My 2-Clickers are Better Than Yours [OMG vs. LPP]

Day 1,833, 10:43 • Published in Germany Belgium • by Konrad Neumann




With the LPP as the largest party in eGermany, it is really interesting for me to see that they did not dominate congress like that of OMG. I mean in the past, many criticized the OMG as too large with too many two clickers and noobs etc; however, with current events, size while an important factor, does not trump election results.

I am interested to understand why despite their size and advert articles with 100 votes etc, the largest party in Germany only fared second best. In many ways, OMG massacred the LPP since there was little to no coordination on the party level and not much advertisements while the LPP is a much larger party with a lot of ads. To be behind 69 votes is a pretty big margin.

There is an old joke in eGermany in that the OMG is a big fat guy taking a nap. It is large full of fat but does not do much. I think recent elections changed this image. If we are to look at party turn out, OMG fared a lot better than that of the LPP. While I am making an assumption that people vote for their own parties and there are no cross votes etc, OMG with a 239 population received 196 votes where as the LPP of 300 members only got 127 votes. In terms of percentage, OMG had a 82 percent voter turnout while the LPP only managed to get 42 percent. It does seem that OMG did wake up and got itself on a treadmill and lost a lot of fat. While OMG still does have a lot of two clickers etc, it seems the OMG 2 clickers are better than that of the LPP's.

Size is important but this goes back to the issue of quantity verses quality. If we look at the LPP member page, there are many pages of members that are extremely young with no avatars at all. Depending on how you count these pages, I would say there are around 10ish page of mostly avatarless new players. In the case of OMG, there are about 3-5 of these pages. While I am not suggesting that the LPP have a lot of inactive multies or avatars equates to votes, but it does show the quality of the two clickers. At the current situation, the OMG 2 clickers are much more developed and mature in level and activity than the LPP. Without going into the recent controversy of LPP recruitment methods, it seems that the LPP are good at recruiting new members but less than stellar translating number of membership into a political asset at this time. While I do not have any numbers and stats on this, but accounts that are new and without avatars tends to die quickly. While the LPP can get a lot of new citizens to join their party, their newest challenge now is to keep these new players interested and at least vote as a 2 clicker for the LPP.

In the current situation, I believe the OMG will still be the largest party in the Bundestag for a while longer. OMG 2 clickers and members are older and more established. LPP's rise regardless of how impressive it is, still have some things to work out. If they are to dominate politics, they need not only to get members to join them, but to minimally get these new members to be LPP 2 clickers. Unless they can do that, the LPP will be second best. In many ways, the LPP is the new party who is fat and overweight. I am sure that the LPP is and will continue to be influential but I think their fundamental error is their focus on quantity and not quality. While OMG is not the best to lecture about high turnouts overall (I think Steinmetze has a lot more rights to talk about quality of members) but if you visit the LPP channel on IRC, it has really little amount of people in it. OMG like I said needs improvement on the IRC as well but fared better overall. If the LPP can fix their activity problems, they will be the number one party of Germany in terms of Bundestag control. Until then, OMG is still the party to go to if you want to be in the party that control most of the Bundestag.