AS22 wrote:I will address you now.
Thank you.
AS22 wrote:Regional Affairs minister, an empty record.
I explained a part of my record as MoRA to you in my previous post. MoRA duties concern map management, IRC management, and IRC/RMB/Forum activity promotion. I succeeded in all of those aspects as a MoRA.
AS22 wrote:More effort in this area was made by Hileville and others.
Hileville has never been MoRA, so I don't know what you're talking about. I don't think you know, either.
AS22 wrote:Taking unilateral claim for IRC growth is an absolutely ludicrous assertion.
No, it is not. It regularly had 2 to 3 people in it, including myself, when I first started visiting it. As MoRA, I promoted it heavily and encouraged regular activity in it whenever I had the chance. Promoting IRC and RMB activity is one of the primary duties of an MoRA, and by the end of my time as MoRA the average number of people in the channel had jumped from 2 to 20. No one did this when I first arrived, and most - if not all - of TSP's citizens who were around at the time agree that I'm responsible for making it active again. It was dead. I became MoRA, promoted it, and now it isn't.
AS22 wrote:Your map has been and remains irrelevant - this is not my personal judgement, it has simply just never been used or promoted in any meaningful way.
In the past, TSP's map was used a lot. Unfortunately, recreating one took a while - I finished it near the end of my term - and we're still working on making the RP forums more active. We are making progress, though, so hopefully it will be relevant again one day. A community cannot make large, valuable changes without starting building up from the foundation.
AS22 wrote:I have seen the BCD threads and it is clear that your record in terms of "MoS" duties was minor relative to other players.
I'm fine with replying to your arguments and am actually enjoying writing this post, but for the sake of debate, can you please support your claims with evidence and facts? If not, we're pretty much shouting "no u" at each other here, and that's hardly productive.
AS22 wrote:...with your greatest successes coming against the weakest threats.
You shouldn't be so self-deprecating. It's unhealthy.
AS22 wrote:In terms of Vice Delegacy, Milograd is as committed to the South Pacific as Topid and Belschaft, in - out and in and out again.
Like a fast food restaurant, mate. I have openly acknowledged my shortcomings as a VD in the past, and I agree that I was unreliable and essentially a failure as a VD. I was on-and-off from in NS as a whole during my time as a VD due to health issues, so I am not going to pretend that I could have done a better job given the circumstances. Real life is more important than NS, and I don't regret being more committed to my health than the vice delegacy. I don't think that anyone reasonable would have acted differently than I did.
Trying to portray me as not being committed to TSP is futile insofar as I was regularly active and attentive in TSP whenever I was regularly active and attentive on NS. I wasn't neglecting my duties in TSP in favor of other activities on NS: I was neglecting NS in favor of activities in handling urgent real life issues. Life can be unpredictable and can require a lot of our time and attention, and, whether you like it or not, this is a universal truth. No one is exempt from this reality, so the argument that I am not committed to my region because I had to face something that everyone faces at some point or another is astonishingly weak. My failure as a VD has nothing to do with me being uncommitted to TSP, but rather, I failed as a VD because it was an inconvenient time for me to be a VD.
No player is immune from having to step away from the game for a while because of real life.
No defender is.
No raider is.
No feederite is.
No userite is.
And, no, not even the legendary father of the ideology that you have completely misunderstood is. He didn't vanish into thin air.
AS22 wrote:You are second in command of the UDL and condemning region whoring after the fact does not sever that connection.
I'm not Solm, who is second in command of the UDL. You're mixing up people left and right!
Which is actually a bit disappointing, because I can remember
all of your names.
AS22 wrote:It only became a problem for you after it was proven beyond a doubt, even as you would refute allegations and resist reform designed to stop it in the first place.
Can you please clarify what you are trying to say here? The sentence currently doesn't make any sense because you haven't clarified what the subject of your statement ("it") is, and thus I do not know what you are accusing me of having refuted and resisted. If "region whoring" is the subject, then I must note that TSP regularly prunes inactive citizens who contribute nothing to the region from its membership. The only examples of proposed legislation that TSP discussed that would have addressed "region whoring" had inherent faults that inspired me to vote against it: establishing a crowded, inefficient, activity-killing "waiting list" for citizenship is not desirable if it is preventing people who would genuinely contribute to the region from joining us. Our current situation, admittedly, is not ideal, but it isn't as black as white as you perceive it to be: TSP, and I, would prefer to prune inactive "region whores" on a regular basis as a solution to the issue in question rather than completely stopping incoming growth. The latter proposal would prevent "region whores" from joining but would do so at the cost of preventing active natives with good intentions from joining the region too.
The only other proposal about "region whoring" that comes to my mind is the proposal that was submitted a few months ago that would have barred any players who have citizenship in one or more other regions from participating in TSP. This, while it would have addressed concerns about players who fall under the aforementioned category, would have also prevented plenty of skilled, loyal players from participating in our community. Hileville, our delegate, is a citizen of multiple regions and is active in all of them, and his accomplishments as our delegate are unquestionably commendable. The proposals that you say I fought against would have fixed the issue that bothers you, yes, but it would have had far too many drawbacks to have been practical. The difference between our beliefs, Anur, is that I am against banishing people such as one of my region's most successful delegates in years while you would be in favor of it because he is in multiple regions. I agree with the sentiment that players should not be in too many regions for them to handle, nor should they be in so many regions that they have problematic conflicts of interest, but I try to handle people who do this in my region without leaning towards the counterproductive extremes that you heartily promote.
AS22 wrote:From Topid to Belschaft to Unibot's stint to Milograd's on and off responsibilities we have seen what Userites have had to offer.
I am not a userite, I am a feederite according to the definition of the term provided by PFT.
Proper Francoist Thought wrote:The two classes recognised by Francoist Thought are the Feederites, who are the nations of their respective Pacific and seek to harness and work with the means of production (namely the Pacific region itself), and the Userites, who seek to exploit its fruits; by exploiting both the nations of the Pacific and the political structure set up within it to further their own political, military and social power.
I have never exploited the nations of TSP or its political system to become more politically, militarily, or socially influential. I joined TSP because I enjoyed the lighthearted banter that regularly covered its RMB following the coup, and because I thought it was a fun region to be in. I have worked to protect, serve, and improve the region so that I can continue to enjoy the kind of conversation and activities that inspired me to join the region in the first place. I have never participated in a UCR that recruits from the feeders and sinkers, nor have I ever participated in a UCR that participates in gameplay. Before joining TSP, my only other regions had been, and are to this day, roleplay regions that do not participate in gameplay and do not recruit from anywhere. I do not fit the description of a userite.
AS22 wrote:The current delegate and architect of the South Pacific's recovery was relentlessly impeded by all four of you along the way. Whether it is Milo running unendorsement campaigns on Hileville which basically offered the same promises without the record, or Unibot lobbying old members against Hileville and claiming constantly that the delegacy was in the pocket of myself or Antariel, to Topid running against Hileville for Chair before suddenly pulling out, or to Belschaft trying to berate a delegate and his new army into submission because he does not see enough of a defender lean.
So, according to this suggestion, I have been a hindrance to Hileville during his delegacy and have impeded his attempts to restore the region to activity? That's odd.
I have, in the ways explained earlier in this thread, contributed to his efforts to help the region recover. Hileville, as delegate, evidently disagrees with your assessment of how I have affected his work in TSP: mere days ago, he appointed me as the region's vice delegate because I now have the chance to do the job properly. If I was a userite obstruction that was a problem in the region, he probably wouldn't have done that. It seems to me that a lot of your statements in this thread contradict one another: you praise Hileville for his work as delegate, but attack me for voting against legislation that would have forced someone like him out of the region. You say I have been a hindrance to Hileville in the region, yet he trusts me enough to appoint me as a vice delegate.
As for the un-endorsements campaign, they were a staple in TSP elections at the time I used one and I, unlike you, never tried to hide my intent in my un-endorsement campaign. Every single one of my telegrams clearly stated that endorsing me and unendorsing Hileville was a vote in favor of me, and against him, for the delegacy. "Un-endorsement campaign" is a term that has negative connotations that I know you are well aware of, but the context of the situation matters. Hileville won the election and his endorsement count returned to its regular total shortly after I lost. That is how elections work, and elections are a vital part of the democratic institution that we in TSP have dedicated ourselves to protecting.
I think Hileville's opinion of my contributions to TSP carry more weight, and hold more truth, than that of a banished security threat: with that said, his opinion of my work in TSP is crystal clear.
AS22 wrote:A feeder should be more than an IRC and a spamhouse, and a current decline in TSP activity is evident.
School is back in session and I know that several of our citizens are preparing for exams, so a drop in activity is to be expected at this time of the year. Feeder activity fluctuates from time to time, as it has several times during Hileville's term, and our activity is already starting to rebound. We are currently holding judiciary discussions and review sessions, voting on several new laws, enjoying our regular forum activities, working on forum recruitment, and we just finished a cultural event with Europeia. We're more than just an IRC and a spamhouse. I'm also quite sure that the SPA has something in the works, but I'm not at liberty to discuss any specifics.
Ultimately, the quantity of the attacks you have against me is impressive, Anur, but the quality of all of them leaves much to be desired.