Edit: Resolution 001-1 passes 24-8
Note: this is an RPG/LARP thing that some of us are interested in messing around with. Original inspiration here: https://hexbear.net/post/226706
Summary
This resolution will establish provisional bylaws to establish the Hexbear People's Committee. The committee is tasked with developing the necessary structure to form a Party that will be capable of representing the territory of Hexbear.
The territory of Hexbear has a population of 21,491, currently only occupying virtual space. The ruling class is a "benevolent trust" that has some transparency, and is widely popular with the territory's population. However, there is a lack of democratic mechanisms in the territory, and a Party would be able to provide a forum and structure to ensure that the population has a strong and clear voice.
Actions
@hexbear_partisan, will chair the People's Committee and guide it through a series of pass or don't pass votes. Anyone with hexbear.net account is welcome to join and vote in committee discussions.
Votes will be cast using comment votes, with the Committee chair creating a "Pass" and "Don't Pass" comment on each resolution. In case of a "Don't Pass" vote, the resolution will be revised until a "Pass" majority can be achieved. A minimum of 5 votes is needed to pass a resolution.
Schedule
The following topics will need to be voted on and resolved before the Party can be incorporated:
- Party roles/positions
- How to appoint and recall Party roles/positions
- How a resolution is drafted and put up for a vote.
- How a resolution is voted on.
- How the Party canon is managed.
- Incorporating the above into a draft set of Party bylaws.
The current plan will be to have one day of initial discussion about a topic, after which the Committee Chair will draft a resolution which will be open for one day of voting. In general, one "discussion post" and one "resolution vote" post will happen in parallel. This schedule will change depending on offline requirements of the Committee leadership.
Provisional Code of Conduct
The committee takes its mission of representing the territory of Hexbear in earnest, and as such memes and jokes in Committee/Party related threads are not allowed. Any such topics including meta-discussions can happen elsewhere on the site.
Committee members are advised to address one another as "Comrade [name]" when replying to one another, as a matter of decorum.
Process
This post will serve as both the voting and discussion threads on the topic of creating a Peoples' Committee. Voting will conclude when this post is 12 hours old, at 05:00 UTC.
Comrade ssjmarx, I feel the need to clarify that I am only organizing a Committee, but we don't know what the structure of the Party will be yet, and if there is a defined leadership, new elections will be held once the Party is incorporated (assuming that we want any leadership positions that may exist to be elected).
I encourage you to vote to pass this resolution and bring your concerns to the discussion about how the Party should be structured, which is at the top of the agenda under my proposal.