But it was a idea that Fris brought into the discussion on the Feeders thread, which I've added to, and wish to discuss a bit further.
How Would A Regional Moderator be Elected?
Through a democratic vote between either all of the members of a region, or all of the WA members of a region (haven’t decided yet). But unlike a delegate, the candidate would not wait until the next game update to be elected – but instead would have to wait several days.
To clarify - it would have a visible countdown. When someone has the highest mod endorsement count in the region a countdown would begin beside the WFE. Let’s say counting down from 5 days or something like that (10 updates). At the fifth day, the candidate would gain the position. At any time before the countdown was done, if someone gained a higher endorsement count than that candidate – the countdown would be interrupted and a new countdown would start for them.
Transitions between new Regional Moderators would always take at least 5 days.
Powers of the Regional Moderator
- The Regional Moderator cannot be banned or rejected from the region they are moderating, whilst being Moderator.
- They’d have the ability to delete, or blank RMB posts.
- The password would always be viewable to the Regional Moderator.
- The Regional Moderator could increase/lower regional influence costs (with limits of course).
What’s the Advantage of having a Regional Moderator?
Well, for starters, it gives a region a trusted native that can’t be banned or rejected in the event of an invasion – and could provide the password to outsiders in the event of griefing. There would be a couple days before the RM could be banned and replaced – giving a window of time for liberators, defenders and/or natives to strike arms with the grievers.
Also there have been a lot of disputes over bad ‘sportsmanship’ when raiders ‘talk trash’ of the citizens of regions they just grieved. Now the Regional Moderator would be there to delete the posts of the victors, to squash their bragging rights.