Emjay for Delegate

[Emjay]

@Libertanny

Hello.

Hello!

@Libertanny

I’ve seen a lot of blame being pointed at Shadow - for current state of things. Kindly note, that I am not saying you stand behind this - it’s just that seeing it provoked this message to appear. This itches me a lot, as it’s not The East Pacific I fought for pre- and during the coup. We were a team, we had one another’s backs - what happened to it?

Nothing I have said in my campaign thread or answers have anything to do about Shadow. I have purposely avoided anything that could make that implication to the best of my ability. This is a campaign so it may have the appearance of that, but it’s not. I will not attack the sitting Delegate on their job performance. I am not the one that handles that.

@Libertanny

It’s easy to run for a Delegate, promise a new tomorrow and blame previous Delegate for the current state of things. But TEP differs - we are a community run by people for people. Let me ask this: For the last four months, what did you do to make TEP a better place?

It is easy. Democracy is nice. As I have not and will not blame Shadow, I will be avoiding that part of your statement and for the last four months, I have worked tirelessly to help facilitate a forum move.

@Libertanny

In a world where fuckups happen, how would you make sure, that The East Pacific remains a team, where we don’t just find a black sheep to put a blame on and move on?

Again, I have not and will not be playing the blame game, so let’s move on to the next question?

@Libertanny

Say you are not elected the Delegate, but instead one of your candidates is.
3A. What’s your plan for the next 4 months?
3B. How will you help TEP fight the apathy and inactivity?
3C. How will you help TEP become a team again?
3D. How will you help fix WA issues?

3A) I would be doing this with or without this campaign but I plan to launch a new bot for Urth RP server, a bot for EPSA, and make Loopbot only in the main. Might pull out an Executive Bot as well. They would be focused on custom commands. Forum theme. Refresh some TEP services. But if elected I would need to delegate some stuff. But if I am not elected then my ideas also are ripe for the taking and my DMs/Pings/PMs/Etc are always open for questions. You know I stay busy and I love this community unconditionally.

3B) This has already started on the admin-site. Improved welcoming experience, which was already in the plans, but now with a new Discord feature it will make it easier.

3C) We’re a community but we’re not always a team. It happens. It just depends on who is Delegate and how I could help support them.

3D) Supporting Atlae in getting REWARD back up and running. It’s already on the agenda.

@Libertanny

Say your Minister is underperforming. You know they can work real hard and have a resume of several impressive achievements. Yet their current life situation highly limited their ability to perform well. What do you do?

They would need to step down to staffer and that would be my recommendation to them. It’s unfair to hold a ministry back or even a potential minister-qualified staffer for a good resume. At the end of the day, they need to put their personal life first.

@Libertanny

Say your Minister is in a really bad mental state - high stress amount, lowered confidence, burnout. What do you do?

Would need to determine if it is an IC or OOC-caused problem. If it’s IC then it would be my responsibility to fix the problem, place them on LOA, and give them a break. If it’s OOC then I would recommend they step down or leave the executive. Their health is the priority.

@Libertanny

You share ideas in this thread. Did you share them with the Delegate through last 4 months? If not, why?

No, I did not, nor could I have. My attention has been elsewhere for the last several months – the forum move. Everything you see in my OP was done on the fly. I made the personal decision to run for delegate when I registered to vote but I still was on the fence. When I saw the notification, I contemplated some more, before I decided to add my name to the mix.

The campaign itself was not put together until after I made the post header image and determined what my tagline would be then I put together what I would like to accomplish if I was elected with 2 rules in mind. I would not mention/make references to Shadow nor would I look at the executive server for ideas. What you see above is all me, no Shadow, and 100% for TEP.

@Libertanny

Lastly. Our current Delegate has a low amount of endorsements, compared to previous Delegates. I saw claims saying, that I spent days and nights endotarting and stuff. It’s false. I did do efforts (endotarting, REWARD, DMing people), but I also had a team of people working alongside me to increase our endocount (they were running REWARD, sending Telegrams, DMing people, running endo-campaigns, creating dispatches, welcoming newcomers and asking them to join WA). So the question is: how did you help the current Delegate increase their endorsement count?

I didn’t due to other obligations mentioned above.