I don't think democracy is always the best option. The problem is the candidates do not campaign on their ability to do the job and people do not vote on it either. So you end up with people being elected for irrelevant qualities and being rubbish.
A person put into place by a benevolent dictator is much better, but it all depends on whether the dictator is motivated by a desire for competency and is a good judge of the candidates. A lot of the time you end up with people just putting their friends or popular people into place.
What kind of moderation would YOU like to see on Prydwen.net?
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Ankh Morpork
Democracy sucks.
Most of the countries claiming to have democracies (like UK or USA) actually only have periodically renewable state dictatorships or severely restricted pseudo-democracies. (i.e no real choice, your vote doesnt count, manipulated voting system, manipulated information systems, etc, etc, etc.)
Countries with "real" democracies (like Switzerland - even though they de-democratize ~20% of the population (not legally domiciled) & another ~25% of the legal population (not swiss citizens), & thus only represent ~60% of people living in the country at any given time) have problems like it can take years or even decades before all legal appeal possibilities are finally out of the way thus making it impossible for said country to react quickly in an increasingly volatile world.
At the end of the day any real democracy is going to be a country ruled by the mediocrely average majority.
Bad move IMO.
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Most of the countries claiming to have democracies (like UK or USA) actually only have periodically renewable state dictatorships or severely restricted pseudo-democracies. (i.e no real choice, your vote doesnt count, manipulated voting system, manipulated information systems, etc, etc, etc.)
Countries with "real" democracies (like Switzerland - even though they de-democratize ~20% of the population (not legally domiciled) & another ~25% of the legal population (not swiss citizens), & thus only represent ~60% of people living in the country at any given time) have problems like it can take years or even decades before all legal appeal possibilities are finally out of the way thus making it impossible for said country to react quickly in an increasingly volatile world.
At the end of the day any real democracy is going to be a country ruled by the mediocrely average majority.
Bad move IMO.
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Moegren - L53 Male Man Captain - SM Weaponsmith GM Woodworker
Paddreth - L60 Male Man Minstrel - SM Jeweller GM Cook
Skyros - L57 Male Man Loremaster - SM Scholar GM Farmer
Pauncho - L60 Male Hobbit Burglar - SM Armoursmith
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Paddock - L60 Male Man Hunter - SM Tailor
Moegren - L53 Male Man Captain - SM Weaponsmith GM Woodworker
Paddreth - L60 Male Man Minstrel - SM Jeweller GM Cook
Skyros - L57 Male Man Loremaster - SM Scholar GM Farmer
Pauncho - L60 Male Hobbit Burglar - SM Armoursmith
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Most of the time I get told, except when they change my signatureSatyn wrote:Well my dear thats how things are usually done around here. I've pm'd for eg Scabs a lot to ask him/tell him things about some posts he made. All mods do that as far as i'm concernd. Sometimes it takes a lot before a warning is actually given. If a person keeps trying to flame another person and after couple of written warnings he doesnt stop he either gets thread banned or he gets a warning.
Its not cos all of a sudden you see: warning (1) under someone's post that that warning has been given without an explenation.
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Snozzle - 27 Shaman.
Guild - Pestis
Alliance - Squig Quo Pro
Members - Heavy Metal, Pestis, Brutal DeLuxe, Nocturnal Dawn, BLONDIIN PINGVIIN, De Gale Trolde fra Nord
Yeah, but what is whining and what is stating your disagreement with something.Ankh Morpork wrote:A moderator without an opinion is either incredible boring person or a complete retard imo. Keep the moderators we got, less swearing and personal insults (from members/moderators) and we will all be fine.
Edit: Kind of hard to find a moderator without opinions btw...who would wanna moderate a forum which he has no real interest in?
Edit2: And from the members, less whine!!!!lets make this board enjoyable and fun to read...your not supposed to get upset when you cruise the forum!
/Ankh
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Snozzle - 27 Shaman.
Guild - Pestis
Alliance - Squig Quo Pro
Members - Heavy Metal, Pestis, Brutal DeLuxe, Nocturnal Dawn, BLONDIIN PINGVIIN, De Gale Trolde fra Nord
Snozzle - 27 Shaman.
Guild - Pestis
Alliance - Squig Quo Pro
Members - Heavy Metal, Pestis, Brutal DeLuxe, Nocturnal Dawn, BLONDIIN PINGVIIN, De Gale Trolde fra Nord
No matter what system is chosen for selecting mods & posting rules not everyone is going to be happy with it.
Certain moding decisions have been made recently which certain people have not been happy with but on the whole I think the mods here do a pretty good job & on the very rare occasion where I've not been 100% convinced I've found the mods here to be open to reasonable discussion & prepared to put aside personal differences & be genuinely flexible for the good of the forum.
You can't really ask more than that.
We're all merely Human after all.
(well ... I'm a Sylvan, but thats irrelevant
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I don't think I could do the job better.
(now givf ML10 scale leggings)
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Certain moding decisions have been made recently which certain people have not been happy with but on the whole I think the mods here do a pretty good job & on the very rare occasion where I've not been 100% convinced I've found the mods here to be open to reasonable discussion & prepared to put aside personal differences & be genuinely flexible for the good of the forum.
You can't really ask more than that.
We're all merely Human after all.
(well ... I'm a Sylvan, but thats irrelevant
)I don't think I could do the job better.
(now givf ML10 scale leggings
).
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Paddock - L60 Male Man Hunter - SM Tailor
Moegren - L53 Male Man Captain - SM Weaponsmith GM Woodworker
Paddreth - L60 Male Man Minstrel - SM Jeweller GM Cook
Skyros - L57 Male Man Loremaster - SM Scholar GM Farmer
Pauncho - L60 Male Hobbit Burglar - SM Armoursmith
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Paddock - L60 Male Man Hunter - SM Tailor
Moegren - L53 Male Man Captain - SM Weaponsmith GM Woodworker
Paddreth - L60 Male Man Minstrel - SM Jeweller GM Cook
Skyros - L57 Male Man Loremaster - SM Scholar GM Farmer
Pauncho - L60 Male Hobbit Burglar - SM Armoursmith
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OohhoO wrote:No matter what system is chosen for selecting mods & posting rules not everyone is going to be happy with it.
Certain moding decisions have been made recently which certain people have not been happy with but on the whole I think the mods here do a pretty good job & on the very rare occasion where I've not been 100% convinced I've found the mods here to be open to reasonable discussion & prepared to put aside personal differences & be genuinely flexible for the good of the forum.
You can't really ask more than that.
We're all merely Human after all.
(well ... I'm a Sylvan, but thats irrelevant
I don't think I could do the job better.
(now givf ML10 scale leggings
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thank you its good to hear that some ppl do like the modding.
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