Active Player Inclusion Act

[devintheroaster]

Active Player Inclusion Act

Category: Legislation

Author: Wileyshire

CoSponsor: Student Loan Debt

Chapter I: General Provision

1. This act may be referred to as the Active Player Inclusion Act, or the API Act.

2. This act will come into power on 1 April, 2020.

Chapter II: Active Player Inclusion Act

In the Congressional Rules and Procedures, Subsection 2.2.1.2

Once a proposal has been posted on the region’s forum, it will move to a viewing and discussion period of three (3) days

Shall be changed to

Once a proposal has been posted on the region’s forum, it will move to a viewing and discussion period of four (4) days

Chapter III: Reasoning

1. This act is to ensure all weekly or more frequent players will have the ability to get their hand on legislation in some shape or form. This is to keep active weekly players from having a chance to not get their say on legislation.

2. It was frequently brought up by some members of Congress that 7 days would be preferred to more or less days. With that information, we shall bring this legislation to a vote to potentially bring this into law. 

[devintheroaster]

Mar 25, 2020 2:18:26 GMT Atma Kathina Vela said:

This act is to ensure all weekly or more frequent players will have the ability to get their hand on legislation in some shape or form. This is to keep active weekly players from having a chance to not get their say on legislation.

Come now, this feels like nitpicking at this point. The last one that tried to do this just failed yesterday with like 29 or 30 votes in total over 3 days. More data points now show that there's no worry over turn out and things get out in a time frame people enjoy. This reasoning, though I understand it, is detached from reality.

I've said my piece regarding why I feel we need at least 7 days, and Dekks and Student both have agreed to that much. I'm not going to harp or yell about it anymore. Since there was a vocal hesitance by some for 8 days while wanting 7, I moved the legislation for 7 forward. If this fails, I'll be over with the matter for the time being, if this passes, then we have that happy median that we're looking for and we protect the voting rights of all active members.

[Alvero]

I really hope we're not going to just keep resubmitting variants of the law because what we want didn't get passed. Regardless, I'll reiterate the same points we just got done debating. Extending the scrutiny period has shown no evidence of impacting participation in any meaningful way, and it comes at the expense of extending our legislative process, which makes it less adaptive to change. Nearly everyone participates in the first few days, we had a 7 day scrutiny period for amendments, and still everyone basically participated in the first few days. It's the same argument as before, you have no good reason to extend it. It doesn't impact participation in any meaningful way.

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Although I personally feel that the scrutiny period should be 4 days and the voting period 2, since I believe voting periods should be shorter than scrutiny periods, I am inclined to agree with Alvero and Dakani, and am content with our current system.

[devintheroaster]

Alvero, I've already said that I'm putting this into play as one thing that was repetitively said on the last bill is that people wanted 7 but not 8 and I figured I'd allow those people to have their bill, plus it makes it so all weekly players can touch all legislation.

JucheGang, This will make the scrutiny period longer. It makes it 4 days scrutiny and 3 days voting. This will not lengthen the voting period.

[Dekks]

Originally I was in favour of what I being proposed now, but I am leaning against just to make sure that scrutiny periods and voting periods aren't gonna remain an issue and will be something that the region has decided on they're content with.

[devintheroaster]

Mar 25, 2020 18:32:48 GMT Dekks said:

Originally I was in favour of what I being proposed now, but I am leaning against just to make sure that scrutiny periods and voting periods aren't gonna remain an issue and will be something that the region has decided on they're content with.

I would recommend voicing and voting for what you believe. Being vocal is what makes people think things need to be done. 

As an example, what if you vote against and this was to fail by a single vote when in reality you were for it? It doesn't make sense to change your vote based on not wanting this to remain an issue.


As long as I'm around it'll be an issue that gets revisited on occasion, at least in discussion, because I do think that it's an issue. That's how democracy works, it's not a bad thing. 

[Alvero]

Mar 25, 2020 16:45:35 GMT devintheroaster said:

Alvero, I've already said that I'm putting this into play as one thing that was repetitively said on the last bill is that people wanted 7 but not 8 and I figured I'd allow those people to have their bill, plus it makes it so all weekly players can touch all legislation.

JucheGang, This will make the scrutiny period longer. It makes it 4 days scrutiny and 3 days voting. This will not lengthen the voting period.

I just don't want this thing dragged out any further. This will be the third time we've voted on the length of our voting and scrutiny periods. I just don't want to see a fourth, and a fifth, etc, each time this doesn't pass. So I hope this is the last time we vote on this. 

[devintheroaster]

Mar 25, 2020 19:17:29 GMT Alvero said:

Mar 25, 2020 16:45:35 GMT devintheroaster said:

Alvero, I've already said that I'm putting this into play as one thing that was repetitively said on the last bill is that people wanted 7 but not 8 and I figured I'd allow those people to have their bill, plus it makes it so all weekly players can touch all legislation.

JucheGang, This will make the scrutiny period longer. It makes it 4 days scrutiny and 3 days voting. This will not lengthen the voting period.

I just don't want this thing dragged out any further. This will be the third time we've voted on the length of our voting and scrutiny periods. I just don't want to see a fourth, and a fifth, etc, each time this doesn't pass. So I hope this is the last time we vote on this. 

I have no intention of bringing forward more legislation on this in the near future.

[jes5862]

I’m sorry. I’m inclined to agree with Dakani and others. The previous bio was up for debate for the original amount of time and it still passed. I really feel that this is already over and done with. This should be the final vote on it period.