(07-23-2020, 05:45 AM)Bleakfoot Wrote: For my part (and as someone who voted against all of the various split proposals when they came before the Assembly earlier this year), I'm still not sure what problem a split is purported to fix. Seems like one of the major concerns in the posts above is inactivity, so what would a split do to encourage greater activity? Are there any examples (maybe from other regions) where a different division of responsibilities has resulted in a more active community?

Inactivity seems (to me, at least) to be less of a problem with the structure of the ministry/ministries and more about the recruitment and retention of those involved. If anything, splitting the ministry into two (or more) entities might make that even more difficult, as well as a duplication of effort.

Split was never the main solution to solve inactivity. It is mostly to relieve pressure and to ensure efficiency on all aspects of MoRA. We tend to have one or two RA areas that are strong but the another one is weak for every term. Many regions with the split RA structure (The North Pacific is a prominent example, follow by Europeia back in their heydays) have very active RA. We and TWP are the only feeders where integration and culture is handled under one ministry. That said, a lot of people don't like to bring "uhhh those people do this better/worse than us" into these debates at all.