' Wrote:<king of the hill quote>
I honestly have no idea what this means.
What a lofty metaphor on my part. Please let me explain. King of the Hill is a common format in many shooter games where several participants or teams attempt to be the "king," i.e. the only one standing on a particular piece of ground. Players or teams score points for holding the ground against other assailants. A camping sniper would be a player of the "king" team who sits in a protected location and cuts down assailants before they can get anywhere close to the hill.
The metaphor is somewhat obvious once you have the background. Obviously, I'm intending the violent connotation that such a shooter game brings along. The Hill is officialdom. The Kings are the official factioners. The other assailants are the unofficial factions trying to recruit. The camping sniper is you, the admin, firing 50-caliber shots into the chests of the unofficials trying to recruit, and meanwhile the official faction is scoring "points." Whatever those are.
The policy that unofficials can't recruit combined with the policy that there's only one official faction per ID brings exactly such a violent situation.
Cooperation > competition.
