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We could always write in the lay out, that if so and so goes in active for a period of time they will be requested to give up there position in the gov. by such and such a date.

I see two options here.
1) we set up a permanent gov. one on which members can critique ever so often and decide if any of the officers need to be removed.

2) we can have numerous elections through out the year, electing new and old officers.

sounds good


yeah i think they would..

Something that I had thought of was that there would be the Hybrid AI creating the threads but an elected group would create the theme for the group. The guild would have the "officials" of future lottos already elected/chosen. The officials could just pm AI the layout and such.

As for the Government, we should have more then one person in each position.

Lets say 2 people per position except for Hybrid AI, he would have his three controler people. This way we can have more then one person to go to and if one of them left for a small break then we would still have someone in that possition.

It owuld be the roles of these officials to make sure that we have things set up for at least one lotto ahead of the current lotto. If nothing else then we just have a default lotto to turn to if things are undecided.

Unorganized thoughts of an Alter Ego crying

I think that just allowing people to talk it out is fine. If we start electing representatives and such this will start to become too much like real government. I don't think that's what we need.



Again, I think that having leadership change this often will create confusion and instability. Instability will eventaully lead to the downfall of the guild. I think it would be easier to take a week entertaining ideas for the next lotto and then another week voting on them in an open poll. Whatever idea won is the won we would use. (Reference ideas for themes and such.)

The hybrid lotto is still, essentially, a spam lotto. I don't think that needs much policing. If someone is being abusive or breaking the ToS, anyone can hit the "report post" button. I do it all the time in the exchange when I see people trying to scam.

Some very interesting ideas coming out here, people. Keep them coming!


I love this. Assuming we have everything organized by the next lotto, my vote (as always) is for pirates.


We could set aside a sub-forum specifically for governmental stuff, like the nomination of people and actual voting and what-not. As for the actual positions, I say we keep AI as the Captain and vote in another person as Vice-Captain, but I'm not sure on what other officers we'd really need. Probably a couple mods to police and update the guild and what-not, but I don't see much necessity for anything beyond that. As for multiple people in each office, it depends. Something like Vice-Captain we'd only need one person. Something like a general Mod position (wherein the person would keep things in the right sub-forums and police the guild), though, would almost have to have multiple people just by necessity.


Agreed. We don't want to have to change officials every month or so, but we don't want the same person to be there for months on end, especially if they get tired of the position after a while. But how strict do we want to be on people who want to step down from their positions?


Right. I would say we should just agree on one set length, but I remember when we used to go through hundreds of pages in a matter of a day, whereas now we take a month or two to get through 1000 pages.


I say we keep the discussion open. No need to exclude anybody.


I don't know about this. However, I see absolutely nothing wrong with inviting somebody to help out on one lotto if it's necessary.


This is one thing that has me kinda on the fence. On one hand, I like the idea of guild involvement in the lotto itself, but on the other hand, if you have to do stuff in the guild just for the normal lotto, I dunno. Maybe if we had something in addition to or in place of the mini-lotto where we used guild stuff.


I don't know about actually scheduling some specific time for the people to get together, but I think we should set aside a sub-forum for people to make their voices heard.

Speaking of sub-forums, what sub-forums do we want? So far, I count these:
Old Stuff
Feedback
Additional Guild-based Contests

Any more?

I don't think any one should be excluded on having a say on where the lotto goes. I'm sure everyone cares about it just as much as us.

I say that a odd number is a great idea. Though we could have a group of equal individuals each would have a different responsiblity. (thus share the load between each other)

As for the theme idea. I think it might help guild activity if we have a thread here about it. Maybe a sticky maybe not. But I know Gaia has use to have one for ideas within the members about new items and such. We could do something simular for people's theme ideas. If they don't have a very big idea about it others could add it to and AI finish the thought so to say.

I still want to see the lotto be a open place where newbies feel safe and can enjoy themselves. I remember my first lotto and how welcome I felt. I strongly believe we don't want to lose this feeling for others who wander into our thread. n00bs are many the times filtered out because of the cut off which is nice but we don't want to exclude ourselves from others as well.

The government is a good idea but it is something that can be taken to the extreme. Maybe we should not push too much of different committees, ,or offices but keep it simple and understandable for everyone as members and those in charge.

As for what requirements for theses certain areas? I think they need to be kind and good hearted with the best of the Hybrids in mind, concerned with member issues and ideas, and has *MUST* have a since of humor.

As for activeness and all. I'm not sure what time to set on this.

I do believe we should only have an election if needed by a step down of member or inactive member.

I will try and narrow and summarize issues and questions brought up in the past few days discussion so we can see what has been asked and addressed and what still needs deciding.

I updated the first post with my summery of ideas 3nodding