The Dark Star Republic wrote:Ah, but that's two different things. You need a lot (or, at the moment, not a lot) of delegates to approve your proposal so it reaches quorum, necessitating a TG campaign. But those delegates can be of any size. Once it's at vote, though, it's the big vote delegates, and especially those who stack, who matter.
I see, that's fair enough.
Heh. When have you ever seen the GCR types care about the "RP element" of the WA? Bear in mind they're the same people who tried to end the RP element of the WA altogether.
Courting GCR votes is certainly not new. But the demand that players have to post on regional forums rather than the game forums, that GCR players will not deign to visit the game forums, and that votes will be more favourable to players who acquiesce to this unreasonable demand regardless of the actual resolution at stake, just adds to the pattern of voting not based on the content and merits of a resolution, but of completely irrelevant factors. Let's see, recent votes have been based on:
- the player submitting it
- whether disliked players support or oppose it
- whether it was submitted to the forum or not
- whether the draft was up for an arbitrary period of time before submission
Well those reasons you've listed were examples of individual voters on these forums, but I take your point re: the GCRs and courting their vote is only an RP enhancement if the player doing do does a little mental gymnastic exercise to bring it to same within their own head. Ofc this vote is the perfect example of a player acquiescing to the demand to post and campaign externally to these halls in order to gain favourable opinions. Is this completely unreasonable though?