I'm a crony your a crony we all are cronies...

Day 3,843, 07:20 Published in Belgium Ireland by Releasethe Krakken

living happily together...



Now when the Plato foundation started it seemed like a good idea.

Reasons was as follow

1. It promoted the game not so much the community.
2. It gave an incentive for people to run competitions in the game.

and most importantly

3. it seemed that there would be a regular swapping of board members and that most players could have a chance to participate on this board.

Due to the fact that moderators was guaranteed a few seats one would have hoped that among the seats left. Atleast most citizens would have an opportunity to participate in deciding on sponsored contents.

Why I say it did not promote the community was that players already were doing that. Many competitions were simply run to entertain the community or to get more members to join the game or a particular community in the game.

Nobody expected to be sponsored


But to continue everyone should be allowed to participate in every aspect of eRepublik. Why are the route now taken to only allow the good old boys on the team.



But neigh the die was cast and now it seems in the word of mittekemuis

The team:
One last topic I want to address before I really am opening the Plato Foundation for new projects is one that may provoke discussion. In the past, board members switched very often. Every month new people were introduced by previous members or players who applied for the job. I feel that too much change in a team is counterproductive. On the risk of being called elitist, I would like to start again with a small team but one that will stay and work together for a longer period of time. Of course, these members will be all outstanding citizens (like myself) and open for constructive criticism.


I have highlighted some important messages in her article. That tells the whole story .

First of the dictatorial "I" nobody else was given any input in this decision. The amazing mittekemuis is the ONLY person who will decide how this circus is run.

Basically what she is saying is me and my pals are such swell people we have decided that other people's contributions is not good for the plato foundation hence we will take over it from now and run it on our own until kingdom come.

No end date is mentioned. Nobody can apply to be a member of this exclusive board. Only their friends will ever join the board!

"Small group " Yes only a few people decides. So can we expect them to be unbiased all the time. In a larger group your bias can be voted out. But in a small group. Naw.

And so we always in life start with good intentions but when we look again stand knee deep in a swamp of corruption.

So over time this can totally be exploited as the members are now set and few people. Lets say im friends with Nose (whom is always a sarcastic a* to me)then its easy i just write her a mail beforehand make my proposal - she lobbies for it . Im in the riches.

Now on the other hand since the board is set little old me apply. So let just reverse what happened before so nose then lobbies to shoot down my proposal.

The board is set.


So please just stop this nonsense in its tracks all together and say No to this foundation. Because belief me these things always start innocently and then after a while implodes in a long time players face as the already unhealthy power dynamic found in this group now gets a further boost.

Most members of the erepublik community also will have no say in the running of this community or even have a chance of input. Yes mittekemuis use the correct description "elitist" so we all know what to expect from this so called foundation.

We dont need a foundation of cronies!