Presidential Debate - Airmax1227 VS Larztheloser

It's important to continue to discuss ideas for the improvement of DDO and our community. I'd also like to extend all members an invitation to ask me anything they like, or to contact me for any reason whatsoever. I'm here to serve the community, and communication is an important part of that role. Firstly, I'd like to say that I don't consider any of my duties to be unduly burdensome. The workload is high, but it's a challenge I'm happy to take on because I care about DDO. Even though the responsibilities of the presidency require my time and attention, preventing me from often doing other things, I enjoy it despite the fact that it sometimes keeps me from doing other things. So, I have learned to prioritize the things that I do so that I can maintain a balance between DDO and my personal life and interests. I still try to get a debate in when I can, too. As an aside: I'd also like to say that it was not my intention to delay this debate at all. My opponent challenged me to it a couple days before the election began, and I worked on it when I had the time to. My opponent set the conditions, which allowed 72 hour posting times, and I posted my round with about 24 hours before time elapsed. . .. Tournaments It seems that Larz has misunderstood my point, so I want to clarify what I was saying in the earlier round. I wasn't putting the onus on Juggle or blaming anyone, but explaining the circumstances. I've tried to incorporate more members to take it upon themselves to run tournaments as felt was best, but it's a big responsibility to take on. I do so because I feel like I have a responsibility to, though I'd encourage other members to put together tournaments too, or to remove me from micromanaging it altogether, as I have attempted. I am grateful for those members who have taken some of the busy work upon themselves, for showing initiative and working together to improve DDO. Voting In my haste to post my round I forgot to include a response, but I'll take some time now to address the matter. When I came into office, many poor votes were cast. I believe we have made positive gains to reduce this, but now the issue is too little voting in general and through a collaborative effort with several prominent members, we have worked out a plan I am currently working with Juggle to implement. There is no easy solution to it though. I don't want to get into specifics now, though, because the technicalities are still being worked out. But before any plans are finalized, members will publicly be asked for their feedback so that we can implement a comprehensive solution to the problems associated with too little voting. I want to recognize Larz's "Voter of the Week" idea. It's a fantastic idea, and TUF has implemented something like it in the forum. Also, the idea of members nominating various votes each week to be recognized as an official vote of the week might be a way to further incentivize voting as well. I'd like to extend an invitation to Larz to implement it, if he would like whether he wins or not. But either way, this is something I would like to see put in place after the election because it is a great idea. RL Integration I really like Larz enthusiasm for this idea, and I hope that regardless of the outcome of the election he is willing to help take steps to make this happen. I think the site would greatly gain from this, and as someone who is very much qualified to speak on debate specific topics and ideas, Larz will be a huge asset if he works with the site and helps to get these things done. Bullying I've explained earlier how I handle member conflicts on DDO and I don't see any need to rehash that. When I become aware of member conflicts, I begin by identifying the facts of the situation and I work with the members involved to bring about a resolution. By resolving conflicts as they occur, the potential for future conflicts is reduced as much as is possible. Larz said in the last round that I claimed his "solution isn't possible but gives no evidence or reason to believe this to be true. " With all due respect to my opponent, he has offered no reason to believe that his suggestions in this case will be any more effective than mine. Given my opponent's lack of experience in resolving member conflicts on DDO, he isn't in a position to understand the dynamic of conflict resolution among members. Moreover, Larz has failed to demonstrate any evidence that my administration's current approach isn't working -so I'd like to suggest that "because it aint broke" we shouldn't try to "fix it. " Trials, however, are a separate issue. Trials are reserved only for cases where cause for a ban might be in question. Where there is overwhelming evidence of a member's misconduct, and that member has demonstrated a repeated unwillingness to be reasonable and work towards a resolution, only then is banning considered. However, when "high profile" cases do occur, the DDO community is always notified -as we have all recently witnessed. . .. I want to thank the members of DDO once more for this opportunity. By collaborating and working together we can make DDO a better place for all of us. I'll reserve any future remarks for the remaining rounds.