The Clockcrew Democracy Dispenser

[PineappleClock]

If you hang out in the policy forum - and who's to blame you, this is the happening place - you will see above the forum view is a new area with "Motions". Allow me to explain what this does.

These are the motions or decisions that are being brought up in the grid by your elected officials (unless you didn't vote, in which case your peer-appointed overlords), including rule changes, ban appeals and what to have for dinner.

Here's the quick walk-through / wall-of-text on how this works:

* sponsoring a motion - any elected official (council members) can sponsor or create a motion for anything. It needs to be seconded by someone to appear as a motion. Once it is a motion, any council member can give it an up or down vote.

* Expiration - the motion has 5 days from when it was sponsored to be co-sponsored and pass or fail. If it does none, it becomes a fart in the wind that never existed.

* Quorum - this is defined as a 50% majority for the time being. A motion is still being considered until 50% of the council have voted on it. Up until that point, they can change their vote if they want. Once "Quorum" is met, their votes are locked in unless it's a tie.

* Finalization - we are still working this bit out. Since we aren't congress where people all vote at once, we can't wait for all of the council to vote on something. A motion is finalized at the moment when quorum is reached (or, for rule changes, when a supermajority is reached as defined in the charter). This does leave in the possibility that some people may come back from their peaceful slumber to vote on something contentious and flip it the other way. We probably will be altering the finalization criterion in the future to rectify the contentious motion contingency.

* Ban appeals - The you got banned screen that appears when you got banned now includes a link to a form where you can appeal the aforementioned ban. You fill out a really simple looking form and hit send. The Clockcrew computer takes your anti-staff tirade and inserts it lovingly into the ClockCrew democracy dispenser, as a automatic ban appeal motion. Only the staff can see your appeal, and it doesn't need to be seconded.

If you have any ideas for the ClockCrew Democracy Dispenser either drop them here in the thread or over in the suggestion box forum.

Thanks!

[AnkhClock]

I motion that PineappleClock rules.

[BluezombieClock]

That's an awesome feature