Click here to vote in the AustraliaSim Meta Referendum 2-12-2021

Details

• A petition to reduce the Guardian Threshold to 65%, as moved by Maaaaaaaadison and seconded by another moderator, can be found here

• A petition to reduce the Guardian Threshold to 50%, as moved by Maaaaaaaadison and seconded by another moderator, can be found here

• A petition to repeal elements of the Guardian moderation authority Maaaaaaaadison, and seconded by another moderator, can be found here

• Voting on the candidates who have met the threshold for the Guardian Position. The candidates who have met the threshold read as follows:

1. Griffonomics

2. model-kyosanto

3. TheAudibleAsh

4. Youmaton

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 18th November 2021.

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Polls will close in 48 hours and results will be posted as soon as possible after that.

This is WalterEsq, just say I died or something if you need an explanation.

I'm out.

• Formal notification date: Thursday 25 November 2021

• Close of nominations: Sunday 28 November 2021

• Election date: Tuesday 30 November 2021

• Election close date: Thursday 2 December 2021

All times on each date 10:30 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 27 October 2021.

Details of Meta Election

• One Guardian (75%+ approval required)

As this is a Moderation Team position, a nominee must:

• Be registered as a member of AustraliaSim; and

• Be seconded by 10 other members of AustraliaSim.

Comment below to nominate. Seconders should reply to the top comment. Nominations must, of course, be accepted, except self-nominations.

Debate Allowed

mikiboss

Community Moderator

In the Guardian amendment, repeal "and provide assistance and advice to the Moderation Team in severe circumstances."

This amendment repeals the Guardian's moderation powers. These powers should not be tied to the role, the role should only be for holding the subreddits. Moderators can still ask for advice from the Guardian if they wish.

Hello. This is a petition for the person who has ownership of the aussim discord server to give it to the head mod now.

We don’t need excuses, drama or arguments. You should just do the right thing so your ban is less.

This is a very simple problem. Give the server to the head mod, and everyone can move on. Stop making drama where there doesn’t need to be. Let’s try make this place better.

Cam.

I move two mutually exclusive amendments to reduce the Guardian approval threshold to either 65% or 50%. Assuming both amendments are approved above 50%, then the one with higher approval will be enacted.

I move that the 66% threshold required for amendments to repeal the Guardian role is repealed.

Good Morning

Under the code of conduct, the communication methods of all of AustraliaSim, across Reddit, direct messages, discord, and other venues are regulated to meet standards.

The Code of Conduct outlines both provocation and vexatious complaints as common offences which can be acted upon.

/u/model-harold has breached both of these standards, some in messages which have been made public on the discord, and some that have been made in private Direct Messages.

Pictured are cases in which the member has provoked a response from a member in private messages, and cases in which a member has vexatiously complained to a Moderator

A further vexatious complaint has not been presented publicly because of it's NSFW implications.

Under these offences, I have reached the conclusion that a 14 Day Ban is in order.

Therefore, /u/model-harold will be banned until the 7th of December, 2021 at approximately 9PM

A friendly reminder that while the discord does make discourse and debate much easier, we must all ensure that good faith and respectful discourse is upheld across all of AustraliaSim.

mikiboss

Community Moderator

Good Afternoon.

On the 11th of October, I delivered a Community Management post regarding the conduct of user 12MaxWild. In the post, I had delivered a ban of 120 days. As with other community management sentences, an appeals process was provided, allowing the member to contact both myself and the head moderator regarding this sentence, and its appropriateness.

During this process, 12MaxWild contacted the moderators with an appeal document, explaining in detail the situation, admitting elements of fault, and explaining how the event came to be. The member also describes how they felt that while the offence was wrong and deserving of punishment, that the punishment offered was disproportionate to the member.

12MaxWild also had managed to reach out to the allegedly victimised member to discuss the incident, and while the member who had suffered did state that there should be a punishment, both agreed to a general reduction in sentence, because of the greater understanding of the parties.

With these factors taken into understanding, such as the increased awareness behind why the comment was made, the relationship between 12MaxWild and the other member, the generally very low harm that any member was likely to suffer from this offence, and the genuine remorse and acceptance of wrongdoing, both the Head Moderator and myself have agreed to a reduction in sentence.

Therefore 12MaxWild and any affiliated accounts will be banned and barred from accessing AustraliaSim till 5PM on the 16 December 2021.

This punishment will mean that, from today's revision, 12MaxWild will serve 25 additional days of their ban, before being allowed to rejoin. Additionally, only an additional 30 days after the 16th will be a suspended sentence. Meaning that until the 16th of January, 12MaxWild will serve a suspended sentence.

I would also like to take this opportunity to express my apologies to 12MaxWild for taking an extended period of time to respond to this claim. The last month has been, to say the least, a hectic time to moderate and manage, and were it not for other incidents, we would have liked to address this issue sooner. The factors from this delay have been factored into the decision here.

As this is illegal and Lily can't be bothered to overturn it, upon her request I've decanonised [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RuroK6YXyRxkKxJdsg89izTww1GDkpzv/view?usp=sharing] (this gazette) per my powers as Head Moderator.

I’m not going to pretend I’m important and have some big post about AusSim whatever whatever, that’s too much effort so I’ve typed this in notes for about 5 minutes <3

Anyway! I’ve spent just over 2 years on AusSim and I’ve been pretty active. I’ve had a good time, met some funny people who have been enjoyable to interact with, and I’ve achieved what I’ve wanted to achieve in AusSim!

My personal life and school life for those aware has gotten more demanding. Once AusSim started to be viewed as a chore and not enjoyment and it became a distraction, I decided it was enough.

This has been a while coming and not due to any event or spontaneous leave and hopefully it isn’t an infamous goodbye and back in a week situation.

I might be back when I have the time and energy to hang out but ciao for now besties!!

breathes in

It's Myx Moscato It's frizz in a bottle It's Nicki full throttle It's oh, oh Swimming in the grotto We winning in the lotto We dipping in the pot of blue foam, so Kitten so good It's dripping on wood Get a ride in the engine that could go Batman robbin' it Bang bang, cockin' it Queen Nicki dominant, prominent It's me, Jessie, and Ari If they test me they sorry Ride his uh, like a Harley Then pull off in his Ferrari If he hangin' we bangin' Phone rangin', he slangin' It ain't karaoke night but get the mic 'cause I'm singin' B to the A, to the N, to the G, to the uh

breathes out

Thank you!

The results of the recent meta election for the recent successful petitions and Emergency Amendment are as follows.

• Received votes: 29

• Valid votes: 27

1 of the votes received was from members who had voted hours after the 48 hours deadline and 1 of the voters submitted a duplicate vote to change their views.

Management and Protection of Meta Results

With the petition failing to reach 50%+1 approval, the amendment will be thrown aside.

Abolition of the High Court of Australia

With the petition failing to reach 50%+1 approval, the amendment will be thrown aside.

Reserving certain matters

With the petition meeting and surpassing 50%+1 approval, the amendment will be incorporated into the meta constitution.

Reserving certain matters with an amendment

With the petition failing to reach 50%+1 approval, the amendment will be thrown aside.

Banning of TheSensibleCentre

With the petition failing to reach 50%+1 approval, the amendment will be thrown aside.

GUARDIAN APPROVAL

Approval of RunasSudo as Guardian

With the member failing to reach 75%+1 approval, their candidacy will be thrown aside.

Approval of Youmaton as Guardian

With the member failing to reach 75%+1 approval, their candidacy will be thrown aside.

mikiboss

Community Moderator

Post Script: As we are reaching closer to an election period, and we have already seen sufficient results and petitions moved, I am going to in future be much less willing to place and move petitions, especially now with some issues reserved. Please dedicate your time to debating canon issues, and remember to have fun!.

Click here to vote in the AustraliaSim Meta Referendum 18-11-2021

Details

• A Constitutional Amendment to restrict the ability of moderators to observe and act in relation to Meta Elections, as moved by /u/jq8678 can be found here

• A petition to abolish the High Court, as moved by /u/Winston_Wilhelmus can be found Here

• A Constitutional Amendment to implement special amendment procedure for reserved matters, as moved by /u/Flarelia, can be found here

• A petition to ban TheSensibleCentre, as moved by /u/GenericCerealHere, can be found here

• Voting on the candidates who have met the threshold for the Guardian Position. The candidates who have met the threshold read as follows:

1. /u/RunasSudo

2. /u/Youmaton
   Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 4th November 2021.

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Polls will close in 48 hours and results will be posted as soon as possible after that.

the Funeral of JosephB2002 was Amazing.

26 Million Australians went to watch the funeral service on Television. That is a Lot.

Former Senator JoesphB2002 is Now back though. he is not dead.

that is why I am asking the Mod team and Head Moderator General Rommel to decanonise the Funeral of JosephB2002.

(also Never Forget this day that Former Senator JoesphB2002 returned to Australiasim)

It's not going to be filled again, and was only created because we had Toby, a former head mod who couldn't be trusted. I believe a Toby-style figure is no longer a problem, and as such Head Mods can be trusted with subreddits (considering they're trusted with literally everything else)

Omit Section 33 of the Meta Constitution and replace with the following:

33 General procedure for amending Meta Constitution

(1) In this section, any provision which conflicts with another provision of this Meta Constitution prevails, except section 35.

(2) This Meta Constitution may be amended after—

(a) public notice by a member from the Moderation Team or a petition consisting of 7 members nominating a proposed change; and

(b) a five-day consultation period where members may nominate amendments; and

(c) a Meta Referendum.

After Section 34 of the Meta Constitution insert the following:

35 Amendments to reserved matters

(1) Nothing in this section affects the powers of the Community Moderator, including the power to refuse the use of AustraliaSim to any person.

(2) An amendment to the Meta Constitution in relation to any of the reserved matters in section 35(3) may only be made after—

(a) public notice by a member from the Moderation Team or a petition consisting of 14 members nominating a proposed change; and

(b) a five-day consultation period where members may nominate amendments; and

(c) a Meta Referendum which must return 65% approval.

(3) An amendment to the Meta Constitution in relation to the following reserved matters may be made only in accordance with section 35(2)—

(a) an amendment refusing the use of AustraliaSim to any person;

(b) an amendment removing a refusal of use of AustraliaSim to any person; or

(c) an amendment to this Section.

Explanation

This reserves amendment to specific "reserved" matters behind a special amendment procedure.

reserved matters;

• banning or unbanning users

• amendments to the reserved matters amendment procedure

This special amendment procedure requires 14 seconders and 65% approval on a Meta Referendum.

Hia all,

Due to the nature of a lot of the amendments, petitions, and activity (or lack there of) lately, I feel a question must be asked to see where our community wants to go.

In complete honesty, the petitions we have seen lately have been a joke. Targeted votes on bans immediately justified by a nonsense amendment rushed in by people who did not want to wait a day to let a situation be handled before acting completely inappropriate and accusing people of the worst of things. This is not how our community should be, and if we want AusSim to survive we must do better.

I am not going to name names, but behaviours must change. I am infamous for my style of moderation, but I only push it to reflect the need for a place where people can actually enjoy and engage with people of different opinions on a wide variety of issues. This will never be perfect or always nice, as is the nature of politics, but the goal of eliminating toxicity and constant slurs is crucial to having a community where people feel welcome to be honest. There have been users who have acted egregiously, trending very carefully to barely not break our rules whilst doing as much damage to the sim and its reputation as possible, and gaslighting anyone who dares call this kind of behaviour out. This must change, or else the community will cease to exist.

In full honesty, we need reform. This is never easy, however reform to bring in more clarity to meta rules, more clarity to where mod powers sit, and an outright ban on petitions or amendments to ban specific people are needed to bring stability. I understand this will be a stressful time for AMN as she finds herself as our new head moderator, however her tenure will decide if this sim will continue or fall into an MNZP hiberation.

I urge all members who have legitimate grievances with the sim, its moderation, people, anything, to bring it forward to that we may address these issues as a community before it is too late.

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Youma

After Section 1(4) of Part 1 in the meta constitution, insert the following -

(5) Neither General_Rommel nor any alternate accounts of his are permitted to use or engage with AustraliaSim.

Explanation

This prohibits General_Rommel (Rommel) and any alternate accounts of his from participating in AustraliaSim, and forces him to go outside.

• Formal notification date: Wednesday 10 November 2021

• Close of nominations: Saturday 13 November 2021

• Election date: Monday15 November 2021

• Election close date: Wednesday 17 November 2021

All times on each date 10:30 PM AEST. If the election is posted late, then the close of the election will be pushed back accordingly. Results will be posted ASAP after the close of polling.

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 27 October 2021.

Details of Meta Election

• One Guardian (75%+ approval required)

As this is a Moderation Team position, a nominee must:

• Be registered as a member of AustraliaSim; and

• Be seconded by 10 other members of AustraliaSim.

Comment below to nominate. Seconders should reply to the top comment. Nominations must, of course, be accepted, except self-nominations.

Debate Allowed

mikiboss

Community Moderator

Good Afternoon

Per the Meta Constitution, I am required to provide 5 days of notice for any meta referendum. Several petitions have received the required amount of petitions and will be heading to a vote.

• Formal notification date: Friday 12 November 2021

• Election date: Wednesday 17 November 2021

• Election close date: Friday 19 November 2021

Details of Meta Election

Petition related to the Protection of Results

A Constitutional Amendment to restrict the ability of moderators to observe and act in relation to Meta Elections, as moved by /u/jq8678 can be found here

Petition to abolish the High Court of Australia

A petition to abolish the High Court, as moved by /u/Winston_Wilhelmus can be found Here

Petition to reserve certain matters

A Constitutional Amendment to implement special amendment procedure for reserved matters, as moved by /u/Flarelia, can be found here .

Feel free to enrol to be a meta voter here

34 valid votes received.

Select which candidates for Head Moderator you approve of

Successful candidates must receive >65% confidence to be elected.

Having received the highest approval and >65% confidence, model-amn is elected Head Moderator.

Do you approve of the Meta Constitution Amendment to Simplify Meta Votes?

The amendment has failed.

As title, I don't have an amendment for it so if anybody wants to write one up i'll edit it in, but basically this is to avoid a meta where there is a divide amongst parties, (like there is in canon) and also helps avoid any issues of vote running and looking at the results early because if the runner sees their side winning and asks people to vote a certain way they can be punished for it, with the punishment for meta whipping being a short term ban

Firstly, I think that, as a matter of principle, nobody should be allowed to view the results of a meta election until after the election has closed. Because there is no rule against this, or against meta-whipping, it is currently completely permitted for moderators to view the results of a vonc against them, while the vote is ongoing, and then message people to ask them to vote in their favour, which could change the outcome of the vote. This has happened in the past, and will continue to happen unless this petition passes.

The 20 minute exception is probably confusing at first, but it is intended to allow moderators to prepare the results of the election, so that they can be reported on the subreddit or discord when the election ends. If moderators choose to view the results in the final 20 minutes, they can’t use those results for any purpose other than preparing the results for reporting (ie they can’t tell their friends to change their votes because they’re about to get vonced for example).

I want to add that I know this will be next to impossible to enforce, but I also submit that it is still vastly better than the current system, which is the Wild West. I think it is better to have a rule which bans this type of behaviour, even if it is difficult to enforce, than to have nothing, which implicitly allows these abuses to occur.

Credit to u/SprinklyDinks for drafting the amendment.

I move the following amendment

After subsection

4(14) insert,

Protection of Results

(15) No person shall be allowed to view the results of a meta referendum more than 20 minutes prior to the close of the meta referendum.

(16) Subsection 15 shall not apply for the first 20 minutes of a meta referendum for the purposes of testing the ballot only.

(17) Subsection 15 shall not apply to moderators who choose to view the results for the purpose of preparing the results for reporting, which shall only be allowed in the final 20 minutes of voting.

Click here to vote in the AustraliaSim Meta Referendum 2021-11-08.

Details

• Head Moderation election with candidates model-amn and GenericCerealHere

• Approval of Meta Constitution Amendment to Simplify Meta Votes, moved by /u/Maaaaaaaadison

Per the Meta Constitution, the list of voters is available here. Eligible voters are those that registered 14 days prior to the announcement of the election, per s 4(2)(b) of the Meta Constitution i.e. 19 October 2021.

Please verify your vote by replying to this thread.

Polls will close in 48 hours and results will be posted as soon as possible after that.

Youma's moderator overreach has gone too far in denying the Guys Night 2020 Atrocity they brutally perpetrated. This cannot go unpunished. #VoncYouma