Re: [spoon-discuss] The time has come, the Walrus said...

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well...shit, dude.
>
> Okay...let's break this down into some key questions:
>
> 1. Are we sticking with the game?
>
> I've been a little burned out on actually coming up with stuff and arguing 
> it out (Wonko knew better...he wouldn't argue with Mr. in a Spacesuit; he'd 
> let me do that and burn myself out on it, then just undo everything that 
> was done), so I'm bordering on drone status.  Is everyone else up for 
> continuing?

-I know that, as of late, I've been feeling a little apathetic. This is 
probably because of several things. I'm not sure what all of them are, but 
I've got a couple of guesses. One, fallout from that Nomicron bul... er... 
fiasco. We'll call it a fiasco and move on. That left me a little more 
walking-on-eggshells than ever before, and a little quieter as a result. 
Two, my own life, while not as busy as Dave's, is turning over at the 
moment. I'm graduating high school this week, so for the past few I've been 
dealing with all the peripherals to that, as well as the thousands of forms 
my college decided to send me, due back to them the day after the last day 
of classes... Third, I think this game is slowing down somewhat, and that's 
sort of reflecting back from me.

The upshot of this for me is that... I don't know. I've got a lot more spare 
time now, so things may clear up a bunch, or maybe not. I think what this 
game needs is a purge. A massive purge. We have a lot of rules and we don't 
use many of them frequently. No two people care about the same things. Hmm, 
here's a thought. What if we declare an nweek where no one can do anything 
but repeal/delete things in proposals? Propose to get rid of anything, and 
we'll pick up from what's left of the ruleset at the end. I'll propose that, 
what the hey.-
> 2. What sort of administration processing time delay is acceptable?
>
> Dave is worried that his life won't allow him to continue in the 
> administrative capacity at all...that it's not a question of how long it'd 
> take to complete processing a turn as much as  that his real-life 
> demands/options would impede the game to the point of non-functionality.  
> If someone other than Dave were to attempt to do the job, what sort of 
> wait-time would be considered acceptable and non-excessive?  My view on 
> admin wait-time has been, "Take however long it takes, as long as we can 
> rest assured it'll eventually get done."  On the other hand, we had that 
> one miscreant who was willing to drag our name through the mud because of 
> wait-time.  How long is too long?

-Perhaps if we had another Ministry for taking care of changes to the 
ruleset or counting votes or calculating points or whatever, just so long as 
it cleared up some time for Dave? Would that speed the process up any? And 
is there anyone who can and would do it?-
> 3. How necessary is it to separate administrative duties from playerness?
>
> We've already got ministers for a bunch of things.  What's left that 
> absolutely requires a central administrator, and what about that which is 
> left requires or begs a non-player admin?  I still think automation would 
> go a long way, but I'll acknowledge that won't solve everything.

-See above.-
> This about cover it?

-Probably not, but it'll do for a good start.-
> 						Glotmorf
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