Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 5:34 pm
We both know that's not going to happen.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Parxland wrote:The Notorious Mad Jack wrote:It's very odd. The only regions we've ever "griefed" have been fascist ones... and surely Parx wouldn't be throwing such labels around in defence of fascist regions... right?
https://forum.thenorthpacific.org/topic/9194232/Greater Hiveoidia
Prima Victoria
The Northern Rim
My Little Pony Equestria
Codex Ylvus
JJ McCullough Fan Club
Nebrascotialand
Hyperico
Greater Novus Britannia Empire
The Realm of Liberty
North Pacific
The Mystical Council
The Monarchy Alliance
The Moon
Renegade Islands Alliance
The League of Radiance
Usea
Confederation of the Mediterranean
Hyperico
Melayu Archipelago
Datanet
Federation of Allies
Prudentia
Confederation of the Mediterranean
Greater Hiveoidia
Loamhedge
The Region of Gargery
The Eternal Entente
Seora
The regions on ^This List^ are fascist? Since you raided/griefed them, then you must think they're fascists. That means you think The Renegade Islands Alliance is fascist. Somebody should tell the Grey Wardens they have an embassy with a fascist region!
HumanSanity wrote:I realize there is no need because Tim and MadJack have it handled, but want to say 10000 Islands is delighted to have Spiritus on board with the Partnership for Sovereignty, and their admission to the organization was unanimous.
Yes, XKI and Tim had a difference of opinion over TNP quorum raiding. That's a small difference in opinion relative to the overwhelming interests we share in a strong defender faction united to defend its SC interests, not to mention that Tim wasn't speaking for Spiritus in that action and, to my knowledge, Spiritus never issued an official position on that. Plus, the PfS' voting system and the way recommendations are non-binding means the agreement has built in flexibility to withstand one-off disagreements.
Cheers to our starchy friends! Glad to see this organization continue to grow.
Parxland wrote:...If you want to play the game the way you want...
Parxland wrote:HumanSanity wrote:I realize there is no need because Tim and MadJack have it handled, but want to say 10000 Islands is delighted to have Spiritus on board with the Partnership for Sovereignty, and their admission to the organization was unanimous.
Yes, XKI and Tim had a difference of opinion over TNP quorum raiding. That's a small difference in opinion relative to the overwhelming interests we share in a strong defender faction united to defend its SC interests, not to mention that Tim wasn't speaking for Spiritus in that action and, to my knowledge, Spiritus never issued an official position on that. Plus, the PfS' voting system and the way recommendations are non-binding means the agreement has built in flexibility to withstand one-off disagreements.
Cheers to our starchy friends! Glad to see this organization continue to grow.
Any question on whether people should join the PfS is a no brainer. If you want to play the game the way you want and have some reassurance against quorum raiding, you need to be a part of this.
HumanSanity wrote:Decisions about admitting members to any interregional agreement, including the Partnership for Sovereignty, are taken seriously and include a full deliberative process.
HumanSanity wrote:Foreign affairs matters are sensitive and require flexibility in dealing with them. When LCN applied, there were lingering concerns about LCN's past out of character issues which necessitated further investigation and evaluation by the PfS. In fact, it would have been discourteous to the LCN for us to vote without doing our due diligence on these matters.
HumanSanity wrote:You point to the admission of UDS, FNR, and Spiritus as signs of inequity in the process. The admission of regions which are established within the Gameplay community, have long-standing defender alignments, and standing diplomatic relations and alliances with many existing PfS members is understandably going to require less lengthy consideration than a region which is re-emergent in interregional relations due to a history of OOC issues.
HumanSanity wrote:Respectfully, the LCN statement is an unreasonable standard, ignores the complexity of the situation involving their admission, and attempts to impose a false standard of perfect efficient equity on interregional negotiations.
Quebecshire wrote:The government of the Republic of The League of Conservative Nations was recently informed that our application to the Partnership for Sovereignty agreement was rejected by a margin of 1-2, with 3 abstentions. We have asked to be informed of the voting decisions of each region, but have not yet been updated on that request.
We would like to thank the organization for considering us, however, now that the issue is finally formally resolved, we have a few other comments we would like to make. Continuing, we fully recognize the right of the partnership to make this decision, but feel it was handled extremely poorly.
We are immensely disappointed with how our application was managed. The Office of the Consulate fully understands that exist concerns about previous out-of-character practices, that much is obvious. We do not feel, however, that it warranted the treatment our application received. We applied to the Partnership for Sovereignty on the 27th of January, the same day as The Union of Democratic States. They were accepted on the 3rd of February, and we were not even officially told that our application was finally being voted on until the 1st of March.
What was originally a foreign policy no-brainer for the LCN Council of the Republic to agree upon slowly became a point of skepticism and annoyance, to no fault of our own. The LCN feels it was treated both unfairly and unreasonably from the submission of its application until the beginning of the voting process (as in, the management of our application was unreasonable treatment, not the result of the vote). There was not a justified excuse for us to have been continually postponed for a month with no definitive information on our status. We understand that several member regions were busy and had other affairs occurring in this timeframe, but it would be dishonest if we said we felt this excused the extreme and repeated delays our application was subject to with little to no information passed on to us regarding that.
We wish the Partnership for Sovereignty the best, but we seriously hope their ability to review, schedule, and manage the entry process is corrected and made uniform for all applicants. Our region and its officials became more and more discouraged as the process went on, and it is both unfair to the regions applying and hypothetically detrimental to the organization to be so ambiguous and unclear to those who might seek membership in the future and subject to similar controversy in the review.
We are disappointed with the rejection but primarily with the amount of time it took for the rejection to come to fruition, and we hope to move forward quickly in foreign affairs after having spent a month waiting for the result of this bureaucracy.
Kanglia wrote:holding the members to a very high standard and that this particular post is not in good faith.
Kanglia wrote:As for the " deliberative process which we were kept in the dark completely on", I don't truly believe that you nor anyone else is really owed much of an explanation beyond the final verdict. And making a public statement about it where this matter could have honestly been handled privately seems to be a little bit much in my eyes.
Quebecshire wrote:Hey Kang, how ya doin?
Quebecshire wrote:snip for brevity
Kanglia wrote:I do get your frustration, I just feel that you lot would have been better suited to take this matter up privately. Just feels to me, as an outsider to all of it, that this course of action only opens you up for criticism that I don't really think you all in LCN have earned over this particular matter.
Kanglia wrote:I do get your frustration, I just feel that you lot would have been better suited to take this matter up privately. Just feels to me, as an outsider to all of it, that this course of action only opens you up for criticism that I don't really think you all in LCN have earned over this particular matter.
Toerana wrote:...airing your dirty laundry...
Quebecshire wrote:Toerana wrote:...airing your dirty laundry...
I don't really see how this is anyone's "dirty laundry", it's not a scandal or something anyone did objectively wrong.
Also, we'd probably be able to better decide if we wanted a "continued relationship with the partnership" (whatever that means) if we had any information about where anything stands. We were refused the ability to know how each region voted and HS heavily implied the reason for rejection was the previous OOC stuff.
A fair reason, of course, but how are we supposed to know what the issue is there? We fixed stuff. Is it an issue of time, other changes, etc? We don't have any info to literally make any judgements other than "we think we were handled a bit unreasonably."
Toerana wrote:What I was attempting to say was dumping it all out in the open is not necessarily the best way to go about this - Contacting the Partnership directly and privately about your denial would have been the best route. Save the public statements for after this, I doubt you'll be able to publicly pressure the Partnership into publicly releasing details and their reasoning, especially without trying privately first.
Giving feedback is fine, and always will be, but public statements first, without trying the back channels route isn't going to do much for you.