Okay, I was going to attempt to bs about the Dotts cards, but I need to save my money for training because there's only so much media I can write each season. Plus, I can't find a job around here. If my career represented my job luck, I'd be an undisputed pro-bowler for the Las Vegas Legion, or better yet, the bot teams of Norfolk and Kansas City ---- I make noise but I don't really exist. That's a topic for another day though, let's get to the real work.
Alright, I'm still relatively young, but I've learned a lot in the world. One thing, stream-of-consciousness, ideology, mantra, whatever term is apropos for the following is: "Wealth is the ultimate fail-safe". When things, or people, go wrong in society, usually those flush with cash, assets, and wealth are able to absolve themselves of many petty offenses that breed abhorrent habits and behaviors. They are insulated by the abundance of money on hand to ward off the moral police. However, it's not about rich people getting off easy, it's about a general societal trend on all levels where bad behaviors are often ignored in place of being paid off.
A lot of business practices key in on exploiting people for not being prepared, timely, responsible, or any quality of the like. Overnight shipping, ATM surchages, overdraft fees, reservation fees, "convenience" fees, late penalties, all of these fees and charges simply masquerade as an extension of service as a conduit to further siphon pockets of customers in unfortunate situations or who practice bad habits.
How does this translate to the ISFL? Well, let's say deep down, I'm OCD to getting my point tasks and transactions finished for my updates and it somewhat boils my blood to see some players completely miss point tasks altogether, especially when they blame others for not reminding them every day every week. So, how can we work on this? I understand some people have real life issues and packed schedules and shouldn't be punished, but I think to drain more money, we should allow late submissions for point tasks(up to when the grader locks the thread) and everyone that submits late will face a monetary penalty. We'd be offering an extension of our service to allow players to go get that TPE, build their player, and get good and stay active. For those that are just being lazy, maybe seeing their bank account automatically withdrawn will urge them to get with it, or whipped like Rotz would say.
For those with the big money, a repeat offender penalty may need to be implemented as well. What would could do, is at the end of the season, create a pool for the highest TPE earners of the season and a pool of highest prediction earners and either split the collected fine money with a fixed amount of a selected rank of those earners or a randomly selected group of those earners. Give the ones with bad habits a bailout and reward those that maintain the high activity.
Alright, I'm still relatively young, but I've learned a lot in the world. One thing, stream-of-consciousness, ideology, mantra, whatever term is apropos for the following is: "Wealth is the ultimate fail-safe". When things, or people, go wrong in society, usually those flush with cash, assets, and wealth are able to absolve themselves of many petty offenses that breed abhorrent habits and behaviors. They are insulated by the abundance of money on hand to ward off the moral police. However, it's not about rich people getting off easy, it's about a general societal trend on all levels where bad behaviors are often ignored in place of being paid off.
A lot of business practices key in on exploiting people for not being prepared, timely, responsible, or any quality of the like. Overnight shipping, ATM surchages, overdraft fees, reservation fees, "convenience" fees, late penalties, all of these fees and charges simply masquerade as an extension of service as a conduit to further siphon pockets of customers in unfortunate situations or who practice bad habits.
How does this translate to the ISFL? Well, let's say deep down, I'm OCD to getting my point tasks and transactions finished for my updates and it somewhat boils my blood to see some players completely miss point tasks altogether, especially when they blame others for not reminding them every day every week. So, how can we work on this? I understand some people have real life issues and packed schedules and shouldn't be punished, but I think to drain more money, we should allow late submissions for point tasks(up to when the grader locks the thread) and everyone that submits late will face a monetary penalty. We'd be offering an extension of our service to allow players to go get that TPE, build their player, and get good and stay active. For those that are just being lazy, maybe seeing their bank account automatically withdrawn will urge them to get with it, or whipped like Rotz would say.
For those with the big money, a repeat offender penalty may need to be implemented as well. What would could do, is at the end of the season, create a pool for the highest TPE earners of the season and a pool of highest prediction earners and either split the collected fine money with a fixed amount of a selected rank of those earners or a randomly selected group of those earners. Give the ones with bad habits a bailout and reward those that maintain the high activity.
