User blog:Plurky of House Targaryen/observations on RFR

I've been thinking a bit about the concept of RFR, something I assume you are all familiar with. The main thing that struck me is that RFR is, for the most part, based on personal ambitions. You request rights for yourself, though that ufcourse doesn't mean you don't wanna help out the community. Still, the driving force behind this system is personal ambition. Ambition to do good, perhaps, but ambition nontheless.

Why is that? My main guess would be that most people here are from the USA or other neo-liberalist countries, where the idea of the "self made man" is still held in high esteem. So ambition is considered to be this great driving force behind basically the intire community and economy. And in our little community, it has the same place. The CM's and other peeps are what they are because they chose to become so. So our system is based upon the individual. There are, however, other options We could take the community as the point of view. What would happen then? We would propably have less CM's. Something that always struck me as weird is the amazing number of CM's we have on chat, a ratio of 1:1 is quite common. Is there something wrong with it? Perhaps. But there is nothing amazingly "good" about it either. In those cases where I've actually seen anybody get banned/kicked, it was ussualy followed by a "was just about to do that" from other CM's/Admins. So there is no real point in having so many. If we based our system of election on the needs of the community, rather then personal ambition, we would have likely have less. We would look at how many CM's we need, instead of looking at how many people want to be a CM. But is that so great? We would propably end up with some type of elections for CM-ship, and propably a lot of beaurocracy concerning the number of CM's we need. The first one isn't so bad, the second one could be overcome. But as I said before, there isn't realy something realy wrong it the number of CM's we have.

I am not saying we should chance our system, nor am I saying we shouldn't. Hence he titel: observations on RFR. These are just my toughts concerning the system.