Rare and Unusual Bylaw Document Overhaul
Open Votes
NOTE: I'm proposing this as a regular Proposal and not an Administrative Proposal that could get an Autopass. This is a significant enough change that I would prefer that Council vote because I want to make sure that Council will read the current and proposed versions and provide input. I am asking for a Second to this Proposal.=======================================================
I hereby propose that the attached R&U PDF become the new R&U Bylaws. I have attached the current one for reference and documentation.
Q: What changed with this document and the old document?
A: I went through and updated the reference outline format so that this document matches the other three Bylaw documents for ease of reading. I changed the categories to regular outline format, and took the actual R&U groupings themselves and put them into Excel to clean them up nicely and re-imported them into Word to maintain integrity of document consistency with the other 3 Bylaw documents.
Q: Why are there new things on here?
A: I went through all of the old votes, discussed this extensively with the Coordinators, and I think I now have all of the Council-approved R&U votes accounted for in the R&U sections. _Nothing new_ has been made R&U that has not already been approved by Council.
Q: What is up with the note "Rogue Thaumaturgists* (Note: Clean-up Inconsistency - Prop required)"?
A: When the Coordinator Approval system was put in, this was made obsolete as each blood magic type was accounted for individually and added individually, but this older generic listing was never removed. I have a Proposal ready in my draft folder to fix this, but I want to get the document changeover complete to the new version first.
Q: Why is there both "Assamite Dispossessed to Loyalist*" and "Assamite Loyalists" under the Rare category? Isn't that redundant because Assamite Loyalist would require a Rare vote anyway?
A: Yes, it is. Another Proposal will follow to clean this up, but for now both are being left on there because they are both in the current version and this overhaul proposal is primarily about fixing the formatting.
Q: Why did the Groupings get re-organized (Section 4)?
A: I re-formatted the "Groupings" of R&U where it made sense to do so to make them are easier to reference by overall genre (Vampire, Garou, etc.). I left Sect Defectors separate, Kinfolk separate, etc, because they aren't necessarily one-Genre-type specific.
Q: Why does unregistered R&U have its own disciplinary section (Section 8)?
A: I have a proposal that will be aimed at re-writing this section extensively, specifically re-pointing to the disciplinary actions we have in place per the Administrative Bylaws. There isn't any reason why R&U warrants a different disciplinary proceedure than any other action that would necessitate disciplinary proceedures.
Q: Why is there a change in the Grandfathering section (Section 9)?
A: This was Council-approved, but was never added to the Bylaws.
I'm happy to answer any additional questions about the differences between these documents.
Jenn Louise
OWbN Head Coordinator
"Of course I have (gone mad with power), have you ever tried going mad without power? Its boring, no one listens to you."