You know what, you should just give the city over to someone else. Let them run it if they think they can do a better job. If it works well clearly something wasn't working with you in charge. If it falls apart and they come running to you to fix it, shrug and say "but you're the leader now." Win win if you ask me.

An ineffectual leader that has won four elections handily, one would be remiss for not adding.

When the perception is carried out largely by a few people willing to throw alt after alt into the sacrificial fires to fabricate it, I feel it lacks validity.

I didnt say a bad leader. I said ineffectual because he cant do what he wants to truly accomplish for the betterment of the Gooch. Would not matter if it is valid or not. How one is percieved becomes reality for that person. That perception will continue to spread wether it is true or not.

From what it sounds like, this is a situation where a clique might be well employed, provided your standards for entry into it are limited to a. not deliberately annoying and b. attempt to be helpful. Get it a clan, keep it ic of course, and use this clan channel as your ct. Develop your rules and your culture there, amongst people who understand that there must be some, as well as leaders to make the decisions, and won't fight the very notion of it. Freely welcome anyone who is remotely keen.

Ignore the rabble coming from outside as best as you can. Let them act like fools, just tune them out as much as you're able. Accept that there is going to be some degree of idiocy in the org. After all, not everyone who indulges in the various vices featured in Gaudiguch will come out enlightened - some will just come out as druken sluts and blithering morons, and that's fine. I don't claim to know much about how things work in Gaudiguch, but from the outside looking in, it seems like there would be several veils of mystery to lift. So make the first one, 'where do you find the good people?'

You won't be able to eliminate all the drama this way, but at the very least you might be able to raise the level of the argument to what is right for Gaudiguch, as opposed to what is right for me, and me, and me, and me, right now! You will not be able to get everyone on the same page, but at least you will have a place where everyone is reading the same book.

As far as getting along in the new-city group, you might need to be a bit forgiving. While some people are born idiots, other people can learn from negative experiences and shouldn't be perennially excluded if they've shown they can. If they even try, they are the kind of people you want to work with.

Since this seemed to be an honest plea for advice, that's mine.

When the leaders of Glomdoring were called out for being oppressive and power-hungry and whatnot, the best thing that (some of) those leaders did was to step down. If people think they can do a better job than you, let them try. You may be surprised to find out that the organization does not actually need you. Or other people may realize how much they do need you and elect you with the intent of actually doing what you need them to do.

You know what, you should just give the city over to someone else. Let them run it if they think they can do a better job. If it works well clearly something wasn't working with you in charge. If it falls apart and they come running to you to fix it, shrug and say "but you're the leader now." Win win if you ask me.

When the leaders of Glomdoring were called out for being oppressive and power-hungry and whatnot, the best thing that (some of) those leaders did was to step down.

From what it sounds like, this is a situation where a clique might be well employed, provided your standards for entry into it are limited to a. not deliberately annoying and b. attempt to be helpful. Get it a clan, keep it ic of course, and use this clan channel as your ct. Develop your rules and your culture there, amongst people who understand that there must be some, as well as leaders to make the decisions, and won't fight the very notion of it. Freely welcome anyone who is remotely keen.

my big issue with the clan thing is this.

It should be noted that there's another reason he wins too.

Please go back to your old avatar This one scares the creeps out of me.