Posted by Thomas B in Questions for the Candidates - Unanswered Questions - Jerome

Posted by Commodore Calé Reilly (Election Coodinator) in Questions for the Candidates - Unanswered Questions - Jerome

Posted by Thomas B in Questions for the Candidates - Unanswered Questions - Jerome
These questions are specifically for Jerome.

Good afternoon Jerome, I hope you’re doing well. This has been a fairly active election season with questions, and I’m sure the behind the scenes is just as active. So, I wanted to afford you every opportunity to answer the questions I’ve asked of you to which I’ve yet to receive an answer. For brevity, I will cut some of the contexts out and instead link to my original question. Your Veep has responded to one or two of these, but I would like your response as you will be the leader of the club if elected, and these are situations you are likely to experience.

1. What, specifically, do you cite as making the club feel exclusive? (context: making people feel excluded) (July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

2. What prevents people from offering their sage wisdon outside of [your Fleet Admiralty Board idea]? (July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

3. How did you determine the need for [the Fleet Admiralty Board idea]? (July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

4a. Do you think creation of additional government roles will help with membership retention or inclusiveness?

4b. If the suggestion is that, to feel included, you have to have a government role, doesn’t that point to a different source problem? (July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

1. Do you have any evidence to suggest that policies making official routes of mentorship are preventing the kind of organic connections you desire [re: mentorship/community]? (July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

2. Do you accept the notion that it is possible to still have a GM Shortage, even if you have a lot of GMs, if those GMs aren’t well trained? (adapted, July 4: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/88364/ )

3. How do you reconcile the difference in concept between elevating highly-experienced people out of traditional roles like FComm (in your Fleet Admiralty Board proposal) with the opposite proposal of switching around QDirs and AQdirs as has been done before for training? (adapted, July 7: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89135/)

4. What would you do if you understood that an FComm was selecting Command staff specifically as favors to recruit their own friends, and not looking at who would best serve the ship? (July 7: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89135/ )

9a. Have you consulted with any of [the listed GMMs, Linds, Gene, or Tyra] on your [proposal related to GMs]?

9b. What are your thoughts on the scarcity of GMs that I outlined in my provision of context to question 9a? (July 7: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89135/ - context in Q1 beginning “Your proposal for the GM Department…”)

10a. What would make you recognize that [ship cuts were] necessary?

10b. Recognizing that necessity, what metrics would you use (to cut ships)? (July 7, https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89135/ )

1. Do the Main Fleets enjoy some special privilege as to make them more desirable than being in X-Fleet? (July 9: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89644/)

2. What makes moving a ship to the Main Fleets desirable? Isn’t X-Fleet, where there is more flexibility, more options on who can be GM, and more story options, in fact, more desirable if you’re not playing a traditional character/story? (July 9: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89644/)

13a. Why is having this inroad so important to you? (context: X-Fleet -> Main Fleet progression route)

13b. Why do you think this keeps coming up over and over again when there isn’t enough popular support to have facilitated it in the ~8 years since X-Fleet’s inception? (July 9: https://www.star-fleet.com/core/command/election/posts/89644/)

Please feel free to provide your answers here or in the linked threads, whatever is most to your convenience.

Thanks in advance for your answers,
-Thomas

Just a reminder, as per LEGOE, candidates may choose not to answer any question they don’t want to respond to.

Calé
Election Coordinator

Hi Calé,

Thanks for the reminder - I was aware of this but given the amount of activity I wanted to post all of these questions in one place to make things easier for Jerome. I wouldn’t want people to get the think he was actively avoiding questions - I know how busy the ES can be for candidates, after all.

Thanks again!

-Thomas

As this is a very in-depth response, I will be getting to this tomorrow. Had some severe weather in Central Oklahoma which knocked out our home internet and I didn’t want to attempt this on my iPhone.

Thanks,
Jerome