Article V. Government offices§B. The Mayor's Powers

v. The Mayor's term of office shall be three two months long. Beyond its natural expiration, the Mayor’s term can be terminated by either the Mayor's resignation or by a passing recall vote.

vi. No person shall hold more than two three terms (or 6 months) as Mayor within a 8 month period.

For

Three months is a long time for a Minecraft server. It is long enough that most Augustan governments inevitably enter troughs of inactivity. Looking among past Mayoral resignations, we widely find less then a dozen registered voters participating in the new elections.

With new elections comes new hopes and discussions, drama and debates. There is almost always a large post-election activity bump, even when a Mayor is merely reelected. There is a greater feeling of accountability among the populace and more of the very politics that draws people to Civ.

Against

Of course, elections can also mean the bad sort of drama, and bureaucratic nonsense.

• Lets address 'bureaucratic nonsense' first. We need to remember Minecraft is not real life. It does not takes thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars to run an election. It takes posting three reddit threads. Now, of course, the Mayor must take time away from their other duties to campaign more frequently. This is, if anything, a benefit. Almost all Mayors on CC have had slumps of activity where it is opined there is too little communication with the citizens.

• Lets finally address the bad sort of drama. Inevitably elections often result in shitflinging. First we need to remember shitflinging is rather constant even without elections. Scrolling through r/mtaugusta I see plenty of mid-term recall votes, rants, trial requests and so on. Though unfortunate, at least an election thread makes this already latent drama more concrete and, perhaps, more able to be productively focused.

Conclusion

I would say these disadvantages, where they do exist, are small in comparison to the potential benefits of greater accountability, activity, transparency and, yes, even entertainment. However I would like to hear your thoughts.

This would obviously not apply to the upcoming election.we could just recall the next mayor after two months though or get them to agree to resign :really: