I Have A Few Ideas As To What Can Be Done

Day 4,841, 21:55 Published in USA USA by Elaine of the Snowy Forest

Hello to my friends and enemies.

This is not a sponsored post. This is an ignorant newcomer chiming in with her own ideas about the political situation we find ourselves in. The opinions contained within this article are expressly my own and any potential relation to the positions of those I associate with is purely incidental.

I saw a bunch of people asking questions about what can be done. I like to try to solve problems because having problems is pretty lame. When first looking into this issue I made the following statement, with additions in parentheses.

"I do not think any foul play (on the forum) has actually occurred. I haven't seen any evidence of such, as I am new to the forum. However, it's simple logic. There is greater risk of potential foul play in a forum owned by an interested party than voting in-game. It's like if a single Senator (or even a political party) owned the Senate building, and had the power to deny Senators access to the Senate chambers at will, but never did and promised they wouldn't. Even if you really trust that Senator, it's not good from a process or security perspective."

Now, it has indeed been brought to my attention that voting in-game is extremely terrible, impractical, and insecure. As I am new, and having not dealt with the in-game political system like my seniors, I will simply take their word for this and assume we must vote on a forum or forum-like system somewhere. With that in mind, I have some proposals here that may or may not be practical.

1. Interested parties begin negotiations to elect someone all groups involved approve of to host this forum. This could even be a public election. If the forum operator is an elected official, it would serve to make them more legitimate at the least and improve upon the current situation.

2. Political parties take turns hosting congress on their own, private forums. This assumes some bias is inevitable, and at least attempts to make every group equally unhappy by removing any individual group's clear advantage. The specifics can be hashed out without issue as well, such as a minimum party size and even a standard forum template to expedite this process and the onboarding of new political parties.

3. I'll do it. Now we would quickly run into the same problem we have now at some point, and I'm mainly suggesting this to illustrate that there isn't a large barrier to entry in setting up a new forum. It's not expensive to rent a VPS to host a forum on, and it doesn't take a lot of technical ability. I trust me, you probably don't trust me. But I figured I'd offer.

If you think I make sense, or would have a decent chance at making sense given additional guidance and context, vote for me in the upcoming congressional elections. If you think I do not make sense, then vote for someone else who does.

Ultimate Regards,

Elaine of the Snowy Forest