[Amendment] Re-Classifying Asterix Loincloth

[Augustus Lucifer]

Proposer: Augustus Lucifer
Supporters: Pøntifex, Jom, Viking Prince
Additional Supporters: Mr MM, Major Darling, ulti, LoZz, Nazgûl Killer, Leonidas The Lion

Section V - Additional Provisions

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Article II. Community Awards

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Large Awards

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Asterix Loincloth

To qualify for an Asterix Loincloth award, the nominee must have demonstrated purity of mind and spirit on TWC, in the pursuit of sense of humour and good times for all members. A member of any Rank is eligible to receive an Asterix Loincloth award, but must also meet the criteria to become a Citizen. His nomination must also be seconded by an elected member of the Consilium de Civitate.

Qualifying nominees shall have their nomination posted in the Prothalamos and will be moved to vote as per the procedure in Section 2 Article 3. Once moved to they shall be voted upon for a period of one week and require a two-third majority of non-abstaining votes to achieve the award. If the nominee was not already a Citizen, this Rank shall also be conferred upon them if they pass. A nominee who fails to pass his vote is not eligible to re-nominated until three months have passed.

Medium Awards

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Asterix Loincloth

To qualify for an Asterix Loincloth award, the nominee must have demonstrated purity of mind and spirit on TWC, in the pursuit of sense of humour and good times for all members. A member of any Rank is eligible to receive an Asterix Loincloth award, but must also meet the criteria to become a Citizen. His nomination must also be seconded by an elected member of the Consilium de Civitate.

Qualifying nominees shall have their nomination posted in the Prothalamos and will be moved to vote as per the procedure in Section 2 Article 3. Once moved to they shall be voted upon for a period of one week and require a two-third majority of non-abstaining votes to achieve the award. If the nominee was not already a Citizen, this Rank shall also be conferred upon them if they pass. A nominee who fails to pass his vote is not eligible to re-nominated until three months have passed.

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Rationale

This change moves the Loincloth to the Large Awards section. The only substantial change this would make is re-sizing the postbit image to accord with the dimensions for large awards, large awards don't inherently have username colors so that wouldn't be granted by this change unless Hex decides to do so of their own volition. It would be listed below the current four. The reason for this is the procedure undergone to obtain the Loincloth directly mirrors the procedure for all Large Awards, including Curial Vote and granting Citizenship, so it should more properly be considered one. Alternatively the procedure could be changed somehow, but it's hard to think of any other way to award something with its criteria, and the members who've received it to date have had to go through the vote procedure, so re-classifying is the preferred method.

[Pontifex Maximus]

support

[Jom]

Oppose due to "moar".

[Augustus Lucifer]

Oppose due to "moar".

Well I oppose your opposition...



@VP: Indeed, I was going to do so if it seemed like there was opposition, but I guess it will save hassle if they're separate from the get-go. I've done as suggested, this proposal is now purely for the Loincloth change and the other can be found here.

[Viking Prince]

The loin cloth is a pretty slam dunk. The VotM competition may have some controversity on the details. Why not divide these into two proposals? The worst thing that can happen is that you propose two successful proposals.

[Jom]

Now that AL has rolled over () I support.

[Viking Prince]

This I can clearly support without waiting to "flesh" out any details.

[karamazovmm]

hardly see the need of it, but support

consistency sometimes is good.

[M D]

Support

[ulti]

Supporticles

[LoZz]

support

[Nazgûl Killer]

Me has supported. I don't understand why we have distinction between awards anyways (Large, medium, small? I mean, come on, we have penis envy already, do we need award envy as well?)

[karamazovmm]

only envy 15

[Leonidas The Lion]

support.

[Gaius Baltar]

The basis for this award is totally subjective. It is not a widely distributed award, having gone only to a select few whose real qualifications are more likely related to social group membership than anything else.

So Oppose.

More deserving awards, like the POTW, MARRC and the VOTM should be designated as medium or large, as qualifications for these awards entail actual talent and effort.

[Hotspur]

The only thing worse than being witty, Rush, is not being witty.

[Augustus Lucifer]

Me has supported. I don't understand why we have distinction between awards anyways (Large, medium, small? I mean, come on, we have penis envy already, do we need award envy as well?)

I'm not entirely sure why the distinction originally developed. It was a bit haphazardly arranged with respect to a few awards until my Medal Section Cleanup bill six months ago. That bill defined the three types along lines of the way they're received and how big they are in the postbit. So the only real difference in terms of how they appear is precedence of visual real estate.

[karamazovmm]

^^laughs like a little girl from the horrible witty joke

[Empress Meg]

Alrighty, moving to the vote.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=370052

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