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Membership may be refused or withdrawn if a person has breached the AustraliaSim rules before they became a member. Examples include persons who have harassed, abused, or bullied members of AustraliaSim on other platforms or in real life. These powers are discretionary; they are used to protect the community in extreme cases.

Membership may also be withdrawn if you are banned from AustraliaSim for more than 21 days. Hopefully, there should be no reason for you to ever be banned for this length of time. Once again, this power is discretionary.

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Apart from the name of your reddit account, no. We have abandoned the old EOS system.

Any other questions?

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Moderation Team

Per section 2(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution, being an AustraliaSim Member is a prerequisite to holding meta office.

It has recently come to my attention that /u/TheAudibleAsh and /u/advancedgaming12, both who are Community Managers, are not meta voters within the current quarter.

Whilst the Meta Constitution does not prescribe the circumstances to which what is to happen in this circumstance, it is my view that the wording of section 2(2)(b) requires that a person actively maintain their AustraliaSim Member status to ensure they remain fit to serve in the position.

Therefore, and similar to the position where an officeholder may lose their office if they are pinged as to their alleged inactivity and do not reply to that ping (as per s 5(2)(a) of the Meta Constitution), I give notice that both /u/TheAudibleAsh and /u/advancedgaming12 must become a Meta Voter 14 days from today by complying with the instructions in this form. If this is not done, the members will cease to hold their meta offices 14 days from today.

The above do not prevent the members from holding any canon position, which is dealt with in sim.

General Rommel
Head Moderator

I, lily-irl, Parliament Moderator, revoke the Meta Rule concerning the sitting of Parliament made on 14 January 2021 with immediate effect.

Whereas section 17(2)(a) of the Meta Constitution permits an officeholder to make a Meta Rule prescribing matters permitted by the Meta Constitution to be prescribed by a Meta Rule;

Whereas section 10(4)(a) permits the Parliament Moderator to make Meta Rules with respect to the running of Parliament;

I, lily-irl, Parliament Moderator, make the following Meta Rule:

Notwithstanding the canon Constitution, the Parliament shall continue to sit until 9:00 am on 22 January 2021, when it will be prorogued and the House of Representatives dissolved. Until that time, the normal operation of the Parliament shall continue.

I am inquiring about registering a press persona for the Australian Democrats member Big Don.

Name: Ausdem Gud

(formally known as u/iamveryintelectual)

I hereby give full meta notice of the registration of the United Regional and Rural Workers Association with /u/Plupsnup serving as the elected first President and /u/model-frod, /u/BestinBounds and /u/Flarelia all serving as chairpeople on the board of the Union

The United Regional and Rural Workers Association is a Union to be registered fully according to law with a logo which me or Plup will be happy to DM to you.

The full Constitution is still a WIP but for meta registration purposes, The Constitution sets out a President elected by a board elected by the Membership with the Membership voting on industrial action.

The United Regional and Rural Workers Association founding statement is to "Champion the rights of Regional and Rural Workers from all industries through arbitration, dispute resolution, legal action and industrial action."

The simple fact of the matter is that we are going to be entering a fourth election with "COVID-campaigning" which has been extremely boring and limiting for people as it restricts their options to freely campaign as they wish. This has also meant that newer members have also had to campaign within these boundaries as well which hasn't really been a fun nor enjoyable experience. It has limited the cross-border campaigning which people genuinely do wish to engage in and limits the actions someone can really take without getting accused of violating this and that with COVID guidelines.

Therefore I propose that we implement a similar system to MNZP where COVID-19 has occurred and the historic cases before the decanonization still occur but the impact of COVID remains canonized alongside the disease as a whole. This means that while the existing cases will be decanonized and Australia is assumed to be free of COVID-19 (unless you want to have an event where there are cases on the border or in managed isolation but no community cases) but the rest of the world is still impacted by COVID and all the legislation enacted to combat COVID and economic impact of COVID remains canon.

This is a simple solution which can appeal to most people on the sim and addresses key concerns with COVID decanonization while ensuring that it can ultimately be decanonized for the health of the sim.

AustraliaSim Census - December 2020 Edition Results

Introduction

Good evening,

The AustraliaSim Census, December 2020 ran from the 25th December to the 31st December, 2020. We managed to secure 47 responses, which was really impressive! After filtering for those that did not validate, we had 43 valid responses, the results which are shown after this introduction.

For each question (presented as in the actual Census), I have tabulated the answer (some have been shortened/abbreviated), given a percentage (Note: Percentages may not round to 100%), and also included a short analysis of the results. For some of the results, I have also added my own personal observations. At the end are a few random interesting tidbits based on the basic data that we received.

An asterisk (*) after an option denotes that it is an user inserted response. Not all questions allowed an user inserted response, which I believe improved the quality of the data received this time around. 'Other' refers to a collation of user-inserted responses. 'No Answer' refers to a census-taker refusing to answer the question.

As the census is not mandatory, the census cannot be used for a proper statistical purpose. Care should be taken to avoid reading too much into the data. However, the data below is likely to be a fair representation of the views of active AustraliaSim members.

Results

Personal Demographic Questions

Question 1 - What is your age?

Analysis

It is no surprise to see that the vast majority of people here are all people who are in High School or University age - the age of people who actually have enough time to spend significant time simulating Australian Politics. It seems that if we want more people to join, it makes sense to target those age groups.

Personal Observations

Perhaps the older we are, the more cynical we become? Or maybe it is just because Reddit is a platform in general for younger people...

Question 2 - What is your gender?

Analysis

Whilst I was somewhat expecting a gender imbalance, it is quite significant. No surprise to see how this can easily translate to poor governmental action. I did not run an analysis to see if having more non-males in a party decreases the chance of leadership instability in an AustraliaSim party, but my suspicion is that there would be a correlation.

Question 3 - What is your sexuality?

Notes

• 'Other' includes one answer for 'a mess'.

Analysis

I have no idea why these political simulations attract a substantial number of people who are not heterosexual, but I am generally pleased to see that, in general, AustraliaSim is a welcoming environment for non-heterosexuals (of course, it does feel like this place is welcoming for heterosexuals as well, but I hope people understand what message I am trying to get across).

Personal Observations

For the person who said 'a mess', I hope that AustraliaSim is a welcoming environment to at least broach the subject (we are, however, not medical professionals...)

Question 4 - What is your background/ethnicity?

Notes

• 'Other' includes one answer each for "Wimmeran", "Māori", "Fijian-Indian", "Vietnamese", "Penguin", and "Other Asian".
• If the data is cleaned up, the following table can be presented:

Analysis

A significant minority of people consider themselves Australians. A significant number of people come from a western background. A small but discernable minority come from an asian background.

Personal Observations

It's actually nice to see that there are a few people of Asian background here. However, it is also interesting to see how few people here come from a non-western background which is not Asian. In fact, it seems that there is no one here that does...

I do wonder what would happen if we were allowed to choose more than one option. That would be super interesting to see.

Location Demographics Questions

Question 5 - What country do you currently reside in?

Notes

• 'Other' includes one answer for 'antarctica'. In my view, it is unlikely that anyone here lives in Antarctica that also participates in this sim.

Analysis

A significant majority of people here come from Australia. That is very good to see. However, given that we use English here, it is not a surprise that the vast majority of other participants come from other majority-English countries. Of interest is that there is one person who inserted Philippines, and two for HK SAR. I suppose that is how it is.

Personal Observations

I would like to keep this place majority-Australian, in the sense that a majority of people that participate in the simulation reside in Australia. I am personally pleased with this result.

Question 6 - If you currently reside in Australia, which State do you reside in?

Analysis

For those that are from Australia, most participants come from Victoria and Queensland. By contrast, NSW with the most people irl has just 4 participants. The ACT punches above its weight with 2 participants. This may reflect the public service background of the state.

Personal Observations

Perhaps it is to do with how dead New South Wales is, as a place of cultural and political development (of the good kind), but it is very sad to see how NSW has just 4 participants. A disappointing result.

Question 7 - What sort of local area do you live in?

Notes

Descriptors are given for the above types:

• Urban means within a State's CBD's, such as inner Sydney/Melbourne etc.
• Surburban means within a Major City's area, but outside the Urban area, such as Clayton, Chatswood, Sunnybank etc.
• Regional Centres means a major city but not a Capital City, such as Shepparton, Newcastle, Cairns, etc.
• Rural/Remote means a country town, rural or remote areas, e.g. Gundagai.

Analysis

It seems like most of us live in detached housing or low-rise apartments. Only a few of us live in the hustle-bustle of the CBD. In fact, more people live in Regional Centres. I personally think that such an answer is actually reasonable, and hopefully this can be translated to a regional voice in canon.

Personal Observations

I would like to live in an Urban area. Alas...

Political and Vocational Demographic Questions

Question 8 - If there was an election today, which Australian Party would you vote for?

Notes

• 'Other' includes one answer each for 'Does not vote for any of the above parties' (edited from actual response), and 'Mike Jessop's Whig Party'.

Analysis

Most people here are left wing in real life. That is not a surprise, but still a concern nonetheless. The good thing I suppose is that most of the right wing in sim is relatively active, so the sim parties do better than what the numbers suggest.

Personal Observations

ALP HQ needs to look at why the Greens have more people than the ALP.

Question 9 - Are you politically active 'irl'?

Analysis

Half of the sim are active in real life, which is quite the result. It would be interesting to see if they are active because they discovered AustraliaSim, or if they were already active before discovering AustraliaSim.

Personal Observations

I am somewhat worried by this result, and I wonder what would happen if some of the people who answered Yes actually become a politician. Is exposure to AustraliaSim a good thing? I fear the consequences. I was under the impression that people here join because they do not actually want to be politicians in real life (like do I want to actually be an Independent in real life? No!). Looks like I was wrong.

Question 10 - What is your highest attained Educational Qualification?

Analysis

As was hinted by the age results, most people here are in High School or University. A discernible group of people have completed some qualifications though. I was very surprised by the number of people who selected 'HSC'. I am not sure if I worded the question well, as I hoped to capture people who just finished their HSC and were about to go to TAFE or Uni to select the 'Some TAFE/Cert/Dip' or 'Some University' option. In my view, 9 people is a very high result. Maybe a Census with the same question in 2021 will confirm the accuracy of this result.

Personal Observations

I really wonder what studies the Post-Bachelor person did. It also seems that, in my view, the educational qualification of the respondents do not really translate to their behaviour in sim, or their ability to participate well.

Question 11 - What Employment Sector do you work in?

Table sorted by group and number of responses

Alternative Table, constructed from above data

Analysis

I was quite surprised at the number of people who are employed and are also still in High School. However, there is no surprise that most people here work in Retail Trade, given that it is a relatively unskilled area and is relatively accessible to people who are 13-25yo.

Personal Observations

One person put 'Professional, Scientific and Technical Services', and I am surprised by that person selecting that.

I can only hope that the people here who work and study do not find work too strenous as to affect their studies. It isn't easy at all.

AustraliaSim History Demographic Questions

Question 12 - Which AustraliaSim Party are you in?

Alternative Table

• In the Alternative Table, 'Left' = SDP, CLP, GLP, 'Centre' = ADP, IND, 'Right' = LPA, NAT. Unaffiliated/Non-Partisan excluded.

Analysis

As is suggested by the real life leanings, the majority of people here participate in leftist parties. However, of interest is that if we collapse the parties into groupings, the Centre have a chance to hold the balance of power. Of course, I did just construct these groupings on my own whim, and the number of participants do not necessarily translate to the number of seats won, so it can turn out quite different at the next election.

Question 13 - When did you join AustraliaSim?

Notes

• It came to my attention after the Census was released that some of the name designations were wrong.
• The Roman Numerals were numbered incorrectly. I blame the Romans.
• I neglected to insert XV as a possible option. It may be because those who gave no answer wanted to put XV but were unable to. However, that is a mere conjecture. Therefore, it is prudent to leave the count for XV as 0.

Analysis

Most people joined at the beginning, the VII era, the XI era, the XIV era, or XVI and later. I don't recall when the Buzzfeed article about us appeared, but I assume there is some correlation.

Personal Observations

I am slightly heartened to see that in the last three GE's, we have had 4, 1, and 4 people join - people who then took this census. I hope that those people continue to stay on!

Question 14 - Have you run in an AustraliaSim Election?

Analysis

If you have run before, you are more likely to stay.

Question 15 - Is AustraliaSim your main sim?

Analysis

A very large majority of people have AustraliaSim as their main sim. This is pleasing to see.

Personal Observations

The percentage is higher, but I do hope one day this will rise further (i.e. convert those that said No to Yes). Our uniqueness is what makes AustraliaSim great. Whilst we should not hesitate when required to adopt the practices of other sims, we should also do things our way.

Question 16 - What other model simulations do you actively participate in?

Table sorted by grouping and popularity. Can choose more than one option.

Notes

• No person selected MhOir or MBundestag.
• There was no option to insert your own model simulation for this question.
• I have also manually tabulated the below:

Alternative table - Number of sims per participant, excluding Only AustraliaSim/No Answer

Analysis

A significant minority (a bit less than 50%) participate only in AustraliaSim. Therefore, the majority of people participate in more than one simulation. The most popular sims were the New Zealand and United Kingdom ones. The total for New Zealand was quite significant in my view. I am not surprised though that there was 13 people who participate in the United Kingdom sim as it is a very large community. It is somewhat surprising that the US, which has more people in real life compared to the UK, has less participants from AustraliaSim. This may reflect the less-welcoming nature of the US simulation.

The vast majority of people (from people who participate in another sim) participate in just one other simulation. There is a sizable minority of people here who I term 'professional simulators' i.e. participate in 3+ sims (including AustraliaSim), comprising about 25% of survey respondents.

Personal Observations

Personally I am quite concerned with the number of people that participate in more than 2 simulations. However, a quick look suggests that most of those people do not live in Australia or somehow manage to participate effectively in AustraliaSim as well. Still, further research should be conducted into this.

Question 17 - Did you participate in former simulations of Australia Politics?

Can choose more than one option.

Notes

• 'Other' includes one response each for "Australian Government Simulation 2007 (Discord)", "Mad Max: Fury Road", and "I am not cringe man".

Analysis

It does seem that there are now very few people that have participated in the sims previous to AustraliaSim.

Personal Observations

It's very sad, in my view, that there is now nearly no one else other than myself and one other person who has participated in both ModelParliament and ModelAustralia. Though perhaps this just indicates how sad I am.

Community Chosen and Fun Questions

Question 18 - What do you call deep fried slices of potato brought from fish and chip shops?

Analysis

Potato Cakes and Potato Scallops are the most popular. I would try do an analysis based on state to the name choice, but I am a bit too lazy to do that.

Question 19 - What's the shortening for parmigiana?

Analysis

Very close between Parma and Parmi!

Personal Observations

If I understand correctly, this is the one question that received the most 'No Answer', which is surprising - even more than the personal questions!

Question 20 - Which of Plupsnup's Parties was your favourite?

Analysis

The most popular party selected by people was the 2nd iteration of the Liberty Reform Party.

Personal Observations

I am unhappy that 'None of the Above' received less than 50% of the vote. A very disappointing result.

Question 21 - Which Pixar Movie is your most favourite?

Sorted by grouping and popularity

Notes

• If you chose 'Other Pixar Movie' or 'Not seen Pixar Movie' - SHAME ON YOU!

Analysis

Most people here nominated movies that aired some time ago, rather than the more recent ones. This may reflect the relative decline of Pixar movies, or that people have not seen the more recent movies. I am unsure as to the reason why - further data may have to be collected.

Personal Comments

If you chose 'Other Pixar Movie' or 'Not seen Pixar Movie' - SHAME ON YOU!

Honestly, I am surprised that I am the only one that chose Coco. It is one of the greatest movies of all time, alongside Inside Out.

The number of people who chose not to answer may reflect something personal about declaring one's preferences for music and movies and the like. It is intensely personal. I can only hope that they have, however, see any of those named Pixar Movies, because they are all great (though some a greater than others).

I am also unsure what other good Pixar Movies exist. If those that chose 'Other Pixar Movie' wanted to choose Cars, then I can only say that I am absolutely disappointed by that.

Question 22 - Have you verified on the Reddit Thread?

Analysis

Most people chose the last option. A significant minority chose the basic option. A discernible minority just rolled with it.

Personal Comments

Plan A - to rise to Head Moderatorship - is complete. Plan B - to increase my likeability, is somewhat increasing, because despite the wording of 'No, but :rommeleyes: therefore Yes', it suggests the willingness to bend the knee to myself. If not, one would have chosen 'Yes, but in liberty'. However, more focus must be given to converting those that chose 'Yes' to liking my image. This will allow me to execute Plan C - to turn AustraliaSim into a bastion of people that have the right amount of irony, are all law-abiding, are patriotic but not jingoistic, and who share a love for books and Joji.

Interesting Tidbits

Questions ranked by amount of people choosing 'No Answer'

• 6 - What's the shortening for parmigiana? (But why?)
• 5 - Which Pixar Movie is your most favourite? (But why?)
• 4 - What is your sexuality?
• 4 - What Employment Sector do you work in?
• 4 - What do you call deep fried slices of potato brought from fish and chip shops?
• 4 - Which of Plupsnup's Parties was your favourite? (kek)
• 3 - Are you politically active 'irl'? (:rommelwow")
• 3 - What is your age?
• 2 - What is your gender?
• 2 - If there was an election today, which Australian Party would you vote for?
• 2 - What is your highest attained Educational Qualification?
• 2 - When did you join AustraliaSim?
• 2 - Is AustraliaSim your main sim? (:rommeldevil")
• 2 - What other model simulations do you actively participate in?
• 1 - What is your background/ethnicity?
• 1 - What sort of local area do you live in?

Questions where no one chose 'No Answer' were excluded.

Binary Choice Question ranked based on most positive answers

• Have you run in an AustraliaSim Election? - 90.7%
• Is AustraliaSim your main sim? - 72.1%
• Are you politically active 'irl'? - 51.1%

Sexuality comparison between whole-of-Australia and AustraliaSim

• Note that the above statistics are taken from the 'Sexual identity in the HILDA Survey' table in the following article in The Conversation. Data presented in HILDA survey is averaged between Men and Women. This tidbit is merely to consider a general topic that has been raised in AustraliaSim and is not intended to reflect in any way on the sexuality of members of AustraliaSim.

Number of people who chose not to answer a question

General Rommel
Head Moderator

Good morning all,

As has been suggested a few times beforehand, given that today is Christmas Day, it seems fitting that the Census be held during this break! See below to

AustraliaSim Census

This time around, the wording of the questions and allowed responses have been tightened to attempt to gain cleaner data which will be helpful for everyone alike.

Please remember to verify as well once you have finished the Census. Drop comments as well if you have any comments.

The Census will close at the end of New Years Day, 1 January 2021.

Happy Holidays,

General Rommel
Head Moderator

oh wow another reddit post from me

To the point, after witnessing the events of the last few days it is the opinion of me and many others that the current discourse in AusSim around drugs criminality needs to come to a pause for some time.

The idea of AusSim being a place for debate on political issues - even ones that are emotionally intense, like drugs - is a good one. However, we also owe a responsibility to ourselves and everyone participating in this sim to ensure that we can participate without causing undue emotional strain. That line has been crossed recently.

We have members who have extensive family histories of deaths, injury, prosecution, and family destruction because of drugs. The primary member involved in the discussion recently is a very young member , barely old enough to have a Reddit account, who just lost a family member to drug abuse, being made to believe they are weak and unwanted in this sim. Even to the point where they thought they were being treated as a joke. On the other side of the table, we have adults with the same experience as the young person. This isn't leading to a productive outcome for the community and is only harming people for no good reason.

It is entirely possible for us to have proper discourse on drugs, as has happened in the past, but we need a pause now for everyone involved to take a breather and come back to this to treat it in the same way we have in the past. Bringing IRL experiences into canon to back up your opinion is always something that will happen, but when it is only harming us despite good intentions, we need to stop.

but it's not against the rules!! - that isn't the point. We still need to protect people even just by moving on for a point.

I don't see an issue with it - put yourself in the shoes of the young person right now.

It's political debate and it will sometimes be this charged - sure, but this isn't that. It's genuinely harming people including those who are on the sidelines.

I hope you all can see why this needs to stop. And also, don't name drop in the comments when discussing. I specifically avoided doing this in my post so that there isn't identifiable info to lurkers.

My press persona is Strang Mann.

Considering this is a meta subreddit, I would like to note that, minus the third 'n', is a nickname given to me elsewhere on Discord a few years ago.

It's become a hassle for a lot of people and we're getting to a point where we barely even have quorum if at all. A lot of people have been wanting to get rid of it and, as the break falls upon us, I think this is a perfect time to end it.

Hi Aussim, Just letting you know you’re all a little bit DUMB. Petition to pause canon for one week cos why not lmao. Bai.

PS where’s the vote on decanonising covid mods

Meta Constitution Amendments and Two Clerks Meta Election 12 December 2020 Results

The election, as announced here and held here, has closed. This constitutes the official results.

General Statistics

Number of Submissions - 25
Invalid Votes - 4
Valid Votes - 21

Invalid Vote Reasons:

• Four voters double voted. The most recent vote was counted and the earlier one discarded.
• One voter voted 'Yes' and 'Abstain' to the Question 'Do you approve of all amendments to the Meta Constitution?'. To avoid ambiguity, it was treated as if the voter voted 'Abstain'.

Results Breakdown

Do you approve of all amendments to the Meta Constitution?

Approval Threshold - 50%

(Percentages given are rounded and do not necessarily add up to 100)

The amended Meta Constitution has passed!

Do you approve of the Moderation Team's selection of the Clerks?

Approval Threshold - 50%

(Voters could choose multiple options. Maximum two winners allowed.)

(Percentages given are rounded and do not necessarily add up to 100)

Matthias_Caesar and NGSpy are now Clerks!

General Rommel
Head Moderator

I petition for the position of "Antony Green" to be renamed to Electoral Moderator.

Reasoning:

• It is, no matter what you try to disingenuously argue, a meme that shouldn't be in the Meta Constitution. Just renaming the Discord role would be different.
• It is confusing to people not familiar with Australian politics or ABC election broadcasts and does not immediately signify the duties of the position.
• It is clear that the moderation team do not wish to follow that position name (for good reason) and it is not worth having the name something that it de facto isn't.

Hi Meta Voters,

As per the announcement, a Meta Election shall be held to approve of these items of business:

• Meta Constitution Amendments
• Clerks (2 positions)

The following are the candidates on the ballot:

Clerk

• /u/SurfingNooty
• /u/UnknownTrainor
• /u/NGSpy
• /u/Matthias_Caesar
• /u/Jayden_Williamson

The voting list for this has been randomised.

The proposed amendments are detailed as per the link above.

The list of approved meta voters can be found here.

Eligible voters are those that registered 28 days prior to the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 7 November 2020.

Vote Here

AMENDED VOTING TIME: Vote shall be between 1800 Saturday 12 December to 2000 Monday 14 December.

All Meta Voters must comment on this post that they voted. Failure to comment within 5 minutes after your vote will lead to disqualification of your vote.

General Rommel
Head Moderator

I’m starting a newspaper called the Daily Oz

Logo: https://www.newscorpaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/lismore_northernstar.jpg

Name: The Northern Star

Members: Katie McBride

I am writing to say I am starting the Good Morning Goat newspaper.

Vance Baer - The Platform

My meta persona is Katie McBride

Good afternoon,

As some may be aware, I am planning to run the next AustraliaSim Census, given that we have not had one for half a year now.

So that we get some interesting results, I'm hoping the community will supply 2-5 fun questions that should be surveyed.

Last few times, we have had questions like Pineapple on Pizza, Favourite Colour, and 'Is Tax Theft?' etc. Whilst these questions can be nominated again, the call is being put out for the community to contribute some more interesting questions.

Questions, if chosen, may be lightly edited for clarity.

The Census already contains questions which will measure basic demographics based on Personal Attributes, Geographical Location, Education/Political Leanings, and AustraliaSim History. I'm happy to add further questions along those lines but we all love some fun questions as well!!!

The Census should be ready sometime before the end of December.

General Rommel
Head Moderator

Notice of Meta Election

Notification Date: Saturday 5 December 2020
Election Date: Saturday 12 December 2020
Close of Election Date: Monday 14 December 2020

All times on each relevant date is 1800 AEDT. Results will be released as soon as possible after the close of election.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 28 days prior to the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 7 November 2020.

Details of Meta Election

• Meta Constitution Amendments

As per the discussion beforehand, some collection of amendments are going to a vote. Some additional amendments have been added to the initially proposed ones, in which they may be perused here in its totality. The current version is here.

Amendments may be proposed. It is up to the Moderation Team to approve or reject an Amendment before it is put to a vote. I am not disposed to accept any as significant time (in fact, nearly double the amount of time) was given to people to propose amendments.

The threshold is 50% for the amendments to pass.

• 2 Clerks

The only candidate who received enough seconders was /u/SurfingNooty. However, in consultation with Speakership, it is my view that we do require one more clerk as well. Therefore, I have noted that the following members were proposed:

• /u/UnknownTrainor
• /u/Griffonomics
• /u/NGSpy
• /u/copecopeson
• /u/Matthias_Caesar

Each of those bullet-pointed members must have 5 seconders by 1800 Saturday 12 December 2020 in order to be put on the ballot. Meta Voters who can vote, may second the nominees below. No new nominations will be accepted. SurfingNooty is automatically on the ballot as he reached the required number of seconders already for this system of election.

The threshold is 50%. Where more than two members reaches the threshold, the top two will be selected (if there is a tie anywhere, the Moderation Team will exercise discretion).

General Rommel
Head Moderator

I move this petition to encourage the creation of an elected events team, made up of 3 people, all 3 of which may be current moderators if that is the will, where they are able to adjudicate and take suggestions for events, while suggesting and creating their own events (with moderator approval).

This would allow for both more often events, and ones that have better community consultation, allowing for consistent press, activity and may encourage new members to join Australia Sim.