I have to ask, do you any idea what the Articles are ,that this minority you propose are rejecting?
[does it matter what's in the articles? I mean, it's not like we're ever going to get 100% of the people to agree 100% of the time. so whatever's in there probably pissed off enough people to want to break off from orthodox fen society and become boskones. (cf: US articles of confederation and constitution, European Constitution).
what is in the articles? that's up to Commisar Mfnord to decide.]
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What? You think evey Trekkie (Warsie, ect) is going to feel/vote the same? This isn't some guy saying "I represent X number of Trekkies so I have X votes, it's each person voting their own mind, either in person or by calling it in. (that's why the vote isn't taken until a few days after the proposals are announced)
[which is why breakaway states, if i may use that term (though it's probably misleading in a post-statist situation), that may come back together again at a later point or not was probably the norm before the Articles of Convention. Then whether a group acknowledged the authority of the articles probably determined the criminality of a group.]
You're also forgetting that in fenspace it's not uncommon to 'multiple citizenships'. Just because someone identifies themselves mainly as, say, a Warsie, that doesn't mean they don't also consider themselves a Browncoat/Fiver/Super/Barsoomian/ect. Not to mention the Generalists.
[hmm. could someone be both a boskone and a warsie?]
What kind of 'agendas' did you expect the larger fractions to be pushing anyways?
[i've got no idea. but factions always have them, whether they know it or not.]
-murmur
[does it matter what's in the articles? I mean, it's not like we're ever going to get 100% of the people to agree 100% of the time. so whatever's in there probably pissed off enough people to want to break off from orthodox fen society and become boskones. (cf: US articles of confederation and constitution, European Constitution).
what is in the articles? that's up to Commisar Mfnord to decide.]
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What? You think evey Trekkie (Warsie, ect) is going to feel/vote the same? This isn't some guy saying "I represent X number of Trekkies so I have X votes, it's each person voting their own mind, either in person or by calling it in. (that's why the vote isn't taken until a few days after the proposals are announced)
[which is why breakaway states, if i may use that term (though it's probably misleading in a post-statist situation), that may come back together again at a later point or not was probably the norm before the Articles of Convention. Then whether a group acknowledged the authority of the articles probably determined the criminality of a group.]
You're also forgetting that in fenspace it's not uncommon to 'multiple citizenships'. Just because someone identifies themselves mainly as, say, a Warsie, that doesn't mean they don't also consider themselves a Browncoat/Fiver/Super/Barsoomian/ect. Not to mention the Generalists.
[hmm. could someone be both a boskone and a warsie?]
What kind of 'agendas' did you expect the larger fractions to be pushing anyways?
[i've got no idea. but factions always have them, whether they know it or not.]
-murmur