Minister of Lore Candidacy
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It is time for the next minister term to come around. If you are of Baron rank or higher and wish to run for the position of Minister of Lore, please announce your candidacy here. You have until 1/3/21 to do so.
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I announce my candidacy for the position of Lore Minister.
Why should you vote for me?
I have a long history of server participation, prior experience as a deputy under several Lore Ministers, and a detailed list of goals I wish to accomplish.
Below are my positions as Lore Minister, as well as goals I wish to accomplish should I be elected.
Positions:
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I will be conducting rank ascensions similarly to Tywen and previous Lore Ministries. I do not plan on implementing required quotas for lore needed at time of ascension nor in the period since last ascension. My reasoning is that lore cannot easily be quantified in the same manner as builds and that trying to impose such a system would be harmful to the creative output of the server.
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The total body of lore will be assessed for ascensions, not just lore between rankups. There has been discussion lately of this issue in the discord. I want to clarify my current position that under my administration there will not be a mandated amount of lore required between rankups. Just as builds made above and beyond a certain rankup still count for future rankups, so to will lore. I do not want to penalize bursts of activity, nor too strongly punish burnout.
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I will place an emphasis on a wide variety of types of lore. Our community has a strong foundation with storytelling and narrative worldbuilding. However, many of our members have skills with many other facets of worldbuilding such as visual art, music, audio stories, and even cooking. I accept and even encourage all of these as valid methods of worldbuilding and useful contributions to the world of Candarion.
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I will appoint deputies based on their willingness to contribute to the Lore Ministry in its stated goals and possibly goals of their own. I want to bring in new people to the ministry who are excited to be in the position. I encourage some of our newer members to apply because my hope is that at least one of my deputies will be a first time appointee to the ministries of the server. Deputies will have a direct impact on the methods to achieve my listed goals. I will also work to ensure that they will be able to achieve goals of their own during their time in the position. Additionally, deputies will be included in the lore review process of rank ups and their thoughts will be strongly considered in the final judgement of the Lore Ministry on rank ups.
Goals:
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Create a set of guidelines for appropriate lore at the various rank levels. This will not be a quantitative like the building guide made by Kyrin due to my previously stated position on lore counts. Instead, I will have a list of goals that are to be achieved at each rank. Achievement of these goals is inherently subjective, just as lore is, though I will work to ensure that the judgements made by the Lore Ministry are trusted by the community. To facilitate this these guidelines will be developed with extensive input from the community.
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Encourage collaborative lore between realms. I strongly believe that Candarion is a collaborative project. Lore made on the server should reflect that. I will help start collaborative lore projects, such as the "living posts" made by Bryson and Aron. I will also experiment with events that encourage knowledge of other members' realms.
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Leverage the community's lore output to aid the Applications Ministry in its advertizing efforts. I will encourage members of the community to post lore to relevant external communities to promote the server's online presence (e.g. reddit, Instagram, YouTube, maybe TikTok?). This will be done in coordination with the goals of the Applications Ministry. This will be optional, and all posts will be made either by the relevant community member or with explicit consent of that member.
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Host periodic events to promote server engagement. I have already trialed one of my ideas with the Sentence A Day threads. I have several ideas which I will test during my tenure. These include workshops from community members with expertise in topics that they are willing to teach to fellow members, weekly times dedicated to playing on the server or creating lore, and server wide lore events/prompts.
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