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The Staff of The Office of Roleplay Administration.
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Charter of the Roleplaying Paradise
...The power on the Roleplaying Paradise server and region shall be split between all members of Roleplaying Paradise staff and shall not be concentrated towards one or only a few persons. The Roleplaying Paradise staff will consist of the following positions:
Server staff: Members of this role are tasked with managing the Discord server and issue warnings, kicks and bans accordingly. They will be considered and appointed as regional officers on the world factbook entry but will possess no actual authority on NationStates.
Roleplay staff: Members of this role are tasked with managing the RP posts in the RMB and give advice to users or suppress posts accordingly.
Diplomats: Members of this role are tasked with communicating with other regions and relay relevant information to the Roleplaying Paradise Staff.
Ambassadors: Ambassadors are a subset of diplomats tasked with communicating with a particular region.
Customs officers: Members of this role are tasked with recruiting users to and banning users from the Roleplaying Paradise region.
Secretaries: Members of this role are tasked with ensuring that other staff members are acting according to this Charter, to moderate discussions between staff, and to resolve conflicts between staff members.
Cartographers: Members of this role are tasked with managing information about nations in the Roleplaying Paradise, manage the map, and regulate IC land claims and territorial conflicts.
Each staff member can only officially assume at most two of the aforementioned roles at a time.
Staff members shall not perform any administrative tasks authorized to another role in an official capacity. (Anything that actually changes the state of the community is considered “official”)
For elaborations on each of these roles’ functions, see Clauses 2 to 8 below.
These are the functions and rights of the Server Staff:
Server Staff members are authorized to issue warnings, kicks and bans to users on the Discord server according to the rules. Any kick, ban, or modification of server rights to another staff member, however, is regarded as a change to the staff structure and subject to this charter.
Server Staff members are authorized to create new channels on the Discord server and elaborate on the functions of each channel. Deletion of channels and changing role settings on channels however are subject to agreement by the staff.
Server Staff members are authorized to modify roles on the Discord server with agreement by the staff. Any and all permission to modify staff member roles are to be given as temporary with agreement by the staff, and shall be revoked after the action that needs such rights has been executed.
Modification of server roles without actual rights or restrictions (“fun roles”) is not subject to agreement by the staff.
Server Staff members are authorized to assign roles to and remove roles from Discord users. Any and all fun roles given to Roleplaying Paradise members must be in agreement with the user given the role, and must not have rule-violating contents. This clause only applies to non-staff roles.
Server Staff members are authorized to remove content from the Discord server. Such removals shall be logged.
Server Staff members are authorized to issue slowmodes not lasting more than one day. Issuance of permanent slowmodes is subject to agreement by the staff.
Server Staff members are authorized to add and remove server emojis. Server emojis will not have rule-violating content.
These are the functions and rights of the Roleplay Staff:
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to suppress RP posts that they believe to constitute violations of RP rules.
Roleplay Staff may recommend an individual to be banned from roleplay to Customs Officers.
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to publish official roleplaying guidelines and provide official advice to RPers to improve their RP content.
Roleplay Staff members are tasked to moderate the content of unified RP documents such as the List of Inventions, United History and Nations’ Statistics Table.
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to request official IC information of any roleplaying nation.
Roleplay Staff members are tasked with ensuring that RPers’ lores do not conflict with each other and that the RP is historically plausible.
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to analyze RPers’ factbooks and report any problematic content to the staff or NationStates mods, as well as to provide advice for factbook modifications.
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to steer existing RP storylines to the direction they see fit in order to ensure all RP storylines are executed in accordance with RP rules.
Roleplay Staff members are authorized to change the contents of the region’s homepage according to the Roleplay Rules.
Staff members with personal expertise may also be tasked with moderating and approving military factbooks for international roleplaying (As of November 28, 2020, the person with this role is
Saintrilu (@Firelord Zuko#4234 on the Discord Server)).
Diplomats and ambassadors will have the following rights and duties:
Represent, in an official capacity, the Roleplaying Paradise in other regions.
Open and close embassies with agreement by the staff.
Only ambassadors to a particular region may open or close embassies there.
Other diplomats may open or close embassies with regions that do not yet have an ambassador assigned to them.
Relay information from other regions to Roleplaying Paradise staff.
Remain immune from external confidentiality regulations, except when personal information or system information (e.g. regional passwords) is at risk.
Diplomats are obligated to mention clause d before opening conversations with any foreign members. The other party can then choose to share information with the Diplomat or not.
Clauses a, c, and d do not apply to diplomats that are not the designated ambassador for a particular region, if the region has an ambassador assigned to it.
Revealing system information or personal information via diplomatic duties constitutes a violation of the Charter and will be subject to doxxing regulations.
Customs officers will have the following rights and duties:
Customs officers may ban nations from the Roleplaying Paradise region.
For security purposes, the incumbent World Assembly delegate will also serve as an active customs officer.
Staff members may not be banned under any circumstance without having been first demoted or dismissed from their positions.
Moderation action from NationStates moderators are out of the jurisdiction of customs officers.
Customs officers may modify the recruitment system and change the contents of the welcome telegram and the recruitment telegram, subjected to Roleplay Rules.
Customs officers may send personal recruitment telegrams to other nations and admit them to the Roleplaying Paradise region.
The Secretary (or secretaries) will have the following rights and duties:
Exclusive right to change the contents of the Server Rules, Charter, and the Roleplay Rules with agreement by a majority vote of the Roleplaying Paradise. The terms for a majority vote is detailed in Clause 14.
Prosecute staff members, and obligated to do so accordingly after having received legitimate reports from Roleplaying Paradise members.
Moderate staff elections as well as to facilitate conversations on staff structure changes (recruitment of a new staff member, dismissal of a staff member, or role conversion of a staff member). Every decision pertaining to these events is subject to agreement by the staff.
Act as a mediator and a representative of the staff on any internal discussion between staff members or roleplayers.
Cartographers will have the following rights and duties:
Change the contents of the Map according to the Roleplay Rules and Map Rules.
Obligated to update the Map and publish the new version of the Map after every change.
Aid Roleplay Staff in moderating IC land claims and territorial disputes.
Change the contents of the Map Rules with agreement by the staff.
Modify the contents of the Nations’ Statistics Table.
Request official IC information of any roleplaying nation.
Change the region’s flags and to moderate the contents of each nation’s flags.
These are the rights and restrictions of the Founder according to agreement by the staff:
The Founder shall be a permanent member of the staff, but shall assume at most two staff roles at a time like any other staff member.
The Founder has the exclusive right to change permissions on staff accounts according to their roles, including shared staff accounts, with agreement by the staff.
The Founder also has the exclusive right to modify, set or remove the Roleplaying Paradise region’s password with agreement by the staff.
Aside from the rights detailed in clauses b and c, and the functions of the staff role(s) the Founder is assuming at any certain moment, the Founder shall not have any exclusive powers over other staff members or Roleplaying Paradise members. Exercise of any default Founder rights given by NationStates / Discord without first going through the community is regarded as a violation of this charter on the Founder’s part.
The Founder may establish a temporary regional password, lasting up to 24 hours, as needed without additional agreement. However, this decision must be publicized.
Anything marked as “subject to agreement by the staff” in this document must be approved by at least two-thirds (rounded up) of the staff before execution.
Every staff member can act as a representative of the staff and make official announcements to the public about the staff’s decision. Making false announcements is a violation of this charter on the staff member’s part.
The following roles must be elected by the Roleplaying Paradise members:
Customs officers
Secretaries
Diplomats
All other roles may be internally recruited by existing staff members, but elections may also be called for these roles depending on circumstances.
Elections for these roles will be called every six months or whenever a new staff member is desired, with start and end times recorded, according to Clause 15.
Here are the terms of use for the shared staff account (The Office of Roleplay Administration, or TORA for short):
TORA access will be given to all staff members.
The password to TORA will be changed and redistributed to persons with access after any staff member is dismissed.
Non-staff-members cannot have access to TORA. If access is given to a non-staff member, the password will be changed and the person who gave the non-staff member access will be prosecuted.
Any staff member may roleplay with TORA as desired.
TORA factbooks are to be treated as those of a regular roleplaying nation and must not contain regional information (e.g. passwords, logs or other nations’ statistics).
Changing the name or password of TORA without a change of accessors or known potential security breach is a violation of this charter. All name and password changes must be announced to every staff member.
All unified roleplaying documents should be published and edited under TORA.
Every change to the staff structure (whether addition of a staff member, dismissal of a staff member, or the switching of roles of a staff member) must be publicized and is subject to agreement by the staff.
Here are the terms of a public vote or majority vote:
A majority vote will last one week, with the start and end dates recorded.
Every member of the Roleplaying Paradise, including staff, can vote exactly once. No one outside of the Roleplaying Paradise will be able to vote.
Results of the vote including vote counts will be publicized.
For a public vote to be successful, the voters’ turnout must be at least 10 members, or 20% of the Roleplaying Paradise population at the time of vote start (rounded up), whichever is larger.
If the vote does not have sufficient turnout by the time of vote end, the decision will be automatically rejected unless at least 7 members or two-fifteenths of the Roleplaying Paradise population at the time of vote start (rounded up), whichever is larger, have voted for the decision. In which case it will be passed.
If the vote has adequate turnout, the decision will be passed if at least two-thirds (rounded up) of the votes are for the decision. In which case the following contents edit will be publicized.
Here are the terms of an election:
Clause 14 will apply, with differences detailed in Clauses b and c.
A candidate is considered successfully elected if they received the most votes (“Abstain” is counted as a ghost candidate for this purpose), given adequate turnout. Self-votes will be discarded.
If the election does not have adequate turnout or if no candidates are successfully elected, the election will be dismissed and the current holder of the elected position will be kept. If the current holder of the elected position does not wish to keep their position or if there is no current holder of the elected position, a new staff member for the elected position will be manually recruited by staff.
If there is only one person running unopposed for the elected position, the candidate will be subject to a staff interview after a successful public vote.
For a staff interview, there must be at least 3 staff members, one of which must be the current holder of the position, if present. Other staff members can choose to join the interviewing committee as pleased. Each of these staff members will interview the candidate individually and decide their suitability for the elected position. The candidate must pass every such interview to pass.
For a staff interview, there must also be a non-staff Roleplaying Paradise member inside the interviewing committee. This interviewer will be randomly selected from a pool of known-active roleplayers and asked to conduct the interview, where they can accept or refuse. If the selected member refuses, another member will be randomly selected until one accepts. Any Roleplaying Paradise member can ask staff to be added into this pool. The running candidate must also pass this interview.
Staff interview questions and answers can be publicized as requested.
If the running candidate does not pass the staff interview, the exception in Clause c will be executed.
Any Roleplaying Paradise member can run in staff elections, provided Clause 1h is upheld should they are successfully elected.
All elections should be announced at least one week before the election starts. No candidates will be received after the election starts.
The current holder of the elected position will keep their position during the election season (from election announcement to election end). If there is no current holder present during this period, a current staff member will be appointed as an interim with agreement by the staff.
