PASSED: Liberate the Security Council !!

[Southern Bellz]

This resolution is very confusing for anyone who doesn't spend their time lurking the SC subforum on a regular basis. I guess if you want to be witty, then congrats, awards all around. I know I felt like a fool debating the merits of what I thought the resolution was, and why gameplay ideas shouldn't be dictated by a small group of few. Because this WA resolution is a joke, I feel it has zero bearing on how people actually feel.

I know in my region, members misunderstood it, were planning to vote against it just because they read Max wasn't going to have any gameplay changes be voted in the WA. If you were planning to dupe people to gage public opinion then this is really no worse than the multiple TITO resolutions that have been passed here that you guys complain about being fed by misinformation.

The way I see it, this WA resolution is a joke or a slick way to gage peoples opinion about something without them really knowing. Considering you guys are joking among yourself about how no one gets this, shows me how little of the population is in on what is actually going on. It would be one thing if you guys were ignorant of this fact, but most of you are well informed NS players. So for a second let's us recap, you guys understand that not a lot of people understand what is going on, AND you want it to seriously gage what popular opinion on this issue? In what world is that how it works?

I will be doing everything I can to make sure people understand what is going on, at least in my region.

[EVIL BEYOND COMPARE]

just so you know a liberation gets rid of a password on a region. your region has no password. this thing is pointless

[Southern Bellz]

this thing is pointless.

[Unibotian WASC Mission]

I will be doing everything I can to make sure people understand what is going on, at least in my region.

Thanks, the more people that know the better.

As I've said before in this thread, the plan is not to gauge support, because the idea has already been approved, [violet] is implementing this...

If anything, this proposal will serve as a warning bell/evangelical choir to all those who do not frequent these forums.. change is coming, and everyone who follows the WA should be informed of this. The best way to get that message out there is by a proposal.

Because even if they do not understand, they'll hopeful ask someone who does.

[Southern Bellz]

Oh so this is a PSA to the greater NationStates community? If anything, it is a bit more like a slap in the face that the small group of people that do frequent the forum have a larger say than the rest of the NationStates community. Gameplay changes are a pretty big deal, and I would say the average player deserves more than a "woah ho ho change is on the way" WA resolution that is an after the fact "warning".

Also if you were doing your part to warn people, it wouldn't be making a silly resolution that people think they are voting on and their vote matters, when in reality the decision has been made for them. That is your warning? A real warning is spreading the word, this isn't a legit warning. Using me to tell the truth isn't doing your part. I was duped, I am just making sure other people are not duped again.

Anyways a real warning would be an edit in the FAQ, not just some joke of a WA resolution.

[Unibotian WASC Mission]

You know it hasn't been implemented yet. Just approved, and well.. promised.

But if you, or anyone who becomes newly aware of the idea of change from this proposal, has a problem with the idea, it would be wise to bring it up now. Not afterwards it gets implemented.

This thread would be a good place to start for debating the idea itself, while getting noticed by an admin. > viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22185&start=25

[Mikeswill]

This Resolution refers to the Region not the World Assembly entity. As such we believe that the Delegate of a Region who has situation id powers ought o be allowed to bar entry to the Region of their Delegacy pursuant to the rules of the game.

In this particular situation the Delegate has not imposed barriers to entry and the Founder of the Region does not seem too concerned or he would act in accordance to his fancy.

We think that this Resolution is a guise to confuse WA Nations in believing that the effect is to Liberate the Security Council of the World Assembly. Were this to be true the only effective Resolution in agreement with our perspective would be to disband the abusive entity in its entirety.

Until then, NationStates Region will continue to vote against Resolutions which erode the rights of Delegates in Sovereign Regions from outside interference and dangerous precedent.

Therefore, Mikeswill's vote against "Liberate The Security Council" has been noted.

[Unibot]

This Resolution refers to the Region not the World Assembly entity. As such we believe that the Delegate of a Region who has situation id powers ought o be allowed to bar entry to the Region of their Delegacy pursuant to the rules of the game.

In this particular situation the Delegate has not imposed barriers to entry and the Founder of the Region does not seem too concerned or he would act in accordance to his fancy.

We think that this Resolution is a guise to confuse WA Nations in believing that the effect is to Liberate the Security Council of the World Assembly. Were this to be true the only effective Resolution in agreement with our perspective would be to disband the abusive entity in its entirety.

Until then, NationStates Region will continue to vote against Resolutions which erode the rights of Delegates in Sovereign Regions from outside interference and dangerous precedent.

Therefore, Mikeswill's vote against "Liberate The Security Council" has been noted.

As delegate of the Security Council, I must note NationStates' stance against our rights of national sovereignty. As we wish to establish a region which can never be passworded or trophied -- you are preventing us from doing so.

Have a good day,
Unibotian WASC Mission -- Delegate of the Security Council

[Omigodtheykilledkenny]

You know it hasn't been implemented yet. Just approved, and well.. promised.

But if you, or anyone who becomes newly aware of the idea of change from this proposal, has a problem with the idea, it would be wise to bring it up now. Not afterwards it gets implemented.

This thread would be a good place to start for debating the idea itself, while getting noticed by an admin. > viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22185&start=25

I don't think anyone is objecting to the idea by itself, just the fact that it is being introduced in a proposal. At any rate, I would not encourage posters to start flooding the Technical forum with complaints after a decision has already been made. You don't want an idea you like to be suddenly bombarded by confusion and (likely) uninformed rants. The Technical forum is open to all players, but it is not designed for rowdy town-hall style debates where admins have to sift through pages of nonsense just to find a few productive comments that actually help them do their jobs.

[Unibot]

You know it hasn't been implemented yet. Just approved, and well.. promised.

But if you, or anyone who becomes newly aware of the idea of change from this proposal, has a problem with the idea, it would be wise to bring it up now. Not afterwards it gets implemented.

This thread would be a good place to start for debating the idea itself, while getting noticed by an admin. > viewtopic.php?f=15&t=22185&start=25

I don't think anyone is objecting to the idea by itself, just the fact that it is being introduced in a proposal. At any rate, I would not encourage posters to start flooding the Technical forum with complaints after a decision has already been made. You don't want an idea you like to be suddenly bombarded by confusion and (likely) uninformed rants. The Technical forum is open to all players, but it is not designed for rowdy town-hall style debates where admins have to sift through pages of nonsense just to find a few productive comments that actually help them do their jobs.

So .. correction from my earlier statement, read the thread in its entirety before posting if you feel like your voice needs to be heard on the issue.

An angry town hall meeting is something nobody in the SC wants to see again.

[Goobergunchia]

Goobergunchia votes in favor.

[Doitzel]

Unibot says "you do know this idea has already been agreed upon by the admins, right? A gauge really isn't needed, the idea that this proposal should be used as a gauge just started as joke. Though it still remains a joke or as you called it ' a cute little stunt', the proposal is meant to be a way to transition the WA into a era of divided proposal floors, others have even heralded it as a founding document for the WASC ... which is anything but humbling, but my goal with it was just to help smooth the transition of the WA using a proposal while getting a few laughs out of it (and passing the first joke proposal in the WA? Yes/No?), as years from now when newbies join the game and try to make sense of this mess of events they might not have these threads to look from as 'primary sources of history', if you will, but the WA resolutions will always exist".

I have read all the relevant threads and I will again iterate the point that just because you can does not mean you should.

There's an argument to be made here that the resolution isn't a very good gauge of player opinion of the aforementioned thread if most people can't agree on what it's about. However, that will have to wait for more people to come in and say that they don't know what it's about in order to be credible - as it stands, most commenters seem to know the suggestion implicit in the resolution and the ratio of those perplexed hasn't exceeded that which can be expected from any resolution in either chamber.

That's because most don't really give a hoot what happens in the WA, and those who do inform themselves. One look at the region being "liberated" is all it really takes here to realise that there's more to this.

[Firstaria]

I like the SC and i think we should get the same, no wait MORE importance than the GA, but i think this "Liberation thing" seems more a joke than a real revolution. So i'm sorry, i support your cause, but i'll vote aganist.

[Philimbesi]

Actually the only point this is proving is that the far majority of WA voters regardless of which side is their "preferred" are simply too lazy to review the thing they are voting on. Be it GA resolution replete with errors, or a SC resolution designed to make a point that only those who are playing this part aspect of the game would get.

[Mavenu]

Actually the only point this is proving is that the far majority of WA voters regardless of which side is their "preferred" are simply too lazy to review the thing they are voting on.

Hell yea. But they've been doing it for 6 years, so why should they stop

Plus i thought it was supposed to be the feeders, or the raider/defenders, or the RPers that were supposed to be this cliquish (Yes i'm quite aware that every part of the game that people strictly play feel that theirs is the most important, and they don't always overlap interest.)

[Philimbesi]

Hell yea. But they've been doing it for 6 years, so why should they stop

Don't expect them to, I've often thought of putting together a GA proposal that mandates putting babies on spikes and calling it "The Child Protection Act". Just to see if it was able to get legs.

[Spartan Philidelphia]

+25 Points for "Was created to make a point"
-25 Points for "No one got the point"

Quite true considering the following quotes:

just so you know a liberation gets rid of a password on a region. your region has no password. this thing is pointless

this thing is pointless.

Just because you didn't receive a point from Santa Claus, doesn't mean that there are no points at all. It just means that you've been a bad boy/girl this year and didn't study hard enough in school to get it. [The] SC may not seem busy most of the time, but when there is something needing liberating, commending, or condemning, they're the nations with a plan to uphold the Switzerlandishness of the WA! (NEUTRAL FTW!)

I like the SC and i think we should get the same, no wait MORE importance than the GA, but i think this "Liberation thing" seems more a joke than a real revolution. So i'm sorry, i support your cause, but i'll vote aganist.

SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION (and I guess the resolution)! Liberate the Security Council!

[Ardchoille]

Its not illegal, otherwise Ardchoille wouldn't have encouraged it.

If you read my post on the subject upside down and backwards, while processing -- skyclad -- nine times widdershins round a cathedral in the dark of the moon, you might be able to interpret it as encouragement.

The post I saw linked to earlier as my "encouragement" was in fact encouraging the idea of using C&Cs in this way, to make political statements. To use a Liberation proposal for the purpose seems to me to be using a chainsaw to open an egg. I had expected, once [violet] had agreed to the changes you were seeking, that there would be a Getting Help request to kill this.

However, I didn't delete it because it is legal as it stands, and I assume the other Game Mods/Admins who take an interest in the SC came to the same conclusion. As far as I can make out from Pyth's explanations, it's not that a region with a Founder can't be Liberated, just that there isn't much point in doing it. Topid, as Founder, can still password the region. However, if Topid goes MIA for a while, Unibot (or whoever is then Delegate) is going to have an ... interesting time, I would think.

If the SC wants to spend its time debating something it's already achieved -- and, by the approvals that weren't withdrawn, a fair slew of you evidently do -- it's not my job to stop you. The NS UN had to find out in practice how far its remit extended, and this chamber has to too. The NS UN's Enodian Conventions took a while to hash out, and then gave way to Hack's and Fris's Proposal Rules. Earlier proposals that would have been illegal under later rules stayed on the books, they were just not invoked/worked around/repealed, when that became possible. There's no reason the SC can't evolve in the same fashion.

So I can't say I encourage it, but then, I'd probably have told the original Boston Tea Party folk not to waste all that lovely tea. If you need a symbol, I guess this is as good as any.

[Bears Armed]

Hell yea. But they've been doing it for 6 years, so why should they stop

Don't expect them to, I've often thought of putting together a GA proposal that mandates putting babies on spikes and calling it "The Child Protection Act". Just to see if it was able to get legs.

OOC: It would (almost certainly) be deleted as illegal, because there's already been a ruling that the content of a NSUN GA proposal has to match the title.

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Ms. Harper votes in favour without question. it may not lead to a real revolution, but at least it's symbolic.

[Philimbesi]

OOC: It would (almost certainly) be deleted as illegal, because there's already been a ruling that the content of a NSUN GA proposal has to match the title.

Ah yes.... Rules... I forgot one side of this body actually has them. I digress...

[UpperWales]

So under this proposal, the Security Council would be a separate organisation from the General Assembly...

I don't see a problem with that, but surely one would have to "pick sides" as it goes. And what of those nations in the WA that don't know half of what's going on?

In the long term I think that separating the 2 powers would cause a power strife and divisions appearing within the WA.

As the For votes are currently a lot higher than the Against, I shall abstain instead.

[Philimbesi]

+25 Points for "Was created to make a point"
-25 Points for "No one got the point"

[Jey]

Jey casts its votes as the Delegate of the United Nations region FOR this resolution.

[Sedgistan]

*snip*

Apologies for misrepresenting your views. Reading it again, you did just say that this resolution would be legal, but suggested using the C&C system instead, as a liberation resolution would be 'clunky'. That said, it was more encouragement than the other mod involved in the WA gave