(05-27-2018, 08:56 PM)Amerion Wrote: I am curious whether in the case that all current Cabinet members elect to run and are indeed re-elected to serve, whether each of you would be confident that all existing issues can be solved so as to ensure the next term is not as divisive as is the current one.

I don't know who will or won't run as this move has its own goals and repercussions and I'm sure, Roavin, a power player and someone who has described himself as enjoying manipulating things - has an end goal in mind. As I stated before a title has never defined me. I worked for TSP without at title and turned down delegate in my third month because I wasn't ready for it.  If none of the current people involved run in any capacity or through proxies, I would be perfectly fine with a fresh new cabinet without any deep relations to the current cabinet. 

I mean here's the issue - communication.  I looked through my logs and Roavin mentioned wanting to resign from the cabinet and follows up with:
"Roavin-04/15/2018
No,. Because I'm not feeling it
TSP deserves a PM that does, and I'm not in this last term"

He does not communicate anything about his issues with the cabinet in this discussion.  So for anyone to know something was seriously wrong, it had to be communicated in a calm and forthright manner. We've worked under Roavin for three terms now and I personally helped support him in an admin role in this region. Where was his honesty and constructive criticism? Where was his attempt to help us grow? He's been in the cabinet for the majority of being in this region and has set many of the precedents and encouraged many of the behaviors he's recanting here when it suited him. The issues he's bringing up did not make the cabinet dysfunctional and in fact seem to relate to the personal rather than the political. I'd like to specifically know which cabinet projects or issues were derailed since this has really become Roavin's personal issues.

See, I'm not a professional writer. Roavin did trash my writing in his initial post here (and that is part and parcel of the subtle degradation,  you're good at festivals BUT nothing else is what I hear a lot of) but he never once tried to help me really get better.  There are actually other players who helped me write better by walking me through the issues (run-on sentences being one).  I've also cut down on my heavily criticized GIF use but that also is not a dire issue. It's a matter of playstyle.   In this game though attacking someone because they aren't a professional writer, is quite petty and a low blow like the others.

The number of players in this game who've taught me something are countless and I love all of them. They taught me to write better, use better vocabulary, read books I wouldn't otherwise, learn to use Google sheets and tables in docs, even CSS\HTML.  This game is a place I learn every day. I would hate to think that mistakes that we grow from keep us from playing.  If this game was only played be real life politicians instead of students and all manners of people - it would be a different game altogether.