UKPP choices to make
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by Tangbod
Well it's been a while since my last article, God how I hate my work colleagues come Christmas time as they're all a bunch of skiving gits.
We, well me, at the UKPP have been looking at how our mongress members have been performing over the past year and generally they've done well, actively voting on things and the such-like with the odd blip here and there, and after careful consultation, okay me again, i'm proposing to the party membership that we create our own BLACKLIST.
This proposed list is aimed at trying to effectively stop those people who just want another shiny medal on their profile rather than actually do anything such as join in a debate or, god forbid, actually vote on something. Those people who stick their names down for a position where they can throw crap at other mongress members should at the very least represent the party they belong to and represent the party membership. Being a mongressman shouldn't be about "Oh I don't like you so you can be last on the list, but because you're my friend and vote for me you can be second on the list after myself of course", it should always be about activity and representing the party.
So what i'm proposing to the membership is that from the start of the next PP's term, anyone fancy a run at it, that those mongressmen that have failed to achieve at least a 50% voting mark should be ineligible to stand again for mongress, and that this person is then put to the vote of the party membership as to whether he ends up on the BLACKLIST or not. The simple mechanic of majority voting would decide the persons fate.
How is this enforceable, well it isn't as a PP can always just ignore the BLACKLIST and place individuals who voted for them at the top of the list, but then they're unlikely to ever win the PP again without importing votes or the joys of multies appearing in the party to boost their numbers, the flip side of that coin is that the actual real active members will more than likely just up and leave for a new party leaving them with nothing but a hollow victory (what ever floats your boat I suppose).
Nobody should ever be nominated for the list because you personally may disagree with their views or comments, that is the point of democracy, other reasons may crop up but that is a debate for another time and guidelines that need to be discussed and sorted out first.
I now leave you with this thought
That'll leave you all mentally scarred for life.
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Inactivity and bringing the party into disrepute (by, for example, leaving the party to stand for congress under another banner only to return once elected) should be the real bars to congress.
Also, try removing the question mark and all text after for your last image 😛
done the latter, and with regards to the former that is something for all the members to decide upon. The main aim is to decide whether we go down this path or not.
Well, I was supporting this for a long time, but was told it "wasn't democratic". Still have the list from that time of our members who didn't vote: chaznoodles, perilouspanther, Colddragon and CHAPP1E.
But now I just don't care and I encourage people not to vote for anything. And when you are added to the Congress group message, just report it for spam and enjoy your term 🙂
Considering the state of Mongress at the moment, with one message full of maths problems and the other ruined by someone posting massive JPEGs that crash your browser, I'd tend to agree. Stop giving a flying fig about Congress, government or the country. Seems everyone else has.
Times have changed and with our smaller membership the last thing I believe we need are medal hunters sitting there doing feck all but going "look at me i'm in mongress".
Everyone would start with a clean slate and we move forwards from now-on, the choice is up to the members
Part of the problem is getting people to bother running. Mongress under a dictatorship is, as Mr Knee has pointed out below, largely redundant and only kept vaguely active thanks to the way we as a country have dealt with the new module. When the message threads degenerate into the dross that it has of late, I despair for the state of the country and the game.
I'll still stand, and I'll still vote. I'll still add my tuppence-worth to counter certain individuals when and where they try to bulldoze others with their vocal opinions.
The one good thing that has always been good about voting inactives is that they can't cause trouble etc.... Some of our best CP of all time went inactive and therefore didn't press the wrong buttons for the lulz....
The problem is that there is probably less than 40 " continuingly active" people left in the eUK and only over 40 due to those who pop in now and again to two click.
In terms of the decline of the game in general, as long as those who are genuinely active get the top spots in the congress list then it doesn't matter so much if a few inactives make up the numbers - they are generally only keeping out other people who will probably become inactive the moment they are elected from other parties.
Problem is that the dictator module killed off the political module completely when the political module was on the critical list to start with. I suspect that a lot of the inactives who got elected found that there was no button pushing to make a difference and so don't see the point in voting - that is when they spot the voting part of the thread amongst all the animations etc of course... Not that there was much to vote in the later time prior to the dictator module. Seemed to be the same "should we increase / decrease the tax rate to 3/4/5% ??" votes raised by the usual people.