Polites wrote:I am generally opposed to using screenshots as evidence for anything in this game, since they can be very easily altered. In this case one need only take a screenshot at a different time (when the vote goes in their favor, for instance) and just edit the time.
You'd actually need four screenshots and the screenshots would have to plausibly align with the vote count in subsequent days and each screenshot's visual evidence would have to precisely line-up with the other three. In this case you don't even need screenshots -- you could just look at when the decisive votes were completed.
Polites wrote:I understand that, had we done the count on the 1st rather than on the 3rd, the result would have been different,
Oh so you're aware that someone just stole a security council seat.
Polites wrote:but to be fair this was a rather exceptional case. I've rarely seen WC campaigns get so much traction so quickly, and it's probably the first time when a delay of two days would have impacted the final result.
It is not exceptional and it is not the first time. I've run security council campaigns and I've conducted security council vote counts. It is the norm that contested security council campaigns go down to the wire and that their outcomes are up-in-the-air until the very last minute. That's why a precise count time is so important. In my first security council campaign (the very first in the game), if Aquinas's count had been off by 24 hours we would have lost. It is a common occurrence in security council campaigns. You should query players who have experience in security council gameplay before insisting on such a pat response, Polites. I don't know if other players haven't noticed this thread or don't care, but they should notice and care because what you've just done has implications not only for many players' RPs but for the fairness of future elections.
Polites wrote:In any case, we will continue to do our best to adhere to the timeline, and hopefully future delays will not result in different results if such delays cannot be avoided.
We'll try to count it on the first but if we don't and it affects the result, oh well? Come on man. Players put alot of effort into these campaigns. It's one thing to disagree on setting a count time, it's another to be so nonchalant about it.
Baltusia should contest these results because they just had their seat stolen due to moderator arbitrariness.