Vote for the Presentation and the Avatar!
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by Arjay Phoenician III
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You’re counted as a reader, you might as well vote!
Maybe it’s a different time and place, but I expected there to be a bunch of campaign articles this weekend. Especially this weekend, knowing the Dail will be back in action. I assumed we would have had a minor bombardment of newspaper activity on the subject, and this article would have been one of many to compete for your attention.
The absence of activity makes me wonder if self-promotion is out of line, poor form, or gauche.
Nonetheless, I want to step up and at least say this much:
VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE WHO IS AT LEAST MAKING AN EFFORT TO GET YOUR VOTE!
Of course, I would deeply appreciate your vote on June 25. I will be running with the Independent Labour Party. While I know a country this size is perpetually on PTO alert and party presidents will be making clear who the “safe candidates” are, I hope my time in Ireland, my presence in the newspapers, my occasional peeking-in on the notoriously quiet IRC and national forum, and my contributions to eIrish University and its School of Individualist Studies will prove not only to the parties that I am a “safe candidate”, but I am also worthy of your vote.
Whether or not you vote for me, I hope you at least vote for someone who made a little effort. If you just go along with your party and vote for your buddies, that’s fine, but vote for your buddy who uses what he has to work with.
Vote for someone who at least does the bare minimum by putting together a presentation. Any presentation. If he just links to his game profile, it’s a presentation. If he links to his Wiki page, or if he writes a thoughtful essay and uses Google Docs, reward him with a vote. Otherwise, you as a voter don’t have something to look at that says this guy is worthy of your vote.
Also, vote for someone who has enough of a self-image to have an avatar. I’m incredibly surprised that there are candidates who don’t have this much. That’s something you do on your first day here. I’ve always believed your avatar is your face in this game. It is your first impression. What are you telling voters if you run for office with no avatar? That you want to be a leader, but you can’t do one of the most basic things?
Hopefully, the couple of candidates who thought it more pertinent to run for office than to post a simple avatar will get the hint in the next couple of days if they wish to be taken seriously.
As for the presentation, apparently every party lacks candidates who make just this little bit of effort. Perhaps someone will sneak theirs in while I’m writing this, but as of this writing, Eire Aonair just has one cat with a presentation, and he thought so little of it that he has a chick with frying pans over her chest to amuse you. The Irish Freedom Party also has just one, and at least he used his profile. As for the ILP, two of us have presentations.
So, of the three largest parties in Ireland, combined, only four Dail candidates thought enough of the voters to put up presentations at all.
This is a crucial time in eIrish history. I don’t want to get preachy about it, but this is a time when a new generation of leaders needs to step up, leaders who don’t take their constituents for granted and will at least make the effort to have a freaking avatar and a presentation for you, so you know what you’re getting into when you vote for the candidate of your choice.
As for me, I have my Wiki page for my presentation for now. It might change between now and the election, but I promise the voters that I will have something there for you to consider. I don’t take you for granted. I don’t think you’re stupid. I believe in democracy, or at least what passes for democracy at eRepublik.
Expect more from the people who dare to call themselves leaders. Apathy and jokes are not the stuff of leaders. If you don’t take your vote seriously, odds are the people you vote for won’t take their jobs as Congressmen or Presidents very seriously, either. We got wiped, in no small part because the last generation of leaders didn’t take their roles seriously.
I’m not asking for much out of you. Just vote for someone who gives enough of a damn about himself to have an avatar, someone who gives enough of a damn about you to have a presentation for you to read. If you do that much, this country will instantly be moving in a better direction.
Belfast Lough Times: Issue #25
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Hope you get elected Arjay.
Yeah..someone should tell you...now humans vote for a party, not for an individuals like before....
Best way to get into congress is to be closer to the top of the list and in a party with a lot of voters....
With ILP you have the votes...now you just need to suck up to PP of ILP to push you up the list...
I will not apologize for my naivete. First time around. I prefer to hit my head against the wall from time to time as an idealist than swerve as a jaded bastard.
And yes, I suck up to the PP.
I don't understand why you want to be a member of government.
Your previous articles indicated a desire to avoid nationalist responsibilities
Maybe I want to apply individualist theory to a mass level. Maybe, instead of just going along with this crowd and playing a good little Congressman, or soldier, or party member, or Irishman, this is a chance to show how to be a member of the Dial without giving into groupthink.
And if that's the case, perhaps this will be different. Perhaps you'll have a congressman or two who doesn't just follow orders, but finds a new path. Might actually think for himself. Might find new forms of expression. Might get people knowledgeable about the Dail. Might do something this country hasn't seen lately.
In other words, an individualist in the Dail might just be what Ireland needs, because a self-starter, a self-motivator, a creative thinker, a member willing to speak up when others agree to stay silent, someone who bucks conventional thinking--wouldn't someone like this be the epitome of leadership?
That's a lot of fancy talk, I know, but isn't that what people want out of leaders? Didn't I just define both leadership and individuality?
Those are lofty words. But a government members' responsibility is to put the good of the nation before their own interests/ideologies.
You're requesting the responsibility of making decisions that effect the entire community. You've also seemed to express some degree of pride in possessing no knowledge of game mechanics.
Can you not see the problem with your own eyes?
Of the issue of making the mistake that eRepublik does not allow us to perform popular sovereignty, lesson learned. Move on. Instead of trying to find a way to tear down someone's enthusiasm, how about patting him on the back for the effort?
And the problem you're talking about is only a problem if you believe there is only one way to lead. My goal is not to conform. You seem to think the only way someone can be in government is to give into groupthink.
Your own record is proof you don't believe in this yourself. You're taking some rather nasty criticism for the deal you made with the UK to end the war and give us some of our natural regions. Had you gone along with the groupthink under MUFC922, the so-called leaders of this country would still be talking trash to the Brits and at each other's throats, getting nowhere, making empty promises and even more empty threats. You knew you were going to have a few loudmouths rip you for it, but you did it anyway, because you believed in your own instincts. You went against the boisterous crowd and did it.
That's not only good leadership, that's also individuality.
So I don't see anything wrong with an individualist in the halls of power, understanding that leadership does not come in a singular form. You of all people should know that.
By the by, you posed an interesting question, so I put it on the board at the School of Individualist Studies as a debate question. I invite you and everyone to give your take.
Also BTW, it seems you have not taken me up on the invitation I gave you to stop by either eIrish University or the School. I'm sure you're a busy guy, so if you've lost the link, here you go:
http://eireland-university.freeforums.net/board/20/topics
See you there!
Arjay..please before starting to comment things..try to inform yourself.
Sweet is member of Kunts...and Kunts are collective.
There are no individualists.....
Sweet like the rest of the kunts have no moral values, no honour...they only care for a personal gain even if it takes to betray their own homeland....
Ture and real individualist will speak truth without caring about his popularity, real individualist will fight against evil even if it kills him.
Unless you claim individualists have no moral values and only look for themself....
Well they are no individualists..they are just a douchebags....
Honour is what makes a difference between superior man and lowlife...
Also if you took time to observe you would noticed i am the only one with the article that condemned sweets actions....
There are others who agree with me but only few goes in public coz Sweet's Kunts are well known bullies of this game....
Time ago they where bullying anyone who they didn't like or found as a threat to their rule.....
And i was the only one standing in defence of attacked.....
Entire Ireland was stood silent out of fear they will get bullied as well.
THAT IS INDIVIDUALISM....not thworing some pointless words about it and having some silly schools about it.
You are either individualist or YOU ARE NOT...
Couple of things, Viktor. One, I'm not going to disparage Sweet, period. If he really is the bully you make him out to be, he will find such efforts to be in vain with me, because I know what I am, I've thought this through, and I believe in what I'm doing. The project I'm working on is on an international scale, and local thugs don't concern me.
That is, if Sweet really is a bully. I don't think he is. I think he's opinionated and perhaps stubborn, and I appreciate those things in people. He wants a good debate? I'd love to debate him. and anyone else, on any subject.
Two, while I respect and even encourage people to question authority, I appreciate the deal Sweet cut with the UK. I know, there are plenty of testosterone-filled Irishmen who wanted to take their regions back by force and not make deals with the enemy, and those people are going to resent diplomatic solutions. Heated debate on something like this is a good thing. There's a line you're dancing on, however, where the debate becomes something more sinister, and it reflects bad only on you.
I'm sure Sweet will do something to piss me off, and I'll speak up. I'm sure I'll do something to piss Sweet off, and he'll speak up. That's the way it should be. I welcome it. With dignity and class, I hope it should be so.
Sweet debating?
-For over a year i have been asking him to show any finance datas from his time he was MoF....time when his ICA had better suplies then IA.
And interesting fact...when he stepped down from MoF position ICA became a ruin....
He never debated about that except saying who am i to ask him for datas...
-I ask Sweet to openly state his opinion about traitors from his kunts..never a word about it from him....check comments in my last two articles
-You also talk about diplomatic solution.....what diplomacy?
there were never a negotiations..only orders that Sweet accepted.
-Again..you keep losing a fact that his kunts actively supported british invasion and were openly fighting against ireland...
Testosterones? This war started coz MUFC refused to bnd before british blackmail and orders.
British demanded from Irish CP to get on his knees and obey them.
He refused as true irish.
There is something called PRIDE AND HONOUR...or your individualistic nature thinks those are silly things.
From my point it seems you agree on this deal only coz you want into congress.....that is selfish not individualistic
And i said kunts were bullies......they are collective....and if they would find you a threat they would attack you..not nessesery by Sweet but by some of his cronies....
Alright, Viktor, I get it. You don't like Sweet, you have your reasons, and anyone who tries to act like an adult where he is concerned, in your eyes, is either naive or one of his "kunts". I know where you stand. I guess I just don't have the bile in my gut that you do, the gastrointestinal rage that makes me, well, rage. My grandfather had it, I just don't. Maybe, somewhere down the road, I'll have it, but at this point, it's just not me.
Every public official is answerable to the public, and if anyone in the public demands transparency, he is obliged to show any and all records asked. If you believe Sweet is withholding data you asked, by all means, stay on him about it if you believe it's legitimate. Pound his ass. If you think he's put his nose up in the air and believes he's better than you and doesn't need to answer to the public, pound his ass harder and harder until he complies.
Just do me a favor. Don't spill your hate for Sweet onto me.
For a self-proclaimed individualist, I would think the School for Individualist Studies would be something you could sink your teeth into. Here's the link again:
http://eireland-university.freeforums.net/board/20/topics
You'd make a great congressman. o7
What Victor said, though perhaps not as harshly 🙂
I've thought about this since Victor put the wood to my dreams of popular sovereignty. Aren't I basically writing this article to the party presidents? Am I not basically telling THEM to give votes to the ones who are making an effort?
Yes, of course, I screwed up. I'm new, I made the assumption that we were living in my grandfather's time, when eRepublik actually practiced direct democracy and you voted for a person. But now that I acknowledge this, can't this also be read as my note to my party leader, telling him, hey, you have all these other candidates who might be good guys, but I want you to consider me because I'm trying?
Yes, it certainly can be read that way and active players are to be encouraged. However, an active player isn't always a good player and that's for the PP/leadership committee to decide. That's not to say you won't be given a high ranking or that you won't make a good congress member, just basic generalisation.
That's something we're going to have to agree to disagree about. In a small country with a dead IRC and national forum and only a small handful of writers who use their newspapers, activity is a prized commodity. Any activity is good activity. Anything that gives such a country a pulse is worth nurturing. No, an active player isn't always a good player, but how do you define "good player"? I'd say, 90% of the time, if a player is here every day, he participates in chat and the forum, he makes friends and works and trains and fights, he's a pretty good player. I'll take that percentage. Be positive.
http://tinyurl.com/eIreland-suggestion-box
/me pats Arjat on the back for his enthusiasm
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