Citizenship

[Stilgar08]

Yes, let's bring some order and decorum to this game. Quit making everything so easy for everyone; the lack of challenge is the real key to losing people

If it's too hard for you to register with a small post stating your name you're right, of course!

Maybe DaveShack is right: It's Pandora's Box here!

Nevertheless I stand to my point: When in doubt the court has to be called (Personally I don't think this debate will occur very often...)

I agree with Black Hole though: Posting in the citizen-thread doesn't mean a lot but should be considered when very close polls are on the verge... (read my post above please: Don't wanna quote myself...)

 

[RegentMan]

No, it simply gives us a list of people that posted in that thread... Most people that post in the citizen registry don't even post or anything

I'm voting no, its mostly useless...

Better that than having someone post "I voted for RegentMan" then never returning again. How can a democracy function today without an accurate count on the number of her citizens? Without a citizen registry, we have to assume that all 71,000 CFCers are members of our democracry.

 

[DaveShack]

How can a democracy function today without an accurate count on the number of her citizens? Without a citizen registry, we have to assume that all 71,000 CFCers are members of our democracry.

We have a semi-accurate count on a monthly basis -- the average number of votes cast in the elections for a term. If we write our rules so that nothing is dependent on a census, then we don't even need that.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Better that than having someone post "I voted for RegentMan" then never returning again. How can a democracy function today without an accurate count on the number of her citizens? Without a citizen registry, we have to assume that all 71,000 CFCers are members of our democracry.

And we get an accurate count with a citizen registry? You said it yourself: people will post and leave - we can't control that. The citizen registry would only make them make an extra post before they post + leave.

 

[Nobody]

This is just a issue we didn't need, once along time ago Provolution sued the president over appointing a non citizen (or something to that affect) the court mayed some stupid ruling that you dont need to a be a citizen to become a president. and now we have this.

lets just say you cant have a city named after you unless you post in that thread. so then it wont matter

 

[Black_Hole]

This is just a issue we didn't need, once along time ago Provolution sued the president over appointing a non citizen (or something to that affect) the court mayed some stupid ruling that you dont need to a be a citizen to become a president. and now we have this.

lets just say you cant have a city named after you unless you post in that thread. so then it wont matter

I was on that court and if you read the constitution there was no clause saying "Elected officials must be citizens", look as long as you like... The judiciary shouldn't rule on non written laws

 

[DaveShack]

Actually the ruling was that the appointment was invalid because the person being appointed wasn't a citizen due to having not posted in the registry. He then registered and the President immediately repeated the same appointment. One of the people arguing for citizen registration being mandatory happens also to be one of the other applicants for that position (who obviously was not selected for the job) and may therefore have an axe to grind. I'm not naming any names , and we can leave it at that.

 

[Cyc]

The main purpose of the Citizen's Registry eventually came to be the ordering list for having a city named by citizen's. True, it gave a little info about fellow citizens, but that's not neccessary.

The idea that the CR could keep a reign on the wild recruiting policies we used to see in Presidential (and other) elections soon vaporized. When you have what, 500 people registered, who cares?

The CR does work as some kind of sign of patriotic notation, a foot note in the DG. But should it be required? Yes and No.

 

[Gloriana]

For voting it certainly is impossible to check all the names on the CR, so in that respect I say leave it. To get the opposing camps a step closer together we could say that you should be registered as a Citizen if you want to hold an official office. So let it say in the Code of Laws that voting is open to every resident (basically all CFC members..) but you can only run for office if you're a Citizen (registered in the CR...) We'd have to leave it to the fairness of people then to not bring in shiploads of people for a quick vote in their favour, which would be cheating or 'corruption' condemnable by the judiciary branch (hard to prove though).

 

[Black_Hole]

For voting it certainly is impossible to check all the names on the CR, so in that respect I say leave it. To get the opposing camps a step closer together we could say that you should be registered as a Citizen if you want to hold an official office. So let it say in the Code of Laws that voting is open to every resident (basically all CFC members..) but you can only run for office if you're a Citizen (registered in the CR...) We'd have to leave it to the fairness of people then to not bring in shiploads of people for a quick vote in their favour, which would be cheating or 'corruption' condemnable by the judiciary branch (hard to prove though).

I think it should be either yes or no, otherwise it complicates things...

 

[Stilgar08]

Pandora's Box!

I'm against the necessity of registering in the citizen-thread in order to be able to get an office, BUT when polls get questioned it should be ONe (out of many) factors to take into account... Judging often includes weighing of certain aspects which have to influence the adjudicate...

If it has to be YES or NO I say "YES"