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The Minister of Entertainment and Education - Ximboland political reforms from August 2024

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09.07.2024
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SweetasNuts
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Atheista
09.07.2024 14:22:38
SweetasNuts

Hello Ximbos - new and old

I am going to share more information about our new political set up here in Ximboland from August 1st.

This post is about the Entertainment and Education Minister only.
More info on the other minister roles to come.

Job Title = Right Honourable Entertainment and Education Minister of the Fashionable republic of Ximboland

Who can stand for this role =
Any senator

Role = The Entertainment and Education Minister is self explanatory.

You are the original entertainer. You are the spiritual, cultural and funnical leader of Ximboland. The boss of the Town Square.

You are a cross between a Mother/Father, a maitre d and a host. The host with the most. Its your voice that we will hear the loudest.

You will put the community first and will be warm and welcoming to everyone regardless of your personal allegiances or history. You will be especially welcoming to new Ximbo immigrants making sure they feel comfortable to post and engage in Ximboland. You will educate Ximbos on bimboism, Ximbo fashion and  how Ximboiland works and take great pride in your work.

You will work closely with the PX and the other ministers and support them in their endeavours to improve Ximboland.

The Entertainment and education minister is responsible for crazes and state/fashion wars ensuring that we have 1 x state war per term. You will also be responsible for supporting the PX with the PXFC.


Powers = The Entertainment Minister will have the power to = 

Pin posts, create pop ups, post in Pink House private office.

The Entertainment Minister will not have the power to edit posts, delete posts, issue any forum bans/jail bans.


Rewards = a 1/4 of the treasury funds on completion of a completed government term.


This is a new role so I am sure it will change and expand over time.


I hope you will support our Entertainment Minister in our shared mission to improve Ximboland



09.07.2024 14:22:38



tibby
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Agnostica
09.07.2024 14:25:30
tibby

sounds really fun :)

09.07.2024 14:25:30
       

Pollyx
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Antitheocra
09.07.2024 14:42:20
Pollyx

You mentioned this role and the Minister of Fashion will have the gifting tool as well as a diamond stipend, but those are missing here. Can you confirm? Those elements are pretty much vital for both of of these roles and I'm happy to explain why in more detail if you would like to know.

Also, if this role is required to make sure State Wars happens, how will they do that? Is it going to be a new tool on site for this player?

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Secville
09.07.2024 14:42:46
Beautiful_KayKay

August is only a month away this is still July why are you even talking about it like tf

09.07.2024 14:42:46
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Atheista
09.07.2024 14:47:20
SweetasNuts

This is something that needs development. I understand why state ministers and Fashion minister need to have stipend but why do you feel entertainment minister does? 

Pollyx
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You mentioned this role and the Minister of Fashion will have the gifting tool as well as a diamond stipend, but those are missing here. Can you confirm? Those elements are pretty much vital for both of of these roles and I'm happy to explain why in...


09.07.2024 14:47:20



SweetasNuts
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Atheista
09.07.2024 14:51:23
SweetasNuts

And yes there is a new tool for uploading fashion/state wars

09.07.2024 14:51:23



Pollyx
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Antitheocra
09.07.2024 15:10:13
Pollyx

You mention in your main post for this thread that the Entertainment and Education minister will be responsible for entertaining, welcoming, and educating new Ximbos on the ways and history of the Internet Republic. Gifting and running contests (such as Fashion Week, a popular multi-week contest typically organized end partially funded by the PB) seems like a necessity to entertain. Contests, events, and quizzes would be a HUGE part of entertaining the userbase.

I don't intend to run for this position, but as an example, in February I ran a large all-state event called February Art Fight where users gifted art, writing, collages, and other forms of creativity to users from other states, basically "attacking" them and earning points for their state by giving gifts. It was a hugely collaborative event with hundreds of entries which instilled interest in the site and site patriotism while also supporting the sense of community we have here. Events like these would make the most sense for the Entertainment Minister to run, especially because this position will likely be replacing the PX's typical contests.

You said months ago you wanted the PX position to be an entertainment position. Almost every PB over the last few years has run monthly contests or challenges of some kind which get the userbase interested and involved, something that was previously funded partially by the treasury, but with the treasury now being split, that simply does not make sense (let's be honest, Pink House members and State Ministers buying their own diamonds is pretty ridiculous in the first place, but I digress). Gifting and rewards are a huge motivator for participation in these events. I can imagine a potential Entertainment Minister filling the education part of their duties by running quizzes and contests centered around testing your knowledge of Ximboland (including potentially from Sindy Laarson's book) or rewarding Ximbos for winning or participating in creative or fashion contests centered around Ximbo knowledge.

Providing the gifting tool and a diamond stipend also enables candidates to bring their own platform to the table and therefore allowing Ximbos to vote for the candidate offering the kind of entertainment they want most. A potential Minister might say they want to entertain and educate Ximbos by running contests for users to submit stories and artwork that are fanart of site events or interpretations of Ximbo lore. If site users like that, they can vote for that candidate. This would get people involved and patriotic and educated about Ximbo values, but would require the gifting tool due to it being a contest, as well as a diamond stipend for an amount of contests, events, challenges, or quizzes per month decided on in an agreement between Team Bimbo and Entertainment Ministers. If that Minister wants to pay for diamonds to go beyond that, that's fine, but there needs to be a baseline.

If this minister is running PXFC suggestion threads, that will also require diamonds and the gifting tool, as previous PBs have rewarded 1000D to the person who suggested the winning theme. If you run PXFC and do not offer this, the userbase who is accustomed to this incentive may be disappointed and less engaged. You need to reward users somehow and gifting is the easiest structure already in place for that as there aren't specialized badges or other profile rewards for specific events yet. Site morale is low and you need users to feel there's a reason to get engaged with the community again—something the Entertainment Minister can theoretically do, but they need these tools and a diamond stipend to do that.

(The fashion minister needs those tools for a different purpose obviously, and likely a stipend in different amounts—something I'm happy to talk to Team Bimbo about as it's slightly specific to the needs of the shop) 

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Atheista
09.07.2024 15:28:55
SweetasNuts

And this is exactly why you should be running and hopefully winning one of the minister roles. You clearly know a lot and have a great holistic view of all aspects of Ximboland. I feel we could achieve a lot working together.

To these ideas here - yes this is exactly the type of entertainment and education minister we need eg creative and fun.

With regards to gifting tool and stipend.  I  have teh gifting tool and so can easily gift to anyone whom the minister asks of me though agreed I may as well let them do it direct. 
As for diamonds and how many they are allowed t gift. I find this tricky to know because we are essentially plucking figures out of thin air though I know it is necessary and long overdue  to work this out and just go with it., The same for State ministers,. They need stipend also. 

One slight issue with tis is accountability. How will anyone know whom the minister is actually awarding diamonds to? Cant this be abused ie they give diamonds to their alt accounts or friends etc? 



Pollyx
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You mention in your main post for this thread that the Entertainment and Education minister will be responsible for entertaining, welcoming, and educating new Ximbos on the ways and history of the Internet Republic. Gifting and running contests (such...


09.07.2024 15:28:55



Pollyx
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Antitheocra
09.07.2024 15:46:42
Pollyx

Great question, but there are solutions to this baked in. First of all, there should be a database Team Bimbo can access to track these kind of things, no? When it comes to extreme cases, at least, that must be trackable somewhere. However, I'm not sure it actually needs to come to that.

The simplest answer is to have a set amount allotted for the position that is to be used for contests and challenges with the additional specification that you cannot enter your own contests from an alt account (obviously). The gifting tool currently already tracks when people gift things—you pick what thread to gift to and it sends a message there and to the player's DMs (and your own). Unless those Ministers have FP tools, which they won't, they ideally won't be able to delete those posts (though if theirs is the most recent, I'm not sure) and that serves as a log for users of what is being sent out. Of course, people could be sending some of their own diamonds out in addition to that, but if that's for contests, would it matter?

If users know how much the Minister has been allotted for contests, they will pay attention to whether or not that amount is actually going out to people i.e. if the contests are being held. We know TB can take Diamonds and positions away, so those tools are available in the case of a Minister abusing their position for this. Realistically, though, that usually doesn't happen. Most State Ministers and PH members across time know they can't abuse the gifting tool even with their own Diamonds (i.e. you have to have a reason to send gifts, you can't just send them to friends) as it's considered an abuse of power. I would hope it would be even moreso in the case of diamond stipends from TB, especially since these figures can be tracked, probably from both the front and back end side of things.

As for the amounts involved, I'm sure plenty of SMs and former PH members could talk about standard types of amounts they give out for prizes. You could sort of average out monthly totals for that kind of thing, or how much a PB would spend on this kind of stuff, and give out a total monthly amount to the Entertainment Minister that they can separate into whatever number of contests they want to, with the understanding that if the player base doesn't like what they're doing they won't be elected again.

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Atheista
09.07.2024 16:05:49
lovelifegirl

I mean, couldn’t that be said for every new role atp that’s given a stipend? Since you’re wanting to be more hands on, you should be able to see that if it happens right? 
Imo, you’re just going to have to trust, and if someone doesn’t do things fairly, then you’d have to remove them from the role - and there wouldn’t be much to lose at all on the off chances that they prize alts or friends since a) the prizes would be given for nothing by the dev team and b) they’ve given you free labour. 
At worst, you’re giving away ‘freebies’ for someone volunteering as the treasury split most likely wouldn’t cover most of the time they’d dedicate to the roll. 

Putting in numbers, if it’s a 3 month term, and the treasury is where it’s at rn, we’ll be generous and round off to an easy number of $400USD. Split between 4, $100 each. You’ve lost at max, $33 a month - the UKs minimum wage equals to nearly $15USD an hour. 2 hours pay worth of work in a months timeframe I don’t think is too much to lose, and the persons time would easily amount to more than 2 hours anyway.

Hopefully in the 3 months working with the people in any of the new minister roles, you can gauge and decide for yourself who is fair and who plays favourites, but I appreciate you answering our questions regarding this new change anyway, so ty for that Chris ~ 

(( also sidenote but Polly based fr rn )) 




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