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CW: Too boring for words.
I am drafting a "rules of association". It is partly an exercise, and partly an guess at of something that may become real.
Starting with the standard rules for an "unincorporated association": (https://www.acnc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021-07/download_template_rules_for_unincorporated_associations_with_notes_pdf_639kb_.pdf)
But I am tired of organisations infiltrated by arseholes, and I wonder if it is possible to put standards of behaviour front and centre.
I am inspired by Mastodon's "No Nazis", but I am not sure it is either specific, nor general enough.Please help. Does your group have something-like this? What have I missed, and, in the interests of sanity, what has been double-defined?
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17. Membership hurdles.
17.1 The association insists on the following psychological characteristics and standards of behaviour from all members.
17.2 No member will be accepted, and existing members will be expelled if they fail any of these hurdles.
17.3 The psychological characteristics. Members must not be:
i. psychopaths,
ii. sociopaths,
iii. narcissists,
iv. liars,
v. egomaniacs.
17.4 The standards of behaviour. Members must never indulge in :
i. crime,
ii. racism,
iii. misogyny,
iv. criticism of person,
v. aggression, threats, shaming,
vi. coercive control,
vii.prejudice, bigotry.
17.5 The association explicitly rejects the notion that a person’s ability can replace or diminish their need to clear these hurdles. The most able and talented member will be expelled if they fail.#rules #DarkTriad #constitution #legalese #IANAL #arseholes #governance
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Thinking more about #Nintendo's #PalWorld #lawsuit, which claims that many of the mechanics, such as the #PalBall, are too similar to #Pokemon's mechanics, like the #PokeBall.
Wondering if it would be a good idea for #PocketPair to take a cue from #BugSnax, and replace the "ball" with a cyllindrical "trap". Perhaps they can take inspiration from #GhostBusters, and have some sort of energy based trap which opens at the top and sucks the magic monsters in. They should definitely be leaning hard into the #MonsterCollecting genre's roots of #Yokai, #Spirit entities, and #mythological #cryptids.
They might be able to avoid some damages if they lose this or have to settle in a few years by just changing up a few aesthetics, and I think the game itself would benefit from this: I personally think the Pal Ball looks odd and out of place as a mechanic, like it's just there to copy Pokemon.
Then again, changing things might be an admission of guilt? I'm not a lawyer.
