I feel like there's a few points on y'alls side that have a kernel of value to them but are ultimately obfuscation tactics in the context of reality, namely: (1) we haven't heard back from the natives yet and (2) we haven't said we're griefing it yet.
A Bloodred Moon wrote:And still I ask: has there been any indication of the community being under threat? Whatever community you refer to, at this point - they don't seem like a particularly active bunch to me.
(1) is obviously outside anyone in this thread's control. However, just because a native hasn't checked their telegrams for a few days doesn't mean the region is woefully inactive. Additionally, we're not really in the business of determining "how active is active enough to be defended". If someone, somewhere takes any kind of value from the fact that on a site called NationStates they have a home called Asia, then I'm against it being taken away from them, even if they don't log in as often as I do. There are also lots of legitimate reasons they may not have logged on yet, namely one of many different real life situations, a lot of which are even more prevalent now than ever given the ongoing global public health crisis. Lastly, the language of your comment seems pretty... "well would it be that bad if Asia got raided"? That's simply not a logic I agree with for the reason explained above.
(2) is a bit of smoke and mirrors. Maybe, even probably, you're making the claim no one wants to grief in good faith. But ultimately that is unverified and unverifiable, and asserting it loudly is a tactic to avoid this lib being passed, the ultimate effect of which would be to render impossible the very thing you're promising there's no risk of in the first place. Do you understand why that seems like you're monopolizing the ability to win the argument in a way that there is a risk could be disingenuous with catastrophic effect?
Keeping in mind every organization involved in this operation is a griefing organization by policy (or has no stated policy), even if they have not acted upon that policy in years, and that large raids conducted without support of NPA or ERN pilers are rare, it leads to me to think the risk is substantially greater than 0% that this will become a griefing operation. And saying I can't disprove it denies that since
you have the agency in this situation, I'm just playing a game of probabilities.
Lastly, someone raised a fair point here: the queue is long right now. Let's get this in the queue now. If, when it comes up for vote in two weeks or so it's become clear this is not a griefing operation, the resolution will be sabotaged and no GCR or vote-rich UCR will vote for it, effectively killing it.