"The right thing to do (in my opinion) is to bring everyone together more. To take the fetters off the Chivalry, and release an announcement which says in no uncertain terms something like "The day-to-day management of matters of inclusion in the existing Patent Orders is delegated by the Board to the Kingdoms. It is our feeling that these Patent Orders have been insufficiently rewarding participants who primarily exercise the additional military arts of the period. It is our strong expectation that the Kingdoms will develop concrete plans to address that over the next few years, to avoid the Board having to act."
I think that would do it - although it might generate a few more bits of hate mail. Reading those is part of the job.
I think that would just lead to more infighting, unfortunately. While a strong majority agrees to the concept of Peerage for Rapier Prowess, we got to where we are because the existing Peerage Orders all want it somewhere else. Giving them permission to be inclusive won't make them inclusive.
One of the two core changes I would make if I had root access to the SCA would be to make the Peerage Rank come first, and the Peerage Order come second.
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Date: 2014-11-13 04:26 pm (UTC)I think that would do it - although it might generate a few more bits of hate mail. Reading those is part of the job.
I think that would just lead to more infighting, unfortunately. While a strong majority agrees to the concept of Peerage for Rapier Prowess, we got to where we are because the existing Peerage Orders all want it somewhere else. Giving them permission to be inclusive won't make them inclusive.
One of the two core changes I would make if I had root access to the SCA would be to make the Peerage Rank come first, and the Peerage Order come second.