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by Cosmopolitan borovan » Fri May 11, 2018 10:30 am
by Chan Island » Sun May 13, 2018 2:58 pm
Ransium wrote:Honestly, if Chan had started campaigning at submission rather than half way through, it probably would have made quorum.
Cosmopolitan borovan wrote:Probably should have passed. But WA proposals are tough, since theres' the writing and the editing and the campaigning.
Trotterdam wrote:Well, it was fun watching this be foreshadowed, grow, get submitted, and ultimately fizzle anticlimactically
I think a big part of the reason the resolution failed is the attempt to couch everything in in-character terms.
Take this line, for example:I have firsthoof experience of the events described here (ha ha), and it still took me a few reads to figure out what you meant. For a player who doesn't frequent the Got Issues? forum, or even the forums at all (and this includes a large number of WA members), it's pretty much incomprehensible.Chan Island wrote:Arguing, that the above nation provides critical assistance to world leaders seeking to champion the many myriad causes that trouble said leaders including, but not limited to: showing leaders similar campaigns by others, providing assistance on delivery of the message, praising nations for where their dilemmas are well presented.
Even properly interpreted, "providing assistance on delivery of the message" is still ridiculously vague.
Now this isn't your fault. I checked, and the SC rules explicitly say that resolutions have to be written in in-character language. Still, you need to strike a better balance of using plausible in-character-looking window dressing while still being reasonably clear and detailed about what you're actually talking about.
Similarly, it's awkward when you're not allowed to actually link to the website that you're trying to commend me for making. Again, for people who haven't heard of it already (and since it's fairly new, that probably includes a lot of not-so-active-on-the-forum people), it'd just elicit a reaction of "huh what"? And again, it's an actual rule that you don't have a choice in, and it probably exists to prevent exactly this kind of scenario (using WA resolutions as a vehicle for advertisements), but it's certainly inconvenient for getting this resolution to pass.
That leaves just the two issues I wrote, which really isn't that impressive or commendation-worthy compared to some of the authors out there. Really, it mostly just makes me self-conscious about not having written more.
Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Right, honestly it amazes me that Commend Candlewhisper Archive ever made it, as almost all of my achievements in game (which I can immodestly point to and brag about) weren't ones that the rules could mention. It was only a nudge-nudge-wink-wink attitude of people knowing what they were really commending me for that allowed the resolution to pass.
It's a shame, but it is what it is, I guess.
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.
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