I'm thinking that the Senate doesn't need really new nominations every month. Does a real Senate of real government nominate new members every month? No, they get a set number of Senators elected. Some senators may be voted out, resign, or may be inactive, and there may be other new senators who take their place or something.
The way SDN's Senate's being run, it seems as though there's no set cap for the group. It'll just keep on getting bigger and bigger until... it gets really big. For a thing that's designed to ease bureaucratic woes by efficiently conveying the proletariat's woes up into the hierarchy, this ever-expansion is rather inefficient since eventually it'll be prone to bloating up and clogging down.
I'm not saying that nominations should be stopped, not at all. I'm just wondering. Will the Senate keep on nominating new members until the end of time? When will there be enough Senators for the nominations to cease? Will the nominations never cease until everyone's a Senator?
Is it possible for a determined number/amount of Senators to be "active" at a particular span of time, say a couple of months, while the other extra Senators are "benched" until those active Senators have served their time, and a rotation takes place and the benched Senator shift takes their place in active duty? It's an idle idea that might be too troublesome to implement, since it's better to keep it simple (stupid), but it might give the Senators additional ceremonies and stuff to do.
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One of the added benefits this rotational shift-scheme will have is that it lets some Senators have a cool off time to do other things, where they DON'T have to do anything Senate-related for a couple of months or weeks or something, and some new fresh faces in the Senate get to take over for a while and the goddamn plebes will probably be relieved to see a new batch of dudes going active and issuing proclamations and edicts and stuff.
Seems like a cool idea. Go stab some holes in it and deflate it, gents.