Bill: Draft No Mixing Politics and Staff Act

[Julia_]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

Amend the Rules




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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:


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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the ‘No Mixing Politics and Staff Act’

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by juniperfig

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative Plura72.

(5) This Act amends the following:

(a) Rules

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) Players cannot mix staff and politics. This rule should be applied to staff as well, who are instead held to internal staff policy when they use their staff position for personal/political gain.

(2) The rule as it stands does not allow for rightful criticism of abuse of staff power for political or personal gain.

(3) Breaches of staff policy are not being properly handled within the Staff Team.

(4) The Staff Disciplinary System does not function when applied to server owners.

PART II — PROPOSED SERVER RULE AMENDMENTS

3. Amendments

(1) The Rules shall be amended as follows:
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Our Staff members are players who, in their own time, volunteer to help. Politicizing staff actions, for the sake of roleplay or otherwise, is strictly prohibited. There must be an undeniable separation between staffing and state and this is heavily policed
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Our Staff members are players who, in their own time, volunteer to help. Politicizing staff actions consistent with staff policy, for the sake of roleplay or otherwise, is not allowed. Using staff permissions for personal or political gain is not allowed. There must be an undeniable separation between staffing and state.

Criticizing Staff who are breaching staff policy for political or personal gain is acceptable under the following circumstances:

(a) You have opened a staff ticket to formally report a breach of staff policy;

(b) That ticket was closed without resolution of the breach of staff policy;

(c) You are able to provide specific example(s) of the breach of staff policy;

(d) You do not speculate regarding other rumoured or theoretical breaches of staff policy;

(e) The breach of staff policy occurred within the last 60 calendar days.

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