ET council neccessary?

After reading Nellie's column yesterday, I figured whether an "ET-council" is neccessary or not.

A council is a form of taking a decision like in a parliament, though with the difference that the members in the council aren't voted by the people into the closed group compared to a parliament.

Now don't get me wrong, I neither favor a council nor a parliament in what is best for the ET-community.

Why do you need a council or a parliament?
Usually because certain people should represent the needs and thoughts of the people/community. The representatives are usually highly educated to discuss certain matters and subjects which the average Joe doesn't understand or isn't interested of. Of course noone is able to be an expert at all different subjects in a society.
BUT this lack of understanding hardly exists in our small ET-community. The subjects and conflicts we are confrontated with aren't that complicated that noone could give an opinion or a vote. That is why I find the neccessarity of a "ET-council" not suitable for the ET-community in the sense of taking decisions.

Instead I suggest more serious polls on crossfire where everyone can vote. Basically like direct democracy like in Switzerland. These polls should be made by the council members because I believe that they are experienced enough to come up with adequate questions to the entire community.
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Quote by AdacoreI'm not saying anything about the value of the committee, but I will say that community votes never work. You ask for a vote on anything and the community will say no. If kajab had got a vote on XP, the result would have been 'don't remove it'; if Cash had got a vote on mines it would have come out 'keep them at 10 per team'. We all accept these were good decisions, but the 'community' will never vote for change - it needs to be imposed.
I find that too generalized. I can agree on that the community is quite conservative, but if that is the attitude of the majority of the community, then so it be...
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QuoteInstead I suggest more serious polls on crossfire where everyone can vote. Basically like direct democracy like in Switzerland. These polls should be made by the council members because I believe that they are experienced enough to come up with adequate questions to the entire community.


big no, polls don't work. Too many fake accounts, retards, cheaters, busted cheaters, pub only players, people that don't care, people that don't know shit about the competitive game or 5on5, spammers, trolls, noobs.
so in rl people who have been to jail shouldn't have the right to vote? (that's not too farfetched tbh)
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democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried
+ it's the internet not rl, half the people in RL are not suitable to vote, let alone on the inet
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quote from churchill isn't it?

anyway, i agree with you..
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I won't argue with you about democracy, that'd be senseless... I wouldn't say that the people in the council aren't qualified enough, but I find it strange that suddenly a group of people decide for an entire community without the accordance of the rest of the community...
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exactly my tought
Tites for president!
didn't read a whole lot of it but polls on crossfire are useless since half or more of the people here don't play anymore or don't know shit about playing, will just get fucked up results by people like pumu :P
any unbiased council >> polls
mind the word "unbiased"..................
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i love tites
you are taking it way to serious. this is et.
Quote you are taking it way to serious. this is et.


you are not taking it serious enough. this is et!!!!!
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Quoteyou are not taking it serious enough. this is et!!!!!


you are taking it way to serious. this is et.
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well don't you think a council seems to be far more serious?

in case you didn't read nellie's column: there is a so called council consisting of some different admins. so it's nothing i invented...
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y, thats exactly why i wrote that. ppl will want to have money, ppl who got money will have influence and so on. it'll be like in real politics.

i won't be better AND the invested work will be for nothing.
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well why are you writing that I'm taking it far too serious? I didn't start the council.
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totally agree
if there will be an et council then it has to be smth like kamz suggested... 1player per team max, and mostly players from ec playoff worthy teams n such, can be oc 1st div champs etc, something like that

e: + yea, it has to be ACTIVE players, not players who show up for lan and then leave
We need elections.
ahahahaha
ROFL! Like a star wars council!
Right, you absolutely are!
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Yoda I want to be yes.
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AHAHHAHA PARLAMENT ET!!! XDDDDDDDDDDD
centralized power is never a good thing
all we need is communism
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