Board Thread:Minecraft Empires/@comment-3524871-20141220222034/@comment-4619254-20141221035648

Jeremiah Garland wrote: It's pointless either way. Do people realise that there are only about fifteen – maybe twenty on a good day – full-time, active members on this wiki? Now I don't know much about "MC Empires" or how many people go on it, but from the sounds of it it isn't looking so hot. I know many people here consider themselves "political" but there's no reason to turn everything into a governmental organisation. Committees and councils and the like are perfectly good when there's a large populace in question; the only logical way to manage a large number of people effectively is through a well-organised bureaucracy. However, when you have less than two dozen people in a community, a "council" of five people becomes nothing more than an elitist group whose own interests and policies are implemented at the dear expence of the remaining others. And don't defend it by saying it's "democratic" because you vote in new members every month; first of all, no you don't, it's always the same people "renewing their terms". And when the voting pool is this small it's simply a popularity contest. I'm not accusing Al or anyone in this council of corruption, I'm just saying that everyone in the council are friends. That's only natural, seeing as we've known each other for a while etc. However, even if MC Empires was up and running, wouldn't it seem a little suspicious to have a tight-knit group of friends calling the shots, at the expence of any and everyone who might stumble across the server? Just a piece of advice: worry about the politics of it when the time comes. Right now, only worry about running your server, not putting together a council to govern it. Because, as G said, there's nothing to govern. When MC Empires becomes a big deal and you have a high number of players on every day, then sure, put together an administrative team to help run things. But quite honestly these councils we form never work. The only one that came close to working was the RP Council, and we all know how that ended. Just play the goddamn game and focus on the goddamn server.

And that's the true meaning of Christmas.