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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 4169971" data-attributes="member: 13098">OK, what makes you think there is a significant element of the user community looking to be enfranchised?  In the interest of discussion and debate, let me ask some questions.How would this proposal improve the user experience?  No, more to the point, how would it improve my experience?  I mean, if we are talking about enfranchising me, how will it improve things for me?  As it is, I already feel comfortable posting in the Meta forum.  I feel comfortable emailing several of the moderators and the owner if I have any concerns, questions or comments that don't belong in a public post.  I feel as invested in the site as I want to be at any given time.  How would a CS advocate improve these things for me?Why should I buy into this proposal?  I don't see how it benefits me.  On the other hand, I see risks.  What if I don't like the elected advocate?  What if I can't communicate clearly with the advocate?  What if, in the long run, the advocate became the only avenue of discourse with the moderators and admins simply because that is what the advocate position was created for?  How would that serve me better?For that matter, what about thinking about the current moderators and administrators?  What if the elected advocate is not somebody they can work with very strongly?  What if the advocate turned out to be somebody that acted in a manner that created more work load through uneven decisions, a confrontational attitude, and a general sense of entitlement because he or she was elected?What market advantage will an elected advocate provide?  What is EN World marketing against?  Is this a potential pre-emptive measure against Gleemax/WotC?  Is there market competition with RPG.net for subscribers?  To have a market advantage, you need to be competing for market share don't you?  I am not currently aware of such competition, but maybe I need more information?If there was a significant chance that this could increase community supporter accounts, that might be interesting.  But my decisions on whether to become a community supporter have much more to do with personal finances than wanting to feel some sort of enfranchisement.</blockquote>

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