I'm still bothered by the requirment of time spent online on the forum. Surely, I can understand the requirment for game performance and for account history (meaning it has to be about half year old from now on), alas the "5 days online" is making me a little bit upset. And I won't hide the fact that is because I can't participate. I'm an honest person in those matters, be it right or wrong to do.
My argumentation against this requirment are a couple of facts, that determine this requirment to be "sketchy" at best.
ad. 1 - Cedie said himself that you can stay on forum as long as you want, but after a time it stops counting your activity. Most of us idle on forum and participate in shoutbox chat. Thus our time is not counted towards the activity.
ad. 2 - In regard to the previous argument, due to the sketchiness of time-online counting mechanics, the "five days online" requirment seems to be unjust from the core. Moreover - what does it prove? I wish not to be rude about it, however it looks like a fake requirment that could somehow determine ones activity on forum. Remember however - there are people who will not loiter around the forum, posting trash posts, thus popping up their online timer, and there will be people who just come and go, leaving important feedback in matters that actually will cause some impact on the game.
ad. 3 - As the requirment of "your account needs to be half year old - at least" is quite understandable, to prevent potential side accounts from popping out before the election, the online time is merely a nuisance as mentioned in ad. 2. Dedication is one thing, but loitering around and doing nothing - is something tad bit different.
ad. 4 - As far as I know and as far as I can measure, right me if I'm wrong, but with these conditions there seems not to be enough of applicable candidates. Thus creating a typical logic error in the very core of the election rules.
In conclusion, this post was written to prove that the "time online" requirment is more of a nuisance, than a control mechanism. I value your reasoning Cedie and I respect your choices both as a human being and as a moderator, yet if I do not agree with something, I'd like to discuss it in the open field. I'd like to know more about it from other players and Cedie himself. Under no circumstances this post wasn't written to undermine anyones position or harass/offen anyone. I just believe we can improve our situation.
An in extention, if this errata I propose passed, due to the fact I fullfill every other requirment...
I wish to candidate for Kinzokugakure no Sato chair of Kage.
Thank you for reading through this post.
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