Presidential Debate - Airmax1227 VS Larztheloser

Because I believe my opponent misunderstands the responsibilities of the office of the presidency and the duties which follow from it, once more I'd like to clarify both. Firstly, members often contact me for reasons which range from questions about the site, requests for account verification, suspicions of multi-accounting, and other things that I need to personally respond to. When I log into DDO I may have a dozen or more messages daily from members that I need to respond to or resolve. I take these seriously and I am always sure to handle it personally. If a member suspects another account of multi-accounting, it's something I have to spend my time researching. If a member needs account verification, I have to research their account and verify it for them, and then explain proper voting conduct to them. If a member has any issue with the site, I do my best to help them and resolve those issues. None of these things individually take up a lot of time, but I receive around a hundred of these sorts of messages a week, making them something that does take time to deal with, while also not being something I need to update the site on, as they are just a routine part of my job as president and moderator. That also doesn't include the amount of time I spend corresponding with Juggle, doing other types of site moderation activities, and reaching out to new members simply to let them know who I am and that they should contact me if they need anything. All of these things take time, so contrary to what my opponent has said, even if I don't have something significant enough to update the community about, I am doing my best to continue to help the site in ways that may go unseen. Tournaments I've asked many times in the forums for someone who wanted to oversee the tournaments. I do them because members have asked me to. We didn't have any for several months before the current ones because I was hoping members who better understood tournaments, would step up and be willing to do the work on them. After enough time passed and no one volunteered, I contacted some members and finally got several to agree. We then went ahead with the current tournaments. If Larz wants complete creative control over future official tournaments, I will enthusiastically delegate him that responsibility. Not having to manage future tournaments would give me more time to do other things for the site. I had asked for someone to take this upon themself awhile ago, and wish Larz had expressed such an interest before the current tournaments were already started, and before he had a vested reason in implying that he would be willing to do this. Nonetheless, if Larz is willing to do this, I look forward to seeing what he comes up with, and I look forward to working with him on this, and potentially other site projects. Voting My opponent begins by attacking my record on voting as though it somehow has something to do with my position here, when it doesn't. I believe members need to thoroughly read debates to a point where they can vote properly on them and I don't have time to do so enough. I read them casually fairly often, though not enough where I'm comfortable to vote on them. But when I see a debate with no votes that has been FFd, I figure I should vote on it, just so it doesn't end up as a tie. However, as I have mentioned earlier, because of my duties as president I don't often have the time to read a debate closely enough to be able to cast a good vote on it. For some reason, Larz believes I have done nothing to reduce poor votes. In no uncertain terms this is a falsehood. Poor voting conduct has been reduced due to direct actions I and my administration have taken. Firstly, I personally contact members who repeatedly show poor conduct in voting. This is also a time consuming aspect of my responsibilities, but because it's something integral to the site, I don't mind the amount of time it takes to send out the hundreds and hundreds of PMs to members, explaining to them exactly how they need to be voting. Secondly, I have gotten the ability to remove voting privileges added to moderator functions. Members who show no interest in reforming their voting conduct (by repeatedly placing VBs or poor RFDs) are warned about it, and then finally lose their voting abilities for a set amount of time as a consequence. My opponent furthermore blames me for personally harming voting on DDO, which isn't even logically consistent with his earlier position. On the one hand, he's arguing that I've done nothing, but on the other he asserts that actions I have taken have "destroyed voting on DDO. " While there are fewer votes cast, the votes which are cast are of a generally higher quality than previously. Moreover, members remain free to ask others to vote on their debates and many have found that to be very effective. Finally, my opponent's assertion that I want Juggle to fix this problem mischaracterizes what I've said in earlier rounds. I have worked with Juggle and a commission of DDO members to develope a plan based on community feedback. Because this isn't a simple issue, this takes time to fully outline a comprehensive plan that will increase voting, without increasing poor voting. Such a plan and outline now exists, and members will soon be able to offer feedback on this initial plan. While I have presented it informally to Juggle, when it is in it's final iteration, it will still ultimately be up to Juggle to decide if they are willing to take the steps to fully implement such a significant undertaking. RL Integration I believe this is a good idea, and I'll encourage it to happen. I'll encourage Larz to take the initiative to implement this idea in the future. Bullying I think Larz has overstated the problem here. I'll admit that I don't read every single post in the forums, so perhaps I'm not aware of the huge number of members that are being bullied as my opponent implies. If such a thing is really happening, I would hope, that at the very least, he would contact me with the names of who these members are so that something can be done about it. But that hasn't happened thus far, and I've also dealt with every report I've received. For clarification on how that is done, please refer to earlier rounds. Once more, many thanks to Larz for an interesting exchange of ideas and I wish him the best of luck in future debates. I'll look forward to his implementing his idea on RL integration, and I'll await his taking initiative to that end.