tennisace
not quite too old for this, apparently
Hi there.
I've been talking with a lot of different people lately, and the majority of people who don't currently participate much say that it is because there is a lot of "red tape" in CAP. I want to fix this.
Basically, I want to simplify CAP as much as possible. People shouldn't have to read a dissertation to understand the project and participate. As people have seen from my recent threads, I want to streamline the process as much as I possibly can, so that the projects go faster and more smoothly, allowing us to do more projects in a shorter period of time, while also allowing more time for certain discussions.
What this thread is about specifically is the Policy Review Committee. In theory, it was created so that "good" posters would have some say in the policy of CAP, and also get to elect the TL. However, there have been no recent votes on policy by the PRC. All policy changes have been suggested by mods (or at least posed by mods), and decided on by mods. This system works.
In the meantime, the PRC still elects the TL. However, the PRC is chosen, again, by the mods. I'm not going to bullshit you all and say that there was no favoritism involved in selecting the PRC, because there was. Mods were automatically on it, former TLs were automatically on it, and if you had status in #cap (given by me usually), you were on it. All this did was encourage people to suck up to the mods in my opinion.
So I want to do away with the elitism and get rid of the PRC. This raises a couple issues:
For the first one, there are three (really two) viable possibilities. We could:
a) Have the mods choose the TL through the standard application process, cutting out the middleman of the PRC completely.
b) Have the public as a whole vote on the TL, opening up the privilege of voting to everyone but also opening the possibility of bandwagoning.
c)
For the second issue, there are a few different ideas I'm mulling currently, but I could use more. In addition to giving status on #cap should a good poster frequent IRC, I am planning on making a "Poster of the Month" type competition (obviously not just once a month given the time frame for a typical CAP). This will include both CAP poll discussions AND discussion threads about the various CAP metagames that I will be making soon (others can volunteer if they have ideas, just not in this thread).
I'd like to hear the general public's thoughts on this, keeping in mind that this is the major hold up for getting CAP2 started.
I've been talking with a lot of different people lately, and the majority of people who don't currently participate much say that it is because there is a lot of "red tape" in CAP. I want to fix this.
Basically, I want to simplify CAP as much as possible. People shouldn't have to read a dissertation to understand the project and participate. As people have seen from my recent threads, I want to streamline the process as much as I possibly can, so that the projects go faster and more smoothly, allowing us to do more projects in a shorter period of time, while also allowing more time for certain discussions.
What this thread is about specifically is the Policy Review Committee. In theory, it was created so that "good" posters would have some say in the policy of CAP, and also get to elect the TL. However, there have been no recent votes on policy by the PRC. All policy changes have been suggested by mods (or at least posed by mods), and decided on by mods. This system works.
In the meantime, the PRC still elects the TL. However, the PRC is chosen, again, by the mods. I'm not going to bullshit you all and say that there was no favoritism involved in selecting the PRC, because there was. Mods were automatically on it, former TLs were automatically on it, and if you had status in #cap (given by me usually), you were on it. All this did was encourage people to suck up to the mods in my opinion.
So I want to do away with the elitism and get rid of the PRC. This raises a couple issues:
- Who will elect the TL?
- What incentive for good posting will there be, especially for those who don't frequent #cap?
For the first one, there are three (really two) viable possibilities. We could:
a) Have the mods choose the TL through the standard application process, cutting out the middleman of the PRC completely.
b) Have the public as a whole vote on the TL, opening up the privilege of voting to everyone but also opening the possibility of bandwagoning.
c)
The nuclear option and one not really up for discussion at this point, getting rid of the TL entirely and having moderators create topics and run discussions, like other forums. (I would really rather save this for another thread, but I mention it so people can see my full thoughts on the matter. This is why it is in hide tags.)
For the second issue, there are a few different ideas I'm mulling currently, but I could use more. In addition to giving status on #cap should a good poster frequent IRC, I am planning on making a "Poster of the Month" type competition (obviously not just once a month given the time frame for a typical CAP). This will include both CAP poll discussions AND discussion threads about the various CAP metagames that I will be making soon (others can volunteer if they have ideas, just not in this thread).
I'd like to hear the general public's thoughts on this, keeping in mind that this is the major hold up for getting CAP2 started.