Re: GRC Economic and Military Rankings (COMMENT PERIOD)
Posted: Wed May 09, 2018 12:59 am
Okay, so apparently there are two discussions going on about the rankings. The public one, which is here. And a private one somewhere else involving thirteen RP Committee members, where non-members have no opportunity either to see the points that are made or to respond to them.
Is anyone else finding this whole set-up bizarre, given the comparatively small size of our forum RPing community?
In my view, the rankings process should be as transparent as reasonably possible, with everybody able to see what is going on and participate. At some point, of course, somebody is going to have to made a decision about what the outcome is going to be, but I really feel the main discussion should be on the public forum and that the decisions should be made through a process that is as consensual as it can reasonably be. This has been done previously.
I am already concerned that in other parts of the game, the transparency we have had in the past has been undermined. Only a few days ago, I raised an innocuous and perfectly legitimate query about a Cultural Protocol update being accepted that actually broke the conditions set out in the rules. In response, I received an officious pm in my inbox from Moderation, insisting it is not allowed to raise such queries on the thread and threatening sanctions if it happens again. Was the RP Committee involved in formulating this response? I honestly don't know what the RP Committee is involved in and what it isn't, because it hasn't been made clear and there has not been great communication. What this seemed to demonstrate, though, was quite a worrying over-defensiveness and opposition to reasonable transparency.
So to be frank, my worry is that we are going to get to a point where the rankings update process goes the same way as the Cultural Protocol approvals process, with the key discussions taking place between a small group of people in private, the rest of the community effectively shut out and folk who raise questions getting jumped upon.
Is anyone else finding this whole set-up bizarre, given the comparatively small size of our forum RPing community?
In my view, the rankings process should be as transparent as reasonably possible, with everybody able to see what is going on and participate. At some point, of course, somebody is going to have to made a decision about what the outcome is going to be, but I really feel the main discussion should be on the public forum and that the decisions should be made through a process that is as consensual as it can reasonably be. This has been done previously.
I am already concerned that in other parts of the game, the transparency we have had in the past has been undermined. Only a few days ago, I raised an innocuous and perfectly legitimate query about a Cultural Protocol update being accepted that actually broke the conditions set out in the rules. In response, I received an officious pm in my inbox from Moderation, insisting it is not allowed to raise such queries on the thread and threatening sanctions if it happens again. Was the RP Committee involved in formulating this response? I honestly don't know what the RP Committee is involved in and what it isn't, because it hasn't been made clear and there has not been great communication. What this seemed to demonstrate, though, was quite a worrying over-defensiveness and opposition to reasonable transparency.
So to be frank, my worry is that we are going to get to a point where the rankings update process goes the same way as the Cultural Protocol approvals process, with the key discussions taking place between a small group of people in private, the rest of the community effectively shut out and folk who raise questions getting jumped upon.