WA Resolution: Commend Todd McCloud

[Hockeynutville]

Commend Todd McCloud
A resolution to recognize outstanding contribution by a nation or region.

Category: Commendation
Nominee: Todd McCloud
Proposed by: Topid

Description:
The World Assembly,

NOTING FThe Honorable Chairman of Todd McCloud’s long list of accomplishments across various fields,

ACKNOWLEDGING FlagThe Honorable Chairman of Todd McCloud’s experience as a Role Player in The East Pacific, with notable role-play incidents including Shiro Academy and The Listonian Crisis,

PRAISING the successful defenses of Poland, a founderless region, by then World Assembly Delegate of Poland The Honorable Chairman of Todd McCloud,

FURTHER PRAISING The Honorable Chairman of Todd McCloud’s work as leader of the Slavic Alliance in defending Slavic Regions from the grips of Macedon,

RECOGNIZING Todd McCloud as a highly successful raider, leading raiding missions and coups in many prominent regions,

IMPRESSED with Todd McCloud’s public stance against Macedon and other raiders who use hidden passwords to destroy the target region without giving natives or defenders any chance to fight for the region,

ASTONISHED that during Todd McCloud's delegacy The East Pacific --previously one of the most inactive feeders-- has been transformed into one of the most active regions in the world,

RECALLING that Todd McCloud has been an active member of the World Assembly Security Council since its inception, having authored the Security Council commendations of The Republic of Kandarin and The Liberal Unitary Republic of Goobergunchia and the condemnation of Macedon;

ALSO RECOGNIZING Todd McCloud’s use of media to improve the world, including his creation of The South Pacific Wiki, a collection of articles about NationStates; and his use of online videos in Fox Rite and The East Pacific

COMMENDS Todd McCloud for his honorable service across many fields of the NationStates world.

Co Authored by: Sedgistan, Unibot, and Travancore-Cochin

[Inquirius]

Here goes...

FOR!

*hides*

[Omnaria]

Most definitely for.

[Ananke II]

Dec 19, 2009 17:10:23 GMT -5 Inquirius said:

Here goes...

FOR!

*hides*

Why the hiding? From what I've seen of his work in TEP that's definitely commendable. The only thing keeping me on the fence right now is his regrettable tendency to support certain password grabs by invaders.

[Inquirius]

If I actually wanted to hide I wouldn't have posted. It's just that I was expecting XKI to react much more negatively to this because Todd used to be a raider. However, so far it looks like I was mistaken about that. And that's good.

[-Valoniah-]

Everyone can change!

[Takaram]

For.

[The Colonial Fleet]

Doesn't he still argue the part of the invader? I mean he has voted against invaders in the WA, on resolutions/repeals about us, but it's often begrudgingly because he's just following the polls on his own forum. It's also hard to vote for a commendation where we have to say huzzah for all that invading you did.

[Shizensky]

And it's a bit of a double-edged sword here. On one end we have what I think we see as solid anti-raider principals, where they are 9/10 times the bad guys who would be deserving of a Condemn. On the other, we hold an embassy with The East Pacific, and to an end we might almost be hypocrits for not approving this as a region.

It's interesting, really.

[Anime Daisuki]

AGAINST

Reasons:

1) There are tons of people who are more deserving of a commendation. Including the founders of Texas, Wysteria, and players many other regions.

2) Todd is an invader. Always has been. Even today he's consistently singing the invader-tune and launching pro-invader propaganda in the NS forums.

3) Todd has not shown remorse in his past invasions, including the destruction and griefing of a dozen regions. Just search for "Cavas" and you'll see a bunch of raider flags holding various regions from Seychelles to Grenada. These regions has been held for as long as they've been taken.

4) Fox Rite was behind the destruction of San Franciso Bay Area in 2006 and Feudal Japan (originally) in 2007.

5) He has consistently campaigned against commending defenders and defender regions, including 10000 Islands.

Some people can change for the better and turn over a new leaf, but obviously this is not such a person.

[Shizensky]

One of the heaviest selling points for recently closing an embassy of ours with someone else was because they didn't show us support in these C & C's. It would be hypocritical for us to not show support to the leader of a region with whom we share an embassy with.

To me, it's pretty much black and white.

I've voted for this, as we have and seem to expect those we share embassies with to do the same for us.

[Twobagger]

Not really a big fan of this commendation. It praises him for opposing using passwords to destroy regions when that's exactly what he did at least once, back in Feudal Japan. He was also in with one of our biggest enemies for the longest time, back in the day.
By the way, I don't think it's hypocritical to vote against a commendation when the target is someone we don't like who is being commended for actions we are pretty strongly against. I think other regions would understand if the single most prominent defender region in the game refused to support an invader who may well have had a hand in region destroying and who wasn't exactly supportive of our region in the SC.

[The Colonial Fleet]

This commendation is hypocritical, trying to whitewash the invader background of the East Pacific delegate. I don't care if a misguided defender wrote it. Backing this commendation is against everything TITO stands for. Next thing you know we'll be commending DEN for all the good times they gave us.

He had to vote against invader agendas in the WA twice, because his constituents in the East Pacific forced him to. The first time he voted, he was very adamant that he was very much against what he was voting for. The second time, he conveniently stated he wouldn't be around to vote on it. Had it been pro-invader I'm guessing he would have cast an early vote.