Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 2:44 pm
Like everyone, I have infinite respect for Europeia and Europeans. Full support.
However: Before Heroes of the North, WALL complained a lot about Kuriko and the slew of 10KI/defender commendations; and before that we had Unibot/Mahaj/populist defenders acting similarly. I’m not exactly faulting you for this — really whatever motivates good writers to write good resolutions is fine by me — but the obvious conflict of interest here only reinforces the need for a single working metric to evaluate commendability. Historically it’s either been fame or popularity — let’s not kid ourselves, this commendation is a popularity one. Whether he’s done enough, which he has, or the resolution’s written well enough, which it is, is almost entirely irrelevant; so, my diagnostic, feel free to submit at any point.
Edit: same for Nak.
However: Before Heroes of the North, WALL complained a lot about Kuriko and the slew of 10KI/defender commendations; and before that we had Unibot/Mahaj/populist defenders acting similarly. I’m not exactly faulting you for this — really whatever motivates good writers to write good resolutions is fine by me — but the obvious conflict of interest here only reinforces the need for a single working metric to evaluate commendability. Historically it’s either been fame or popularity — let’s not kid ourselves, this commendation is a popularity one. Whether he’s done enough, which he has, or the resolution’s written well enough, which it is, is almost entirely irrelevant; so, my diagnostic, feel free to submit at any point.
Edit: same for Nak.