This article is part of a series on Honoured Citizens. Check out part one here
As the Senate debate rages on with regard to nomination of Darcness for an Ovation, I took to the field to gather responses for a poll on both this Ovation specifically, as well as the awarding of Ovations more generally. In just under 24 hours, there were 27 responses, which is a number I am quite happy with. Now, let's see what was said.
Beginning with the most topical question, we find that while more respondents than not would vote for Darcness to be given an Ovation, that numbers still falls short of a majority. Of course, given that Abstain votes would not factor into the majority calculation, if these were actual Senate votes the Ovation would be awarded.
The options for this question got a bit cut off in the image, so here they are in the order they appear above:
Then, as a point of comparison, I figured it would be worthwhile to see who people think is deserving of an Ovation, if Darcness isn't. And then, if there is anyone who currently has one that doesn't deserve it.
Lots of interesting data here, and while I didn't do a deep dive into any of it in this article, I intend on reaching back to some of this stuff in future installments in this series, so keep an eye for more on this topic. For now, however, I hope this data helps those with a say in the matter come to a decision before the upcoming decision in what many are calling a "precedent setting vote". Until next time, this is Calvin Coolidge, hoping that people read the previous installment in this series to learn more about all our Honoured Citizens.
Raw Data
As the Senate debate rages on with regard to nomination of Darcness for an Ovation, I took to the field to gather responses for a poll on both this Ovation specifically, as well as the awarding of Ovations more generally. In just under 24 hours, there were 27 responses, which is a number I am quite happy with. Now, let's see what was said.
Beginning with the most topical question, we find that while more respondents than not would vote for Darcness to be given an Ovation, that numbers still falls short of a majority. Of course, given that Abstain votes would not factor into the majority calculation, if these were actual Senate votes the Ovation would be awarded.
The options for this question got a bit cut off in the image, so here they are in the order they appear above:
- Work done in government (executive, legislative, or judicial)
- Work done outside of government (private media, cultural [not related to the ministry], RMB, etc.)
- Work done as an administrator/moderator
- Honestly, it should just be after a great achievement, it is vague, which is why I keep flip flopping on the ovation.
- Anything that is exceptional
- Work done to create and manage tools for the government to use(recruitment manager, *forums*)
- The language of the award says service to the republic, so it should be work done as a member of government.
- Game doesn't work without admins - and it's a volunteer position that requires as much, if not more, work and effort than other things. It's a tough job. Ovations are a kuddos - no need for them to be so RP focused that we lose the ability to honor those who do good work.
- The issue with ovations currently is that it seems every new First Minister or Chief of State feels the need to ovate someone. Spacing them out would be more ideal.
- The admin/IC split should be maintained and I think it’s dangerous to muddle that split as some of the senators have suggested. Arguments for Darc should be based around his political career, which is highly respectable by itself, rather than his work as an Admin.
- Any service, in whatever capacity, that goes well above and beyond ordinary performance should be eligible.
- I really don't think there needs to be a poll about this, it seems superfluous and mostly just a cowardly way for Senators who don't want to take a stand on this to have something convenient to hide behind.
- While I do think governmental work should be a key qualifier in determining if an ovation is awarded, work in administrative areas should also be a component that is allowable for consideration, as per Senate Speaker Lloenflys' comments.
- Government work only, but I do think that highly critical private media should factor in as well, such as GraV's ERI analyses, HEM's regular ENN articles, or UV's Chasing Goldenblock tracking polls. These are very solid contributions to the region, despite not being government work.
- I agree that IC content should be the basis for an Ovation
- The status of admins is certainly not as simple as them being totally outside of the government structure we have in place. There are gray areas between what is IC and OOC behavior that the admins have to wrestle with constantly. But it is important to keep IC and OOC as separate as possible to prevent the admin team becoming politicized.
- Does the Awards and Honours Act distinguish between IC and OOC admin work? If not, I don't see why Darc shouldn't be awarded for his hard work as an admin.
- Pichtonia
- Prim
- Genuinely no one. We’ve been tossing these out a lot recently.
- Yes, Lloenflys and Pichtonia in my opinion, however I'm a new citizen so that may not be accurate.
- Pichtinia probably. Mouse, though she's not a citizen anymore.
- No, nobody else is ready yet
- Olde Delaware
- Asperta definitely wouldn’t receive one by today’s standards. Additionally, Kuramia might also have been awarded too early.
- None.
- I don't think it's fair to judge awards given 8 years ago to today's standards. But....... probably Asperta lol
- The majority of honored citizens retired years ago, perhaps it would be good if HEM or Sopo created an article on HCs from the past and a blurb about their contributions and why they were Ovated.
- Asperta, Skizzy Grey, Asianatic, Common-Sense Politics, Kuramia
- Asperta, Kuramia
- Some of the batch given Ovations and Triumphs between 2013 and 2015 don't necessarily deserve them (this was when we were "giving them out like candy"), but none of them are really active anymore so it seems like a moot point
- n/a
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