Reploid Productions wrote:Just a note, given Galiantus's long history of wanting to destroy the WA/grind it to a complete halt/etc:
If this caught on enough that a small group of players was successfully bringing the GA to a complete standstill via GA-motivated raiding, the most likely result would be admin lowering the approvals required for a proposal to reach quorum until such a point that the tactic was no longer easy to pull off on a constant basis. Would not be the first time the approvals requirement has been wiggled around a bit.
From a game balance perspective, raiding to nudge WA proposal approvals or even voting is certainly a valid political maneuver albeit a dick move (again, politics. Tends to have a lot of dick moves by nature); however it should not be so easy to accomplish that it can be done to all, or even to most proposals. If that starts happening, then the aforementioned adjustment to the required approvals would likely be forthcoming.
Or not, since you can push it down only so far until a lot more totally shitty proposals start to go to vote. Right now the Secretariat has usually at least two updates to check proposals, for the most proposals even four. Or more if the queue is clogged. The low quorum needed to address this would allow many illegal proposals to go to vote.
What's this also not fixing is that this raiding can easily remove proposals in waiting since they automatically die next update without possibility of countermeasures.
What IS fixing the ease of that is enacting a time limit to leave the WA after joining it. Ideally 1 hour, but even 20 minutes would drastically reduce the viability of that tactic without eliminating it. But it would also greatly reduce the viability of tag raiding(although that doesn't have a majorly positive impact on the game as a whole anyways).
All of these solutions have one problem in common: They will alienate players and disrupt the site. Including the "doing nothing" option. This is why I try to talk Galiantus III out of this so that this does NOT happen.