The Champagne Room was the main pledge of my election manifesto! It is a roped off exclusive section of the forum, a land of milk & honey, where me and tokyos can lay back feeding each other grapes & acid, exchanging pictures of Hot Birds & Sealife in Compromising Positions, attended to by a bevy of strippers & lapdancers. A safe space for perverts, where we can discuss high level matters, like who needs banning, and who needs a satirical nickname. Important Soviet Supremors, like me and tokyos, need to be able to test boundaries of sense and decency, without risk of prying eyes & prosecution.
And all the time, BTripz (who has already been voted out the quorum at inagural meeting) will be locked outside, nose pressed to window, tears streaming down his stupid face!
The only thing I can tell you is that the role is far less interesting than you seem to think it is. It never carried mod privileges. You’ll have input on future decisions.
I am excited by this, in fact my first action was to make this thread a sticky.
Well done Pap, I thought you were going to Fidel Castro the vote and like a true socialist, pretend a vote that didn’t go your way did not happen. However, you have got over your issues with the results and on this occasion been the bigger man, I know this can’t have been easy for you.
My other suspicion was that the job role will be dumbed down from being ‘a position of great power and responsibility’ to one that is solely responsible for editing the words ‘Muslim’ and ‘immigrant’ from every barry post for the previous 4 years. I am sure that won’t be the case though and hope we can get along with some mild swiping. So… what is the job role?
Can I propose a new faster counting system for the site? It has taken you the best part of a year to count just over 60 votes. Even with recounts and repeatedly asking “why the fuck did they vote for these idiots?” that is a long time. There must be some online software that helps with the counting in the re-elections that are no doubt due soon?
I’m pretty sure pap wouldn’t alter the terms of the job role even if such an inordinate amount of time has passed since the original vote that no one can remember exactly what the role was supposed to be in the first place. That sounds highly unlikely to me, but just to be doubly sure perhaps someone should check back through the minutes?
It was extremely easy, @tokyo-saint . There’s no modding associated with the role, so unless you’re planning to edit those words out of your own posts, you’ll not have to worry about thankless admin tasks.
As for what the job role is, you’ll be involved in future site direction as and when we discuss it among the eight. You’ll obviously miss some meetings ( the ones that happen in real life ) and an absent Soviet may not attract too many votes next year.
It’s very tied up in development activities at present. I’m not anticipating any major changes until Christmas. In the meantime, you’re free to make the Soviet role whatever you like. I’d like to think you’ve got something grander in mind than a springboard for bitching, but it’s your gig, baby.
I remember something about having three bannings per week, two of which carry over if unused. I think they called bannings something like guestings to make them seem less like bannings. We also have to go to a pub in the new forest for the ‘making ceremony’ I’ve seen goodfellas so bear is going in first. After that, I have heard the survivors have some say in site decisions, basically when pap pisses someone off we get some say in if that person gets guested for life or if we ask bletch to ask him to calm down a bit and take on some more hours at work for a while.
Bletch, in that vain can you please tell shirty it is safe to come back now.
Nah, just the technical platform moving forward and how that’ll weigh into the culture of the site. I’m developing an entirely new software system that’ll be used for Sotonians.
I watched The Death Of Stalin at weekend. It was quite good + funny. I took bird, as revenge for make me sit through the interminably boring Victoria + Abdul the other week. She did not like Death Of Stalin. She did not laugh once. She sat there, all arms crossed and poker face through the whole thing, and at end advised she would give the film “2/10”. But that is birds for you. I thought it was good + funny.
I only mention this, cos I know quite a lot about how these Soviet things operate now, and I don’t think they work quite how pap seems to think they work. If an individual sticks his neck out and tries to develop an entirely new software system, I’m not sure how that would go down with the rest of the Soviet. I think that would end v.badly for him!