Zedling Council Meeting 2017-10-21

Host: ABParadigm
Scribe: Sexy Spooky Souly Sandy (Memery)

Attendance

Council Members Present

• Zedwick
• LadyBountiful
• ABParadigm
• Spectatre
• Memery
• Sneakyskeleton
• HOMINIX
• Aravero
• _Swayed_
• Entity008
• AmirTheTurtle (sort of?)

Apologies

• Dax23333
• ACERPROSPY
• Forseth
• FunkyTechnician

No apologies

• drbwen
• EmpressBethany
• Haztec
• Quicunque

Guests

No one came along :(

Topics

I - Nomination Regulations

The first few minutes of the meeting were disrupted due to everyone making fun of my height, bullying is not ok folks......

Anyway, our lovely host ABParadigm opened up the meeting by talking about regulation changes. It seems we spend the majority of every meeting changing these things in the hopes that one day we might actually remember to use them if they are ever needed.
First up to the chopping block was regulation 5. The proposed changes (after a lot of word wrestling between each other to make it sound as official and super interesting as possible) were as follows:
"Potential nominees must be nominated by at least 2 council members. They must also hold the highest votes, with a minimum of three, to win the candidacy." Oh, my aren't we fancy, I swear we get more bureaucratic by the day... With this regulation change taking a relatively short amount of time, people were confident moving forward...

Bullying then briefly started up again while our host referred to me as a cow, a short cow no less...

We next set our sights on attacking regulation 17, stupid prime numbers, always causing trouble. This regulation was only changed slightly, to now include the nomination of potential council members to be done by private message.
The regulation now reads: "All nominations and votes to elect a new council member are to be done via private message to the host of the meeting, this aims to prevent peer pressure and create an honest vote". A little change, but sensible. Now people will be under less pressure and there should hopefully be less of an awkward silence!

Finally (It turned out to be not finally but I didn't know that when I was writing these notes), regulation 20 stepped up to be dismantled. A sharp intake of breath silenced the room. A faint sound could be heard of HOMINIX peeing his alien trousers. Our glorious host calmed us all down and began.

Regulation 20 refers to tie-break situations. Thanks to much discussion on the forums, most of the debating had already been worked out. The old regulation stated that tiebreaks should be resolved by electing the person with the most hours played. Many felt this was an unfair way to break ties. Those same people then suggested different ideas ( including myself, who came up with the best solution as you'll see later) which were as follows:

1. Hours Played, coin flip, or some other similarly arbitrary metric
2. If one person got more nominations at the first stage (them being private, this is a possibility)
3. Host declaring a winner based on which candidate gained more votes from guardian/zriend, etc.
4. One person having a (private) 'tiebreak' vote, such as a Guardian, or the Host
5. Zesty game
6. Number of attendances in previous 5 meetings (This is my suggestion)
7. None of the above
   

ABP spoke for a little while longer, making the chat a huge blur of red that I really couldn't be bothered to read. Eventually, someone poked me awake and informed us of the council's decision. Ok, so, when I wrote that sentence I thought the matter would be resolved quickly. It wasn't. And took a further 10 minutes to discuss...
We finally agreed on: "When electing a new member, should voting result in a tie, the player with the highest meeting attendance for the last four meetings wins. If these are the same then the host must find an additional way to resolve the tie." We decided the host was sensible enough to break a tie-tiebreak however they saw fit, I'm sure it'll all be fine!

As ABP's beard began to go white with age, we moved on to regulation 29... Stupid prime numbers... Taking over the world... Well, the council at least... This is a brand spanking new reg, so make sure you commit it to Memery, haha good joke, but seriously you should know all the regs off by heart:
"When a host has received at least two nominations for a player to join the council, they must gain that player's permission via private message, prior to naming them at the voting stage. If the player declines or is not present at the time of the meeting to give permission, their nomination is not to be included on the ballot." I know it's a bit long, but you have until next meeting to fully memorise it. Anyone who fails to do so will be severely looked at. You have been warned.

We then actually voted on passing all these changes, which for some reason passed with flying colours! It's almost like we spent over an hour talking about them.

II - Nether Tunnel Sign-age - SneakySkeleton

At long last, ABP passed the batton over to the SneakySkeleton. He was a skeleton when he arrived, honest, stop asking awkward questions. Sneaky wanted to convert a guideline into a rule. One that refers to nether tunnel signage. Due to the construction of a new warp tunnel and hub, a few tunnels had to be diverted along the way. Also sneaky has noticed a vast increase of misc unlabelled tunnels. Spec then asked, "What is a tunnel?" Proof that there are no stupid questions! She then asked, "What happens if they break the rules?" Which was a not stupid question, good job... not that the first question was stupid, I didn't imply that you implied that. Lots and lots of talking, etc etc, you know the drill, I decided to look something up for next topic. hmm, interesting...

Oh look they're done, looks like the decision to make the guideline a rule. AND raise awareness about tunnel labelling. So let me raise some awareness, LABEL YOU TUNNELS PLEASE THANK YOU PLEASE.

III - Zedwork resource Pack - Entity008

Next up, Entity wanted to let us know about his super cool mod pack. If you want to download it and give it a go, then you should do that! I know Spec likes to tantalise you with super fun links so here you go!

IV - We're here, we're scribes, PLEASE NOTICE US - Sexy Spooky Souly Sandy (Memery)

I then had a topic! it was called "Scribes go pretty much unnoticed lol, notice us" I spoke briefly about how the word "scribe" wasn't even mentioned on the wiki and how spec and myself plan to change this with an official write up of the role of the scribe in council meetings. The council agreed to let us get on with it in peace.

I then asked if anyone actually knew who updated strikes on the Wiki page. Literally, no one answered. To be fair it could be assumed that everyone was dead at this point, but I took the silence as a clear sign that people just believe in Wikifaries. I let everyone know that I was, in fact, the Wikifairy. It is me who updates the strikes. I then promised to write up something about my own job and what I do and how I do it. In case I die or leave the server forever... #Shedwork.co.uk

V - Halloween event, Build Off and UHC - Zedwick and _Swayed_

I decided to combine these two topics as they both refer to events:

_Swayed_ let us all know that his Halloween event is next Sunday 29th at 9:30 pm, make sure you're all their because its going to be super fun and super spooky! Hurray!

Zedwick then let us all know that the next the build off was also next Sunday the 29th! Running from 4pm GMT (not bst, you have to take away 1 hour, sorry for the confusion, this would be 5pm bst fyi) and run until 9 pm.

The next UHC will take place on the 12th of November, but there will be more updates closer to the time

VI - Council Nomination

Even with all these fancy new regulations to test out, no one online was a non-council member, so no election took place :(

VII - Next meeting

Next meeting will be hosted by the delightful, Spectatre! Unfortunately this means I will have to scribe again, which is good for you lot but not so great for me...