PTO’S the Historic view

Day 790, 12:28 • Published in Australia Australia • by Sir_c0nstant

Looking at the PTO history in eAustralia, you would think we enjoy it....

What do I mean by this,
well take for example the Republican party of Australia, it was a party started by William Archibald Collins only 2 weeks ago, he put in approx 80 gold to get the party started, made ads and tried to create something as all would say “the right way”. But because it was new, it was vulnerable and some people decided to steal it from under him. Think!! William had done nothing wrong and was trying to recruit members and make a go of it. It has now been changed to the Order of Knights of Techlar.
But there has been no outcry!!!

Now we look at the PaPP, it came about from the PTO of a party also, it was originally the eLabour party, and again there was no objection to the PTO because it didn’t threaten the TOP 5, the objections came later.

And the trend continues….

True Blue Party came from the Advance Australia Alliance
Australian Military Party came from the Australian Monarchy Party
Australian New Ideas was called the Australian Zombie party
The Pirate Party was called the Liberal party of Australia*

All of those where peaceful as in no outcry mainly because they where small parties.
*yes there was a liberal party before 😉

Australian National Party, Australian Communist Party, More Beer Party and the Australian Independents are the parties still in their original form.

The Australian Nationals did survive a PTO attempt 4 months ago by Barnabas Stinson (Ajay Bruno).

eRepublik Alliance was called the Green and Gold party and before that The Party.
The “The Party” was PTO’d and did cause some minor consternation at the time.

Now it gets to the interesting PTO.

Australian labour party became the ADSP, and then went through a few name changes to become the Australian Democratic Party now known as The liberal party of Australia.

My views on this PTO and how it happened and the alternative view…
This PTO has come about due to a recent split in the party, which weakened the party to such an extent that the leadership had lost control with the majority of the party.
As in most parties there is a fair percentage of “2-clickers” or “sheep” that just go through the motions, what has happened here is now because the party lost almost a quarter of its active members it became bottom heavy and prime to be PTO’d by the voice who is most authoritative. We know that Pizza the Hut and Brenflakes messaged all members, approx 200 at the time of election. We know that the party do primaries on the forums, but from what I know only approx 5% had input in these primaries, so that tells the leadership they have an inactivity problem, but due to a lack of concerted effort and media releases to alert the members to their preferred candidate, they got complacent and assumed Brenflakes as in previous elections would win easy. Now comes the crunch, at the start of the election Pizza actually got a small head start, this combined with the sheep effect where the inactive members just click the top vote button, propelled Pizza to an unassailable lead, but in truth he only got 58 vote, just over a quarter of the membership, so there is still over 140 votes up for grabs, but Brenflakes only secured 28 of them. Over 110 members didn’t vote.
When you take into account that Brenflakes during the vote also appealed to other parties for help this is an extraordinary result and a slap in the face for the leadership.

Regardless of whether Pizza the Hut is allegedly Ajay Bruno (still to be proved and I believe an IG/admin issue)
He did win the election by some margin, and unless those 58 voters start getting a voice and expressing why they voted for Pizza over Brenflakes we can only assume that the membership thought that, Yes, scarily enough that Pizza the hut is the right person for them!

The Fallout…

When you consider the facts and see that over half the party abstained from voting and that two thirds of those that voted, voted for the non-preferred candidate, is damning for the supposed leadership efforts in the build up to the election and how active the party is.

After a call for members to leave the party, the party still has over 160 members?
Are they sheep, 2 – clickers or do they really want a change of leadership?

We also now have members of the government talking about “conspiring to rig “ elections to limit the perceived damage that could be caused.
Entering dangerous territory now. This reaction is due to the fact that, the party is a top 5 party and can field candidates for senate, and thus sway the balance of power still. But due to the fact that the party has a lower level of active members now, it would be hard for them to get a sizable number of senators.

Add to that the fact that Pizza has also put himself up for Country president, highlights another problem, in that as a top 5 party he doesn’t need an endorsement from another party.
With all the negative publicity about him, and the calibre of candidates against him so far, I would assume he would/should have no chance, and to withdraw from the race to resolve that conflict and actually put it to the liberal party members who they wish to endorse.

I’ve tried to give a perspective to you as to what has happened before, and why this occasion it is different, as you can see a lot of things had to happen to get this result, and regardless of whether Pizza the Hut is Ajay or not just highlights the precarious position that eAustralia is in, in regards to being PTO’d.
Remember Pizza the Hut has done nothing wrong by eRep law, if he does/has then I am sure tickets would have been sent regarding him and if found guilty he would be banned, that hasn’t happened yet and as such we have to learn to either cope with the situation or persuade him that there are other avenues for him to go down.

I hope you read this far, and now understand what has happened, and remember it’s just a game, and this is just another challenge to overcome.


Sir_c0nstant