(07-18-2022, 05:48 PM)Comfed Wrote: -snip-
The forum is TSP's government and we should design systems to recognize that.

Some of this I somewhat agree with, and some of it I very strongly disagree with. But this last sentence really made me kind of angry.

This is a fundamentally flawed view of NationStates as a whole. NationStates is a web game, where people participate on the site to participate in site activities. Now yes, communities branching off-site is a side-effect of the fact that the game does not provide satisfactory ways to communicate with others in a meaningful way, but the game still exists. What is the point of TSP without TSP? While a move to run everything from the forum seems like an improvement, and it is! In the short-term. While you may believe that abolishing the Local Council and creating a government that is totally controlled by the forum is great, I know the RMB will be slightly annoyed and then angry. Even with the LC, I have seen some calls to get rid of the off-site government. While you may believe that the RMBers would never be able to organize, they can and have organized united fronts before.

Because, what you have failed to realize is that the vast, vast majority of the endorsements of the Delegate come from these RMBers who expect Local Council and Delegate elections. And one day, after you've taken them away, they stop listening to the endorsement orders... and that's when you have an issue. Sure, it may be a very hypothetical issue that may not happen at all, but even the slightest risk of a coup should be eliminated, right?

And no, sending a strongly worded letter to the LC was never going to work out. Haven't you ever been in a history class before? We need to enact actual change. That's what the GC is for- changing things for the better, not making them worse.