LordNwahs for PM

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@lordnwahs

PROJECT: I intend on trialing a small-scale return to the ambassadorship system, with an emphasis on ambassadors writing reports on developments in different regions. This is more of an investigation into whether there is any scope or value for projects that can involve newer TSPers in the realm of foreign affairs, which for better or for worse tends to be the domain of experienced GPers.

From your perspective, how does writing news updates about other regions translate into foreign affairs know-how?

@lordnwahs

Integration will still be where work on maintaining dispatches on-site continues to be administered

How do you envision tasks like this — which involve recurring work over a longer period of time, but not necessarily a constant pace of rapid development — within your agenda of prioritizing one-term projects?

@lordnwahs

• PROJECT 1: A “mini-reboot” of the Local Council, but rather this will take the form of trusted members of the TSP community who are active on the RMB (e.g. RMB moderators, long-time TSPers who regularly visit the RMB, possibly the Delegate as well) being appointed into this new “LC”. This informal “LC” would be a platform to raise developments in the RMB and run through ideas on integrating new TSPers into the forum and Discord if possible.

This sounds a lot like choosing a group of advisors based on their RMB activity.

• Why adopt the Local Council moniker (and all of its voluminous baggage) if your goal, if I understand correctly, isn’t to recreate a pseudo-devolved local government?
• Would this ‘council’ be a self-contained unit, separated from other ministry staff, at least to some extent? If so, what is your reasoning behind that decision? And if not, how does this ‘council’ differ from appointing advisors or staffers to the ministry, just making sure that some of those folks are active on the RMB?

@lordnwahs

• PROJECT 2: Running a “mentorship” scheme — this is not totally full-blown mentorship, but rather identifying new members who have just joined the forum or Discord from on-site, new active RMBers who have not made the hop, and actively engaging with them to answer questions that they might have about the region by communicating via private messages/telegrams and other means.

My experience from the last time we tried a mentorship program was that proactiveness is great, but just offering to ask questions lacked directionality because it relies on newcomers knowing what to ask. That’s why, back when I was working on integration, I referred to ‘pathways to engagement,’ the idea that there are journeys that players move through, directionally, to join our community. How do you envision mentors helping to not just help players as they get more involved, but also guide them towards getting more involved in the first place?

Apologies for the long question — also totally fine if you disagree with the premise; I’d be interested to discuss why!

@lordnwahs

Yes, I’m bringing back Engagement, and the Ministry of Engagement is the cornerstone of the new model for communications that my government will pursue if I am elected.

With the emphasis on communications, this sounds a lot like the Ministry of Media.

• Do you think that’s a fair comparison?
• If not, how would a Ministry of Engagement in your administration differ from the Ministry of Media?
• How would you respond to some of the reasons why we abolished the Ministry of Media? I think this quote from one of Belschaft’s, like, four campaigns to abolish it is a decent summary:

Three times the region has voted for someone else. And after another four months of failure we are back where we were before, with an inactive Ministry of Media that serves no purpose and does no good. The Ministry of Media does not add value to our region; it does not enhance our influence and reputation abroad, whilst at home it simply adds an extra layer of bureaucracy and an additional elected cabinet position to our government.