What is going on?

Could someone, very simply, explain what the whole election drama is? Preferably @K.Rokossovski because I trust you but also @Claudio NVKP because you seem to be the centre of the chaos and maybe someone from the so-called "establishment". (what is that btw?)

Oh @Joe Bartolozzi; you ran this whole thing?

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Summary of recent controversies on the forum:

1. Favorite Forum User Poll

  • Made by @Taffyta Muttonfudge
  • Started as a popularity contest, people could vote more than once
  • @Donk2.0 won by a huge amount
  • @Claudio NVKP claimed voter fraud based on that people could vote multiple times, even though everyone (including him) had this privilege
  • Claudio and others incited fear among forum users of a "establishment" which paved the way for actual forum "elections"

2. Racial Comments thread

  • Thread created by @AnonymeggABC1234 who accused @vonlettowvorbeck of racism
  • Egg claimed that VLW said he doesn't know what freedom of speech is because he is Egyptian (an authoritarian country)
  • VLW and other forum users claimed that there was no racism
  • Later on this thread became a debate about whether racism can exist scientifically, and about the scientific classifications of humans
  • Main debate was between @vonlettowvorbeck and @Komrade Khrushchev

3. Gypsygate

  • Somehow started from the racism debate thread
  • Several users made disparaging comments about Romania and certain groups of people from there
  • None of these users have received sanctions from Bytro
  • @vonlettowvorbeck later claimed that these arguments were invalidated because the posters are the same race as Romanians (i.e. all humans are one race)
  • Anti-Romanian comments continued to be posted by several users

4. January Forum Elections

  • Stemmed from controversy regarding favorite forum user poll
  • Hosted by @Komrade Khrushchev, a self-proclaimed "neutral"
  • Main factions are led by @Claudio NVKP and @Taffyta Muttonfudge
  • Claudio's faction (MaFGA) claims without proof that elections are "taffudged" (rigged) and that no elections are necessary, therefore attempting to undermine the integrity of the election
  • Debate then evolves into racial argument and dehumanizing remarks from the MaFGA side

5. Resources Reforged debates

  • Several polls were conducted by forum users to determine the popularity of the Resources Reforged update, or whether they wanted it to be removed
  • About 90% of forum users agreed that the update should be removed, but some support it, most notably @Bandersnatch
  • @vonlettowvorbeck criticizes Bandersnatch and others who support the update, and later makes remarks about these player's experience and "love of war bonds"
  • Many users are also frustrated about what they see as Bytro refusing to listen to player feedback.

I should probably add as a footnote that @'vonlettowvorbeck''s account got banned about a week ago due to multiple rulebreaks; he made an alt account @'p.von.lettow-vorbeck' which just got banned yesterday.

Lol Sherman, she didn't ask you nothing.

I'll sum things up:

i) I made the routine Forum election thread in July, however, due to inactivity, that election never happened.

So, we had an election in Mid-Jan, where Claudio (The MAfGA movement's head) won the election 9-6. Tafftya conceded and everything went normally for a week.

ii) Then came the Gen-Z trio, consisting off Bandersnatch, General James, Sherman and they demanded new elections because James slept during the real one. Ever since then, these guys are rioting. They also made dehumanizing comments towards Vonlettowrovceck, calling him a Nazi because of his name.

"We can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can't do both at the same time." ~ Heisenberg
RETIRED ELECTION MANAGER

whowh wrote:

Could someone, very simply, explain what the whole election drama is? Preferably @K.Rokossovski because I trust you but also @Claudio NVKP because you seem to be the centre of the chaos and maybe someone from the so-called "establishment". (what is that btw?)

Oh @Joe Bartolozzi; you ran this whole thing?

nothing serious... just having fun. although some don't get it.

Freedom and Democracy, that's what is happening! We stood up to the establishment and I, won a second term in a LANDSLIDE! But the deepstate fakers and the forum establishment wants to DESTROY democracy, but I'm in your way! Fight! Fight! Fight! And We Will Make the Forums Great Again!

The President

General Sherman wrote:

Summary of recent controversies on the forum:

1. Favorite Forum User Poll

  • Made by @Taffyta Muttonfudge
  • Started as a popularity contest, people could vote more than once
  • @Donk2.0 won by a huge amount
  • @Claudio NVKP claimed voter fraud based on that people could vote multiple times, even though everyone (including him) had this privilege
  • Claudio and others incited fear among forum users of a "establishment" which paved the way for actual forum "elections"

2. Racial Comments thread

  • Thread created by @AnonymeggABC1234 who accused @vonlettowvorbeck of racism
  • Egg claimed that VLW said he doesn't know what freedom of speech is because he is Egyptian (an authoritarian country)
  • VLW and other forum users claimed that there was no racism
  • Later on this thread became a debate about whether racism can exist scientifically, and about the scientific classifications of humans
  • Main debate was between @vonlettowvorbeck and @Komrade Khrushchev

3. Gypsygate

  • Somehow started from the racism debate thread
  • Several users made disparaging comments about Romania and certain groups of people from there
  • None of these users have received sanctions from Bytro
  • @vonlettowvorbeck later claimed that these arguments were invalidated because the posters are the same race as Romanians (i.e. all humans are one race)
  • Anti-Romanian comments continued to be posted by several users

4. January Forum Elections

  • Stemmed from controversy regarding favorite forum user poll
  • Hosted by @Komrade Khrushchev, a self-proclaimed "neutral"
  • Main factions are led by @Claudio NVKP and @Taffyta Muttonfudge
  • Claudio's faction (MaFGA) claims without proof that elections are "taffudged" (rigged) and that no elections are necessary, therefore attempting to undermine the integrity of the election
  • Debate then evolves into racial argument and dehumanizing remarks from the MaFGA side

5. Resources Reforged debates

  • Several polls were conducted by forum users to determine the popularity of the Resources Reforged update, or whether they wanted it to be removed
  • About 90% of forum users agreed that the update should be removed, but some support it, most notably @Bandersnatch
  • @vonlettowvorbeck criticizes Bandersnatch and others who support the update, and later makes remarks about these player's experience and "love of war bonds"
  • Many users are also frustrated about what they see as Bytro refusing to listen to player feedback.
I would also like to add, I have a party with the sole purpose of reversing the RRS update
Do YOU want COW to be more complex and tactical? Are YOU tired of updates that just add another P2W aspect of the game? Are you TIRED of the AUTHORITARIAN Mafga?
Then YOU should VOTE the Improvement Party, which seeks to 'Improve' Call of War, and promote FREE and FAIR elections.
VOTE for the Improvement Party! VOTE for a better future!

GeneralJames wrote:

I would also like to add, I have a party with the sole purpose of reversing the RRS update
Do you think Bytro even cares about player feedback at this point?

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