Government Shortcomings and How We Should Address Them

[Imaginary]

Having three groups look at an application might be unnecessarily complicated and further slow down the process.

[Leonism]

Thank you Imaginary for starting this discussion. I'm still very new to the regional government, so I should be cautious when voicing my opinion. On the other hand my judgement is not clouded by past experiences in the region, so I'll just look at the current situation.

From my understanding, being in the Council of Lazarene Security requires to maintain a high endorsements count both as a fall-back in case the delegate's position is threatened and to gain lots of influence to wield for the good of the region. A nation not maximising their endorsements and influence is thus not good at fulfilling their role in the CLS.

How long we tolerate this depends on how we assess the threat level Lazarus is under. I lack the experience to do so, but if we think there is a threat then we need a solid CLS not in one or two months but ASAP, which in turn implies to either replace Imki and Killer Kitty or strengthen our security by appointing additional CLS members (if possible).

As for Treaadwellia, he is active on the RMB on a daily basis, so there is no general problem with his activity (unlike some other members of government who are rarely active on the RMB). The simplest solution would be indeed to delegate citizen applications to someone else (retaining a veto for the delegate). Some criteria for what the person(s) performing this task should be able to were outlined in NR's post above.

[treadwellia]

Ok. Regarding Imki: I agree we need a more active CLS. I know that Imki has had a lot going on health-wise but do not know the details.

Regarding KK: Staying up on the in-game area is as relevant as the Discord area.

And me: Let me know: I want to see Imaginary able to help. How do I officialize that? Also, yes, I have let work responsibilities hamper my performance on here, I admit, and I want to fix that by getting back to normal activity. Once I get in my room in about five or ten minutes, I can and will take care of the current applications.

[Leonism]

Thank you for your reply, Tubbius! You are a good delegate but you don't need to do everything by yourself, so if we can help by taking over some tasks you delegate, it doesn't mean you are doing a bad job. On the contrary! A good leader knows when and what to delegate.


On a related note: From past experience in leading positions in other, unrelated gaming communities, I can say that one should cut people whose activity is low due to RL issues some slack, but not too much. I myself experienced times where RL ate up all my time and I was unable to fulfill my position in the community, and at some point too ashamed to even visit the forums etc. due to this. It can easily get out of hand. Then again, all sensible people in gaming communities should agree in principle that RL always comes first, but if the community as a whole is hurt by the RL issues of one person, it is time to replace them in their community positions.

Right now it doesn't seem like we are really being hurt by reduced activity of anyone in particular, but it helps to monitor activity and discuss issues on a frequent basis, as we do now.

[treadwellia]

Citizenship applications are in the clear, including one tentatively questionable one that I messaged in-game and left a cross-posted message to on here. I'll do better about watching these soon. It's been rough balancing full-time responsibilities and NationStates ones, and for that, I apologize again.

[Imaginary]

Thanks for addressing the concerns raised Tubbius!