall - Curial Commentary and Chat

[Flinn]

If we are being honest, we should all agree. let's look at the facts here.

• It is difficult to have any discussion that doesn't get personal.
• The level of participation is extremely low. A good voter turnout is about 13 votes.
• Judging by my "third class" reaction, it is not likely they will be any patronages forthcoming. (under 8 seems to be the accepted norm.)
• Citizenship itself is not value by new or old members.
• The institution (The Curia) isn't a place anyone wants to "propose" an idea.
• An absent owner; why should they be a class that "promotes" the site if the owner himself can't be bothered.

I might be addressing all these points not far in the future

Also, re the discussion taking place on Lordsith's Opifex proposal:

I don't necessarily discourage awards for past deeds, but I think we can do more by looking for people who have no bling at all and are un or under recognized, vs awards for actions likely already covered by an Artifex patronage or an Opifex. But again, in this case there's plenty of subsequent material. If someone was not awarded, they should not be voted down. My preference is in terms of priority for proposals in the first place, which this case does fit given it is backed by later contributions, including now where we could use all that we can get.

I'm personally reticent to propose awards for inactive members, but I won't oppose anyone proposing some on the sole base of inactivity. Unless someone has officially retired (like Ferrets for instance), there's always a chance that they will return to be active.

[PikeStance]

If we are going to give awards to inactive members, then Kaunitz is one for sure. His research is the basis for every single battle realism mod for ETW and NTW.

[MIKE GOLF]

If we are going to give awards to inactive members, then Kaunitz is one for sure. His research is the basis for every single battle realism mod for ETW and NTW.

Propose him, based on the the strength of your proposal I would support this. I don't play ETW or NTW so I am not cognizant of who has done what outside the Med II forums.

[PikeStance]

Propose him, based on the the strength of your proposal I would support this. I don't play ETW or NTW so I am not cognizant of who has done what outside the Med II forums.

While he would definitely be voted in favor, is it really worth our efforts to recognized inactive members?


I found this looking about....

Any person with 50 posts of good quality is elligble for civitateship. Anyone can nominate!


Stand forward if you like to take a part in the running of your forum!


Your forum needs you!

This is from tBP (the Black Prince) in December of 2003

I should let you know that at that time, you self-nominated and then they would vote for you. Later, a "sponsor" was required.

[PikeStance]

Some of you may find this interesting...a link to the Syntagma.
There were thins being done that probably should not have been stopped.

[Flinn]

For the records, the New Opifex Image Competition is now over and we will soon have a new Opifex Image!

[PikeStance]

To be perfectly honest, I was torn between the old one and the winner. I brought in the wife and she said the same thing. Flip a coin in the end. I won't divulge the winner

[Akar]

I mean, you can just click on the results and see who voted for what

[Belisarius]

Some of you may find this interesting...a link to the Syntagma.
There were thins being done that probably should not have been stopped.

Pfft Syntagma 2.0 was much better. Was written by a group of legends.

[PikeStance]

Pfft Syntagma 2.0 was much better. Was written by a group of legends.

You have a link to it? I found this one through happenstance in my "historical research."

[ggggtotalwarrior]

An old head emerges from the shadows

[Belisarius]

You have a link to it? I found this one through happenstance in my "historical research."

After all these years I can still find stuff haha -

https://www.twcenter.net/forums/show...sal&highlight=

The story of how this was written is a good one, there were two factions and a secret website dedicated to it. Awesome times.

The Reign of Imperator Sulla

Sullas new Constitution (Only record)
The First Moderators after the Hacker Attacks of 2005
Sulla Disbands the last official Hexagon, Creates Praetorian Prefects and promotes Archer, Carousel, Profler and Belisarius
Quaestor Election, Necrobrit, Justinian and AP elected.
Ostrakon of Crandar, planned and written by Belisarius, fronted by Necrobrit
Belisarius ""Resigns"" from the Hexagon after the tBP incident

The Archer Era, Last Imperator of TWC

Please note that until his official resignation Sulla was still Imperator and Ogres.net were unwilling to replace him but in every other respect Archer was now running TWC.
Compiled Curia information by Mimirswell
Nominations for the Decimvirate - Belisarius, the Black Prince, Tacticalwithdrawal, Justinian and Soren selected for Curia
Archer asks the Curia to Approve the Decimvirate Constitution
Pro Curator Nominations, Belisarius Made Pro Curator
The 3rd Constitution of TWC, written by the Decimvirate and posted by Archers Pro Curator
Mimirswell makes a case for Elections!
Mimirswell proposes the election of Moderators, Amendment passes.
Quaestor Election, Tactical, WBK and exlimperator elected.
Sulla Halts the first Republican Consul Election, not happy with the choices
Sulla finally resigns after a long abscence
Second Republican Consul Election - Justinian Elected

The Trial of tBP
The Verdict
Ian makes a statement for tBP


Archer, please resign.
What is going on?
Curia is suspended until further notice/New Age
Why stay somewhere your not wanted?

[PikeStance]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[PikeStance]

Gentleman,
Any chance we can have technical discussion take place here rather than in application or proposal threads?


Reference

While I am sure there is a reason why you use that theme ...

[Akar]

Yep, already mentioned that there.

[Sir Adrian]

For the record, I had no trouble reading the recommendations but whoever thought that putting matte grey on black is a good idea was wrong. Fixing the blackout theme should be a simple matter of updating the color property in the theme's CSS.

[Akar]

???

That is the color format for pretty much every dark theme there is. It's pretty much identical to the dark themes for Reddit, Discord, Windows, etc.

[Sir Adrian]

Not true.

[Akar]

Fair enough, I guess I do see a small difference.

[ggggtotalwarrior]

The blackout theme Grey is definitely worse than the white on black you usually see but by no means is it unreadable nor should it have any bearing on a citizenship application’s quality.