I would like to take the opportunity to talk about the recent influx of Citizens !! what a blesssing for CDS. We arent crowded and like mainland, we have covenents and lots of open space. but we have green dots moving around and not so many yellow squares.. yay CDS
Making laws that discourage us from growth by not selling land or keeping the same people in office extended periods of time.. . or that keep us from having free and open access is another way to say I want to make laws that keep you or anyone in office when they a poor job and no one would vote for you legitimatly based on your performance. I think thats a bad idea.
I encourage questions about the recent influx of peopel to CDS. Tor had a " land sale " Trebor and Tor encouraged and helped me sell land. I was volunteerig to do a job , The PIO was obviously failing at that part, the populations of the sims was very low. Thank you for everyone who has expressed appreciation of my help.
They have brought 1200 us dollars a year to CDS in teir increase, and a one time payment of i think Trebor said 350 us dollars. But more importanly life ! They come to NG they come to events, they come to RA.. They are watching us !!!! They want to participate.
But I have also witnesed people in the current RA and executive team telling several new visitors to CDS about how bad of a place it is though, maybe thats why they couldnt sell our land for us and do your job. If your team had spent more time talking u p CDS instead of harrassing people who did maybe you wouldnt have failed. also making very new residents feel uncomfortable to the point of serious breaches of tos by government officials directed at not only me and ceasar but to visitors. Maybe that was why theirmarketing didnt work, I dont know. All I know is they asked me for help . I offered it.
I proposed to the executive team this summer that we have a Each one Bring one .. membership drive that would make us get the new ctizens we need but no one wanted to do it.
Every time I asked why the current admin why they changed the constitution to "lift term limits" and why they were were not adhering to the " conflict of interest" laws.. I found the excuse we didnt have enough citizens.
When i see a problem i try to solve it.
100 % occupancy of our parcels would be a great success I would believe ! YOu were so in touch that you didnt know that was the goal of YOUR EXEC TEAM? They didnt tell you they had a election land sale ?? they lowered the tiers.. and the prices.. and were pushing sales ?? that is what they told me ! THE PROBLEM REALLY WAS, THEY WERE TRYING TO SELL LAND.. AND CDS IS PEOPLE. ITS NOT SIMS REALLY WE NEED TO HAVE IN TIP TOP SHAPE, ITS OUR GOVT AND A COMMUNITY OF NICE PEOPLE !!! SO WHEN YOU CRITICIZE ME, ANY ONE OF YOU .. TELL ME HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU BROUGHT TO CDS THIS YEAR ! i had no CDS budget to my job, no i spent my own money and the opportunity cost of not attending to my sl business.
I own a business in sl that keeps me busy. I was told by the exectutive team that they needed help sellign land. I did what they asked me.
I saw no evidence of effective marketing for CDS . Effective marketing is measuredby the number of SALES. Not little books or events that spend money with no measurable result. adn sales for us is new citizens.. I was busy answerign questions of Trebor on marketing cos tehy had trouble selling land. My Bachelor of Science is in Business with these emphases MARKETING FINANCE AND REAL ESTATE i offered the executive team help .
I helped Soros friend, Trey buy land, and Udo.. who is a friend of Pips, and i helped three of Delias friends also buy land, I helped do the PIOs job. i helped. Anna i did your job for you. I sold our democracy to the whole of SL.. everyone i saw and knew. I networked, I marketed, I did what I do. Are some of them my friends, sure ! And closer ones now! Everyone should bring their friends to CDS and share the joy ! I brought anyone i met though, and i meet a lot of people. I posted notices in groups. I looked throught rolls of lawyer groups, I searched for events with discussions and talked there. I used my own personal group too. it brought two people from my shop gropu who inturn brought three of their friends.. I stood at Anzere and talked to people I talked to anyone i saw hanging around CDS. No matter if they were the "right kind of people " and if you want a list of everyone of them and how they got here ill show you.. I even gave up two shops of mine.. in the square that turn a profit so new people had that chance, so did Bells give up hers for someone. I had a motive .. love of CDS, i was also moved by Moons presentation and coupled with the idea we were in a gentle decline headed for collapse, i took a month off my shops work and put all my effort into CDS. it started in teh summer and honestly I have never counted how many their are .. and I didnt look up the election deadline til rose posted it. Believe what you want. When the deadline neared it motivated me.. idk, i am goal driven.. but the goal was sell the plots, and BTW we have several new citizens seince the election deadline has passed.
The failures of a community or business dont get fixed by lowering the bar and fixing rules to meet the status quo, they get repaird by hard work and dedication, motivation and doing the right thing!
You know CDS is NOT a RP sim, the "experiment" of democracy and community is serious to some of us. Please if you are gaming i urge you to go somewhere else to do it. A whole lot of people spent a whole lot of years time energy passion and money to build this community . Be part of the solution to make it thrive.
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Ceasar and i have been advocating alt disclousure via IP addresses at the time of voting FOR YEARS. I lost a dear friend in CDS when he shared his plan to have alts in each faction for disclosing this fact openly. I agree with you on the alt disclousre. Lets pass that first !