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Subject: Which political system do you think Bungie.net resembles?

Benevolent Dictatorship.

  • 01.30.2007 5:07 PM PDT

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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Benevolent Dictatorship.


To be sure.

  • 01.30.2007 5:11 PM PDT
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*is reminded of Dennis the Peasant*

"We're an Anarcho-Syndicated Commune."

Well THAT certainly don't fit.....

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  • 01.30.2007 5:13 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Anarcho-Syndicated Commune? What's that?

  • 01.30.2007 8:54 PM PDT
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Good ol' Aussie Barbecue:

We got the cooks (Employees).
The guys with eskies full of beer (Moderators and various other ranks).
The no-fun, no-nonsense 'designated drivers' (Intelligent posters).
The roaring drunks (Members).
And the cops (Trolls).

I win.

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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Benevolent Dictatorship.


To be sure.


I agree. It is definitely a dictatorship and that is fine with me.

  • 01.31.2007 2:26 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Posted by: dalmedya
Good ol' Aussie Barbecue:

We got the cooks (Employees).
The guys with eskies full of beer (Moderators and various other ranks).
The no-fun, no-nonsense 'designated drivers' (Intelligent posters).
The roaring drunks (Members).
And the cops (Trolls).

I win.


Awesome. Although I've never been to Australia, I'm sure that's quite accurate! That can apply to most barbecues here, and some parties.

  • 01.31.2007 9:59 PM PDT

Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: Doctor Jensen
I've challenged my beliefs. What is the book about?


I find that this is usually untrue. If religious people honestly, diligently and intelligently challenged their beliefs, there would be no religious people.

Fascism.

  • 01.31.2007 10:01 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Fascism huh? Care to elaborate?

  • 02.01.2007 2:20 AM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

Bungie.net is a political system unto itself.

Why would Bungie want to emulate something when they can have a system of their own?

-Alex ;)

  • 02.01.2007 2:26 AM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

I don't mean to imply that Bungie is emulating anything. I'm simply looking for others' opinions/observations concerning similarities (which I assume are unintentional) between Bungie and various forms of governments and political systems.

  • 02.01.2007 5:58 AM PDT

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Communist State, obviously.

  • 02.01.2007 12:50 PM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

Bungie . . . . . . a mob of angry peasants.

  • 02.01.2007 3:11 PM PDT

­"You have to aim above the head, but then a little lower so you actually get it."

-John Mayer

Anarchy with a hint of fudge.

  • 02.01.2007 4:16 PM PDT

Its democratic/capitalist because you dont get bagged for having an opinion

  • 02.01.2007 4:48 PM PDT

Posted by: LiL funny FUBAR
i just orgasmed when you said "discombobulation"!

i think its like earldoms.
achronos is the earl of bungie.net and the leader
while all the other mods and crap are nobles and rich people
and everyone else is a peasant

  • 02.01.2007 4:58 PM PDT

(10:19:49 PM) Scruss: oh and pezza, i saw what you did to that cat
(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

Communism. Hands down.

  • 02.01.2007 5:08 PM PDT
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Posted by: Seven is Darker
Communism. Hands down.

Now I don't know about that. I haven't gotten my hands anywhere near the means of production.

  • 02.01.2007 5:12 PM PDT
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left handed octopus comunism... duh

  • 02.02.2007 4:09 PM PDT
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Bungie.net represents a relatively benign dictatorship, but the analogy with government is kinda gonna screw up how it functions anyway.

The word 'relatively' and 'benign' are important. Interestingly, at least to me (for professional reasons) is the manner in which power and the influence of cultural capital work to effectively produce not just wide consent, but also to impose an impressive system of unquestioning subservience towards authority. Bear in mind, that's not to imply that mass adherence to the 'party line' (if you will) means a lack of intelligence. In fact, intellectuals and the more educated sectors of any social group are often the most susceptable to deeper levels of indoctrination. The process is age-old, and its manifestation in an online forum is fascinating stuff!

So I guess what I'm saying is that I'm more interested in the priesthood and aspiring priesthood than I am the masses.

Finally, it's probably very wise to state here that, as far as moral judegments go, I'm not necessarily opposed to things as they are. I mean, one has to put the thing into context, and this is an online forum for a games developer. As a result, frankly, I don't really have much interest in arguments about the morality or immorality of the entire project. It's simply reflects the organisational base from which the interest in 'community' springs (which is, by definition, a rather narrow sense). That's not to say it's not well-intentioned, or on many occasions very sincere, but merely to acknowledge fundamental aspects of this whole enterprise.

  • 02.03.2007 1:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
Good to see at least somebody takes this place seriously

I am sincerely disappointed in everyone except JIMH. JIMH, have a gold star.


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I thought it more resembles a zoo rather than a plolitical system.

You have people like Acronos and the webmaster who own and created the Zoo. They hire the mods to clean up crap left by the animal members. They work for peanuts indicating that they are just like elephants with a lot of girth and a long memory. "You have no freedoms, play nice" policy just further emphasizes that we are just being held in cages but are allowed to move around the cage as we please.

Each sub-forum represents a section of the zoo:

The Flood would be the bird section because it has the most crap to clean up and there are so many immitating parrots there.

The Underground would be the exotic rodent section. Each animal there is unique and fascinating, but no one likes going over there because of the weird smell.

The Optimatch and Halo 3 forum would be the monkey section with each animal screeming and doing tricks to get what they want

The other Halo forums would be the reptile sections with each meber just laying in the sun doing the same thing day in and day out.

The Septagon and News forums would be the information kiosk with some information being passed around and a lot of little kids bouncing off the walls.

  • 02.03.2007 1:04 AM PDT

Ach! Was ist los?

Posted by: JesusismyHomey
The Underground would be the exotic rodent section. Each animal there is unique and fascinating, but no one likes going over there because of the weird smell.

The Underground is like a fish tank: lots of scum floats on the surface, but something interesting occasionally sticks its head up.

  • 02.03.2007 8:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: JesusismyHomey
The Underground would be the exotic rodent section. Each animal there is unique and fascinating, but no one likes going over there because of the weird smell.

The Underground is like a fish tank: lots of scum floats on the surface, but something interesting occasionally sticks its head up.


What kind of fish tanks are you keeping there?

lol

  • 02.03.2007 8:32 AM PDT
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I agree with the king arthur argument.

(go figure)

  • 02.03.2007 8:49 AM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

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Posted by: BobBQ
Posted by: JesusismyHomey
The Underground would be the exotic rodent section. Each animal there is unique and fascinating, but no one likes going over there because of the weird smell.

The Underground is like a fish tank: lots of scum floats on the surface, but something interesting occasionally sticks its head up.


What kind of fish tanks are you keeping there?

lol


Hagfish and lamprey, since all people do there is cling to the same old dead or dying topics like the Halo movie and Marathon on XBLA.

[Edited on 2/3/2007]

  • 02.03.2007 11:15 AM PDT

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