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Proposal - The current Forum has 20,000 members who represent a Global Community of 20,000,000 Online players. Of these 20,000 Forum members there are roughly 200 active regular Forum users.
These 200 members are like a democratic body representing the 20M players world-wide. We vote on ideas and generally have a major say on what get's passed and what get's sent back to the drawing board.
InnoGames is relying on us, for an influx of good ideas, which have a solid backing from the players of the game.
What worries me however, is some members' gung-ho attitude when it comes to a Forum issue called 'Vote Rigging'. This is essentially a way to destroy the representation of the Forum and essentially 'buy' votes from outside sources.
Details: This idea is meant at curbing the effect of 'Vote Rigging', which even Pushty, the main advocate of the legality of the loophole admits is:
I therefore suggest we place a restriction on who can vote on ideas.
Currently the line of thinking is:
-You must have be a member of the Forums for at least a week
-Every single idea vote is a public vote
I would also suggest an implementation of another restriction: To vote you have to accompany your vote with a short explanation of why you voted for which side.
This would clarify the whole system, and destroy the loophole that certain dark members of our society have exploited.
Reason
Why is Vote Rigging dangerous?
Personally I have 326 Skype contacts who are all affiliated to Grepolis, and play the game. Imagine the swing I could potentially have on votes which usually have around 50-60 players voting. By not closing this loophole we would find ourselves in a purely political society where each alliance leader has a major say, with votes becoming an asset bought, not earnt.
Every time 'Vote Rigging' occurs, the vote is skewed towards the side which bought the largest amount of votes. This isn't representative of anything, and frankly is morally flawed, and would create and extremely shifty political Forum which no-one wants to see happen. This is a big issue, which is affecting major votes significantly, and it needs to be killed.
Summary:
tl;dr? I apologize. An idea which curbs 'Vote rigging' and therefore makes voting more representative of the players by cutting out 'bought' votes.
*Please note, I am not accusing any specific member of this Forum of carrying out Vote rigging, as I have no evidence. Vote rigging is also not against Forum rules currently. I am also not inferring mod bias by targeting Pushty as Vote Rigging Advocate, I am merely fighting statements made by that individual which I find wrong and indefensible. I am a great supporter of the moderators of the Forum, and am greatly appreciative of the great job they do moderating the Forum. Although I may not always state it, I respect all of you absolutely, especially the Purples, and this is one of the fairest and more representative Forums I have ever posted in.
tl;dr, mods give me a hug.
These 200 members are like a democratic body representing the 20M players world-wide. We vote on ideas and generally have a major say on what get's passed and what get's sent back to the drawing board.
InnoGames is relying on us, for an influx of good ideas, which have a solid backing from the players of the game.
What worries me however, is some members' gung-ho attitude when it comes to a Forum issue called 'Vote Rigging'. This is essentially a way to destroy the representation of the Forum and essentially 'buy' votes from outside sources.
Details: This idea is meant at curbing the effect of 'Vote Rigging', which even Pushty, the main advocate of the legality of the loophole admits is:
I therefore suggest we place a restriction on who can vote on ideas.
Currently the line of thinking is:
-You must have be a member of the Forums for at least a week
-Every single idea vote is a public vote
I would also suggest an implementation of another restriction: To vote you have to accompany your vote with a short explanation of why you voted for which side.
This would clarify the whole system, and destroy the loophole that certain dark members of our society have exploited.
Reason
Why is Vote Rigging dangerous?
Personally I have 326 Skype contacts who are all affiliated to Grepolis, and play the game. Imagine the swing I could potentially have on votes which usually have around 50-60 players voting. By not closing this loophole we would find ourselves in a purely political society where each alliance leader has a major say, with votes becoming an asset bought, not earnt.
Every time 'Vote Rigging' occurs, the vote is skewed towards the side which bought the largest amount of votes. This isn't representative of anything, and frankly is morally flawed, and would create and extremely shifty political Forum which no-one wants to see happen. This is a big issue, which is affecting major votes significantly, and it needs to be killed.
Summary:
tl;dr? I apologize. An idea which curbs 'Vote rigging' and therefore makes voting more representative of the players by cutting out 'bought' votes.
*Please note, I am not accusing any specific member of this Forum of carrying out Vote rigging, as I have no evidence. Vote rigging is also not against Forum rules currently. I am also not inferring mod bias by targeting Pushty as Vote Rigging Advocate, I am merely fighting statements made by that individual which I find wrong and indefensible. I am a great supporter of the moderators of the Forum, and am greatly appreciative of the great job they do moderating the Forum. Although I may not always state it, I respect all of you absolutely, especially the Purples, and this is one of the fairest and more representative Forums I have ever posted in.
tl;dr, mods give me a hug.
Hahahaha, lazy bugger