User blog:Jeremiah Garland/Royalty Flea Market

Okay, lately there's been a lot of drama concerning countries, and who owns what. Upon checking the royalty page (which serves as a central database on who owns what countries), it has come to my attention that many "nation-owners" on the royalty page either no longer own their respective nation or are simply inactive. It is for this reason we should update the royalty page. However, in doing so it will mean we will have to get rid of some inactive wiki-users, so others may take command of their nation(s). Many of these users have not been on for months, and while there are wiki users eager to make new pages about a country of their's, they cannot because the country they desire is under control of an inactive user. You get what I'm saying?

Take Robert McRoberts for example. Upon checking his contribution, I found that his last wiki activity occured when he commented on a blog, on July 16 of 2011. This was exactly six months ago, ergo he is clearly inactive. Even still, he holds notable countries in royalty, countries that are doing no good lying about, and could be under command of other, active members.

It is for this reason I propose we hold a Royalty "Flea Market". We give each inactive wiki user who owns land on the royalty page till the end of the month (about two weeks) to come back on wiki and "reclaim" their "land". If they fail to do so with no excuse, their country is then put up-for-grabs to any active users (using a "first-come-first-serve" method). I believe this will put an end to all recent drama that has occured concerning countries (must I remind all of you of the Jason Shiprat incident?), as well as improve new users' experiences on the wiki.

In conclusion, I believe it is unfair that other notable countries should just be wasted by inactive users, when there are many active users who have the desire to take that country in. Think of the countries as a puppy: would you rather have it be owned by a non-caring, abusive owner who doesn't want it? Or by an enthusiastic, loving owner who does want it? I know, weird analogy, but still you get the point.

And also, if people support this, I'll go on the royalty page and make a list of everybody who is considered inactive, and make a second blog concerning that, so we know which countries to sell off at the flea market.

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 * Jeremiah Garland