VirusWiki - Voting

Voting

WorkInProgress This document is fundamental and requires a vote to be accepted.

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All members of the congregation which is comprised of Virians who have elected to join the "Reputation rating system" have a voice in the affairs of the Church of Virus, in that all members of the congregation are able to vote in any Virian Vote to which they have access.

Virians may lose access to vote if they are silenced, but only for the period of silencing.

Call For Vote

All VirianVectors, which are those members of the congregation with a sufficiently high reputation have the ability to establish votes.

All proposed votes must first be posted on the Wiki

The exact wording of the proposed Vote must be provided as follows:

Category:
Title:
Question:
Selection: select either single or multiple
Option 1:
Option 2:
...
Option n:

In addition the proposal must also complete the following:

Class: select compulsory or informational
Closes: Description of when it is proposed the vote be closed if not at a 60% or greater of equity polled.
Adjudication: If not on a 60% support level for a two option vote, or "winner takes all" on a multi-choice vote.
Restricted: Indicate if restricted to a certain group, e.g. VirianCouncil, VirianVectors

All proposals for a vote must be signified by adding VoteCalledFor to the page describing the vote.

Any VirianVector may edit the wording of the proposal for a vote until a wording agreeable to all is reached.

When changing the wording, all other Vector's names that may be present should be removed from the VoteCalledFor tag.

Acceptance is signified by suffixing the assenting VirianVector names to the proposal e.g. VoteCalledFor VectorHermit

As soon as 4 VirianVectors signify assent, a vote may be posted to the Virian Voting Page.

If no changes to a page having a VoteCalledFor tag have been made within 3 days, a vote may be posted without further approval by removing the VoteCalledFor tag and changing it to a WorkInVoting tag.

A call for a Vote may be cancelled by replacing the VoteCalledFor tag by a WorkInProgress Tag.

The numbers and periods on this page may be altered as required by the Virian Council.

Voting Procedures

All Virians are expected to vote on all issues put to the vote.

Some types of votes may require a minimum reputation in order to participate.

Some types of votes may be informational (i.e. not require participation) and do not count towards "voting weight".

Some types of votes may be "compulsory" and failing to vote in "compulsory votes" will result in possible penalties.

All votes have an abstain button. A vote for abstention is classed as a vote for the purposes of this rule.

Votes to accept or reject a wiki page becoming an official document must be carried out under the conditions established in terms of the WikiVote rules.

New Suggestion: Alternate 1: Virians who do not vote in at least 60% of elections will be removed from the reputation system. The determination will be made from closed votes since the member became eligable to vote (i.e. from the date of first joining the rating system).

New Suggestion: Alternate 2: Virians shall receive an equity according to the current system, but their equity shall be adjusted by a "voting weight" based on whether they have voted in the last 4 elections closed (i.e. 25% of equity per vote cast, awarded as they vote, so their first vote earns them 25% of their available equity, etc). Where the member omits voting before a vote closes, their equity will be reduced by 25% for each vote missed.