It seems the cabinet appointments are going to be one at a time?
Cant wait to see this
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Will you also plan events with other regions? Like VC, Games Nights etc.?
I’d very much love to plan events with other regions. Any plans for events with other regions that come about will need to be made in tandem with @lordnwahs, for fairly obvious reasons.
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Well, uh… I think elections tend to mean more when the elected position means more than… one where it doesn’t matter if you’re irresponsible?
Yeah. It’s not as meaningful of an election as our other regional elections are. It’s not designed to be. It’s meant to allow the RMB to have a position they elect that affects them, and to allow anyone to participate. The result of winning is you get to choose what polls there are. There’s not a ton of room to be irresponsible, other than just not submitting polls.
How will the RMB Mayor be elected? What will be the mechanics of running, voting, etc.?
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The RMB Mayor will be elected through a gameside poll, with likely instant runoff/first past the post as the method of determining the winner. To run someone can either announce it in an RMB post or dispatch, which will have to ping me so that I see it regardless of which one it is.
I plan on letting any TSP resident run, but voting will be restricted to WA residents to prevent vote rigging by puppets.
The RMB Mayor’s polls will be relayed to me or Henn for us to put up, since the RMB Mayor can’t be given polls powers. They’ll be mentioned/credited in the description of all the polls they make. Possibly also mentioned in the WFE for the duration of their mayorship, but that’s to be determined.
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Sounds great
Frankly, it’s disappointing to see an “on site” and “off site” agenda as two separate things. One of the roles of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet is to promote regional culture. It’s not to promote two different regional cultures. Why do we need two different cultural agendas? We wouldn’t have this distinction if we didn’t keep having leaders who talk like the distinction is just a fact of life, and then describe ideas that really don’t need to be categorized as being on- or off-site in the first place.
For example…
Even if we accept the premise that polls affect “the RMB” — it’s not clear to me how a poll affects someone’s ability to post on the RMB, but whatever — why are polls something uniquely or exclusively for “the RMB” anyway? They’re clearly open, at a mechanical level, to any resident, even ones who’ve never sent a single message on the RMB. There’s nothing stopping the Cabinet from using regional polls to pursue a single cultural agenda (which can include getting questions from the community!) or from encouraging folks who are more active on other platforms to check out our regional polls, except for the self-inflicted limitation of deciding polls are for “the RMB,” which of course happens when you call the position the “RMB Mayor” instead of something that actually has something to do with, uh, polls.
Or, for example…
I have something more to say. Why is this part of the “off site agenda” only? Why not just, like, publish them in dispatch form and publicize them with a pinned dispatch or RMB post or regional telegram or something? I really don’t see what’s so “off site” about this.
I won’t go through everything in your agenda because I actually like a lot of your ideas, I’d just feel a lot better about them if there wasn’t some arbitrary line drawn down the middle to create two different agendas.
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crazy
Isn’t some form of this distinction inevitable? I feel like we kind of have to expect that there are many, many people in TSP that (for reasons of interest or age or just not wanting another account to keep track of) are not going to interact with the region beyond the content posted on-site.
I don’t personally believe that ignoring that distinction will help bridge that gap. I worry if we don’t have an “on-site agenda,” the segment of our community discussing on forums, debating on forums, and electing on forums could very easily slip into ignoring the people that for whatever reason are never going to touch the forums.
Perhaps the framing should be shifted from two distinct communities (why, if we wanted two communities did we dismantle the LC, for instance) to something more akin to outreach and engagement, at the risk of sounding patronizing. I don’t disagree that a lot of this division is artificial, though I’m also not convinced this post represents a hard and fast division and not just an organizational tool for readability lol.
Though I do agree with Pronoun here that the title of “Mayor” is a bit odd for polls. Maybe “Pollmaster”?
I don’t see how it’s two different cultural agendas. I personally think of it as one agenda. My MoC agenda was assembled from a doc of ideas, plans, and other stuff that I just add to whenever I think of something, I’ve had it for quite a while. There’s no on-site/off-site distinction in those notes. The on-site/off-site was added as a purely organizational thing when I wrote everything down for the forum. It’s mostly just there to show that I’m not going to neglect any major area in my MoC agenda. I could remove on-site/off-site from the post without changing anything else, because the labels don’t actually matter to my agenda.
Because I’ve just been using RMB to generally refer to on-site. Yes, I know there’s more to on-site than just the RMB, and not everyone who’s active on-site is active on the RMB.
Because when I think of Resident spotlights I think of them as off-site because that’s just the area I think of when I think of them. I just wasn’t thinking of the mechanics of them as much as I was with other things. You’re right about how they shouldn’t be strictly “off-site”. I really like the idea of pinning a resident spotlight dispatch, and I will do that with the resident spotlights I do.
Ironically when I first had the idea, Pollmaster was the term I had for the position, and I changed it in my notes because I brought it up once on discord and someone called it the RMB Mayor and I just liked how that sounded slightly more than Pollmaster. I have no reservations about changing the name of the position.
Would you need Discord for this? (I’m assuming so)
No discord or forum account will be required for RMB mayor/Pollmaster/whatever it gets called
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Wait you’re the age of utopia??!
Yeah
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OMG congrats bro
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Oh nice, I’ve wanted to get involved in government but I don’t have discord but now I can (oppress the masses) run for something should this thing pan out.
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You can get involved without Discord, just need to know what you’d like to do.
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