NationStates Jolt Archive

Since i have joined the U.N., ive noticed one very frustrating thing about it. It seems we spend more time repealing and nullifying old proposals than actually doing anything. This entire U.N., who seem to pride themselves in the pretending to be the real thing, never seems to come up with any real solutions and merely chases its own tail.

Of course, there is a major cause to this problem. There is no discussion or revision of repeals, all we can ever do is vote yes or no, accept them or nullify them. As such, whenever a proposal comes forth, all that is needed is one or two words out of place and people can disagree with it. And then, without any revision or editing of the proposal its passed or blocked, and then inevitably repealed. Certainly there is a lot of discussion of proposals, but in the end this may as well not take place because discuss it all you want, no change to the proposal is made.

I'm sure you can all see where I'm going with this. We need a way of adjusting the proposals, rather than accepting or refusing them. That way, we would not have endless repeals as hopefully the proposal would be right the first time.

After submission, it is completely impossible to change a resolution. It has to fail quorum or be repealed or otherwise struck out to be changed. This is due to the code of the game, and, as I'm sure the mods will say, they aren't going to change the code.

To put it simply, amendments are illegal, and will remain illegal for the foreseeable future.

The real problem is that the majority of players don't bother with the forums, which is where well-crafted resolutions come to be. If more people would submit proposals here, and then have them be discussed, we'd have less problems. The recent holiday tripe is one such example. Had the author posted it here, first, it would've been shot down for being above the game.

The basic concept of what you're talking about already exists here. It just isn't being utilized by the majority of the 20,758 member nations. If you hang out here in the UN forum for a while, you'll see there's... I don't know, maybe - maybe - 100 or so regular players you'll see. That's .5% of the UN. If we can somehow get more people involved in the forums, we can solve a lot of problems. Unfortunately, I know people in RealSpace™ who just don't like forums, despite liking the game.

Oh well. Such is life. We just have to live with the system.

Now I'm bored, so I'll shut up.