10-02-2018, 12:16 AM
The text box is not cooperating with me either so I'll be using quotation marks.
I think Sheep summed it up well:
'If we don't have that then the citizenship rolls risk being overburdened by an inactive, non-voting, non-participating populace and there's just no benefit to that kind of citizen.'
It is not in the long-term interest of Lazarus for it to be filled with people who simply aren't here are have either left Lazarus for another region or have left NationStates entirely.
To not have some form of a check on this is something which does not stand to reason.
Incentivisng activity is an overall secondary consideration and was not what I had in mind when I wrote this clause. Rather, in similar respect to how a government conducts a census, this requirement shall enable us to know who is in Lazarus.
As I said in Discord, if a person cannot find the time, the 20 seconds that it would take to make one post, in all of 56 days, then they have shown themselves to be inept, and I would rather them be in another region.
Citizenship is a privilege, not a right. It demands a social contract and one of those clauses is a very generous allowance of 56 days to make it known that you are still here.
I think Sheep summed it up well:
'If we don't have that then the citizenship rolls risk being overburdened by an inactive, non-voting, non-participating populace and there's just no benefit to that kind of citizen.'
It is not in the long-term interest of Lazarus for it to be filled with people who simply aren't here are have either left Lazarus for another region or have left NationStates entirely.
To not have some form of a check on this is something which does not stand to reason.
Incentivisng activity is an overall secondary consideration and was not what I had in mind when I wrote this clause. Rather, in similar respect to how a government conducts a census, this requirement shall enable us to know who is in Lazarus.
As I said in Discord, if a person cannot find the time, the 20 seconds that it would take to make one post, in all of 56 days, then they have shown themselves to be inept, and I would rather them be in another region.
Citizenship is a privilege, not a right. It demands a social contract and one of those clauses is a very generous allowance of 56 days to make it known that you are still here.