God's Imitator

After finalizing the license purchase plan, there is another special item purchase that needs to be decided.

["First Player Identity Card" Privilege 5 Unlocked]

[5. After the community vote ends, you can privately view the specific voting situation of a particular player. Can be used up to once a month.]

[Price: 80,000 minutes of visa time.]

Qin Cheng looked at everyone: "Next, we will determine whether to purchase the fifth privilege of the First Player Identity Card.

"Actually, I personally think it’s a toss-up; we can buy it or not.

"What does everyone think?

"Sister Yelin, what do you think?"

Ye Lin pondered for a moment: "Let’s list the pros and cons of this item one by one, then discuss them one by one, and finally decide by vote."

Qin Cheng nodded: "Sure, that’s what I was thinking too."

Ye Lin took paper and pen, and briefly listed a few points.

"Being able to view a player’s voting situation is its greatest value, but there are corresponding drawbacks.

"There must be hidden imitators in the community. Even though we have successfully captured one, Walkway will likely arrange for a new imitator.

"Suppose at some future point, through the game’s situation or the community’s voting pattern, we realize the emergence of a dangerous imitator again, we will still have to find a way to catch them.

"But it’s still challenging, even increasingly so.

"One of the most difficult steps in this is gathering evidence.

"If we suspect a player is a hidden malicious imitator and find out some of their real voting intentions, this can also be seen as decisive evidence—after all, it is very difficult to find more reliable evidence."

Ye Lin noticed that others seemed to have something to say: "I know this matter is bound to be quite controversial, so I’ll list all the points first, and then everyone can discuss in turn."

"Besides, there’s the issue we discussed earlier regarding how to unlock privileges for the First Player Identity Card.

"Since we have been purchasing the Identity Card privileges in sequence, we are unsure whether we can skip any intermediary privilege to unlock or purchase subsequent privileges.

"If privileges cannot be skipped, then there might be more and better privileges available for the Identity Card in the future, which we must also buy.

"Now, let’s move on to its drawbacks and disadvantages.

"Firstly, it will still undermine community trust.

"’Anonymous voting’ is a fundamental community rule and a guarantee of all players’ basic rights.

"Since everything in the community is decided by proposals, each person’s voting right in proposals is everyone’s fundamental right.

"The core difference between ’anonymous voting’ and ’named voting’ is: if it were named voting, many timid players would fear being found out later for voting contrary to others and consequently being isolated or retaliated against.

"They wouldn’t dare to vote against, which would lead to a monotone voice in the community, with conflicts continuously accumulating and intensifying.

"Once conflicts are not resolved promptly, they could explode at some future point, causing irreparable consequences.

"Secondly, the price is distinctly expensive.

"Although our current community fund total makes 80,000 not seem much, that’s after we painstakingly saved it up, and we still need to budget carefully.

"We cannot lose our sense of visa time just because the community fund has increased.

"Our weekly dinners are based on an average of 200 minutes of visa time per person, only costing 3,000 minutes of visa time in total.

"This 80,000 community fund is enough for us to dine for half a year.

"That’s all I can think of, does anyone have any additions?"

Huang Shengjie raised his hand and said: "I feel that once this privilege is purchased, it might lead to the same issues as the ’Community Judgment Proposal.’

"Even if not used, it will change the unwritten rules of community voting.

"Because the tool description does not specify whether there’s a time limit on the ’player voting review’ function.

"It only mentions that you can check once a month, but for this voting check, is it for a recent vote or a long-ago one?

"If it’s not mentioned, does that mean there’s no limit?

"Or, at least check all votes from the second phase."

The game data from the first phase has already been wiped, so presumably, other related first phase data has been cleared too, which is a reasonable assumption.

Huang Shengjie continued: "In that case, everyone would have to weigh each time they vote, whether they might be the minority? Whether they’d be audited afterward? Whether they’d hold a grudge? Whether because they became a minority in one vote, they’d be accused of being an imitator?

"Although everyone has voted to cancel the ’judgment proposal’ now, what if in the future, old issues are brought up again?

"Or even if the ’judgment proposal’ is not reinstated, being isolated within the community is enough to make everyone frightened.

"This could likely lead to our community’s voting pattern becoming more extreme and distorted—even if we never intend to use this privilege."

The crowd nodded. It was obvious that Huang Shengjie’s remarks resonated with many other players’ concerns.

However, after a brief consideration, Zheng Chunhua said: "On the other hand, after purchasing this privilege, could we check previous voting situations?

"I mean... those pushed by Lu Bingjun and Yao Yuan.

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Or perhaps, the voting data from the first phase proposals weren’t cleared and can still be accessed?

"Although the game data is wiped, aren’t the community proposals retained from the first phase to the second phase? The proposal-related content might be retained too.

"If true, then actually... we have some questions about the first community’s proposals.

"Especially regarding what exactly Gao Teng voted for in several proposals.

"If we could find out about these..."

Some players showed conflicting expressions on their faces.

Each community is bound to have some unexpected voting patterns in proposals, just like Community 17 in the first phase, also having many unresolved questions.

The special situation of Community 2 is that they maintained a complete entity entering the second phase, so the community’s construction outcomes are preserved, and the proposals have been continued.

So would the voting patterns of the proposal be preserved as data?

It’s possible, but it mainly depends on what specific rules are between the community and Walkway.

If those unresolved first-phase proposals could be verified, it would be immensely satisfying to everyone’s curiosity.