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Would a purely democratic clan work?
Ladezkik:
--- Quote from: Tingalz on November 25, 2011, 03:52:04 PM ---Complete Democracy: Someone suggests something should happen, several people disagree, situation escalates to fighting. Barely anything gets done.
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If the majority disagrees with the suggestion, it would not be put into practice. Not much fighting going on there.
That doesn't mean that everyone else's suggestion for something is received as badly by the rest of the clan.
--- Quote from: Custard on November 25, 2011, 03:54:05 PM ---Lets make this simple; How about we start with one ruling figure... This figure develops laws and regulations.
After this process, the leader steps down from his position and runs a democracy off of this nomocracy (group of laws depicting how the government should function)
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Thanks for digging up the term. :p
The way I picture a democratic clan being established in a community like this is that it needs to start off from a group, there being as little emphasis on any certain individuals as possible from the beginning.
Concerning the topic, there should be rules determining the conduct and responsibilities of the owner.
--- Quote from: Tingalz on November 25, 2011, 03:59:18 PM ---What seems to be going over everyone's head here is that clans are made to get projects done. You aren't running a country, people don't need equal rights or anything like that. People just need to get along and be productive.
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I'm not against leader-based clans, but simply saying that there are certain downsides to it which could be eliminated with democratic rule, such as how easily a leader-based clan dies. As to what comes to projects, a democratic clan would more likely develop a sense of tradition and promote teamwork in building and such as the members would have to be more active than in leader-based ones.
Jacky:
--- Quote from: Big Brother on November 25, 2011, 02:59:29 PM ---nah quark proposed the idea and we both expanded on it lol
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yah, but ladezkik has been preparing this for almost a year now.
Tingalz:
A leader based clan would only die quickly if the leader is bad. No good leader would ever just leave and not appoint someone else.
Ladezkik:
--- Quote from: Tingalz on November 25, 2011, 04:15:53 PM ---A leader based clan would only die quickly if the leader is bad. No good leader would ever just leave and not appoint someone else.
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You're absolutely right, but the issue is still that once the leading members become too inactive, stuff goes down.
Bear in mind that a democratic clan would not rely on any certain members for its survival, but on itself as a whole.
With leader-based clans there tend to be periods of both high activity and inactivity based on how active the leading members are. In a democratic clan the amount of activity would never reach the same level as a leader-based one in a period of high activity, but would also suffer from far less inactivity.
--- Quote from: Jacky on November 25, 2011, 04:15:22 PM ---yah, but ladezkik has been preparing this for almost a year now.
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TheArmyGuy:
So first you were the leader of a commie clan named democracy and now this?
Nah It would stop working if the users were idiotic and dumb. Someone will grab power.