God's Imitator

After thinking carefully for a moment, Wei Yinzhang said, ”Perhaps we could try to work around the rules and try again?

”From what we can see now, the community’s definition of ’community fund’ is indeed very strict.

”First, this money definitely can’t be controlled by individuals, it must be controlled by other people in the community.

”Second, the deposits and withdrawals from the ’community fund’ must involve risk and loss.

”Perhaps we could try having several players form different small groups or pairs to jointly manage a fund and deposit and withdraw individually.

”Players could choose to form groups with people they trust most, preventing the situation where visa time they deposit gets withdrawn more by others.

”Or we could try raising the interest rate for deposits and withdrawals. Perhaps once it’s high enough, the community will allow it.”

Wang Yongxin shook his head, ”I don’t really agree with such a plan.

”Because this doesn’t have any fundamental difference, and might also trigger other problems.”

Clearly, even if this method worked, it would definitely intensify clique formation.Players would form deposit and withdrawal groups with players they were already close to and trusted, and over time, even more obvious small groups would emerge.

Most importantly, racking one’s brains to help other players deposit money without loss wasn’t conducive to the growth of the fund amount within the community, and also didn’t align with the interests of the five-person group.

After considering, Li Renshu said, ”Then let’s just proceed directly to voting.

”Everyone just needs to vote according to their true inner thoughts.

”If you think this plan is necessary, then vote in favor.

”If you think this plan makes you uncomfortable, vote against.

”If the proposal is rejected, then we’ll continue using the previous rules.”

Everyone nodded, ”Alright, then let’s vote directly.”

Li Renshu returned to the Community Management Office again to submit the proposal. This time, the proposal passed.

[A player has submitted a proposal, the community has completed its review.]

[Within the next hour, please have all players vote anonymously at the ’Community Management Office’ or on their personal computers.]

[If this proposal receives more than half support, it will be implemented as a basic rule.]

[Proposal 1: Add supplementary rule to ’Community Security Fund’ (progressive tax rate).]

[When community players obtain visa time from games and submit it to the ’Community Security Fund’, a progressive tax rate will be adopted: 5% for the portion between 20,000-40,000, 10% for the portion between 40,000-60,000, 15% for the portion above 60,000.]

[Proposal 2: Remove ’Community Security Fund’ rule.]

[Cancel the rule ’After the Community Security Fund exceeds 100,000, every additional 120,000 will be returned equally to all players’.]

[Proposal 3: Add ’Fund Withdrawal Rule’.]

[1. When a player’s remaining visa time falls below 50,000, they may withdraw visa time from the ’Community Security Fund’ and ’Luxury Fund’ according to the amount ’visa time paid by this person / total visa time paid by players × current remaining visa time in fund × 90%’, without needing consent or authorization from others.]

[2. This amount is a fixed value, can only be withdrawn once, and contribution value resets to zero after withdrawal. Depositing visa time again will recalculate.]

After completing the submission, Li Renshu returned to the hall again.

”I’ve divided this plan into three different proposals for submission. Everyone can decide which specific proposals to pass based on circumstances.

”Proposal 1 is that future game earnings will adopt a progressive tax rate.

”Proposal 2 is to cancel the Community Security Fund return rule. Proposal 3 is to add the fund withdrawal rule.

”Everyone can view Proposals 2 and 3 as bundled rules, that is, replacing the original ’equal return’ plan with a ’free withdrawal’ plan.

”Let me emphasize again, these rules haven’t changed the nature of the two funds. The ’Security Fund’ is still mandatory taxation, the ’Luxury Fund’ is still voluntary donation.

”Everyone should still decide whether to deposit or withdraw visa time based on their actual situation.

”Of course, for players with relatively little visa time, the changes to the ’Security Fund’ are more important: because originally withdrawal wasn’t allowed, now a portion of already paid taxes can be withdrawn.”

Clearly, this proposal didn’t quickly reach consensus. The one-hour countdown on the large screen continuously ticked down as players each thought things over.

After some time, people gradually stood up and walked toward the ’Community Management Office’.

It wasn’t until the one-hour countdown had only 10 minutes remaining that voting was finally completed.

[Voting has been completed.]

[Now announcing anonymous voting results.]

[Proposal 1: Add supplementary rule to ’Community Security Fund’ (progressive tax rate).]

[In favor: 11 votes]

[Against: 0 votes]

[’Community Security Fund’ supplementary rule (progressive tax rate) is established.]

[Proposal 2: Remove ’Community Security Fund’ rule.]

[In favor: 8 votes]

[Against: 3 votes]

[Removal of ’Community Security Fund’ rule is established.]

[Proposal 3: Add ’Fund Withdrawal Rule’.]

[In favor: 7 votes]

[Against: 4 votes]

[Addition of ’Fund Withdrawal Rule’ is established.]

Seeing these results, the players in the hall all remained calm, without any small-scale cheers like before.

Clearly, this was an expected result, but not everyone felt comfortable or satisfied with this result.

The five-person group itself already had 5 votes. At the same time, Wang Yongxin also had Yang Yuting and Xu Tong’s two votes tied to him, and other players in the community, like Zheng Jie or Zhou Guifen, would most likely also agree with Li Renshu’s decision.

Of course, since it was anonymous voting, there were still players who would cast opposition votes, expressing their true inner thoughts.

But since there was no influential opposition faction within the community, opposition votes ultimately couldn’t gather sufficient numbers.

In any case, the new plan ultimately still became part of the community rules.

After thinking for a moment, Li Renshu said, ”I understand everyone may have some doubts about this plan, but this is already the best plan we could think of at present.

”We’ll trial run it for a period first. If problems are discovered, we can modify it in time.

”Also, everyone needn’t worry. We’re still a community that cares for the weak as much as possible. We don’t encourage the weak to blindly donate their visa time to the ’Luxury Fund’. As I’ve said before, do what you can.”

Wang Yongxin immediately followed with a statement, ”Since I proposed this motion, naturally I should take direct responsibility.

”As I said before, I believe carrying around 50,000 to 80,000 visa time is sufficient. Carrying too much might actually put you at a disadvantage in some games that calculate visa time by percentage.

”So I’ll deposit all visa time exceeding 80,000.

”Of course, this only represents me personally.”

After Wang Yongxin finished speaking, he went to the vending machine and completed his donation.

The last time he checked, he had over 240,000 remaining. Now he chose to directly donate 160,000 visa time to the ’Luxury Fund’.