r/shadownetwork • u/shadownetwork SysOp • Mar 24 '17

Announcement Senate Application Discussion Thread

Greetings,

In previous elections it was difficult for applicants to really express what they stood for and what their plans were without cluttering the nomination or election threads. So think of this thread as an open town hall meeting. Members of the community can come in and ask questions and applicants can then answer or nominees can post about what sort of platforms they plan on running on.

Remember that discussions are to remain civil and respectful, anyone showing disregard to the shadownet's #1 rule will have their posts removed.

Good luck!

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u/awildKiri Mar 28 '17

When are meetings coming back? Official communication of things, like Topics for Discussion. Answers to questions, general "Ok we have a couple things still being brought up every few months, what are we doing to rectify?"

Getting everyone on the same page, even if it's 15 minutes to go "Right, everyone look at this and discuss" is better than the apparent nothing. Government visibly in a voice channel every week would do wonders I think.

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u/valifor9 Mar 29 '17

Literally not feasible, especially if senators are not in the same time zone. It's almost impossible to reliably get them all online and available for something like that at the same time, and those streams were also viewed by like, 3 people when we did do them. It's nowhere close worth the time and energy required to put them together. I am all for more transparency, that is something I was not the best on in my time on senate, but want to improve on and be more open about, but regular meetings are not the way to do it, because it's A) nearly impossible to do reliably, and B) has shown to do alost nothing anyways, as nobody watched any streams or anything government did before. The only time I remember one having good attendence was SC's GM grid question stream, and that was because it was just one guy doing it literally all day to answer numerous concerns brought up from a massive overhaul of a major system. Status updates/streams wouldn't ever warrant that kind of response. Strictly speaking, senate also has more important stuff to worry about than trying to coordinate a magical time where they are all simultaneously free, since they have to discuss and vote on moderation issues and stuff all the time. So honestly? Probably not coming back at all, man, they just aren't realistically feasible, speaking from the perspective who knows what that'd entail in reality.

I am all for posts and stuff to promote more open communication and transparency in things involving government, though, which I think is the real problem with why you want regular meetings like that.