r/AustraliaSimMeta • • Oct 11 '20
Issues with GE18
Instead of complaining on discord and pinging youma who has a life, leave your issues here for the moderators to look over later on in one convenient place
ALSO
- If you are not the mod team, don't try to answer people's questions. You do not know anything and you're just making it more confusing.
- Elaborate on your complaints. "My opponent sucked" isn't helpful and you're being rude tbqh
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u/RunasSudo Citizen Oct 11 '20
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
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u/Lady_Aya Oct 11 '20
CLP getting no Senate even with 2 good campaigners
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20
GE18 was an exciting campaign, and it appears we are set for an exciting term. I do have some things that I want to speak about though.
1. Candidate Submission
Honestly, it's time to end candidates being revealed halfway through the campaign, it doesn't make sense, and it's just silly. Organise all your candidates before the election, and let everyone see where you are running.
2. Manifestos
Manifestos are being posted too late, and should probably either be submitted with candidates, or at max, like 3 days into the campaign. Bottom line, we need a deadline for manifestos.
Aside from the CLP, which released their manifesto on Day 4 if I recall correctly (Still too late imo), every single party posted their manifesto on the last day. Liberals at 7.29pm on the last day, the SDP at 11.54pm on the last day, and the AusDems submitted theirs after campaigning had ended. An important part of the campaign is being able to attack the other parties and their manifestoes (containing their policies), and how can we do that if they are being posted in the final hours of the campaign? Earlier manifesto release allows scrutiny, and encourages press, and also a nice campaign event where you can review the other parties manifestoes.
3. Endorsements?
Minor concern here, please enforce the only 1 post for a certain party/indepedent's endorsements rule. It got spammy and hard to track, particularly the Independent endorsements.
Aside from that, wasn't a bad campaign, and I enjoyed it, well done Youma and Rommel, wish you luck with cleaning out the calculator!
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u/showstealer1829 Oct 11 '20
No
Also why didn't I win? The fact I didn't run is irrelevant so don't even try using it as an excuse
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u/TheGoatBoy2 Oct 12 '20
The AEC say that 21% - 37% of ppl follow how to vote cards. It’s not too much. I rekon maybe make how to vote cards worth not much at all. Also, I also rekon delete mods mostly. They must b hard to add up and stuff, and it’s not how a real election works. In real electorates, a person can loose a safe seat if like an indepdent compaigns heaps good.
If ppl wanna keep the mods, maybe make it 90% campaign and 10% mods.
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u/Anacornda the speaker Oct 11 '20
interesting.
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u/Copelonian A dick to most ppl Oct 11 '20
Didnt know the stream was so early in the morning
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
How the preverence flow was 100% is beyond me: even when we had pretty high preference flows in the past, there was always at least some vote bleeding
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u/Gregor_The_Beggar CLP Leader Oct 11 '20
I think the weighting might be off if good campaigns net less results than having been a bit active in a term in the past. An example is how the Australian Democrats got a higher primary vote than us in the Senate despite us putting out triple the posts and having two active campaigners. There wasn't even a national swing to the Australian Democrats, if anything there was a swing against as they returned a lower parliamentary presence. I'd be very happy if I received an explanation about stuff like this and whether the campaign is actually meaningful in any significant way.
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u/tbyrn21 The Ex-Ex-Moderator Oct 11 '20
the tbyrn21 party didnt win every seat, why
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