Flairs

If you're reading this, you've probably noticed the shiny new flairs attached to this post and several other recent ones, along with a reformatted sidebar. I've been working on an update to the sub CSS for a bit (you can see my prototype over at /r/SAWD) and one of the most important features of that update is these flairs. My hope is that we'll be able to use them to organize our business in the future, removing most of the need for megaposts like my old Archive. I also aim to update the wiki, hopefully soon and would welcome any advice on y'all's parts.

I've organized the flairs into color groups, which should make looking for the type of post you want easier and quicker. They are as follows:

Red - High Priority Voting

• Amendment

Blue - Voting

• Referendum
• Citizenship Vote
• GA Votes

Yellow - Government Notices, Announcements, or Vote Results

• Chancellery
• Council
• APC
• Ministry

Purple - Pantarch

• Pantarch

Green - Elections

• Election

Grey - Other

• General Announcements
• Discussions
• Miscellaneous

As part of the sidebar update, I added in links to filters for each color grouping.

Taxes

/u/higgenbottoms had a great idea in the Slack recently, and I think we should talk about it quite a bit more. As most of us know, factories will require "essences" to maintain in 3.0. These essences will be gained through logging in. Higgens' idea was to tax a players for essence in order to allow us to maintain the public factories and facilities that have been a hallmark of Auroran society since Old Agora.

He suggested levying this tax during elections, but I think that's probably too far apart. My suggestion is this: amend the Charter to create two classes of citizens. One would be "active," those who paid an essence tax once every two weeks or so. The other would be "inactive," those who failed to pay the tax. Inactive citizens would be unable to vote, but all they would have to do to become active again would be start paying the essence tax.

Higgens also said that the taxes shouldn't be more than a player would get from logging on twice a week, and I fully agree. We need to keep it reasonable.

We don't need to decide exact amounts now, but I think amending the Charter to allow for this essence tax would be a step in the right direction to assure Aurora's future prosperity.