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Of course there is no incentive for volunteer work. <.<
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I disagree, I at least felt good helping out at the Blood Drives that we had at my old school. And being a village square moderator has the useful perk of being able to edit other people's posts. And don't forget that GM's on SL can make GM posts.
That aside, 4 kage doesn't really seem enough. Oto, Kumo, Konoha, Kiri, Suna, Uzu, Ame (?), and Iwa each have someone who could arguably be called a kage in one capacity or another. What would choose between them? And of the jinchurikii, which ones get the coveted spot of Council Member under this schematic?
Taking Rusaku's post into account also, this isn't a Council only thread, this is a rule making thread regarding the council and its structure. Feel free to throw a whole dollar if you're feeling particularly generous. Also, it wasn't the entire remaining active Council looking to boot. Don't get me wrong, to my knowledge, replacing me was only an idea brought up once, it was not voted on or heavily discussed or anything like that.
Well, Bocc himself may be gone, but the Hunters aren't. If people were reluctant to RP with their beast out in the open because they were afraid of being hunted down IC for it, doesn't bringing in IC hunt rules kind of encourage said individuals to go back into hiding and not RP with the beast?
I'm not going to lie, I really don't see people RPing with their biju much, but as a former host (thanks for that Rusaku, might return the favor one day
), I know that I did RP with Kokuo (took too long to get enough of Kokuo's power and ending up losing it on the, what, the 3rd real fight?) only to have that akward moment of one day having the beast and the next day not having it anymore without any explicit IC reason for it.
I'll be the more blunt voice, because someone has to.
If anyone does not want to be a council member, please, step down now...
Likewise:
If even half the current Council members stepped down right this moment, I project that the vaccuum would only be filled as fast as the rules are adjusted to make the position more appealing. And that, Ace, could take awhile. Redistribute the biju had posts flying off the walls, but anything having to do with discussing the rules pretty much takes canon fire just to get a good oven fire going. Only if we are completely unwilling to continue doing our assigned task(s) should we actually step down at this point, at least in my opinion.
Since the beginning I have been determined not to step down until I am confident that my spot is going to be filled. Becuase even if I do step down from the Council, I'm going to be almost just as involved as I was before, just as talkative before, and as relatively civil as if I was still a Council Member. The only thing I would be doing is helping create a power vacuum.
Yeah it has been hard sometimes, I've thought about kicking the mop bucket a few times, but as you put it Ace, I didn't join because I thought it was going to be a cakewalk. I joined because, knowing what it was like to be a jinchurikii for a few months and beliving that the ultimate desire of the Community seemed to favor fairness for Hunter and Prey over sensitivity to the toes stepped on in the process, I saw the Council as the perfect opportunity to make sure that the biju process was, if nothing else, one where all participants are equal under the biju rules, with no special exceptions for this person or for that, for this group nor another, hunter nor prey. And making sure rule violators were dealt with by the book instead of by the ticket seemed like the way to go.
Right or wrong, having current jinchurikii on the Council, I think, would conflict with that, especially if the Council has to rule on one of its own. Even as a lesser branch, it's a conflict of interest that, unlike the kage portion of things, is not really one I see as palpable.
When a group of individuals who do not represent you whatsoever ...
I actually challenge that assertation. Council Members were voted in; however meager the pickings, it was a fair vote. To say that a group of elected individuals do not represent the constiuents whatsoever (not in interests, not in image, nada amigo) goes against the definition of an elected representative.
The Council up to this point has only had the power to enforce the rules. The Community has had both the power and the responsibility to create and develop the rules, which in theory can be whatever The Community wants. A Council where half the crew is frustrated over sometimes trivial things (when looking at the big picture), I think, is not that far from representing the Community that the Council came from.
However, with that said, perhaps an experiment needs to be put into play. Some of the rules are half-baked, but let's say that they are "finished" under one pretense or another. I predict that a vote to ratify such rules might would attract attention, but the first time said rule has to be put into action is where, I think, the most interest would take place. Ace I believe has said it before, if the discussion threads stop, it's time to whip out the vote threads.
*Also, thanks for the thanks all. Originally was going to type something really short, but then replies came up and it just got longer... Ended up forgetting one of my components. *