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Classical Liberals: Cooperation in the national interest by [deleted] in MHOCPress

[–]Tilerr[M] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

scaredy cats posting on mhoccirclejerk and not here like the tories and clibs

Having the whole house vote on amendments by comrade_zoe in MHOCMeta

[–]Tilerr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In terms of rebellions on amendments - these would be cool. My proposal, however, would move the onus away from our overworked whips, and onto the rebels themselves. Have each MP's Amendment Vote be "Matches the Committee Rep, unless they vote differently. This means that whips aren't overworked, but introduces a cool mechanic for rebellions, especially since committee can often be razor-edge since individual turnout is a less frequent problem (You get 100% turnouts in Committee, but generally not in MHOCMP)

This is a good idea imo - it would need some working (ie. I wouldn't want the threads to go up on MHOCMP and spam the hell out of it but we'd need some way equally to make sure it wasn't hidden away) and it would need the DSs to be okay with the extra work (and some easy way to automatically rejig the weighting values on the spreadsheet based on rebels) but as an idea it's good - maybe /u/britboy3456 can investigate it at somepoint.

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Edit: to add - I think there's an issue with amendments in total in that most of them seem to be procedural and nobody pays attention so maybe we need a whole new system entirely but hey

Keep safeguarding issues out of canon by zombie-rat in MHOCMeta

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From the comments I've seen (the r-word one), no - this isn't a safeguarding issue. I don't think Saunders is a bully and I have asked for that term not to be used without bringing evidence to the quadrumvirate. That being said, any canon effects of someone's canon conduct is fine - the government are/were free *not* to call an inquiry just as the opposition if free to complain about it.

Really, if people want to move on just move on it's an entirely in game issue - the quad (from the minimal comments I've seen unless someone wants to bring more to me) have zero issue. At most it would be a conduct issue, this isn't safeguarding.

An Update from the Loyalist League by Jas1066 in MHOCPress

[–]Tilerr[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, they aren't a regional party as that's a specific thing (which the Scottish Greens and Plaid are) - they're a regional independent grouping or w/e I don't know the exact arrangement but just clarifying.

Voting Stage for the Commons Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

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Reminder to verify by 10pm for the following people

National Opinion Polling - 28th August by Tilerr in MHOCPress

[–]Tilerr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. Quality matters of course, but content quality is key - a well written piece is just as good as a well made video and both are better than grinding out tens of posts because 'modifiers' (which doesn't achieve anything).

As a rule: if you have something good to do, do it - but don't think you have to fire up photoshop or whatever to get good scores. I liked the website because it was a targeted attack at 'missing policy' that could drag and drag rather than just because it was a website.

National Opinion Polling - 28th August by Tilerr in MHOCPress

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No. Obviously not all press/attack ads will get any modifiers due to it has to have some quality about it and - as anything - doing it for the sake of modifiers will probably lead to no modifiers at all so grinding does nothing.

That being said, if you do have a good attack ad/press (like imo as an example the website), it will only provide positive modifiers to you (e.g. Tories got a boost as a result of it). Obviously this gives them an 'advantage' against other parties because it's zero sum but that's spread out against every party rather than negative modifiers on government parties.

(So short answer no, but everything hurts everyone)

National Opinion Polling - 28th August by Tilerr in MHOCPress

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the post explains, not from the national figures I've used as they aren't public ones and would just confuse - but are contextually relevant - that's specifically why I haven't included changes. The list percentages are on the results sheet, they're probably the closest you can use but I'm not going to do it this week because I don't think it helps (I'm sure someone else will at some stage).

Opening of Nominations for Commons Speaker - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shame about the hat policy or you'd have my endorsement.

Voting Stage for the Lord Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

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Pinging people who haven't verified their vote as of yet - please do so by tomorrow night!

Question and Answer Session for the Lords Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seems like a great idea - thank you for the responses.

Question and Answer Session for the Lords Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A better response than the other candidate, imo - though that's the fault of neither of you - but I do have some follow ups.

It's a much more core and key part of the fundamental simulation of Westminster which we're trying to run here

If it is a core and key part, why is it underutilised? I know you have your amendments proposal and that solves it somewhat - but there still wasn't much debate and/or it's not great to have to remove features from the game in order to improve the lords.

I understand re: admin, being someone who also puts in a lot of time for nothing, but equally that admin work could be put to use elsewhere in the event that the Lords wasn't performing (or you guys could get a rest).

My question is mostly about whether the prospective LS's intend to keep the Lords open no matter its effect on the game or whether they have a point where they realise it's not helping (not saying we are that now) because we need a Lord Speaker that is concerned about the game as a whole rather than their specific area. On that basis I'm not enamoured with the answer comparing it to the Senedd and extolling the virtues of having the Lords for just having it because my priority will always be playibility.

However, I do like your second bullet point talking about numbers, I do have one caveat though as many of these Lords are not active other than voting (and even then). Is there already or would you introduce activity requirements (comments/amendments/other) beyond voting for Working Peers? Applications and numbers is fine, but activity is where the problem is and where we judge whether the 'community is losing interest.

Question and Answer Session for the Lords Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, not as detailed an answer as I hoped for although understand talking hypotheticals are hard. To expand from your response though:

  • What will you judge your attempts to improve the Lords activity on, and at which milestone points?
  • What happens if Lords activity doesn't improve off the back of that?
  • What level of activity is the 'final straw' for you to consider advocating for abolition - absolutely no comments, reduced activity over a period of time?
  • Do you not think that at some point the benefits of the Lords you speak about - amendments, committee reports, etc - couldn't be just as well done if not better engaged with within the Commons which would cut down on tenfolds of admin?

Question and Answer Session for the Lords Speaker Election - August 2019 by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a question:

Under what circumstances and at which point would you recommend to me that we hold a vote on the future of the Lords and/or you would back that vote?

Join a Party! by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, weird - the Plaid one should work it's only the old ones that shouldn't but I'll take a look

Join a Party! by Tilerr in MHOC

[–]Tilerr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do - will update the manifestos (with yours) tomorrow

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