Note: The Hexbear People's Committee is an RPG/LARP and has no bearing on anything outside of being a "Model UN" style simulation of a political party.

Voting on HPC Resolution 001-1 isn't closed yet, but it looks like it will pass, so in the interest of "getting this show on the road" I'm going to open discussion on the initial topics from the "schedule" section of that resolution. If there is a last second wave of "Don't Pass" votes, this will all be deleted and the revolutionary cause will be dead.

It passed yay!

I think it's best to focus on roles over the resolution process, but the two are intertwined so there is discussion to be had on both. Hopefully we can get these section drafted into a Resolution as soon as tomorrow to be put for a vote.

A side-topic is to nominate names for the Party that we should start considering.

  • hexbear_partisan [comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    I've come up with a draft resolution, here is the way I see things:

    I think that it would be ideal for the Committee to detail structure and processes and bylaws as closely as possible in advance, but I think it's going to be easier and more effective to keep it incredibly slim and build things out once the Party is incorporated. Let's throw down a basic Resolution process so that we can get some people having fun with it. Those of us who want to get in on dialing in the process can do so, and anyone who wants to debate a resolution pledging allegiance to Putin out of pure contrarianism can do that at the same time without waiting for us to figure it all out beforehand.

    So, Resolutions are the foundation of the party and will represent the voice of all Party members. The primary goal of the resolution process is to represent the voice of the membership as closely as possible. They are intended to be powerful enough to rewrite the resolution process itself in the future, as the Party matures to suit its electorate. We can add other democratic mechanisms as we desire (or less democratic, if we decide to do so democratically).

    We can have a Chair position. Their purpose is to properly format and post resolutions, and document the outcomes of the votes. That's it unless the Party passes resolutions expanding their powers or creating new positions. We should use STAR voting unless somebody is strongly against doing that.

    The term of the Chair can be extended by up to one month by a "Vote of Confidence" resolution passed within 5 days of their term expiring. A "Vote of No Confidence" Resolution will trigger the immediate termination of the sitting Chair, and a new election will take place. A Vote of No Confidence must name an interim Chair whose sole responsibility is to facilitate a free and fair election of the replacement.

    Resolutions must be drafted in the Party's "General Discussion" thread in c/ttrpg. A drafted resolution that receives more than 5 Party Members who reply to the with the phrase !#Pass in them must be put to a vote by the Chair. The Chair will post the resolution as a thread in c/ttrpg, and make a root voting comment, followed by three subcomments: "Pass", "Don't Pass", and "Abstain". The subcomment that gets the most votes determines the outcome.

    • hexbear_partisan [comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      @Grimble @LiberalSocialist please see my draft below and the parent comment for context (not sure if I could ping you with an edit). Others welcome to give feedback, as always.

      Party Chair

      • The Party chair is primarily responsible for facilitating votes on resolutions, and documenting the outcomes of votes.

      Selecting the Chair

      • An election nomination and discussion thread will be posted in c/ttrpg.
      • Any Party member may nominate themselves, or another Party member in a root comment in that thread.
      • The top two nominees, plus anyone who received more than 10 upvotes on their nomination will take part in the election.
      • The election facilitator will be the sitting chair. If the position is vacant, the nominees must decide on a facilitator with a majority vote.
      • The election facilitator will conduct a STAR election of all nominees.

      Chair rules

      • The incoming chair must declare their term, the maximum of which is 90 days.
      • The incoming chair must always be a Party member. If membership status is revoked, so is their position as chair.
      • The chair's term can be extended by up to one month by a "Vote of Confidence" resolution.
      • The chair's term can be terminated immediately by a "Vote of No Confidence" resolution. A Vote of No Confidence must name an interim Chair/election facilitator.

      Chair responsibilities

      • The chair must facilitate the Resolution process as described in this document below.
      • The chair must facilitate elections and transitions of power as stated in the "Selecting the Chair" section above.
      • The chair must document the outcome of resolution votes. This can be done in any manner on c/ttrpg.

      Party Resolutions

      Thread definitions

      • Resolutions are drafted and nominated in party discussion thread posted to c/ttrpg by the chair.
      • If a party discussion thread is over three weeks old, or has over 1000 comments, the chair must post a new one.
      • Resolutions can also be drafted and nominated in draft resolution threads that are less than three weeks old. The chair may choose to post a draft resolution thread for better organization of discussion, but it is not required.
      • Only Party members can draft resolutions.
      • A draft resolution must be put to a vote if nominated by at least 5 Party members.
      • A reply to a draft resolution containing the phrase !#Pass is considered a nomination.

      Resolution votes

      • A voting thread for a resolution will be posted by the chair to c/ttrpg.
      • The chair will post a "voting" root comment in the thread with three subcomments: "Pass", "Don't Pass", and "Abstain".
      • The subcomment that receives the most votes determines the outcome.

      ToDos

      The committee still has to figure out these things, but I don't want to get bogged down in them quite yet:

      • Code of Conduct (can just rely on the site CoC for the most part)
      • Resolution format
      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
        ·
        2 years ago

        This is very well thought out, comrade. It is clear to anyone that you have put in a lot of thought into this and the rest of of the Committee thanks you for it.