LC 10.4 Lincoln Election Law Act Amendment of 2021

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This reminds me so much of 2009 and early 2010.

Answering offsite recruitment with rank disenfranchisement at this point in a cycle is a horrendous move that exceeds the infamous HAEV in terms of over reaction and sets a very bad precedent for future incumbent majorities to change the rules right before an election. Think about that, think about how this could be abused in the future.

As bad as specter of off site recruitment, it pails in comparison to the damage that can be done and has been done to this game in the past by exclusivity crusades whereby one group of people gets to determine who is fit and proper to play this game. At some point reasonable measures to address that problem stop, and "AtlasforumIRC levels of toxicity" begins. A lot of those people who played a big part in the radical movement in 2015, who were here back in 2009 and 2010, were some of the biggest proponents of the HAEV and harsh eligibility standards, and it feeds into an elitist mindset that when taken to its extreme ends, help produced some components of the 2015 situation and Bloody July.

I am sure Ishan has that thread from two years ago where I was arguing with Bore handy, in that I examined the divide between those who favored a smaller game versus those who favored a large game, and while I respect those who think recent surges in membership (by recent like last 3 years) have been problematic and failed to benefit the game thanks to Discord and other factors, I will say just like anything, when you go too far with the solution you become the next game villain pushing it towards destruction. The Atlasforum types were the ones who opposed Napoleon's "destruction of the game", just a couple years prior to many of them pushing it towards doom. 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So this is what Yankee was talking about when he argued with bore. I actually mentioned it last night when in #atlasforum's discord, the topic shifted to Atlasia

What was the reaction?