Democratic Community

What are you thoughts on a community with the ability to run itself? Most communities are currently more or less a monarchy, but what if the community had a role in running itself? Could even go as far as having elections for administrators/management or what-ever. I'd image there would still need to be someone in charge to handle the money and development.

 

Ofcourse, there would have to be. What about judiciary and legislation? A community could vote people in to handle reports, appeals, new potential rules that could go through "parliament (or congress)"

 

That is true. Would probably need to ensure that the voters are actually in the interest in the community. If it was a huge community then that wouldn't matter. This could easily lead it straight back to where it came from as the leaders would have control of who votes.

 

i've thought of this idea before. it's impossible, as tyler said there's too many retards running about in RPs now that it's hard to trust anyone with such power, you have to consider people are also gonna vote their friends in and shit then it becomes a huge circle jerk.

 

@Generisk Løytnant

haha cog

 

If your server/community has more than one person "at the top" you're bound for disaster, let alone a democracy.
Keep it simple. Owner at the top, right hand men for the major issues of a game server (keeping the server physically running, making sure admins aren't shit heads, making sure the community is organized and happy).
Like @outro sort of said, if you don't have a clear idea of what you want from a server and the plan to implement it, you probably won't be very successful.

 

Personally, I'd suggest putting together a solid administration team that knows how to cooperate and compromise with one another. From there, create a suggestions area of the forums and make it obvious that player's voices are taken into consideration. This also allows you to filter out what you might deem as an unnecessary/unwanted direction for the community while still permitting input to be freely spoken.

 

Autocratic servers are the only stable ones.

 

Thanks for your thoughts

 

it worked
for a year and a half or something like that
lol do you remember that kid who dos'd your house constantly

 

You tried a similar idea?

 

yeah, and it worked for like a year and a half
or maybe a year sounds more like it

though, i can't remember exactly how we did it
we just did

 

Why'd it go bad?

 

mostly due to the owner having to leave for uni / irl things
then swapping of finance people
then finances died out
and then we died out

several communities were made after that, but kept dying due to financial issues

 

Was this a smaller community?

 

no it was coalitionofgamers

typically 20/30 people a day
wasn't shit quality, was okay but could be way better

my memory is shit, so sorry for being vague with answers regarding this stuff
@CakeZ can probably help out with some if there's more questions

 

I've tried this before, it worked pretty well.

But holy hell did it ever take long to come to a decision, the meetings I ran on TS3 lasted hours. We had people present the vote and then people would give their thoughts on it, each person had to take turns because the person given "the floor" was the only one to have the TS3 permissions to speak. Afterwards we did a simple vote on the options presented (type one of the numbers: 1 - Yes, 2 - No, etc.). Everyone also had the option to abstain from the vote.

 

Sounds like speaking to an automated voicemail in a voting booth.

 

Nah, we had some pretty deep discussions on whichever matters were presented. I also should've mentioned that we allowed people to converse in chat, but more so for clarifications than to debate.

 

Sounds pretty damned civil. I know with the right community it's possible to do so, but as stated before, it only takes a handful of players coming into the server to derail all that hard work.