DG5JR12
I will preface this Opinion with a brief history of the Office of City Naming.
City naming was started back in Demogame 1. The initial idea to create this citizen's perk was well accepted, as it increased citizen participation and helped develop our nation's historical content. The naming of each city was done from the Citizen Registry (CR), through the memory of the people present at the chat, not a bonafide list of names. This turned out to be a bad idea, and in Term 4 we decided to figure it out from the begining and make a list.
In DG2, the Cartographic Office (lead by FortyJ) not only listed our maps for us, but also did a great job with our first official listing of city names in chronological order.
DG3 saw the emergance of the
Office of City Names (created by zorven). This was another great piece of work.
DG4 saw the Census Office take control of not only the Demographics of our citizens, but the City Naming list (again created by zorven). This was indeed the best application for both ideas thus far. By having both the census and city naming located in the same thread, citizens could announce a move to a new city and update their city naming right at the same time (provided they updated their citizen registry post). Niether of these
needed game applications were an elected Office, but designing the Census Office, zorven wisely assumed the responsibility named in Code of Standards (CoS) H.2 of the DG4 Constitution.
Please take note that all of these attempts at city naming were done by people in their first Demogame, except in DG4, which turned out to be the cream of the crop.
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In regards to Black Hole's question, I did not need to go beyond Article D to come to a conclusion, as it covers the points I need to make a decision.
It states:
Code:
The President shall take direction from a
council of leaders and from other elected and appointed
officials via the turnchat instruction thread.
Epimethius position is niether elected or appointed. I can find no reference of the City Naming office being part of the Domestic Deputy Minister's responsibilities. He is certainly not a member of the Council of Leaders in his city naming capacity. The Turn Chat Instruction thread is for these Leader to communicate with the President/DP legal Instructions for use in the Turn Chat. Therefore, Epimethius has no legal authorization to post binding instructions for the President/DP in said thread. I believe it may have been my idea for the City Naming Office official to post the city names for the President (as a courtesy). The amount of names posted by that official would reflect the amount of cities to be started in that Turn Chat alone. I still see no problem with this, but all of the added comments and instruction by Epimethius are unneccesary and unwanted as well as illegal. He cannot demand of or instruct the President/DP to do anything in this capacity.
Article J speaks of elected officials planning and acting according to the WOTP. As Epimethius was NOT elected to this voluntary position, this Article is irrelevant.
Article N speaks of the rights reserved to the People. Also about how all actions not forbidden by forum rules, or by this Constitution, are presumed to
be within the right of every citizen. Well, posting instructions are not within the rights of all people, as stated in Article D of the Constitution. With the other legislated contradictions I see to Epimethius' actions, I cannot find them to be within the spirit of the law. So for me, Article N is also irrelevant.
DG5JR12 Opinion ~ In the eyes of the Chief Justice, Epimethius, in his capacity as the head of the City Naming office may post the names of cities to be started in a Turn Chat Instruction thread as a courtesy to the President/DP. But he has no authority to post
any binding instructions concerning the names, nor can he alter any of the registered names.
. But really, I haven't seen Bootstoots on in a while and as Provolution said, I am up to date on current affairs and plans.
