I don't think so, Unibot. I think it's that way with all GCRs, even if you're all willing to pretend otherwise. GCR communities exist offsite. The Gameside is a formality, sometimes welcome, other times ignored.

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@Tsu: That is definitely where we split in our views. I do not think the mechanics of the WA Delegate seat in the game are all that important to how the forum community functions. Very, very little of what we do relies on the game mechanics of the region. I think the way you see things, while a popular view and an intuitive one, doesn't match how forum-based governments work in practice. The WA Delegate seat is, to me, simply a convenient symbol. We could have a caretaker nation be WA Delegate for life, sharing its password with the relevant TSP leaders, and literally nothing would change in the forum game.

I actually agree with this, in theory. Beyond the obvious that a "care taker" nation would flout WA regulations.

In reality, this is why (initially) the delegate was set up more as a constitutional monarchy. It was passed from one nation to another under the understanding that they offsite forum government would be the legitimate government. (Hence, why there was initially a "vice president" role that actually ran the government.)

My point is that -- whether or not you recognize its power -- the WA Delegate seat is, in fact, powerful. If someone decided to change the WFE, promote another forum and whatever, this forum would quickly lose participants.

Let me just throw this out there. Say we went back to a system where the head of state was elected and the delegate preformed a more caretaker role and/or acted as a MoGA -- would you be more inclined to allow RMB voting and the like?

-tsunamy
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[warn=unofficial]I have split all recent posts and moved them to the Assembly, because they have nothing to do with the original proposal.[/warn]

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