Well, personally, I see no problem with the CPRA and suspect the reason why we are stagnating has nothing to do with the CPRA. It also stops people from joining and then disappearing.
Honourable North, you seem to be mistaken, this law does nothing over that. For example let's take a look at some people who got citizenship after this requirement, there is Mokei, who has six posts and was last online 156 days ago. Vilemyr, who has 15 posts, and was last online 95 days ago. northlysetharvus who has 11 posts and was last on 52 days ago. Great Moose who has 7 posts and was last on 56 days ago.
If you want we can even take a look at the set of those that had obtained citizenship under this rule, but are now former citizens: Rayden_Greywolf, he had 7 posts and was online 247 days ago, or we can look at MysterEMann who had 13 posts and was last online 202 days ago.
We also have citizens who have gotten citizenship under this law, got a large amount of posts, and then disappeared. For example Raxus who had 119 posts but hasn't been online in 145 days.
I only went back to August of Last year, this has been going on for over a year now, if you went back to May 9th, 2016 I do not doubt you could find more examples of this behavior.
Further let's take a look at citizenship numbers. The lowest point we have been at, that has been recorded, was 59 citizens, this occurred twice in the past year, March 11th, 2017 and April 16th, 2017. From the revocation of citizenship numbers, this is the lowest we have been at since February 23rd, 2014 which is the first recorded amount of citizens that I could find in that thread. Prior to that it was 63 citizens which, prior to the institution of the requirement, only was recorded twice, February 23rd, 2014 and January 24th, 2015. Since that requirement we have hit that point five times, and in fact been under that at least three others times at 61 citizens. We have not been above 80 citizens since July 16th, 2016 (the only citizenship check that after the passing of the post requirement), which also went down from 95 from the Citizenship check of April 23rd, 2016. The last time we have a recorded amount below 80 citizens was during November 2nd, 2014 to April 4th, 2015 a period of about six months and even then we only had one month were we got below 70 citizens during that, January 2015. We have gone eight months now, without being above 80, and all of those 8 have been below 70, we seem to be holding stable at around 59-63 citizens. Let me also mention that this includes paragons, as well.
With these numbers, and this data at this time, there seems to be little reason for keeping this act. This act does not keep citizens from joining and leaving, it doesn't increase overall retention, and we have less citizens now than ever before, at least since citizenship checks began. We have up and down turns in citizens, but this is an unprecedented downturn in citizen numbers, and it only began AFTER the act was passed. We are getting less and less new blood, thus this act seems to have a direct correlation to stagnation. Here Wintermoot's quote is relevant,
I think we have to consider the impact of new members too...they bring in new perspectives and mindsets, new opportunities for friendships, new ambitions, new interests...they help keep things fresh and vibrant, and it feels like when we don't have many newer people the community becomes stagnant, complacent, and even jaded. I've noticed this in a lot of older regions in the past where the members are mostly old-timers, but I didn't really connect the two until I started noticing it happening here.
because this is what is happening here. The current data we have supports this.
There are other arguments that could be made here, however I find numbers and data the most compelling. This isn't even the only argument I have against the requirement, however if I went over all of them I would need several posts and bore everyone, so I'll just end it here.
Citizenship Data
February 23, 2014 - 63
April 06, 2014 - 82
May 13th, 2014 - 87
June 8th, 2014 - 97
June 26th, 2014 - 98
July 13th, 2014 - 104
July 19th, 2014 - 102
July 27th, 2014 - 102
August 3rd, 2014 - 96
August 10th, 2014 - 91
August 17th, 2014 - 90
August 24th, 2014 - 91
August 31st, 2014 - 87
September 7th, 2014 - 83
September 14th, 2014 - 81
September 21st, 2014 - 83
September 28th, 2014 - 84
November 2nd, 2014 - 78
November 23rd, 2014 - 79
January 8th, 2015 - 66
Janurary 24th, 2015 - 63
February 20th, 2015 - 74
April 4th, 2015 - 78
May 30th, 2015 - 88
August 12th, 2015 - 86
October 8th, 2015 - 82
Janurary 8th, 2016 - 90
Janurary 23rd, 2016 - 90
April 2nd, 2016 - 104
April 23rd, 2016 - 95
July 16th, 2016 - 80
October 2nd, 2016 - 65
October 8th, 2016 - 61
October 17th, 2016 - 63
October 30th, 2016 - 63
November 12th, 2016 - 61
December 10th, 2016 - 65
January 22nd, 2017 - 63
January 30th, 2017 - 63
March 11th, 2017 - 59
April 16th, 2017 - 59
May 10th, 2017 - 61
June 3rd, 2017 - 63
(Note: I excluded re-applications from the accounts I named over this)
