[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Part of the nweek 55 RESULTS

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 13, 2004, at 10:15 PM, David E. Smith wrote:

> Sorry for the increasing sluggishness. Work is not always pleasant. You
> folks *sure* you don't want to work out some sort of Executive 
> Committee
> where the rest of you do the work, and I can just kick back and take 
> all
> the credit?

Funny you should mention that... the Honorary Age Group bit in my age 
groups prop was put there specifically with the intent of bringing back 
the Council of Elders, in the hopes that they could be made to serve 
that purpose.


I'm working on the new prop, but it won't be out until the day after 
tomorrow at the earliest.

Basically, it sets up the following system:

The Council of Elders is a group of four Veteran or older players; one 
of them is the Shaman, who must be an Oligarch or higher (honorary Age 
Group membership counts for these requirements).

Every two nweeks, one Councilor's term ends and a new Councilor is 
elected; at the same time, a new Shaman is selected (which may well be 
the old Shaman, but might not be).

The Shaman is responsible at first just for some small things - for 
example, e must publish the list of candidates during the Council 
Elections, etc. I expect the Shaman to gain many more responsibilities 
in the future.

The Council's power lies in Petitions, as it did before; however, the 
gamestate changes that may be made by a Petition are limited to a few 
things, for the moment - they can designate fora, they can bestow 
Honorary Age Group memberships, and they can do the equivalent of the 
Administrator's Writ of Delay.

The Petitions would be done fairly simply - any player can submit them, 
and the councilors can Approve them. If three Councilors Approve a 
petition, it is enacted. (and perhaps also the Shaman can get two 
votes, so that e and one other are enough to approve a petition). This 
would not be overly dangerous, at least at the moment, since the powers 
granted to the Council will be few at first.

Eventually, I expect them to be the "few of the players that have been 
around a while" mentioned in Dave's comment:

"Y'know, most of the stuff in the Admin side of the Web interface is not
too hard to figure out. I'm almost tempted to just make the login and
password for that semi-publicly available (i.e. give it to a few of the
players that have been around a while) and let you folks maintain the 
game
yourselves."

The petitions would increase in power too, probably, to cover things 
like Typo Fixes, Vetoes, and other things currently done by the Admin.

My goal is to one day remove the position of Admin and replace it 
entirely with the Shaman and the other Councilors, so Dave can become a 
player.

--
Wonko

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