The following are all Board Votes dealing with altering, adding or enforcing Administrative Policies of The Garou Nation.
2005
Sept. 23, 2005Admin Policy Change - Disciplinary Policy |
Pass: 3Fail: 2 |
List policy: The TGN lists will have the following policy in regards to harassing, offensive, or vulgar behavior (as defined by the list moderator).<br>The first occurrence of such behavior will be given a public warning on the list on which it occurred, this is given as a “benefit of the doubt” warning to have the behavior corrected voluntarily by the offender. The second occurrence of such behavior will be also be given a public warning on the list on which it occurred, to be followed by the offender being put on moderated posting for a period of one month. This means that the list moderator will read all posts by the offender before they are posted publicly. If the behavior continues, the list moderator has full rights to refuse the public posting of the posts as well as move onto a third level occurrence. If, after the moderation period expires, the behavior continues, the offender will be removed from the list on which the offences occurred for a period of three months, or longer as determined by the list moderator. Organizational level Discipline If someone is accused of violating one of the posted bylaws or subsections of the organization, the EXO will appoint one member of the executive staff to act as an impartial investigator to the alleged offense; this person should not be a member of the chronicle in which the alleged offense occurred. The accused will be given the same opportunity to appoint one member of the executive staff to act as an impartial investigator to the accusation; this person should not be a member of the chronicle in which the alleged offense occurred. There will be a period of one month for both investigators to determine the validity of the accusations. If the accusations are proven to be true, the Board will discuss and vote upon the appropriate punishment. If the accusations are against a Chronicle, the punishment could be as little as losing their Board voting privileges for a period of three to six months, to being placed pack on Probation, to being removed from the organization. If the accusations are against an individual, they can be unable to hold any Executive level office, be restricted from traveling to specific chronicles, having their character removed from play, or be suspended from all game play in the org, up to and including a complete ban from the organization. |
2006
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2008
Jan. 29, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting Procedures |
TIE BROKE: EXO voted FailPass: 2 |
All non-election discussions and proposals ending in a Board vote must be initiated by a voting Board Member Storyteller. It is encouraged that proposals, when appropriate, are first posted in Working Rough Draft form for discussion on the ST List prior to submission to the Board List.
At minimum, the Board must adhere to the following procedure:
All votes done by the board need a 51 % majority of total chronicles in the org to pass, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two-thirds majority of total chronicles in the org to pass. In the event of a tie, the EXO makes the final decision from the tied options. |
Feb. 4, 2008Admin Policy Change: Rite of Renunciation Write-Up |
Pass: 5Fail: 2 |
Garou seldom feel the need for this rite, but it's very important on the occasions when it matters at all. With this rite, a Garou gives up her auspice and joins another. It must be performed during the phase of the moon she wants to adopt. The usual form of this rite calls for pouring water from a silver basin exposed to moonlight over the supplicant, symbolically washing away the old life. The Rite of Renunciation allows the Garou to give up her current auspice and station to claim another. She must adopt a new name, and give up all but three permanent Renown Traits, thereby starting over at Rank 1; Any and all traits and tempers that are above Rank 1 trait maximums are removed from the character's sheet, with experience point refunds at the Storytellers' discretion. She doesn't lose the Gifts she knows, but cannot learn any more from the list for the old auspice; At the end of the Rite of Renunciation she may ask a spirit to teach her the first Gift suitable to her new Auspice.
Renunciation is sometimes assigned as punishment for crimes that don't quite warrant death. It's also sometimes a way of coping with grief, when a Garou wishes to continue living but can't deal with a series of horrible losses and feels a new identity would help isolate the old pain. Sometimes an internal sense of failure motivates the flight to a new identity. Sometimes the Garou simply realizes that what she does best isn't what her auspice does best. As far as the Garou Nation is concerned, She has been given a second chance. Other garou, with the exception of pack mates (although they must still use her new name), should treat her as a new person, having met her for the first time. While it is acceptable for the Garou to acknowledge who she was, it is not acceptable to claim the deeds from the previous life, including those concerning human society. This ritual is intended to be a way to rise above past failures, and should not be undertaken lightly. It is not a "get out of jail free" card, and to use it as such is scandalous and opens the Garou to being punished as such, and sometimes earns punishment for the original crime. TGN characters who have undergone this ritual should have it noted, along with the previous identity's name and auspice, in the "Notes" section of their character sheet. Also, TGN does not use the following statement from the table top core rulebook on page 185: "Only when a Garou again attains her previous rank may she reestablish old friendships." |
Oct. 14, 2008Admin Policy Change - Tribal Moderators |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
Tribal Moderators (TM) are elected positions that oversee their assigned Tribe and its overall genre. There is one for each of the 12 Tribes, and a Rare TM who oversees Fera, Stargazers and everything else. TM's are responsible for keeping the history of their Tribe, representing Tribal NPC's on listserves and in person at chronicles' requests, managing Unique characters belonging to their Tribe, moderating their Tribe's listserve, maintaining the "feel" of their Tribe both on listserves and through helping Storytellers, running appropriate tribal rites and traditions, and reporting their Tribe's status to the Board on a regular basis. They are also responsible for maintaining their Tribe’s camps, and PC’s admission into them. TM’s may also run limited plots within their tribe, and run scenes for players or ST’s who have requested their help. The TM is the final word on that tribe’s overall genre (not to be confused with local feel, which remains the chronicle’s ST’s responsibility). TM’s have authority over ST’s to address when they feel a chronicle is straying too far from his Tribe’s established genre, and will work with those ST’s to reconcile the issue. TM’s will have a small collection of NPC's at their disposal for representing their Tribe on lists, which may be loaned to chronicles for temporary use. The majority of these NPC's should remain consistent from year to year. Tribal Moderators may not play a PC that belongs to the grouping they oversee in any chronicle |
Oct. 14, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting |
Pass: 7Fail: 0 |
Voting - At minimum, the Board must adhere to the following procedure: 1. A voting, Appointed Storyteller from a chronicle must post to the Board List the proposal, written as clearly and succinctly as they are able. The subject line must read, "Proposal: (Name of Proposal)." The body of the post should include a short explanation of the proposal's intent, followed by the proposal itself. 2. The proposal must then be "Seconded" for it to be considered. This may be done by a different chronicle's voting Appointed Storyteller, or by the EXO, unless the EXO is on the proposing chronicle’s ST staff. 3. The proposal will be open for discussion on the Board List for one week's time. 4. At the end of that week, the proposing chronicle has the option to make changes to the proposal based on feedback received. They may do so, and repost a final draft of the proposal within one week, which would procede directly to voting with no further required discussion period. If no feedback is given, or if alterations are not made, it then procedes to the polls for voting. 5. The EXO will create a single poll for each proposal, sighting the original proposal's message number on the Board List if space does not allow for the entire proposal text to be posted in the poll. The EXO will create four choices: "Pass," "Fail," "Abstain," and "Player Rep." The "Player Rep" choice is to allow Player Reps on the Board list to view how their STs are voting. If the original proposal contained appropriate, alternate choices, those options be used instead of “Pass” and “Fail.” 6. The voting poll will be open for one week, after which time the EXO will close the vote, and announce the final decision. All votes done by the board need a 51 % majority of total chronicles in the org to pass, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two- thirds majority of total chronicles in the org to pass. |
Dec. 15, 2008Admin Policy Change - Voting Policy |
Pass: 10Fail: 0 |
Voting Policy (Final paragraph change): Results of all votes done by the board will be determined by the option receiving the greatest number of votes, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two-thirds majority of total chronicles who have voting privileges in the org to pass. In the event of a tie, the EXO makes the final decision from the tied options. |
2009
Jan. 22, 2009New Website Adoption |
Pass: 9Fail: 0 |
Change Does TGN wish to use the newly created site http://thegarounation.wikidot.com |
Sept. 3, 2009Admin Policy Change - Strike Policy |
Pass: 8Fail: 1 |
1st Strike: All disciplinary strikes require one week discussion followed by a majority vote of the TGN Board. Each alleged infraction being cited will recieve its own, individual vote. If any infraction point passes, the final strike issued will list all infractions wich passed their vote as the reasons for the single strike. If zero infractions pass, no strike is incurred. The 1st Strike issued to a chronicle gives the offending chronicle 6 games to correct the infraction to the acceptance of the Board. If the matter is resolved in that time, the chronicle simply maintains this strike for a duration of 6 months, beginning that chronicle's first game following the issue's resolution. The strike is automatically removed after the 6 months if there are no other problems with the chronicle during that period. If the offense is not resolved in 6 games, or another issue arises during the 6 month period, the EXO or another member of the Board may propose a second strike. |
Sept. 22, 2009Admin Policy Change - National Plot/Board List |
Pass: 6Fail: 3 |
National Plot/Board List: "National Plot must be proposed onto the Board List, where it must then seconded, discussed, and voted upon as normal." "The Board listserve consists of the Executive Officer and one appointed Storyteller and one Player Representative from each chronicle. The Board list is for discussing administrative issues, votes, rules changes and additions, and inter-chronicle coordination and communication. It is not for discussions of plot, with the exception of National Plot being proposed for vote." |
Dec. 21, 2009Admin Policy Enforcement - Eternal Storm Resolution |
Pass: 6Fail: 2 |
This proposal is the determined resolution regarding the question of the NPC of Dark Eclipse known as Eternal Storm. It has been brought forth by the storytellers of TGN that this NPC may be in violation of any of a number of bylaws of our Org any one of which would make this character ineligible for play within TGN. The specific bylaws being addressed with this proposal are: Bylaw 8: Revenge and Singularity - In that the character was in play in multiple differing organizations which violates this bylaw. Bylaw 7: Resurrection - In that the character was dead and brought back to life without resurrection vote or is currently dead and needs resurrection vote in order to return to play. This vote is settle this matter by a majority vote of the Storytellers of TGN in order to bring resolution to the issue. |
2010
May 22, 2010TM Primer Packet |
Pass: 7Fail: 1 |
TM Primer Packet: Should it be adopted as TM tool? |
Nov. 1, 2010Admin Policy Change - Voting Policy Revision |
Pass: 8Fail: 4 |
Amendment to the Voting Policies Proposed by RVR, seconded by Fate This would add the following paragraph: Results of all votes done by the board will be determined by the option receiving the greatest number of votes, except changes to the Core 10 Bylaws and Legend Rank approvals, which need a two-thirds majority of total chronicles who have voting privileges in the org to pass. In the event of a tie, the EXO makes the final decision from the tied options. If a chronicle fails to vote in three or more votes during a single year, the EXO may propose that chronicle receive Disciplinary Strikes, up to and including removal from the organization. |
