- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Rip Saw
OK, maybe I shouldn't be the one to do this, since I totally didn't even know about this thread until last Friday when it was too late to start posting stuff, but here goes.
From what I heard last time this was brought up, Bungie wanted this to somehow happen on it's own. They didn't want to pick the people, they wanted the people to pick themselves. Maybe this has changed, maybe it hasn't. I doubt it has.
Let us assume for the time being that the members of the council have to be picked by us. That means everyone at Bungie.net, not JUST the elder-folk such as myself (it'll have been a whole three years by the time many of you read this). The simple fact is, it'll be a popularity contest of sorts, but what election isn't? Was John Kerry the most popular this time around? No. Did Bush win because he was the most popular? Yes. I won't get into who would have been a better leader, but the simple fact is that it will be a popularity contest.
Who is popular? Well, the new guys may rally behind some young gung-ho spam-master, but fine. Odds are such a person won't feel like doing what the council requires them to do anyways. So the bad people will be ruled out from the start, or barring that, they will quit after a few days.
Who else is popular? Are people like mrsmiley popular? Yes. Does anyone here dare say mrsmiley isn't one of the hardest working founders ever? Don't say it in front of me, I'll chew you out, royally. The simple fact is that besides the few spam-masters, the new guys know who's a good community member and they know who is not. They won't be foolish about it. They know who to vote for.
I know what many of you are now saying, "Why can't Bungie make it easy on us and pick the members?" Well, obviously, this is a self run organization. As much as I really wouldn't HATE Bungie simply picking the members, I know a council run by the people elected from the people will get listened to and be judged more fair in the eyes of the people. And, sorry to borrow Achronos' hammer of brutal reality smattering (he used it on me once a week back in the day to crush my dreams of a better Bungie.net), but this extends to the mods as well. I'd love to see the mods have a say, but the brutal reality is a lot of people don't seem to like the mods, and a council elected from the mods' choice would be rejected by some of the members (I say sucks to them, but I've been told to be nice and respect the news guys, even the ones who suck).
So, the questions become, how will we vote, and who will we vote for. Since no one seems to want to be the first to jump into the pool and do what needs to be done, I'll answer one of those questions. I'm going to make a list. This list in no way comprises all who are worthy to be nominated. I will miss quite a few people due to them not being a member in a chapter I am a member in. These are not just people I like, these are people I know would be good at being in a council. They are mostly good content monkeys, and I know these people to have good character. They are people who have remained active, and will occasionally be an ancient member who isn't so active. Some of these people I know best from outside of Bungie.net (the chat) and will therefore be included because I'll assume they are active here as well. Please note, due to the time it started to take me, I only searched the members lists of Pandemonium and MSXL. This took a lot longer that I thought it would due to my farkling 1.5 meg connection moving at the pace of a 56k.
akba
Aleph
AlexZander
antiherosk8er
ApoX
Aznbanisher
Banshee Barron
Bestmasterchief
BobBQ
cmwak1
Deathbringer5
Eagle 117
fastmatt
Gaara of Sand
GameJunkieJim
Ghandi 2
gholsbane
Gruntsbane
Halo53
impurity
Jason_4_04
Jeff McRae
Anyone know where JoeyBagaDonuts went?
Josher 35
just another fan
Kappin
littlerat
Louis Wu (honorary title only (like he needs MORE stuff to do!))
Lt Devon
Mandalorianfett5
Maraxus6
marinealver
MilesCPO
Mjolnir Mark VII
mrsmiley
mr bob or die
ObbiQuiet
pablofrogo
PhreakShow
Psyched
Rip Saw (I shall be so bold!)
Rat Nukem
Ross Mills
Simen
Shai Hulud
Sledgefare
snowmanaxt
Stickman Army
Surgika
Tanikaze
VII Toast
WRATHofGOD18
52 people.
1 person added after the fact.
Please note, I know I am missing a ton of good people. As I looked over this list, I had to add 2 names of people I had just remembered seeing in a post! There weren't in my chapters. I really do hate to be the bad guy who makes "the list" but someone has to do it. I am no more qualified to make this list that anyone else, and if you have names you need to see on a list, make your own list. If I forget anyone I'll add them, unless a ton of people get really pissed off at me making this list!
be sure to send me plenty of angry hate-pms since I know a lo of people will be angry. But someone HAD to do it!
heheh i like that part about me...im still here in a way, only im just rarely seen by anyone, and i only post when i deem the time right, and the topic apprioate to be discussed....because let's face it there aren't too many thread's anymore that up hold any great significance to most....i remeber the days when there was sooo much to talk about, and i'd spend countless hour's on this site, talking about halo, and bungie, and other things of the sort...but over the past few month's to a year, its all been pointless jabbering over thing's that dont really concern me or my interest...so i've slowly faded into the darker park of the communitiy, as well as a few others have done as i've seen, and im sure if any of u remember me, and i still keep in touch with those i choose to, that i was quite a handful on the forums back in the day....i still keep my typing and such to the same, because i do not care a thing of what people think of me, and please for future refrence, never judge anyone by anything at the 1st time in meeting them, because u may be totally wrong in your judgment's.
And as u can see im still my old self blabbering on about thing's that dont really matter, as how i used to do a majority of my time here.....but back into the dark corners of the 7thColumn i shall crawl back into...i actually have a party to go to with the webmaster and his smelly gorilla-self....so ttyl, lol....