Post #93563
March 01, 2017, 05:01:06 PM
I am, frankly, pleased that the position of Delegate remains officially unfilled.
All due respect to the government, but I find governing an online community as a whole to be thoroughly something left up to people who give a shit, and not something subject to the whims and vagaries of someone's passing interest in, say, running for Underhusen (which is meant to serve as an example, not an indictment of the current Underhusen, which in my mind has done spectacularly insofar as they haven't legislated anything silly yet just for the purpose of making it look like they're doing something - a major problem with managers, for example, who feel the need to change things just so it looks like they're doing their job, even if the system as-it-was worked perfectly).
Should nobody care enough to run for Delegate, it suggests one of two things; either the people who do care have too many other commitments to run, or nobody cares enough to run in the first place. If the latter, it then either signals 'this is perceived to be a fundamentally unimportant position', which seems possible to me given my views on the WA (a waste of time filled by fussbudgets who like to dictate to people while pretending it is not only in said people's best interests, but in fact their greatest desire) and the relative irrelevance of the Delegate given an active Founder, or that NS has at this point become sufficiently unshackled from this community's identity that this is less the 'online arm of the Wintrean region' and more that the NS region is more the 'NS arm of Wintreath'.