Post by Fewms on Feb 8, 2009 19:14:43 GMT
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The Dubious Case of the Mysterious Alts
By the Languorously-Lidded Eye of Put.
Uncontrolled alt proliferations will not give rise to any deletion.
In an unprecedented move towards democracy, Djelibeybi has announced for the Disc to hear: "We need your vote! And your vote! And your vote! And your vote!"
Majority rule - possibly by a single person - has overthrown the pettiness of the individual voice, and quashed dissent. Majority rule shall prevail! If the majority is made up of an myriad of alts, so be it!
The facts, as seen by this private citizen, are these:
Unofficial alts were created.
Said alts were approved for citizenship.
Complaint was lodged against said alts on the basis that they were solely created to influence the outcome of elections and pass rule motions.
This complaint was dismissed by Magistrate Keb, who maintained that multiplaying falls outside of what she feels is the Council's jurisdiction, and that this affair could only be resolved by the creators. A senior creator then stated, apparently in reply to this, that the creators would not intervene, but waited to see how the Djelian Council handled the case. Stalemate.
Informal policy issues were raised: could it be that the number of admissible alts were in fact limited?
Informal policy was dismissed on the grounds of its informality.
Research was carried out by CONDM - kudos to the police force for its detective work and the time spent on elucidating this affair - who made a cogent case that the voting alts were just that. It was further indicated that they belong to Magistrate Greygrene.
Much research and hours of painstaking detective work were dismissed by the intellectual tour-de-force that is: "You can't prove an alt is an alt until he declares it, and he refuses to answer whether they are his or not, so there."
Someone said, "Raise the registration age to 20 days".
Another said 30.
I checked my age then, and was relieved to see it at 21.
I checked an alt, and was sad to see it at 9.
I boggled at how someone could spend so long just to get an alt to 10 days in order to vote - and saw the value of my individual, non-multi-alt-supported voice diminish, dwindle and wither away.
Questions were asked again, and still went unanswered, while Magistrates, presumably bogged down in the intricacies of their posts, and desperately seeking for a contradiction which may have been posted fifty messages higher, seemed to lose track of the issue entirely.
Already the dust settles. There has been talk of creating committees, and of extending the powers of CONDM, to help us penetrate the nebula surrounding these darker workings of our voting practice.
All in all, this ordinary citizen remains perplexed at the manner in which this matter was dealt with, disappointed in the lack of responsiveness of Magistrates in the face of direct questions, mildly impressed at their capacity to fudge issues through use of language which can only be qualified as abusive towards grammar if not towards their interlocutors, thoroughly impressed by the time invested by CONDM into shedding light in this affair, curious as to whether these alts will be continuing their activities, and thoroughly angered at the loss of value of his vote.
If one person will vote X times for no other reason than his being dedicated enough to create ten day old characters with the sole intention of voting, I admit to being rather discouraged. My heart goes out to one of the latest
amendments suggested to the Council rules, which has the merit of addressing the issues at hand and solving all disputes in a stroke:
"In Djelibeybi, we no longer take threats to democracy seriously."
Page 6
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The Dubious Case of the Mysterious Alts
By the Languorously-Lidded Eye of Put.
Uncontrolled alt proliferations will not give rise to any deletion.
In an unprecedented move towards democracy, Djelibeybi has announced for the Disc to hear: "We need your vote! And your vote! And your vote! And your vote!"
Majority rule - possibly by a single person - has overthrown the pettiness of the individual voice, and quashed dissent. Majority rule shall prevail! If the majority is made up of an myriad of alts, so be it!
The facts, as seen by this private citizen, are these:
Unofficial alts were created.
Said alts were approved for citizenship.
Complaint was lodged against said alts on the basis that they were solely created to influence the outcome of elections and pass rule motions.
This complaint was dismissed by Magistrate Keb, who maintained that multiplaying falls outside of what she feels is the Council's jurisdiction, and that this affair could only be resolved by the creators. A senior creator then stated, apparently in reply to this, that the creators would not intervene, but waited to see how the Djelian Council handled the case. Stalemate.
Informal policy issues were raised: could it be that the number of admissible alts were in fact limited?
Informal policy was dismissed on the grounds of its informality.
Research was carried out by CONDM - kudos to the police force for its detective work and the time spent on elucidating this affair - who made a cogent case that the voting alts were just that. It was further indicated that they belong to Magistrate Greygrene.
Much research and hours of painstaking detective work were dismissed by the intellectual tour-de-force that is: "You can't prove an alt is an alt until he declares it, and he refuses to answer whether they are his or not, so there."
Someone said, "Raise the registration age to 20 days".
Another said 30.
I checked my age then, and was relieved to see it at 21.
I checked an alt, and was sad to see it at 9.
I boggled at how someone could spend so long just to get an alt to 10 days in order to vote - and saw the value of my individual, non-multi-alt-supported voice diminish, dwindle and wither away.
Questions were asked again, and still went unanswered, while Magistrates, presumably bogged down in the intricacies of their posts, and desperately seeking for a contradiction which may have been posted fifty messages higher, seemed to lose track of the issue entirely.
Already the dust settles. There has been talk of creating committees, and of extending the powers of CONDM, to help us penetrate the nebula surrounding these darker workings of our voting practice.
All in all, this ordinary citizen remains perplexed at the manner in which this matter was dealt with, disappointed in the lack of responsiveness of Magistrates in the face of direct questions, mildly impressed at their capacity to fudge issues through use of language which can only be qualified as abusive towards grammar if not towards their interlocutors, thoroughly impressed by the time invested by CONDM into shedding light in this affair, curious as to whether these alts will be continuing their activities, and thoroughly angered at the loss of value of his vote.
If one person will vote X times for no other reason than his being dedicated enough to create ten day old characters with the sole intention of voting, I admit to being rather discouraged. My heart goes out to one of the latest
amendments suggested to the Council rules, which has the merit of addressing the issues at hand and solving all disputes in a stroke:
"In Djelibeybi, we no longer take threats to democracy seriously."