Soccer678's Platform

This platform was emailed to the Times. See the original one below it.

Hello, this is Soccer678. All of you probably know that I made a really bad platform before. I hope that you can give me another chance, because I feel really dumb by making such a bad platform! I have a lot more ideas, I only put 3 ideas into my platform and now I realize that they can't work. Here are some of my further ideas for Whyville.

1. I think that It's not right for new people, or as we call them "newbies" or "noobies" to start out with nothing. I think that Whyville would have more people if newbies started out with at least 50 clams and at least a salary of 5-10 clams. I know we all made it with a lot of hard work. However, Whyville would have plenty more members if this would happen. I told all of my friends in real life about Whyville, so they joined... A couple of days later, they told me that it was stupid! I knew that the only reason that they thought it was stupid was because they didn't understand it. There should be more help to make you understand Whyville better, like a guided virtual tour with real voices telling you how to start on Whyville. I don't think it's fair. I believe we should have more for the people who first join. We do have y-mail helpers, but how do the beginners know how to get there?

2. I think that Club Why should have a lot more things! When I decided to join Club Why, I tried so hard to save up to 1000 clams! When I got to 1000 clams I joined Club Why and I was so happy! When I got into Club Why, I saw that it was just a chat room and I was very disappointed... I couldn't believe that it was ONLY a Chat room... I mean the parties are good and all but... I was so mad I that I had just wasted 1000 clams for nothing! Maybe they could add more chat rooms or a section for Club Why members to just play games with their other Club Why friends. Or just something that would keep the Club Why members entertained instead of just a chat room. If they're just going to keep Club Why like that then they should at least lower the price.

3. Whyville should improve the Mall. The Mall is only a chat room... I think that they should make a link to Akbar's Face Mall... Or a link to some of the top stores that people like the most. Also if some people would like... They should make some fake food to order, but I'm not really sure if people would like that. If people told me then I would try to make it happen. But I think that they should have made the Mall bigger and better, they had all of that time and it's just two chat rooms. Although I think we could use more chat rooms, I think that everyone was disappointed when they saw that the Mall was only two chat rooms. I hope that in the future the Mall will get bigger and better so everyone can enjoy it. :)

4. I think that there should be a link in the Times that would lead to a suggestion box. I think that some of the Whyvillian's would like to suggest a lot of things without having to have a whole petition about it and getting people to sign it. Then, if they put in the link then all of the Whyvillian's that have ideas can type them in and then some of the Y-mail helpers, Senators from previous races, and the Senator who wins this race could consider it and tell City Hall about it. :)

5. I think there should be more contests to win clams on Whyville. For example: There are a lot of wonderful artists on Whyville, We could have a daily drawing contest with different topics for clams. You could either draw on paint or photo shop, or draw your piece of art on paper and scan it. I also think that there should be some kinds of contests held at the Greek Theatre where Whyvillian's can earn clams for the answers they get correct. I know that there is already a Media Wiz on Friday's but it wouldn't hurt to let people make more clams and have fun while doing it. :) It would have to be an educational game so then the Whyvillian's would learn something out of it as well.

6. I agree with a lot of Whyvillian???s about the friend finder. I have many friends and I would like to see where and when they are on. There could be a box in everybody's city records telling you when they're online, and if they are what chat room they're in. Also, if you are one of the Whyvillian???s that doesn't want a Friend Finder then only the citizens that want the Friend Finder could pay for it (with clams) and there would be a link to it in their address book. However, they would only be able to find the friends that they add in their address book or else it would be too complicated to search down a list of all the Whyville Citizens. Or we could simply have a poll to decide if we wanted a friend finder.

7. I think that if it's possible, there should be easier Salary games, or just funner games that you can have fun playing, while learning. Many of the games people don't really understand. That's why they have a low salary or don't have a salary at all, or maybe it's just because they don't know how to get to the Ledger...hmmm... Well anyway, I think that there should be more exciting Salary games because some of the games are kind-of boring, and some of them are confusing and hard to figure out.

8. Another idea of mine is a new section in the Times. If there were newer sections in the Times then I think that Whyvillian???s would read it more often. When I say a new section in the Times I mean like an Advice column. There could be a couple of Advice Columnists answering and giving advice to the Whyvillian???s who need help with something. The Whyvillian???s could just go to the Times and click the Advice section and type in their question and the Advice Columnists would read and answer them weekly. Or another section could be a Comedy section. Some of the writers could write funny stories about real life or funny stores that they've seen happen on Whyville. Or, they could just make up a funny story to entertain the Whyvillian???s.

9. Another idea of mine is to make more chat rooms for the Whyville Citizens to go to. I think that if Whyville were to make more chat rooms, then they should make some like Sun Roof or Spin Speak because Whyville already has a lot of small chat rooms. Also, all of the chat rooms should have different and cool backgrounds. And different links to other chat rooms. :)

Thank You for your time. Good Luck to the other candidates. :)

-Soccer678