No jokez, y'all.


So, who's happy with the current system? I know that quite a lot of people get the feeling that the Adeptship is largely a best-friends-club for East Coasters; they make up an overwhelming majority of the membership, it seems, while the West Coast, the Midlands, Europe, etc., are underrepresented. I know the problem is particularly bad because even East Coasters think that there's too many East Coasters.

Here's an idea I've been pondering. Suppose we set up the Adept system like Adepts did something really relevant (what relevant things they should do could come later- I think going back to a voting system on DTB could be advantageous, for instance), and we simply run it as an election. Each person casts a certain number of votes for the people they think are best fitted to adeptship, and the top 15 or 21 or some odd number for tie-breaker purposes become Adepts. Obviously this is, by definition, a popularity contest, but I think that popularity on the Source is based largely on two qualities that are deeply relevant to what we want from Adepts anyway (eloquence and knowledge of the format). I think at any rate, this fights the natural tendency we have going where Adeptship is determined largely by East Coasters, and thus tends to include more East Coasters that those deciding on membership are more familiar with.

Now, obviously this is actually up to the Admins, not members, but I am curious to find out what people think. Are people happy with the system as currently set up, or would a special effort to balance the Adeptship more geographically be worthwhile?