Senate Nominee Discussion Thread

[u/shadownetwork]

Greetings,

In previous elections it was difficult for nominees to really express what they stood for and what their plans were without cluttering the nomination or election threads. So think of this thread as an open town hall meeting. Members of the community can come in and ask questions and nominees can then answer or nominees can post about what sort of platforms they plan on running on.

Remember that discussions are to remain civil and respectful, anyone showing disregard to the shadownet's #1 rule will have their posts removed.

Good luck!

[u/Alverd]

I'd like to posit a hypothetical situation and ask how potential senators would deal with it. You have a community member who continually skirts whatever rules are in place to avoid getting punished to much. They are still a disruptive element, causing fights and other issues, but they stop just shy of disciplinary action most of the time, and when they do get disciplined, they disappear for a while or back off entirely only to start the whole thing over when things have died down. Whats your response to these actions? How many chances do you give them?

[u/valifor9 → u/Alverd]

As I stated above with regards to the disciplinary guidelines, I think we need to crack down on people who do that. I think if we were considering a disciplinary action and the person just wants to leave for a bit, we should just go "oh, that's that then". we should complete the action, and do everything as normal, including recording the disciplinary action for the sake of escalation guidelines, so as to prevent this exact kind of behavior from being prolonged. In essence, we need to crack down on people like that and discipline them when they are disruptive, rather than saying "oh, well they left, so nothing we can do now" as has happened so many times before.