Date: 27 October 2025
Type of Fiat: Red Tape/Rules Amendment
Context: Currently, the site charter does not define the ability for a team captain to adjust the membership of their team independently, nor is the rank of vice captain codified anywhere. Given these are standard functions of staff teams, amending the charter to match is required.
Description: The fiat would apply to the IV. Staff Rights and Rules section of the charter, under A. Staff Teams, adding an additional bullet point. This rule amendment would read:
2. Team structure and membership is determined by the team captain; this includes the authority to add or remove team members from said staff team. A captain additionally has the authority to create, appoint and remove vice captain(s) within their staff teams, and may define their responsibilities and purviews accordingly. In the event a team captain is unavailable, a vice captain will serve as the acting captain; due to this, all vice captain appointees must be operational staff or higher.
Reasoning: Teams and team captains have operated with this as the implicit policy for years - this amendment addresses an oversight in policy, where the only mention of team structure is under the staff structure FAQ, which states:
The responsibility for a team’s goals lies with the team captain(s). However, many team captains still create a formal ranking structure within their team.
Therefore, we need to adjust our charter to formally empower team captains to make these changes.
Supporters:
- Queerious
- Ariadnesthread
- Uncle Nicolini
- Bluesoul
- DrBleep
- Dexanote
- Zyn
- aismallard
- Kufat
Dissenters:
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