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The following convention discussion has been discussed and is now marked as resolved. The page has been protected and now serves as an archive. Do not edit this page.
Date Resolved: May 17, 2018


Result: Only amendments 2 and 3 pass.


Instructions

This page is the voting stage of this discussion: "Finalizing Bylaws."

With all concerns from the concern stage of this discussion having been resolved and taken into account, the proposal located in the "Proposal" section above has been created and moved to voting. To join the voting, you simply use buttons located in the "Voting" section of this page and fill the resulting page.

Have a happy voting!

Proposal

Okay, so we have had several new changes proposed to the bylaws. In this voting stage, each will be up for a vote and then when we are done, we will vote to adopt the entire document.

Reference: ESB:Provisional bylaws


Voting

Amendment 1 - On Removing Votes

From Article VIII: Voting

C. Any user removing votes from their own promotion request or user of the month nomination will have their entire request or nomination invalidated. The use is then prohibited from making such a request for any position for thirty (30) sixty (60) days and ineligible for such a nomination for six (6)three (3) months.

Voting ends May 16, 2018 at 2:15 p.m. eastern. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 12:00, May 11, 2018 (UTC)

Amendment 1 - Vote Here

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Amendment 2 - On amending rules/bylaws/policies

Article XVI: Amendment of bylaws rules

  • A.1. The bylaws shall only be amended during the annual convention, which shall occur starting on July 15 of each year and ending when business is concluded.
  • B.2. The bylaws may be amended outside of the annual convention period if any such amendment is submitted to the bureaucrats and a majority of bureaucrats agree that such a discussion should occur.
  • C.3. All amendments to the bylaws require a 70% majority in favor of the amendment, not including neutral votes.
  • 1. The policies shall be amended at any time during the year.
  • 2. All proposed policy changes must contain the exact text to change, using the {{PolicyProposalBegin}} / {{PolicyProposalEnd}} templates, inserting new language in bold, and striking out language proposed to be removed. Any policy proposal that does not contain the language to be changed by the time the voting stage is reached, it will be closed as invalid.

Amendment 2 - Vote Here

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Amendment 3 - Promotion policies grammar

From Article X: Promotions

  • A. Application process
  • 7. Invalid requests. A request is deemed invalid if one of the following is true, and may be closed accordingly.
  • c. Any user that who receives a valid block while having a pending promotion request. The user will be prohibited from making any request for thirty (30) days, starting the time their block ends. Any bureaucrat can waive this rule by supporting the request.

Amendment 3 - Vote Here

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Amendment 4 - Global blocks

  • B. Eligibility
  • 2. All positions
  • c. The user must have a clean block record for at least three (3) months, not counting invalid or global blocks. The only exception to the latter case if if the user got globalled for an event that happened on ESB.

Amendment 4 - Vote Here

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  • Neutral Neutral - I'm not sure at the moment. — AMK152 (Wall • Contrib) 18:15, May 9, 2018 (UTC)
  • Oppose Extremely Strong Oppose - Global blocks are more serious than local blocks. Just because they don't appear in the block log doesn't mean we can just ignore them.  Figmeister (W•C•E)  18:18, May 9, 2018 (UTC) 
  • Oppose Oppose - --Spongebob456 talk 19:15, May 9, 2018 (UTC)
  • Oppose Extremely Strong Oppose - TheKorraFanatic (Talk Page) (Contributions) (Guestbook)
  • Support Vehemently Strong Support - I suggest ya'll take a step back and take what I said in the stage into consideration. I'm tired of this wiki treating its older demographic like babies with strict rules like this. SpongeBob is not just for kids, so this wiki shouldn't treat me like one. Global blocks should not count if the user didn't get globalled for somethin' they did here on ESB; yah I get it, a global block is more serious than a local block and will even prevent you from editing on this wiki, but if the global block ain't appear in ya block log, then it's fine so long as the offense that lead you to be globalled didn't happen on ESB.  RedBomb1 (M•C•E) M001 - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (0161) 20:27, May 9, 2018 (UTC) 
  • Comment new Comment - You only want this rule passed because you want more user rights. Global blocks matter and are very serious, they reflect more about a user than a local block does. TheKorraFanatic (Talk Page) (Contributions) (Guestbook)
    • Comment new Comment - Korra, that is rude of you to make such assumptions like that. I could not even think about supporting someone in a social position with that attitude and conclusion jumping. As a social user you should be messaging people more professionally. I'm voting remove for your moderaror position tomorrow if you're gonna have such attitude. That aside, bringing up off-wiki drama is against our policy and global blocks mattering brings up issues from outside of ESB, which is absolutely awful and uncalled for to say the least. When Philly got gblocked last year, a lot of people turned against supporting him just because of something that happened outside of ESB, which raises a lot of unneeded drama.  RedBomb1 (M•C•E) M001 - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (0161) 23:11, May 9, 2018 (UTC) 

Amendment 5 - Returning retired/resigned users

  • C. Repromotions
  • 2. If a retired or resigned user returns to ESB, they cannot be promoted to any position until three (3) months one (1) month following the announcement of their return or decision not to retire or resign.

Amendment 5 - Vote Here

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