6 999s + 3 Ushiromiyas (TNDG Day 6)

[keybroad]

((CONTENT WARNING: Extremely dubious and detailed discussion of teenager's assisted suicide in the Help A Robot thread??? There is also a lot of yelling in some of the other threads that has dubious properties due to domestic context IT'S BEEN A MONTH SINCE THIS LOG AND I WASN'T IN ALL THE THREADS SO PEOPLE PLEASE HELP ME IF THERE ARE CONTENT WARNINGS I AM NOT INCLUDING...))

[It is the morning after the tattoo game and the ominous vote distribution. Breakfast of milkshakes and whatever else people brought is set out on a conference table in the sci-fi set. Through the doorways, from the room where these people all sleep, there is a faint smoke from the candle at the shrine for Seven, a counter with a portrait, water, and fruit.

Lotus lifts her eyebrows once everyone is there.]

Hip hip hooray, let's face the day.

Comments

Petition draft

[meatitfeedson]

Notice

This petition asks all members of the community not to vote for Frank Reynolds so long as the number of available ballots are not equal to or exceeding the number of current participants.

If anyone should, the rest of us, as a community devoted to working together, may see fit to liken this to harboring a fugitive and therefore a punishable action in later voting rounds.


How's that?

[golden_dream]

Is this really okay? I mean, I completely agree, but after how my talk with Zelda went...

I feel like this might become evidence used against us to show we're terrible people.

[exequte]

The benefit of doing it this way is it can be left somewhere, without people knowing who left it. No one would be signing it.

[golden_dream]

...All right.

[unexpectedboner]

You can't really blame them, can you?

[golden_dream]

[snorts]

Is that a confession, Junpei-kun?

[unexpectedboner]

That I don't think this is all that great of an idea? 'Cause yeah, I think it's a bully move. Was anyone even gonna vote for this guy in the first place? Now you're more likely to get someone to do it just out of spite.

[jinglebros]

I hate to agree with Junpei, but he's got a fucking point.

[golden_dream]

... So, just throw it in the garbage, then?

[jinglebros]

Please explain to me again what we get out of this. Tell it real slow, like I'm four years old.

[golden_dream]

... What would you do, then?

[unexpectedboner]

Keep my head down and my nose clean instead of throwing my dick around with a bunch of threats we can't even enforce! I mean, it hasn't even been a week, I really didn't want to become public enemy number one already!

[golden_dream]

[winces] All right, you don't need to shout!

Re: Petition draft

[keybroad]

"Should do so" might be a little clearer. Other than that I think the words are really clear, it's good. The part where you added "in later voting rounds" to "a punishable action", that's especially good. Keeping the actual action vague is good because there could be some really hard to foresee voting patterns where never voting for the "harborer" again is too harsh.

"Equal to or exceeding" does show our hands with the hope that a hotelling happens too... do you think that's okay? Well, it will be anonymous.

[meatitfeedson]

Ah, you're right, I'll change that.

I think everyone's hoping for more hotelling anyway, so I don't think that's a problem. After all, it's more agreeable to say we'll only vote out Frank or this person who steps out of line if need be. That should appeal to people like Zelda and those who want to stick strictly to her ideal.

[jinglebros]

Sorry, but I'm not signing this bullshit. You all can do what you want, but I don't think this is even close to the best idea in the fucking world.

[meatitfeedson]

We're not signing it, that's the point. If we did, it would definitely be a bad idea. This is only letting everyone else know some people feel this way. And most likely, the rest do too.

[jinglebros]

And why the hell do we need to do this, anyway? Everyone knows everyone else feels this way. There's no fucking point.

[meatitfeedson]

While I also don't think it's necessary, we can't be sure someone won't do something stupid. Even his friends don't seem to care too much about him, but who knows? Besides, everyone goes around saying "what will we do without enough votes" when they know damn well what we should do. Someone actually saying it, even if it's anonymous, might help them accept it.

[jinglebros]

And in the meantime, who's the scapegoats in the equation when it all falls down and people figure out who the message came from?

[meatitfeedson]

Considering I wrote it, it would be me right? But it isn't even my usual writing, how would they figure it out?

Anyway I think we should only use it if the majority agree on it, so I'm not saying it's definitely happening, either.

[jinglebros]

No, it wouldn't be you. It would be who's perceived as the most influential or loudest of the group!

[exequte]

If everyone does want to post this or something like it still but wants to make very sure it's not easily associatable with the largest alliance that's currently here, then the wording can be edited to make it seem like a smaller group, or even one person said it. Just take out 'the rest of us as a community devoted to working together' and replace it with 'the community'. It makes the numbers of people who are complicit in posting it vaguer.

If everyone doesn't want to do it, though, that's also fine. I don't think it's really necessary.

[meatitfeedson]

I don't think there's any reason to post it if there's such strong opposition to the idea, when no one seems to feel terribly strongly about doing it.

[exequte]

It seems a little unnecessary to me. I wouldn't mind posting it, but I'd prefer to make sure it couldn't be connected back to any of us if we did. A lot of other people feel more strongly though, and if we want to make absolutely sure nobody will connect us it would be easier to just not post it at all.