Proposal for Censuses

[OPD]

Re: Proposal for Censuses

Originally posted by jdd2007

Currently you sign up and there are weekly censuses

There are weekly censusesesesessss (whatever)?
I consider myself an active member but have never signed one of these census things.

I like the idea of pre election sign ups though.

[Edrix]

Originally posted by GodKing
ps - I am against the idea of having to sign up in order to vote. The more people that can participate in any way the better off we are.

MarkG was working on a system wherin only people who were registered citizens of the Demo Game could vote, and I think this is a perfect idea. It isn't exceedingly difficult to sign up as a citizen, so I don't think that we'd lose THAT many potential members...

And I feel that the re-registration can effectively replace the census. Even if someone misses the re-registration for a particular month, they can register at ANY time they want. It's not enough of a hassle to make an issue out of, and if anything, they should be happy that they have an excuse to increase their post count.

jdd, there shouldn't be a problem with your proposition of this amendment. Go ahead and post it; it'll get my vote.

[Kuciwalker]

What if people are gone while the resignup thing is open? I think they should be able to post early if they'll be gone.

[disorganizer]

maybe the re-signup should run the whole month. at the end of the month, all signed up citizens are eligable for voting in the election.
after the election the list is cleared and you re-signup.
so if someone misses the signup, well, he didnt get any info on the game last month. so he sould not elect others.

EDIT:
he can of course sign up for the next months election.

[jdd2007]

now that i have thought about it, i think every two months would be the best time interval between sign ups. what do you think?

[Captain]

jdd2007, you don't have to have an amendment unless you want the census procedure codified in the Constitution. We don't even have it in there now.

You can post a regular official poll too, and that would only require "the most votes" wins (or 50% according to tradition).

but either way, I'm not sure what the purpose of our census is.

If it's to establish a quorum requirement for voting - such as polls require 50%+ of active citizens to vote to be valid - then anything that helps improve that process is fine by me.

How about this though, anyone who posts in the forum automatically renews membership? I don't know how counting these things goes, so I'm not sure.

[disorganizer]

captain: if this works, it will be the best thing. but will also include me in citizenship ;-)

the purpose of the census was and is to determine the number of active citizens. ppl were wondering why we have 200 citizens and nobody votes. there was an arguing about how many citizens are there (most numbers were far below the numbers we have from the census btw.).
i then started the census polls to see the results. it will also show us the trend over time.
any other method of obtaining the same results will be fine, as posting this poll every week is a kind of boring for me too.

[jdd2007]

i think it really will be the best thing...