Well, I feel honoured to be part of the hegemony. *does some calculations* I've reigned as Kaiser twice, and by number of days, clearly less than Hesam or Jake (even counting only Loki III). It sure doesn't take a lot of time actually being Kaiser to be part of the eternal succession of boring Kaisers now!Maksym Hadjimehmetov wrote:Yeah, but at what cost? I'll be frank- I do like Shireroth, but the unwarranted supremacy of the Californian 'clique' here can get pretty frustrating. Even when Erik isn't Kaiser he goes around acting as if he's a Kaiserial regent, as if somehow new Kaisers who aren't of the Ari-Scott-Erik Hegemony aren't mature enough to rule because they haven't been here eight years...
(nor does it take much Californianness to be a part of the Californian clique, btw. Tallinn is the farthest I've ever been abroad.)
Worldbuilding is weird like that. It almost never receives direct praise. People come to Shireroth to read the latest posts on whatever the current controversy in the community is - Wiki pages with a lot of text on the spring feast traditions of the Kuku-Kuku people pretty much get ignored. Then, sometime maybe weeks or months later, people come to read the wiki when they're bored, or show off Shirithian culture to others.Sorry, but that's how I feel. And the amount of thanks I got for all the cultural work I got besides from Andreas, Jake and Corey was zero. I'm sorry if the newbies here are trying to make Shireroth something different from what it was eight years ago, but that's life.
* thinks *
I wonder if feedback to wiki pages could be encouraged somehow... I mean, the talk pages are there, but at least I rarely read them... but perhaps people could try stuff like opening feedback threads and adding links to them on wiki pages they've written...
(protip: Anyone who wants to continue this discussion, I recommend you start a new thread)
No, Corey left because he was emo. You should have been there on #micronations when Erik, Scott, Harvey, me and some people I forget were trying to convince him that he's doing a pretty good job as Kaiser (and he was!). It was like he'd taken uncanny dodge except it applied to praiseIf I ever became Kaiser, I'd have no compulsion in drastically changing the Charter and Lawbook, just to breathe some fresh air into the tedium of Shirereithan bureaucracy. Corey tried to do that and now he's left. Well done.
The We Are Victims Of The Evil OBC argument is not as full of shit as it was five years ago; it's more so. I dare you to find a single case of Scott telling anyone off with anything but a well-reasoned argument, or of me abusing my MiniInt powers for anything but my own or Straylight's benefit (
). Now Erik's Erik, of course: When someone changes things that he doesn't want changed, he gets mad, and when he's mad, he seems intimidating. Maybe people should just learn not to listen to him when he's angry...? 
