Post by Lethoica on Jan 2, 2018 21:20:09 GMT -5
Hi everyone! My name is Lethoica and I am running for BCN!
While I am a relatively new member of the islands I have plenty of experience with Nation States and I have a lot of new ideas. Because I am so new here I wanted to take some time to give you a brief history of my involvement in nationstates.
I first joined nationstates around five years ago with a couple of my real life friends from high school. We had our own region and we were rping on our RMB. As we got older we gradually stopped playing and our founder cteed. Not long after that the black riders came in a banjected all of us. Thanks to some defender groups we managed liberate the region and ever since then I have been strongly anti raider. However all of us ended up cteing and the region was deleted.
After a break I decided to rejoin Nation States. I joined the Democratic Union of Allied Nations. I was active in their off site forums and became a senator in their regional government. Sadly that region slowly got weaker and weaker due to inactivity and eventually there was a coup by one of the other senators. That lead to a mess and I quit nationstates for a while disgusted by what was happening. Since then the incident has been resolved but everyone has left.
Despite two disappointing ending of regions I decided to return to nationstates in a much larger region than I have been in the past. Since joining the 10000 islands I have tried to my best to be involved in the community. I have joined the welcome committee and I am a member of TITO. I was also appointed as the ambassador to the Union of Democratic States. Lastly I am an active recruiter and have sent over a thousand telegrams in my first month of recruiting.
Now to the politics:
I am running for BCN for two reasons. The first is that I believe that I can send out the XKI report in a timely manner. The second reason is that I will be in a strong position to advocate for solutions to number of issues that I have noticed. Below is a list of the many things that I will work on if elected :
The first thing I will talk about and in my opinion the most important issue facing us is recruitment. While we do a number of important things the most important thing we do is recruit. That being said we are facing a huge recruiting crisis right now. The longtime recruiter Escanaba is spending less time recruiting than in the past. I think Escanaba has earned a break but we will be in big trouble if we don’t pick up the workload. Last month all the recruiters combined recruited less than half as many people as Escanaba did single handedly in the month before that. What's even worse is that of the top three recruiters last month only Kozmix had even sent a single recruitment telegram in the month before and he sent more than 3 times as many telegrams than he did in the previous month. This proves that the current system of recruitment is unsustainable. If elected I would immediately work with others, especially Tuga, to solve this problem and try to make recruitment sustainable.
The next thing I would do if elected is to try to connect the different parts the XKI community. In my opinion there aren’t enough people being active in multiple areas. For example, most of the people I see who are active in TITO aren’t very active in Taco Island. Most people who are who is active on the forums is not very active on the RMB. Unfortunately most people who partake in the legislative process are all former or current council of nine members. I understand that a lot of this is self sorting but I think that if people knew about all of the cool stuff that was happening there would be a lot more member engagement. If elected I will promote activities around the different communities to get people to be involved in more places than they already are.
Another thing I would work on if elected is to try and make all sections of the forum active. In particular the library and the role playing areas have huge potential but are not utilized. Looking around the forum for the first time I felt like I was exploring ruins in those threads. I also feel like houses and political parties could be better utilized. If elected I would work with all interested parties to make sure these areas are used.
While each of those things that I have listed above requires there own plan I do have a solution that will help all of those and increase our current understanding of our community. What I am proposing is a hybrid census/ survey of all of the members of our community. The first section would have questions about how active each members are on different part of the community and how aware they are of other things going on elsewhere. The second section would ask questions about what members think about different things and provide spaces to have feedback. This section would be a lot like what Ater Nox did with the taco island survey but it would be for every part of the islands and it would get people who aren’t involved with areas lie taco island to answer questions about why they aren’t active there and provide other feedback about taco island. I have a ton of ideas for this and would work hard to make sure this is implemented regardless if I win or not but I will push for this to be a priority of council if elected.
I greatly appreciate your time in reading this. I do acknowledge that is really long and as a result I am especially glad you made it to the final paragraph. Feel free to ask me any questions. You can telegram me, pm me, post in this thread, or send me a message on discord and I will respond as soon as I can.
Thanks again and be sure to vote,
Lethoica
While I am a relatively new member of the islands I have plenty of experience with Nation States and I have a lot of new ideas. Because I am so new here I wanted to take some time to give you a brief history of my involvement in nationstates.
I first joined nationstates around five years ago with a couple of my real life friends from high school. We had our own region and we were rping on our RMB. As we got older we gradually stopped playing and our founder cteed. Not long after that the black riders came in a banjected all of us. Thanks to some defender groups we managed liberate the region and ever since then I have been strongly anti raider. However all of us ended up cteing and the region was deleted.
After a break I decided to rejoin Nation States. I joined the Democratic Union of Allied Nations. I was active in their off site forums and became a senator in their regional government. Sadly that region slowly got weaker and weaker due to inactivity and eventually there was a coup by one of the other senators. That lead to a mess and I quit nationstates for a while disgusted by what was happening. Since then the incident has been resolved but everyone has left.
Despite two disappointing ending of regions I decided to return to nationstates in a much larger region than I have been in the past. Since joining the 10000 islands I have tried to my best to be involved in the community. I have joined the welcome committee and I am a member of TITO. I was also appointed as the ambassador to the Union of Democratic States. Lastly I am an active recruiter and have sent over a thousand telegrams in my first month of recruiting.
Now to the politics:
I am running for BCN for two reasons. The first is that I believe that I can send out the XKI report in a timely manner. The second reason is that I will be in a strong position to advocate for solutions to number of issues that I have noticed. Below is a list of the many things that I will work on if elected :
The first thing I will talk about and in my opinion the most important issue facing us is recruitment. While we do a number of important things the most important thing we do is recruit. That being said we are facing a huge recruiting crisis right now. The longtime recruiter Escanaba is spending less time recruiting than in the past. I think Escanaba has earned a break but we will be in big trouble if we don’t pick up the workload. Last month all the recruiters combined recruited less than half as many people as Escanaba did single handedly in the month before that. What's even worse is that of the top three recruiters last month only Kozmix had even sent a single recruitment telegram in the month before and he sent more than 3 times as many telegrams than he did in the previous month. This proves that the current system of recruitment is unsustainable. If elected I would immediately work with others, especially Tuga, to solve this problem and try to make recruitment sustainable.
The next thing I would do if elected is to try to connect the different parts the XKI community. In my opinion there aren’t enough people being active in multiple areas. For example, most of the people I see who are active in TITO aren’t very active in Taco Island. Most people who are who is active on the forums is not very active on the RMB. Unfortunately most people who partake in the legislative process are all former or current council of nine members. I understand that a lot of this is self sorting but I think that if people knew about all of the cool stuff that was happening there would be a lot more member engagement. If elected I will promote activities around the different communities to get people to be involved in more places than they already are.
Another thing I would work on if elected is to try and make all sections of the forum active. In particular the library and the role playing areas have huge potential but are not utilized. Looking around the forum for the first time I felt like I was exploring ruins in those threads. I also feel like houses and political parties could be better utilized. If elected I would work with all interested parties to make sure these areas are used.
While each of those things that I have listed above requires there own plan I do have a solution that will help all of those and increase our current understanding of our community. What I am proposing is a hybrid census/ survey of all of the members of our community. The first section would have questions about how active each members are on different part of the community and how aware they are of other things going on elsewhere. The second section would ask questions about what members think about different things and provide spaces to have feedback. This section would be a lot like what Ater Nox did with the taco island survey but it would be for every part of the islands and it would get people who aren’t involved with areas lie taco island to answer questions about why they aren’t active there and provide other feedback about taco island. I have a ton of ideas for this and would work hard to make sure this is implemented regardless if I win or not but I will push for this to be a priority of council if elected.
I greatly appreciate your time in reading this. I do acknowledge that is really long and as a result I am especially glad you made it to the final paragraph. Feel free to ask me any questions. You can telegram me, pm me, post in this thread, or send me a message on discord and I will respond as soon as I can.
Thanks again and be sure to vote,
Lethoica