CWA Staff

 

Enjeru Karasu - Administrator
Ikari Kira (Chibi) - Administrator
Mina Hatcher - Global Moderator

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The Staff members of Crimson Wind Academy are expected to do the following:

1. Maintain a minimum level of discipline (punishing members for breaking the rules when they break rules)
2. Exercise staff powers on members only when necessary (no bans "for no reason")
3. Approve profiles of new members and the updated profiles of existing members in a timely manner
4. Change the member groups of members when their character changes dorms.
5. Change a member's name when they change their primary character.
6. Keep the forum decently organized (delete spam, move topics to the appropriate sections, add sections, etc)
7. Update forum sections as needed.
8. RP regularly and maintain the general flow of the Role Play
9. Listen to all members fairly without bias. (applies to both disputes and ideas members offer)
10. Periodically add new skins to the board
11. Advertise our forum and build relationships with other communities of role-players and duelists
12. Create and maintain a historical record of the academy

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In order to elect our Staff Team for the next 3 months (2 Admins and 1 Global Moderator), we will proceed the following way:

The Elections Topic

Instead of using candidacy topics, this time all of the elections process will be condensed into a single topic. Following the posting of this thread, aspiring candidates candidates will have until Sunday (12th) night to make a post stating their intention of becoming candidates. They may chose to be a Global Mod or an Admin, though by default it is assumed that they are running for both positions.



Voting

As new interest has arisen in the usage of a new experimental voting system (As seen on This Thread) we sill be using a different system for this elections.
Also since no additional feedback whatsoever has come up, and with Aoi's permission, I decided to try this.

THE SYSTEM IS AS FOLLOWS

Once all candidates are up, each user can make their vote post. The post vote consists of a list of candidates in order of preference (In descending order). ALL of the candidates must be adressed in this list and they will each gain a number of points depending on their position in said list.
The candidate at the bottom of the list will be awarded 0 points, the one in the higher "tier" will be awarded 1 point, the next 2, and so on until the full amount of candidates has been adressed.
In the case of a candidate having to vote, they will be unable to vote for themselves, instead having an enmpty slot to use where their name would be. This means one of the tiers can be skipped by them (Not give anyone a 0 or 1 for example) while still havign access to all the tiers. Traditionally the candidates never got to vote for themselves and this is the fairiest method I can think of to maintain this.


Some of the mentality behind my support from this system stems from avoidng the "Negative" votes from before. I felt personal grudges and other bias were somehow encouraged with the previous system, the -2 was extremely detrimental to otherwise promising candidates that other people liked. Now if you don't want someone to to gain a staff position the best you can do is give them a 0 vote.
The rising point system also gives less of an advantage to neutral candidates that you don't specially care about, aknowledging their existence but giving them a low point increase to make it less likely for them to end up coming on top despite majority apathy.
Finally, to adress the issue of people who may have equal preference for several candidates the point deifference betwen each tier is only 1 as to not create too big of a gap betwen favorite and second favorite.

Time limit date for voting will remain undisclosed for now and will be announced once the candidates are ready. I expect every single active member of the community to vote

While we are treating this site as PG-13,
bad language, swearing, etc etc, will not be tolerated in any of the Candidacy Topic. (Even if you know/believe a certain word shouldn't count as bad language/swearing, you had better play it safe and not use it. If you do, it is at your own risk and you will not have the right to complain later, no matter how simple an issue you find it to be. Do not talk down to anyone, don't tell them to shut up, or to be quiet, or anything of that nature.)

The offending post will be deleted/hidden for reference on sight, regardless of who wrote it. Additionally, in the case that it is the candidate's opening post, not only will thepost be deleted, that user will no longer be able to run in this election.


Results of Voting
At the end of the voting period, once the votes are tallied, the two (2) candidates with the highest number of Vote Points, who were eligible for Admin, will get the 2 available Admin positions, and then, the highest candidate eligible for G.Mod gets the lone Global Moderator spot.
In the case of any ties, priority goes to the candidate(s) who specifically wanted their stated position. If a tie persists beyond that, there will be a 2-day tiebreaker vote.
If there weren't enough candidates and there are still openings, elections for those open positions will be held immediately and will last for an amount of time to be decided at a later date.

In Summary

 

Elections begin on August 8th, 2012

Candidacy Posting: until the end of Sunday, August 12th, 2012.

Voting (in Candidacy Topics):Beggining from Monday, Agusut 13th and until an undisclosed date.

**Any questions, concerns, or suggestions to improve this process must be posted in this topic no later than the end of Saturday, August 11th, 2012 (EST; GMT -5:00) to be considered.

Quote:

 

The Staff members of Crimson Wind Academy are expected to do the following:

1. Maintain a minimum level of discipline (punishing members for breaking the rules when they break rules)
2. Exercise staff powers on members only when necessary (no bans "for no reason")
3. Approve profiles of new members and the updated profiles of existing members in a timely manner
4. Change the member groups of members when their character changes dorms.
5. Change a member's name when they change their primary character.
6. Keep the forum decently organized (delete spam, move topics to the appropriate sections, add sections, etc)
7. Update forum sections as needed.
8. RP regularly and maintain the general flow of the Role Play
9. Listen to all members fairly without bias. (applies to both disputes and ideas members offer)
10. Periodically add new skins to the board
11. Advertise our forum and build relationships with other communities of role-players and duelists
12. Create and maintain a historical record of the academy

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In order to elect our Staff Team for the next 3 months (2 Admins and 1 Global Moderator), we will proceed the following way:

The Candidacy Topics
Those members seeking a Staff position must post a Candidacy Topic in Forum Feedback's "Candidacy Topic Section" to be considered as potential Staff members by the members of the forum. Candidacy Topics can be created starting from April 12th, 2012 until the end of Tuesday, April 17th (EST; GMT -5:00).

In these Candidacy Topics, the topic creator (TC) should state the month and year of application in the topic title; in the main post, state whether they wish to be an Admin, a Global Moderator, or both. (If the TC does not state one, they will be considered for all 3 spots.)


Voting
As no one gave input to Billie's topic, we will continue as we have with the previous election.

People can post their votes immediately upon the creation of a Candidacy Topic and are free/encouraged to further discuss the qualifications of the potential Staff member within their Candidacy Topic. A "Yes" vote is worth +2 Vote Points; a "No" vote is worth -2 points. If you voted in one of the Candidacy Topics, you are considered to have voted "Neutral (+1 point) in all of the other Candidacy Topics until you post in them as well.

Example(adjusted from Billie's original):
- Allison, Billie and Charlotte each make a topic on January 10th and 11th, respectively. Someone posts in Billie's topic as a "yes"; they are also considered as casting a "neutral" vote for Allison and Charlotte until they post in those other topics.
- Danielle casts a "no" vote for Allison; it's a "neutral" vote for Billie and Charlotte too until she posts there.
- Enjeru Karasu makes a topic some time later, within the time frame. Until they post in Enjeru's topic, Allison, Billie, Charlotte, and Danielle are considered to have cast a "neutral" vote towards Enjeru; likewise, Enjeru's vote towards A/B/C is considered "neutral" until he posts in their topics.

The primary thinking was that if you cared enough about CWA politics, yet didn't care enough to decidedly say "yes" or "no" to the individual candidates in their respective topics, you were probably neutral on them anyway.

People have until the end of Saturday, April 21st (EST; GMT -5:00) to vote for every candidate. (That's 5 days during Topic Creation[due to late election announcement] and 4 extra days after Topic Creation ends.) To change your vote for someone, create a new post in the appropriate Candidacy Topic, for it to be considered. (You cannot vote for yourself.)

While we are treating this site as PG-13,
bad language, swearing, etc etc, will not be tolerated in any of the Candidacy Topics, whether by the TC or anyone else. (Even if you know/believe a certain word shouldn't count as bad language/swearing, you had better play it safe and not use it. If you do, it is at your own risk and you will not have the right to complain later, no matter how simple an issue you find it to be. Do not talk down to anyone, don't tell them to shut up, or to be quiet, or anything of that nature.)

The offending post will be deleted/hidden for reference on sight, regardless of who wrote it. Additionally, in the case that it is the TC's opening post, not only will the topic be deleted, that user will no longer be able to run in this election.



Results of Voting
At the end of the voting period, once the votes are tallied, the two (2) candidates with the highest number of Vote Points, who were eligible for Admin, will get the 2 available Admin positions, and then, the highest candidate eligible for G.Mod gets the lone Global Moderator spot.

In the case of any ties, priority goes to the candidate(s) who specifically wanted their stated position. If a tie persists beyond that, there will be a 2-day tiebreaker vote.
If there weren't enough candidates and there are still openings, elections for those open positions will be held immediately and will last for an amount of time to be decided at a later date.


It should be noted that if you posted an accepted profile (at any time, not just the new year - as such, you've got a member group color [or you are admin]), and you gained at least 2 Post Count (not 2 posts) from between March 2012 and the end of Wednesday, April 11th, 2012, you are eligible to vote or run for Staff.

In Summary

 

Elections begin on April 12th, 2012

Candidacy Topic Creation: Thursday, April 12th, 2012, until the end of Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 (EST; GMT -5:00)
(Topics posted prior to April 12th [EST; GMT -5:00] will be deleted on sight! [N/A this time around])

Voting (in Candidacy Topics): (essentially) Thursday, April 12th, 2012, until the end of Saturday, April 21st, 2012 (EST; GMT -5:00)

**Any questions, concerns, or suggestions to improve this process must be posted in this topic no later than the end of Monday, April 16th, 2012 (EST; GMT -5:00) to be considered.


Goal: Elect two (2) Administrators and one (1) Global Moderator

Candidates:

 

For Administrator


For Global Moderator


For either