Dune Rhur said:
I'd like to add that I feel Masters and senior Knights should have priority over recent Knight promotions. No offense, but a Paddy isn't experienced enough to guide a Council. If Dune doesn't get elected that's okay, I'm just saying IC inexperienced people shouldn't get an IC leadership position of importance.
Let's not turn this into a popularity contest. Let's not let this situation screw us over and mess a good thing up. If we are doing this, let's do it right. This thing has happened in the past iterations of the Order. It went to poodoo in the end. So again let's do it right or not at all.
I disagree that anyone should have priority for any reason other than the following factors:
1) Level of activity/Time with the faction
2) Availability of time
3) Quality of writing
ADDTN:
4) Ability to cooperate and coordinate with other writers/faction representatives
5) Ability to mediate OOC conflict between writers (faction internal and external)
Other than that, I find little else that matters. People ought to write the characters they're suited for, the ones they want to write and
can write
well. Couple these tenets with their OOC personality and the position said character's role serves within the faction.
Characters on the Council are not only IC bureaucrats that hold meetings about holding meetings, they are writers responsible for coordinating and guiding RP for the
Jedi writers of the Republic faction.
This is paramount.
What has disappointed me about all of these conversations is I am hard-pressed to find mention of the words "writing" or "story" anywhere in these posts.
Throwing people at a Council is well and good, but are they going to be around for any significant period of time?
Do they have obligations that will prevent them from properly engaging in their OOC duties to facilitate RP?
How long have they been with the faction?
Are they good writers; do they produce quality work, develop interesting and engaging storylines, or are their efforts rooted in the mundane?
All of the above is why I write Ylva as a Jedi Master, despite her account marking not even enough posts to warrant a tag. I wanted to write a Master, so I wrote a Master. However, I've also been writing Jedi for 10 years, and have been personally involved with this faction for over the last 12 months, with four different characters and a turnover in leadership so high I can't even remember half of their names.
Ylva serves a purpose, but more importantly I do as a writer by participating in the RP development of the Force Academy and the faction as a whole.
These positions are far more than merely IC slots to fill. They are responsibilities for those writers who accept them, and we should only be inducting our faction's best writers to such positions of duty, not simply anyone who walks off the street.
