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The discussions policy involves ESB's proposal system for making changes to the wiki. This is very important to the wiki's decision-making process and is a great way to get the community involved.
Discussions policy
All additions or changes to rules, policies, guidelines, and granting of additional user rights must be discussed and voted upon with an official discussion.
Discussions outside of the designated discussion areas such as message walls and forum threads are not valid places to make major decisions and/or policy changes. They can be used to bring up important issues that can be put up for official discussion, as long as they follow the rules.
Discussions regarding changes to guidelines must be done so in the form of a proposal (at ESB:Proposals) and must follow the procedures outlined in Section B of this article. Any other official discussion not related to changes to policies, guidelines, and granting of additional user rights may be conducted in the same manner.
Format for official proposals
All official proposals are to be conducted at ESB:Proposals. Anyone can start a proposal at stage one, but only assistants, administrators, and the user that started the proposal are permitted to open the voting stage.
All proposals will be conducted in two stages: 1) concerns stage and 2) voting stage.
1. Any user may present a valid proposal for the community to discuss. Proposals must remain open for a minimum of seven (7) days and may be open for a maximum of fourteen (14) days. However, the proposal may be moved to the voting stage early if four (4) days have passed and no valid concerns have been made. Concerns may be marked as resolved by an assistant, an administrator, the author of the concern, or the author of the proposal and may be remarked as unresolved by an administrator or assistant. All concerns must ask a question or bring up an issue to discuss. Concerns that do not do so are considered invalid and may be marked as resolved immediately.
2. Any administrator, assistant, or the author of the proposal are to consider everything that was concluded in the concerns stage and create a new updated proposal together, concluding the concerns stage and starting the voting stage. After seven (7) days of voting, the voting stage will be closed.
Exceptions
If further discussion is required, or is a series of discussions, the proposal may be open for a longer period of time and close a different way. The author of a proposal may withdraw their proposal at their sole discretion.
If a proposal is redundant with a recent proposal or if a proposal is created that is considered unnecessary but is not withdrawn, it may be closed by a majority vote of the active bureaucrats, who can decide the outcome.
Closing proposals
At the end of the voting stage, in order for the proposal to pass, a 70% majority in support of the particular proposal is required, not counting neutrals. Otherwise, the proposal fails to pass.
If a proposal closes and an agreement is not reached, another proposal may be created for further discussion. Any bureaucrat or administrator can close the voting stage.
When a proposal passes, the decision is final. Unless otherwise stated, the policy change takes effect immediately.
Voting
All users of ESB are entitled to vote on all matters as long as one (1) week has passed since their first edit. Any user that is blocked will have their vote void if they are still blocked at the point in which the discussion is closed.
Any user removing votes from their own promotion request will have their entire request or nomination invalidated. The user is then prohibited from making such a request for any position for three (3) months and ineligible for such a nomination for two (2) months.
A user cannot vote on their own promotion request, user rights review, or user of the month nomination. They are, however, allowed to comment, ask, and answer questions.