City of IF

Key · Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 2652 Location: The Royal Palace

Hey everybody,

It's that time of year again, when we choose a new Mayor to lead the City of IF for the next six months. Our current Mayor, Smee, has decided not to run for re-election. Many thanks to Smee for his years of service to the City.

:cheers:

Post here if you're interested in being the next Mayor, or if you have any questions about the Mayor's duties. If there's more than one candidate, we'll have an election...

:-)

Masterweaver · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 1463 Location: Look around

Not seriously interested, but considering. What were the mayor's duties, again?

Crunchyfrog · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 3998

I'll be happy to continue in an admin capacity, if people are happy to have me do it. I can't see any major changes in RL getting in the way over the next 6 months.

Thunderbird · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject:

Perhaps it has come time for a council to rule, rather than a single individual. I would love to announce a candidacy, but my life is so hectic and threatens to get worse, to the extent that I would fear a growing inability to maintain mayoral duties.

Smee · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 5215 Location: UK

Good fortune to whomever goes for this... I'm moving house in the next day or two and will be cut off from internet for a period, so may miss the voting.

Have fun :)

Key · Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 2652 Location: The Royal Palace

Quote: Not seriously interested, but considering. What were the mayor's duties, again?
The official list of the Mayor's duties is below:
Running the Spotlight competitions, as applicable.
Disbursing fables for all prizes, including Spotlight, linear stories winner, completion of storygames, etc.
Moving storygames to the Hall of Stasis when finished or when they go on hiatus, and back when they're back off hiatus
Warning, banning and deleting inappropriate/spam comments and users as needed
Bestowing custom ranks when paid for.
Creating new groups and forums as needed
Selecting new City Council members and moderators if and as needed
Setting configurable forum options, such as inbox and signature size
Managing the money supply, including setting how many fables are awarded for what activities.
Chairing Council and Citizen discussions on City issues
Being the path of escalation if a citizen is unhappy with a moderator's actions or decision.
Mediating disagreements between citizens
The site has been pretty quiet this summer, so there wasn't much for the Mayor to do, but it seems to be picking up now, so hopefully there will be a bit more in terms of running Spotlight competitions, etc.

Quote: Perhaps it has come time for a council to rule, rather than a single individual.
The Mayor is free to delegate whatever duties he or she chooses. However, I think it's better to have a single point of ultimate responsibility. If everyone is responsible, people tend to let others do the work, and nothing gets done.

Thanks, cf, for stepping up and volunteering! :D

Any other candidates?

Vishal Muralidharan · Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 867 Location: City Of IF!

Not exactly excited, but i think i MIGHT give it a try....!

Key · Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 2652 Location: The Royal Palace

So is that an announcement of a candidacy, Vishal? I think I've got one from crunchyfrog. Anyone else?

Thunderbird · Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:41 am Post subject:

Very well then. Your comments above regarding a council running the city bear merit, Key.

I will announce my candidacy upon the condition that I might be able to maintain Crunchyfrog as a Vice-Mayor. (which would be up to her of course ;) )Presuming I win an election, I'll be certain to require her assistance in the coming days.

RL is presenting some issues right now but I have a serious love of the city and would love to assist in its persistance in whatever way I can.

Key · Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 2652 Location: The Royal Palace

OK, well if having cf be your deputy is a condition of your running, you should check with her before you announce. ;)

Since there have been a few maybes and conditional announcements, I'll make this more official: if you would like to run for Mayor this term, you must post in this thread with the notice "I declare my candidacy for Mayor" within the next three days. For the sake of clarity, I won't count any of the semi-announcements that have been posted here so far.

Though I am glad to see there's a fair amount of interest.

:-)

Crunchyfrog · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 3998

I declare my candidacy for Mayor

:)

Thunderbird · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:00 pm Post subject:

I, too, declare my candidacy for mayor o-)

Masterweaver · Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 1463 Location: Look around

Hmmmm.

Hmmmmmmm.

I do declare my candidacy for pie....

Hmmmm...

....

....

And, I suppose, for mayor as well. Let's hope I don't screw up...

Key · Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 2652 Location: The Royal Palace

Great! We've got three candidates then, and thanks to them all for volunteering. :D

The next phase is the discussion of issues. I'll open a new forum for the election, and anyone should feel free to post - candidates may post statements, and citizens may ask questions of the candidates. This will run for as long as needs be to have a thorough discussion of the issues, and then we'll vote.

If none of the three candidates has a majority in the first vote, we will have a runoff election with the top two vote-getters.

:-)