This thread seems to have gone off topic a bit. If there's an effort underway to bulldoze things and start anew, perhaps that's best discussed on a separate forum? I was of the impression that this is simply a discussion about adding a new forum to the RPC. Baby steps to success. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
To those who voted no, I would be curious about the reasons why.
I voted "Yes with some restrictions".
While I won't list any particular restrictions, I will ask a few follow-up type questions:
1. Should this leaders forum be public (that is read-only to all RPC members, writeable by leaders)?
2. How are "leaders" defined? (gold star, silver star, any limitation on members? as it was before I believe the gold star person and one appointed officer were chosen, though there are far fewer communities nowadays than there were back then)
3. How is a RP linkshell defined? (that was, as I recall, the issue we ran into last time. Non-RP linkshells wanted to be involved, as did RP linkshells on other servers.)
4. What about freelancers?
I'll go on to say that I think if this is implemented, these questions all need to be answered in advance so that there is no ambiguity "after the fact." This forum should not exist for the purposes of discussing policy and such. It should be a round table forum to talk openly about cross-linkshell activities. As "representation" should not matter, I see no reason to limit the number of "leaders per linkshell" to two as was done in the past (though there probably should be some reasonable limitation). I also see no reason to include non-RP linkshells or RP linkshells from other servers as it would seem senseless to do so since they would not participate. Freelancers should also not need representation here, as such a thing would likely be moot. The only exception to that I can think of would be if a freelancer for some reason wanted to organize some kind of an event. I'm not sure how exactly something like this could be handled. Perhaps temporary 'leader forum' access could be granted to help facilitate this. Further discussion would likely be needed to iron out these points.
To those who voted no, I would be curious about the reasons why.
I voted "Yes with some restrictions".
While I won't list any particular restrictions, I will ask a few follow-up type questions:
1. Should this leaders forum be public (that is read-only to all RPC members, writeable by leaders)?
2. How are "leaders" defined? (gold star, silver star, any limitation on members? as it was before I believe the gold star person and one appointed officer were chosen, though there are far fewer communities nowadays than there were back then)
3. How is a RP linkshell defined? (that was, as I recall, the issue we ran into last time. Non-RP linkshells wanted to be involved, as did RP linkshells on other servers.)
4. What about freelancers?
I'll go on to say that I think if this is implemented, these questions all need to be answered in advance so that there is no ambiguity "after the fact." This forum should not exist for the purposes of discussing policy and such. It should be a round table forum to talk openly about cross-linkshell activities. As "representation" should not matter, I see no reason to limit the number of "leaders per linkshell" to two as was done in the past (though there probably should be some reasonable limitation). I also see no reason to include non-RP linkshells or RP linkshells from other servers as it would seem senseless to do so since they would not participate. Freelancers should also not need representation here, as such a thing would likely be moot. The only exception to that I can think of would be if a freelancer for some reason wanted to organize some kind of an event. I'm not sure how exactly something like this could be handled. Perhaps temporary 'leader forum' access could be granted to help facilitate this. Further discussion would likely be needed to iron out these points.
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