CLOCK CREW CHARTER, REVISION V.
The Charter proposal has been amended after a public comment period. The underlined portions are added or modified.
I. Administrators.
This is a group of three members: Head developers or artists who will lead the community in activity-related endeavours (crew holidays, publicity stunts, collaborations, weekly activities like the Academy), development activities (planning site features for the coders to implement) and creating site and crew policy. The admins should interact frequently, working together as a group.
These three slots are selected by the people, for the people. Those who want the spot the most probably deserve it the least, so no active campaigning is allowed for any position on the site.
Administrators are there to serve the people, they are not there to enforce the rules they deem appropriate. Only in exceptional circumstances can an administrator overrule or enforce a ClockCrew Site rule. The Admins shall not coerce the supermoderators to enforce rules for them.
II. Superadministrators & Coders
There shall be a permanent, appointed position in addition to the three elected administrators above.
The Superadministrator shall appoint a line of successors as a contingency plan if the superadministrator is not able to continue their duties due to unforseen circumstances, neglect or resignation.
The superadminstrator's only role is to enforce adherance of the charter amongst staff and members, and cannot perform the administrative duties of the Admins, Supermoderators or Mods except in exceptional circumstances and as a last recourse.
Coders are technically proficient and trusted members appointed by the staff to assist in the technical aspect of site development. By their nature, they have access to the entire site with the same powers as Superadministrators, but have no authority to perform administrative duties except if the site is under direct attack.
III. Supermoderators.
This group consists of seven people voted in by the general user base as well.
They are, first and foremost, aids to the administrators. They gather the group, get ready the necessary preparations for projects, and keep a watchful eye over the development of group members.
Only second are they enforcers of rules. They make sure the group doesn't fall apart by taking the necessary decisions based on the moderators ban guide. If they fail to adhere to the rules of the ban guide, they will be removed by administrative staff vote (meaning all admins and the rest of the smods, votes counted equally)
Supermoderators are not there to enforce their own rules. If something isn't found in the rule book, they should send the user off with a warning and appeal to the grid for a rulebook amendment. That is that. Supermoderators shouldn't care whether or not the forum rules suit their world view. If the rules are too lenient in their opinion, then they're fresh out of luck: they are here to serve, not to rule.
If seven supermoderators are not sufficient due to size of membership or individual supermoderator absence, the staff may forward a motion to add positions as needed.
IV. Moderators.
Voted in by the staff (admins + smods), they take care of moderating specific forums. There should probably be one mod to every forum, but there can be one for two if two such forums are not exactly important. In essence, moderators make sure the appropriate discussion takes place in the appropriate forum. Moderators shall have the ability to enact forum-specific bans, but not site-wide bans.
V. Transparency.
The Admins, Mods and Supermods shall communicate in a private forum called ââ,¬Å"The Gridââ,¬Â. Voting record on motions carried out in the grid shall be made public prior to elections. Each voting staff member is required to accompany this with a public statement of at least one sentence explaining each vote. Each policy change shall be publicly announced immediately upon adoption.
VI. Policy Creation.
The formation of new policies for the Site and the ClockCrew should follow this procedure:
1. Propose the policy in the Grid and discuss the viability thereof amongst the staff.
2. No later than 2 weeks, move the discussion to the Policy forum to get public feedback. If the policy is well-received, proceed to step 3:
3. Propose the implementation of the policy considering the public and staff feedback, implement.
VII. Elections & Nominations
The ClockCrew shall hold elections on May 7 and September 11th and of every year. Absentee ballots will be accepted for up to a week prior to election day. The ballot results will be made public the following day and changes enacted no later than 5 days after the election.
Nominations: a special sub-forum will be opened to hold nomination polls. Any person who meets the criteria for voting may vote on any poll.
To be nominated, you must meet the criteria for voting (be a voter), indicate your intention for nomination, and have one voter sponsor your nomination. A voter may only sponsor one candidate. Once this is met, a poll will be created in the Nominations forum, with a yes/no vote. Tallies in this vote will not be shown to the public until after the election.
Nominees need a clear majority of 12 yes votes to be considered for the final ballot. Not every winning nominee will make the final ballot. Only 7 of the nominees with the highest yes to no ratios will be given a spot alongside the 7 super moderator incumbents.
Once the ballot is created, any voter may vote. Multiple winner ballots such as the ballot for the Supermods shall use the STV voting system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote). All others shall be simple majority.
Timeline: (Election Day = ED)
ED-10: Nomination day: The nomination application is made available. Voters and sponsors can use this app to create a poll for themseleves.
ED-9: Nomination application shuts off and creates polls in the nomination forum. Voters can vote in these polls.
ED-5: Ballot opens. Users are prompted to vote. The ballot will be available for up to 5 days.
ED: Polls close. Winners and results are announced.
Voting criteria: Any site member who is not perma-banned and has been an active member for over three months may be a candidate or sponsor a candidate. No Alt-accounts are allowed. Incumbents are automatically placed on the ballot for the same position, unless they opt-out or are nominated for a different position.
Certain positions are appointed by the staff, such as Treasurer, Election Coordinator and other site jobs, (examples: chat moderators, clockcrew archivist, wiki moderator, etc)
VIII. Amending.
The ClockCrew Charter, ClockCrew Clockification Policy and the ClockCrew site rules can only be amended in the events by a 75% majority vote by the staff.
In each of these events, a notification must be posted to the policy forum with the new changes.
IX. Clockification.
There shall be no automated or voting process for becoming a Clock - we accept any person into the ClockCrew, any person can call themselves a Clock, and their worth shall not be judged by the timestamp of their joindate but by the contents of their .fla
I like the voting system you guys came up with. Everything seems to be in order
Nice work. I have no complaints.
Quote from: PineappleClock;1846998Timeline: (Election Day = ED)
ED-10: Nomination day: The nomination application is made available. Voters and sponsors can use this app to create a poll for themseleves.
ED-9: Nomination application shuts off and creates polls in the nomination forum. Voters can vote in these polls.
ED-5: Ballot opens. Users are prompted to vote. The ballot will be available for up to 5 days.
ED: Polls close. Winners and results are announced.
Wasnt this like 3 days ago?
seems very good, and professional.
v er gewd stuff!
Quote from: PatriotClock;1850999Wasnt this like 3 days ago?
apparently the election is over today
nope, we're just behind - polls open today and are open for 4 days.