- Why are you running for president?I am the former president, I like the changes I did, and I would like them for those changes to stay another year, and the best way to do that is to run myself again
- anything new you have in mind for OT?Not really no, I think ot is in a good state. If I wanted to do more chages, I would have done it by now, i've also not really seen many people during my term saying "Ohhhhhhh the government should do x and y", sure, you had people saying to revert the changes I did, but not to do extra, so I think this is the right choice
- will you exile users who keeps making threads in less than 24 hours?Exiling someone is more complicated than you are led to believe, gmt really DONT like exiling people, even someone like jangsodloor, the gov pushed for them to be banned months before their inevitable osu ban and it was unsuccessful, they only became exiled after a force external to OT pushed for it to be exiled. Aditionally, abraker shadow removed jangsodloor from exieled hours before they actually got banned, which was pretty comical. But yeah, even if I wanted to push this change, I don't think it's possible.
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Do you believe formal rules or guidelines should be put in place for, among other things: Thread quality, respect between OT members, preventing bad influences on minors? Why or why not?Let's divide this questions in parts
Thread quality
Absolutely not, mainly because there is no way to objectively define the thread quality. You may say "ohhhhhh scyla threads are clearly awful we should go scorched earth on them" but even for that, there are people engaging with scyla threads. At the end of the day you just need someone who works as a judge for thread quality, and from all the years OT have been in the hand of a single overlord, it isn't the best system, it's heavily biased, it feels bad whenever you get a thread locked that you thought it was good, and I don't think it's even going to help anyone, because as we have seen, getting your thread locked has had 0 effect on people to stop producing said threads. People were getting their threads locked every single time yet they would still post them.
The other option would be having a system like my thread "
Rate your OT thread", where threads under a certain threshold are locked, but how do we guarantee transparency on that?, if the rating system is public, people will just try to farm it, like it happened with rate your OT thread, and if it's private, how do you guys know we're not lying?. It also requires a certain ammount of people to be rating every single thread for the system to work, and I don't think we cant expect people to go to every ot thread and rate them if they should be locked or not forever and ever.
It's a mess, and I think how OT operates right now with few locks + appeal for locks is ideal.
- respect between OT members
This already exists, it's in the OT rules, I assume the person asking this question assumes it's not enough, probably because of the drama that happened when I didn't let GMT participate. And for that I say that's not really a example that you can extrapolate to the whole of OT, because in that person, the people arguing where gmts, they were above the law.
Now, excluding that specific scenario, do I think there is not enough enforcement of this in OT?, not really, last year has probably the chillest i've seen OT in a while. However I will say, remember that the report button exists, if you see someone annoying you and you feel they should face consequences, report it.
- Preventing bad influences on minors
By default, osu does not have a age requirement, however, the specific countries do have laws on how old do you need to be before you start using social media and stuff, and the most common of those requirements, and the one I agree the most is 13yo+, I do think we should enforce OT for all the content to be 13+
Now, I know why you're asking the question, I know you're probably not happy with my 13+ answer, mainly arguing that there are people in OT who are less than 13 even if they dont publicly admit it. This is not something I can enforce, mainly because I know everyone would be against it, but I would personally simply not let these people into OT, I would exile them, I would do whatever to make sure they dont get in
why?, because OT is the wild west, yes, we may have very strong enforcement but unless that enforcement is lighting quick, someone under that age may still be exposed to that content, not only that, but it's quite literally a crime. I don't think it's realistic for everyone in OT, a forum where most people are over that age of 13, to adapt their speech to be suitable to someone who is 8yo who should not by law be admitted on there.
- Why do you believe you should be the president over the other candidates?I disagree with the premise of this question. I don't think i'm morally entitled or an bojectively better choice than anyone else, however, I don't think it's narcicistic to say the person I trust the most is myself, and I if want to see the changes I want to see, it is I who should run in the race. So in short, I don't think anyone is a better candidate than anyone else morally, but I still enjoy my own policies the most.
- If you couldn't vote for youself, who would you vote for?Achromalia, I like them as a person, I think they're one of the less erratic ot users and most level headed ones, and in adition they always write their whoooole thought process before typing anything, and honestly, even if they do changes I dislike, I don't think I can even be mad at them, so yeah, it's achromalia.
