Ok, guys, I'm kinda sure this proposal is going to be rejected. I mean, not even a slightly change consisting of adding terms to moderator offices is going to be accepted, so probably the following proposal will make you all dropp dead, or will make you want to hang me what do I know.
Proposer: Kaweh K. (once again)
Supporters:
Anyway, it's something I thought of and found interesting. I showed it to a few people, and the comments ranged from
"stupid ****, no chance" over "I don't care" to "interesting ideas" and "I would support this"
I don't see it being succesfull, and I stopped really working on it because I don't really have a hope that it's going to be accepted, so it's quite rough shaped.
So here we go:
A Democratic Cvria
First, before even starting to explain how we could improve the Cvria, let me point out the faults of the current system:
-
The IMPERATOR has too much power in his hands. Nothing can be done without the IMPERATOR agreeing. This makes the progress of improving TWC harder, and new ideas can’t be incorporated well enough.
-
It is very unlikely that IMPERATOR or MODERATOR POSITIONS will be changed. This makes (or at least could make) the Moderators and the Imperator feeling too secure, and making them lazy. Actually, I think this is partly the case. Just look at the tribunal, where things are going on very slowly. A lazy government and a government feeling too secure is not a good government, at least not over a long period of time.
-
The community (including the Civitates) is kept UNINFORMED in a lot of cases. Let us take the arriving of some guys from OGRES as an example. We were told they are here to help TWC with the forum update. But Archer said something about “if they weren’t here TWC wouldn’t last 10 days from now”. We weren’t told why our beloved forum could end in 10 days. Archer said he would keep us uninformed and laugh at us.
So to sum it up:
The TWC staff feels so secure and it’s so unlikely that IMPERATOR and MODERATOR positions will be changed, that they become (or could become, or have allready partly become) lazy.
The Civitates, who represent the whole TWC community, have not enough power. They can discuss and provide ideas, but the opinion of a few men is enough to prevent this idea from being implemented.
Now what is my proposal?
I present to you a system of TWC government I thought of in the last time, while getting more and more frustrated by the current system:
The most important change would be the implementing of TWC PARTIES. A party could be formed by any Patrician, but there would be a few conditions:
- A minimal amount of people needed to form a party (~20)
- Only Patricians can form and be part of a party.
There is no maximal amount of parties. The fact that a minimum of people are required and the fact that only Patricians can form a party, is enough to avoid having too much parties.
This TWC PARTIES would get an own subforum in the CVRIA, and in that, every Party its own subforum.
THE STRUCTURE OF A PARTY
Once enough Patricians have decided to form a party, they vote for a HEAD OF PARTY
This Head Of Party then sets up a COUNCIL OF PARTY.
The Council Of Party governs the party, by telling the public what the goals of the party are, and by nominating and voting on the CANDIDATES FOR STAFF during TWC Party voting-time, the HEAD OF PARTY can VETO every decision.
This candidates would be:
1 candidate for the position of Imperator
x candidates for the positions of moderators
Nominee can be every member of the Party, including the HEAD and the COUNCIL.
MEMBERS OF PARTY can leave the party whenever they want, and join another party if they are accepted. Once a party hasn’t the minimum of people anymore, it looses it status as a party and is removed from the Cvria (as a party).
This way, only good parties working for good goals can survive.
TWC Party Voting-Time
Every 6 months, a vote will be set up. The parties can candidate for the vote.
3 weeks before the actual voting begins:
1) The parties present their list of candidates for the different staff positions, and also present their goals they want to reach if voted.
2) After this 3 weeks of providing information to the community, a poll will be set up. Every Civitate can vote for the party he thinks will do the best job.
3) The party with the most votes will be in power for a period of 6 months.
4) The candidates of the party which won will take over the staff positions for 6 months, until the next vote.
5) The other parties form an OPPOSITION. They do not have any administrative rights, but since they are the competitors of the reigning party, they will automatically check the actions of the reigning party, and thereby tell the community about every mistake the reigning party does.
Benefits Of Such A System:
- No more centralized power --> improvement of site and implementing of ideas are easier.
- The reigning staff could be changed every 6 months, if they don’t do a good enough job--> no lazy staff, staff will try to do it’s best
- The power moves more towards the Civitates, that’s how it should be in a Republic
- Civitateship becomes more important, as does Patricianship. This would help to raise the quality of Civitates and Patricians.
- The parties control themselves (Opposition controls reigning party) --> staff will be really interested in trying to make as few mistakes as possible
- No more uninformed Civitates: it will be very hard for the reigning party to hide information, since the opposition will try to use every information against the reigning party.
That's it. This are my thoughts. It will be rejected I know, I don't expect something else.
I just wanted you all to know it, and to know what I imagine a democratic system to be. I would have polished it if I had hope it would be accepted, but the rough-shaped one will serve it's purpose.
That's it. Hope it was a nice read.
*Goes and hides from the wrath of TWC*
K.K
Proposal For More Democracy
Originally Posted by the Grim Squeaker
