Post by Paffnia on Jul 2, 2019 14:36:20 GMT -5
It's yet again time for the the ol' barrage of delegate questions!
WA
- Except in cases where you have actively decided to abstain, do you pledge to vote on every single WA resolution during your term?
- Do you plan on posting WA polls on the forums like our past delegates have?
- Any thought of using the regionwide vote displayed on NS instead of a forum poll?
- Besides SC resolutions on matters concerning TITO and when a nation illegally mass-TGs the Islands about a proposal, will you always abide by poll results when casting the region's vote?
- What would you do in those two exceptions?
- If you do decide to vote by forum poll or regionwide WA vote, are there any circumstances (other than matters concerning TITO and mass-TGs to the Islands) in which you would not be able to vote according to the poll results? In other words, are there any issues about which you feel so strongly that you could not cast a vote a certain way, due to conflict with your beliefs/conscience?
- Would you have voted for this proposal?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/31560/ns230-mandatory-delegate-voting-rules
- If FOR and AGAINST are tied on the forum vote, what then?
- When timing your vote, will you vote as soon as possible, with a XKI discussion thread set up even earlier in an attempt to sway the vote; or wait awhile before voting to get the full spectrum of opinion from more Islanders; or something else?
- In a close and shifting forum vote on a resolution, how often will you change your vote? As soon as FOR overtakes AGAINST, for example, or wait to see if it switches back?
- Will you keep the "delegate's prerogative" option?
- Will you provide Islanders with your own views on proposal, or merely seek their input?
- Although this won't matter much if you vote based on polls, how do you align yourself in the GA? Do you side with the International Federalists or National Sovereigntists more (or some other position entirely)?
- How will you decide which WA proposals to approve for quorum? Would you do this just by your own judgment, take requests, or some other system?
- Would you create and regularly update a dispatch pinned to the WFE, with links to the most recent forum discussions of WA resolutions at vote, so that NS-going nations can find our WA discussions?
- How will you encourage citizens to vote in WA polls?
- How will Islanders be able to hold you accountable if you fail to post polls or vote in a timely manner?
- Both current candidates are WA resolution authors. Do you plan to continue to propose/write resolutions while in office? Do you plan to encourage others to do so, and if so, how will you support them?
Foreign Affairs
- What criteria would you use to choose emissaries?
- How would you ensure and monitor that emissaries actually do their job (posting our monthly reports, reporting back on the state of the assigned region, etc.)?
- What criteria would you use to decide when to fire emissaries?
- Should XKI sign new formal alliances with regions, or just keep it at embassies?
- Will you actively seek out new regions to have embassies with?
- If the emissary corps is ever overstretched (as happened during my term), is lack of emissaries a valid reason to deny a new embassy with a borderline region? Or would you move to accept the embassy and then try to make do?
- Do you plan to restore the initiative of having Islanders visit friendly regions for a weekend?
- Will you appoint a foreign affairs secretary?
- Do you plan on adding your own touches to the emissaries' report, or just letting the BCN senator write it?
- What do you think of this law?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/35949/277-interregional-forum-thread-passed. How do you plan to use our NS thread during your term?
Internal
- Will you endotart? Will you send messages to Islanders encouraging delegate endorsement?
- Will you post telegrams you receive, in a thread like this: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/19903? Will you have an office thread (either combined with the inbox thread or separate)?
- Do you think endorsing the delegate should be mandatory?
- Will you mass-TG the Islands with updates? If so, what kind of updates and how often?
- Will you post the emissaries report in a pinned dispatch every month?
- What do you think of this law?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/36910/288-delegate-term-limit-passed
- Without holding you to the promise, will you consider running for a second term after this one (especially noting that this coming term is already longer than normal due to United Royal Islands' resignation)?
Take your time; I've thrown the kitchen sink out here.
WA
- Except in cases where you have actively decided to abstain, do you pledge to vote on every single WA resolution during your term?
- Do you plan on posting WA polls on the forums like our past delegates have?
- Any thought of using the regionwide vote displayed on NS instead of a forum poll?
- Besides SC resolutions on matters concerning TITO and when a nation illegally mass-TGs the Islands about a proposal, will you always abide by poll results when casting the region's vote?
- What would you do in those two exceptions?
- If you do decide to vote by forum poll or regionwide WA vote, are there any circumstances (other than matters concerning TITO and mass-TGs to the Islands) in which you would not be able to vote according to the poll results? In other words, are there any issues about which you feel so strongly that you could not cast a vote a certain way, due to conflict with your beliefs/conscience?
- Would you have voted for this proposal?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/31560/ns230-mandatory-delegate-voting-rules
- If FOR and AGAINST are tied on the forum vote, what then?
- When timing your vote, will you vote as soon as possible, with a XKI discussion thread set up even earlier in an attempt to sway the vote; or wait awhile before voting to get the full spectrum of opinion from more Islanders; or something else?
- In a close and shifting forum vote on a resolution, how often will you change your vote? As soon as FOR overtakes AGAINST, for example, or wait to see if it switches back?
- Will you keep the "delegate's prerogative" option?
- Will you provide Islanders with your own views on proposal, or merely seek their input?
- Although this won't matter much if you vote based on polls, how do you align yourself in the GA? Do you side with the International Federalists or National Sovereigntists more (or some other position entirely)?
- How will you decide which WA proposals to approve for quorum? Would you do this just by your own judgment, take requests, or some other system?
- Would you create and regularly update a dispatch pinned to the WFE, with links to the most recent forum discussions of WA resolutions at vote, so that NS-going nations can find our WA discussions?
- How will you encourage citizens to vote in WA polls?
- How will Islanders be able to hold you accountable if you fail to post polls or vote in a timely manner?
- Both current candidates are WA resolution authors. Do you plan to continue to propose/write resolutions while in office? Do you plan to encourage others to do so, and if so, how will you support them?
Foreign Affairs
- What criteria would you use to choose emissaries?
- How would you ensure and monitor that emissaries actually do their job (posting our monthly reports, reporting back on the state of the assigned region, etc.)?
- What criteria would you use to decide when to fire emissaries?
- Should XKI sign new formal alliances with regions, or just keep it at embassies?
- Will you actively seek out new regions to have embassies with?
- If the emissary corps is ever overstretched (as happened during my term), is lack of emissaries a valid reason to deny a new embassy with a borderline region? Or would you move to accept the embassy and then try to make do?
- Do you plan to restore the initiative of having Islanders visit friendly regions for a weekend?
- Will you appoint a foreign affairs secretary?
- Do you plan on adding your own touches to the emissaries' report, or just letting the BCN senator write it?
- What do you think of this law?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/35949/277-interregional-forum-thread-passed. How do you plan to use our NS thread during your term?
Internal
- Will you endotart? Will you send messages to Islanders encouraging delegate endorsement?
- Will you post telegrams you receive, in a thread like this: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/19903? Will you have an office thread (either combined with the inbox thread or separate)?
- Do you think endorsing the delegate should be mandatory?
- Will you mass-TG the Islands with updates? If so, what kind of updates and how often?
- Will you post the emissaries report in a pinned dispatch every month?
- What do you think of this law?: 10000islands.proboards.com/thread/36910/288-delegate-term-limit-passed
- Without holding you to the promise, will you consider running for a second term after this one (especially noting that this coming term is already longer than normal due to United Royal Islands' resignation)?
Take your time; I've thrown the kitchen sink out here.