Constitution

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Prologue

The Universal Gaming Alliance, Unigamia, or |UGA|, aims to unify organizations across different games, mods, and genres, or rather, "gaming universes". In doing this, the Universal Gaming Alliance hopes to bring about a unification of diverse peoples without prejudice. This Constitution will go into full effect as per the Ratification Clause. The |UGA| Constitution will instill its Core Values into its members for the enhancement of not only the organization, but its members as well.

Mission Statement

Introduction

The Universal Gaming Alliance identifies first and foremost as one thing: a family. The |UGA| consists of a group of friends whom have grown so close to each other that they have stayed together through thick and thin. If anyone can come out of the |UGA| with one thing, it is this: once a member, always a member. If the individual is willing they will be fully welcome back into the |UGA| at any time, unless that individual was Banished. The |UGA|'s overarching goal is to make every individual the best version of him or herself.

Life

The Universal Gaming Alliance respects all forms of life and the necessities that life has thereof. The |UGA| aims to make every member the best version of themselves by instilling in them the Core Vales of the |UGA|: Respect, Loyalty, Selflessness, Discipline, Patience, Honesty, and Dignity. Out of its respect, the |UGA| does not discriminate (i.e. an irrational stance void of objective reasoning) against any culture, ideology, race, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, or sexuality. The |UGA| cannot teach even a fraction of the life lessons a member receives from education and the discipline it has with it. Because of this, the |UGA| values education over anything |UGA| related, and will inspire members to prioritize their schoolwork over everything else.

Authority

An organization can follow three different types of authority: traditional, charismatic, and legal-rational authority. In the beginning, it has a need for a traditional authority, traditional meaning a semi-dictatorship under one leader. If this authority no longer suits the organization and all its needs, a charismatic authority forms to temporarily replace the traditional authority, which will soon revert to a traditional authority of one or many, or a legal-rational authority. This Constitution resolves the need for authority in building an authority that transcends even the highest members of the organization, a legal-rational authority.

Core Values

  1. Respect
    The |UGA| holds Respect in highest regard, as without Respect, there can be no friendships and no community.
  2. Loyalty
    The |UGA| asks of Loyalty not to its creators, but to the organization itself.
  3. Empathy
    The |UGA| expects that members care for other members as much as they care for themselves.
  4. Discipline
    The |UGA| aims to instill Discipline in every member of the |UGA|. Such Discipline will allow members to prioritize themselves, their time, and their lives.
  5. Patience
    The |UGA| endevors to install Patience in every member of the |UGA|, as that which we most want requires us to wait for it.
  6. Honesty
    The |UGA| considers Honesty an extremely important quality for all members to have for the quick and easy resolution or arguments and the building of a better community.
  7. Dignity
    The |UGA| wants every member to remained Dignified in times of triumph. This means that no member should gloat unnecessarily and show themselves as a proud member of the |UGA|.

Laws

Core

  1. No member shall reveal or use personal information, whether his/her own or another member's.
    Personal information includes but is not limited to: real names, photos, familial information, addresses, birthdates, phone numbers, etc. Offense Level: Major
  2. Members may change their Steam and TeamSpeak name to whatever they want, but they must have a standardized name that goes according to the following rules.
    All offenses are venial other than the last which is minor. Offense Level: Major
    1. Name must be permanent.
    2. Name may not use special characters or punctuation.
    3. Name may not be more than 27 characters long.
    4. Name must have proper capitalization, i.e. PatPeter, not pAtpeTer.
    5. Name cannot have numbers or symbols in place of letters.
    6. Name cannot have ranks, for instance military or social ranks.
    7. Name cannot have a discriminatory, prejudiced, ethnocentric, racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. affiliation.
    8. Name cannot resemble a previous |UGA| member's name.
    9. Name changes must be sanctioned by the Supercluster Council.
  3. No member shall play a game which he or she does not find fun. Offense Level: Major
  4. If all |UGA| members currently online cannot play the same game, they must separate into groups, whether groups in the same game or different games. Offense Level: Major

Behavior

  1. All members shall follow the Mission Statement.
    Including but not limited to: Offense Level: Major
    1. No member shall seek the destruction of the |UGA| Family.
    2. No member shall exhibit discriminatory, prejudiced, ethnocentric, racist, sexist, homophobic, and/or any other illogical ideologies in a contempt and serious manner.
    3. No member shall threaten the community as a charismatic leader.

    Core Values

    1. No member shall disrespect another member, not to be confused with not having respect for another member.
    2. No member shall have loyalty to another member or organization that conflicts with loyalty to |UGA|. In addition, all members will have loyalty to the Constitution and |UGA| itself. This includes never declaring that "|UGA| is dead" or other such nonsense.
    3. No member shall disregard the emotions of other members.
    4. No member shall disregard priorities in life for |UGA|.
    5. No member shall resort to immature action due to impatience.
    6. No member shall lie with contempt to another member.
    7. No member shall beg, e.x. for games or gloat in games.
  2. No member shall flame.
    The |UGA| defines flaming as attacking an individual with an insult(s) and/or other such devices with the intent of emotionally harming an individual. This includes, but is not limited to: Offense Level: Major
    1. Insulting a member with contempt – Not to be confused with insulting a member in jest.
    2. Repetitiously insulting a member with varied insults over a short period of time.
    3. Repetitiously insulting a member with the same insult over a short period of time.
    4. Repetitiously insulting a member with the same insult over a long period of time (i.e. giving an unwanted nickname).
  3. No member shall troll.
    The |UGA| defines trolling as a statement made to antagonize individuals, usually followed by an emotional reaction. This means that members can joke around with each other, for instance, when PatPeter says he hates anime. This solicites an emotional response, but PatPeter is not attempting to attack anyone. This includes but is not limited to: Offense Level: Major
    1. Harassing another member.
    2. Mocking another member.
    3. Impersonating another member.
    4. Laughing at another member – Not to be confused: laughing with another member.
    5. 'umad?' and all variations.
  4. No member shall bait.
    The |UGA| defines baiting as a statement made indirectly with the intent of provoking an emotional reaction. Examples of baiting follow. Offense Level: Major
    1. 'calm down'/'chill' and all variations.
    2. 'let it go' and all variations.
    3. Making characteristic references towards a person that are untrue, unproven, or not polite to voice aloud.
  5. No member shall rage.
    The |UGA| defines raging as an overexcessive display of anger by an individual in the form that disrupts others' moods and/or games. Examples of raging follow. Offense Level: Major
    1. Screaming into the mic directed at no one, directed at someone, or directed at others, possibly insulting or flaming them.
    2. Passively raging – such as making snide comments and alluding to one's own opinion, but not communicating it.
    3. Prematurely leaving an official game because of loss, either of the entire map or single kills.
  6. No member shall slug.
    The |UGA| defines sluging as a sort of passive Flame, wherein instead of insulting someone, the individual insinuates that that player is inferior to said individual. For instance, comparing K:D ratios or comparing score with the goal of undermining someone.
    1. 'sit down' and all variations.
    2. 'get owned' and all variations.
  7. No member shall haze (new members).
    The |UGA| defines hazing as poor treatment of newer members for the reason that they are new. Offense Level: Minor
  8. No member shall grief.
    The |UGA| defines griefing as purposely ruining a game or team. The |UGA| excuses griefing on the account of Sluggers on the other team if the senior |UGA| member notifies the other team of our refusal to play. Offense Level: Minor
  9. No member shall spam.
    The |UGA| defines spamming as the continuous repetition or overuse of text, voice, or any other system in place at the time. Offense Level: Minor

Personal

  1. All members shall assume good faith on one another.
    The |UGA| defines assuming good faith as assuming that other members have the best intentions. Consequently, members cannot make accusations without evidence or objective reasoning. Offense Level: Minor
  2. No member shall use anything said in confidence against another member.
    The phrase 'in confidence' refers to anything said from one member to another under the trust that the member receiving the message will not use that information to harm the member sending that message, for instance in Steam chat. Offense Level: Major
  3. No member shall assume passivity means assent.
    The |UGA| defines 'passivity means assent' as a member assuming that, because another member did not say 'no', nor said 'yes', that that member meant 'yes'. Offense Level: Minor
  4. No member shall pressure another member into a game. Offense Level: Minor
  5. No member shall disrespect another member's hobby(ies). Offense Level: Minor

Communal

  1. All members must join the default voice communication while online according to Steam friends. Offense Level: Venial
    1. As of the writing of this Constitution, the |UGA| uses TeamSpeak 3 as the default voice communication client. This means all members must join our TeamSpeak 3 server at 67.167.44.51:9987.
    2. The Constitution applies to everyone in TeamSpeak, member of |UGA| or not.
    3. When a member is Online, Away, Busy, or Snooze on Steam he or she must remain in a channel of their choosing.
    4. We ask members to join the DVC so that they become acquainted with the community and so that the community becomes acquainted with them.
    5. The Lobby belongs to the majority. Any minority game or discussion must join the appropriate channel.
    6. In accordance with good faith, no member shall block or mute (or change the volume to an inaudible level of) another member in TeamSpeak.
    7. If a member does not join an AFK channel he or she will not have the protections of going AFK.
  2. All members must join the core groups of |UGA|. Offense Level: Major
  3. No member shall disrupt the tranquility of the community.
    This rule only applies to the community at large over long-term events. Offense Level: Major
  4. No member shall attack another member.
    By means such as DDoSing. Offense Level: Major
  5. No member shall blackmail another member. Offense Level: Major
  6. No member shall threaten another member.
    In addition, no member shall threaten the |UGA| directly or indirectly, such as threatening to leave. Offense Level: Major
  7. No member shall bribe another member (usually a leader). Offense Level: Minor
  8. No member shall spread rumors about another member. Offense Level: Minor
  9. No member shall label another member, directly or indirectly. Offense Level: Minor
  10. No member shall publically discuss another member whilst not in his or her presence.
    This applies more to negatively talking about someone when not in their presence, but also applies to having the need to talk privately about someone else out of concern or otherwise, in which case the individual can only talk about said person in front of no more than two |UGA| officers, and only |UGA| officers. Offense Level: Minor
  11. No members shall exclude a present member from a |UGA| game without deliberation and consent of the member. Offense Level: Minor
  12. No members shall exclude a present member from a current coversation.
    If the majority, will change the subject, or, if a minority, will move to a Discussion Lobby. Offense Level: Minor
  13. No member shall interrupt another member's(s') conversation.
    This includes not contributing to the conversation (interjecting unrelated topics). Offense Level: Minor

Organizational

  1. No member shall argue the Triumvirate's rule on the Law.
    In the case of ambiguity during the application or interpretation of a Constitutional law, the Supercluster Commodores rule on its meaning or the Galactic Commanders propose new legislation. Offense Level: Major
  2. No member shall publically accuse another member of breaking a Constitutional Law.
    Members must call for an inquiry if they believe another member has broken a Law. Offense Level: Major
  3. No members shall participate in factions.
    Factions have destroyed |UGA| in the past. The |UGA| defines a faction as a group of members allied to someone other than the |UGA| itself. For instance, if a member obeyed the commands of a charismatic leader even if those commands broke |UGA| law. Offense Level: Major
  4. No members shall participate in unregulated sovereignties.
    The Universal Admiral and no one else must approve all |UGA| sovereignties. If a member creates a sovereignty group before approving it with the Universal Admiral, he or she breaks this law. A member can, however, ask others if they would like to belong to a sovereignty to build a roster to present to the Universal Admiral. Offense Level: Major
  5. No leader shall instigate tunnel vision.
    The |UGA| defines 'tunnel vision' as the leader stating his opinion before anyone else and then asking peoples' opinions on the issue. By design, most people will tend to agree with the leader when they know his/her opinion. Tunnel vision only applies to groups.
  6. No member shall ask for officer.
    The officer position has requirements as detailed later in this document. Members should either wait until they meet those requirements, and/or wait until those requirements go through. Offense Level: Venial
  7. No member shall withhold information from the Omniversal Triumvirate.
    This does not work vice versa, i.e. a member of the Triumvirate can withhold information from a member. Offense Level: Venial
  8. No member(s) shall deteriorate another sovereignty. Offense Level: Minor
  9. No member shall publically discuss or reference negative past arguments in public context.
    'Past' refers to a period of three months or longer. Offense Level: Minor

Administrational

  1. No admin shall abuse. Offense Level: Major
  2. No member shall publically accuse an admin of admin abuse. Offense Level: Minor
  3. No member shall ask for admin. Offense Level: Venial

Public Relations

  1. No member shall misrepresent |UGA|.
    If a member chooses to wear the tag that member must not only obey the rules him or herself, but also treat pubbers as though they are |UGA| members as well. Offense Level: Major
  2. No member shall pollute the tag.
    This means that no member can replace the letters with different versions of themselves or change the vertical bars to brackets, parenthesis, etc. Offense Level: Major
  3. All members must wear |UGA| tags during |UGA| events. Offense Level: Minor

Games

Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2

Laws without punishment value exist for satirical purposes.

  1. No member shall disagree that Left 4 Dead 2 is a bad game that killed Left 4 Dead.
  2. No member shall not rush on the original Left 4 Dead campaigns, fourth map.
  3. No member shall pass a jukebox without starting it.
  4. No member shall disregard "The Rule of Fourths"–the fourth player will always cause your team of three friends to lose.
  5. No member shall have compassion on pubbers.
    The |UGA| takes a strict stance on having no mercy on pubbers. When mercy is given, pubbers either take advantage of said and flame/troll/punk |UGA| members, or after 'giving them an inch they take a mile' and end up winning the game. Offense Level: Minor
  6. No member shall teach pubbers.
    Pubbers do not deserve to be taught unless they are candidates for |UGA|. Offense Level: Minor
  7. No member shall accuse another member of griefing or otherwise for leaving a round to avoid a loss. Offense Level: Venial
  8. No member shall leave the safe room until the enemy team loads in.
    Only applicable with tags on. Offense Level: Venial
  9. No member shall join a private game without requesting to join. Offense Level: Venial
  10. No member(s) shall attempt to restart a game without just cause and community approval. Offense Level: Venial

Dungeon Defenders

  1. No member shall use more defense points than the total number of defense points divided by the number of players.
    Unless given permission by another player to use his or her defense points. Offense Level: Minor
  2. If a player has a designated side assigned, no other players may take that player's loot or mana without consent of that player.
    Players may, however, accidentally take mana if that player's side leaks, which is negligible. Offense Level: Minor
  3. No player shall sell another player's defenses without permission. Offense Level: Minor

Minecraft

  1. The |UGA| Minecraft Server, or Uniserva, will now and forever shall be run on CraftBukkit.
  2. WorldV of Uniserva will have difficulty set to Hard.
  3. WorldV of Uniserva will not have PvP enabled.

Punishment

The |UGA| manages punishment in the form of Marks. When a |UGA| officer or member commits an offense, they have a mark added to them on their roster entry. When an officer reaches 13 marks, the Universal Admiral will demote them to a member and the marks will reset. When a member reaches 21 marks, the Universal Admiral will banish them.

Types

A |UGA| member can be punished in the following way including but not limited to:

  1. Banishment.
  2. A ban from TeamSpeak and all |UGA| game servers.
  3. A removal of |UGA| admin and officer privileges.
  4. A ban from interacting with |UGA| members such as Steam chat and exclusion from games with but one |UGA| member.

Offenses

  1. Major Offense
    Highest offense a member can commit. This offense can account for a ban of days to weeks in a single instance to a year in multiple transgressions. Only major offenses have the capability of enacting Banishment on another member. A major offense can also remove officer and admin privileges.
  2. Minor Offense
    Average offense a member can commit. This offense can account for a ban of hours to days in a single instance to several weeks in multiple transgressions. A minor offense can remove admin and officer privileges.
  3. Venial Offense
    Lowest offense a member can commit. This offense can account for a ban of hours to a ban of days in multiple transgressions.

Inquiries

Inquiries occur when a member has supposedly broken a rule. That member will be pulled into a private channel with the highest ranking officer present to which they will discuss what rule the member broke and not to break it again.

Rules

  1. All inquiries must be recorded.
  2. All inquiries are judged by three members of the Supercluster Council (with the Universal Admiral and absentee judges , claimant, and defendant (and optional witness).
  3. Neither a claimant nor defendant may judge an inquiry. If either is a member of the Supercluster Council, the Universal Admiral or absentee judge must take his or her place.
  4. All members of the Omniversal Triumvirate may witness an inquiry, but may only speak when requested by a judge or allowed after a request from the claimant or defendant.
  5. In the inquiry, neither the claimant or defendant may speak unless given permission by the judge.
  6. Inquiries are not a contained environment immune to rules. Any further rules broken during an inquiry will be assembled for another inquiry.
  7. Most inquiries can be thrown out with a simple discussion and apology.

Schedule

  1. Inquiry Start.
  2. The claimant presents his or her claim first.
  3. The defendant gives his or her account of the claim.
  4. All evidence by the claimant is examined and determined to be valid or invalid.
  5. All eyewitness accounts are heard and either deemed valid or invalid.
  6. The claimant makes his or her closing statement.
  7. The defendant makes his or her closing statement.
  8. The judges determine whether the claimant is guilty or not guilty, and then decide punishment based on the sum of offenses.
  9. Inquiry Adjourned.

Policies

On Law

  1. The Supercluster Council cannot punish a member for a law ex post facto.
    Based on the timestamp of each law. Offense Level: Minor
  2. The Supercluster Council cannot punish a member for a law double jeopardy. Offense Level: Minor
  3. The Constitution applies to any medium in which the |UGA| tag or more than one member resides. Offense Level: Minor

On Members

  1. No member shall reinvite a Banished member to |UGA| without following policy. Offense Level: Minor
  2. To rejoin the |UGA|, a Banished member must make a comment on the Universal Gaming Alliance Servers group after that member has served his or her punishment (if applicable). The Supercluster Council will then make a decision to readmit that member. Offense Level: Minor
  3. No member shall press responsibility onto members of the Omniversal Triumvirate for duties those members do not have. Offense Level: Minor

On Nomination

  1. Only officers can make nominations.
  2. No officer can nominate more than one other officer in a single nomination procedure.
    For instance, officer (A) cannot nominate both officers (B) and (C) as Supercluster Commodores.
  3. Nominations cannot be cyclical.
    When officers (A) and (B) nominate each other or officers (A), (B), and (C) nominate in a manner similar to: (A) nominates (B), (B) nominates (C), and (C) nominates (A).

Structure

Omniversal Triumvirate
The Omniversal Triumverate consists of (1) the Universal Admiral, (2) the Supercluster Commodores, and (3) the Galactic Commanders. All officers in the |UGA| core group are members of the Omniversal Triumvirate, and join the Galactic Command Center upon their first election. At the same time as officer elections, officer recalls take place. Any officer inactive in gaming or in duty can be recalled and have their officer stripped. This member must then wait until the next officer election to become an officer again.

Requirements

  1. To become an officer, a member must have belonged to the |UGA| for half of |UGA|'s lifespan at the time of their joining |UGA|.
  2. For instance, in 2012 a member must wait until 2014 to become an officer, in 2014 a wait until 2017, so on so forth.
  3. In addition, a current officer of the |UGA| must nominate the officer in an announcement made by the Universal Admiral.
  4. The officer nominee requires more than 50% of the officers' votes, with non-voting officers counting as abstentation and not counted towards the overall percentage.

Universal Admiral - Executive Branch
The Universal Admiral upholds the laws of |UGA|.
  1. PatPeter

Duties

  1. To propose legislation to the Galactic Command Center.
  2. To assemble the Supercluster Council for an inquiry.
  3. To stand-in as a Supercluster Commodore in
  4. To document all rulings on Constitutional law

Powers

  1. Management of the |UGA| community.
  2. Management of |UGA| game servers.
  3. Management of |UGA| groups.
  4. Veto — The Universal Admiral may veto laws passed by the Galactic Command Center and rulings by the

Supercluster Commodore - Judicial Branch
The Supercluster Commodores compromise 30% of the entire Omniversal Triumvirate body, rounded to the nearest odd number. A third of the total Supercluster Commodores, rounded down, will consist of absentee replacements in the case that not all Supercluster Commodores are online or Supercluster Commodores are biased in a ruling. Supercluster Commodores must be nominated by an officer and no officer can nominate more than one Supercluster Commodore.
  1. Kagnarok
  2. Joey
  3. Fishy
  4. Fullmetal (Absentee Replacement)

Duties

  1. To rule over inquiries.

Powers

  1. To rule on interpretations of Constitutional law. Rulings must have Constitutional basis.
  2. Override — A unanimous ruling by all of the Supercluster Commodores (excluding the absentee replacements and the Universal Admiral) can override the Universal Admiral's veto.

Galactic Commander - Legislative Branch
Galactic Commanders comprise the Galactic Command Center and vote on legislation brought by the Universal Admiral.
  1. Sox207
  2. Rezin
  3. Raxor
  4. Wazza
  5. The Village Idiot
  6. White
  7. TechPanda

Duties

  1. To vote on legislation for the Constitution.

Powers

  1. Override — If the Universal Admiral vetoes a vote on legislation, a two-thirds majority of Galactic Commanders will override that veto and force a vote on that law or policy.

Statuses
A member has one of three statuses at any given time:
  1. Current
    Members are active when the regular the VoIP server and participate in organizational activities.
  2. Adieu
    Members may take an adieu if they cannot access their computer or play a game for an extended period of time. This can range from a few days to a few months, and at most a year. To have Adieu status, a member must post a comment on the |UGA| group's page specifying how long the individual will take off and for what reason, unless the reason has a private connotation in which the individual can simply say 'private'.
    1. Minimum Adieu: 3 days.
    2. Maximum Adieu: 6 months.
  3. Banishment
    The |UGA| banishes a member when it evaluates as a whole that the individual in question contributes negatively to the community. This individual will lose membership in the |UGA| group, banned from TeamSpeak, and ostracised.

Versioning Clause

The current version can be seen at the bottom of the page in the format version-beta-alpha-fix.
  1. Version
    Versions increment the first version identifier by one. New versions include but are not limited to complete section restructure, entire line item (a line added to the Constitution) rewrites, removal of entire sections, and changes to the structure of |UGA|. New versions require a re-ratification of the Constitution. Re-ratifications blank all other version counters (Beta, Alpha, and Fixes).
  2. Beta
    Beta edits increment the second version identifier by the number of line items added or removed. Beta edits require a vote by the Galactic Commanders made in a |UGA| core group announcement. The vote must have more than a 50% majority to pass, with non-voting Galactic Commanders counting as abstention. After a week the vote will automatically close. Beta edits do not clear Alpha or Fix version counters.
  3. Alpha
    Alpha edits increment the third version identifier by the total number of changes made to line items. Alpha edits change the wording of line items or moving line items around. Alpha edits require a comment posted to the |UGA| core group page notifying of the change. Alpha edits do not clear Fix counters.
  4. Fix
    Fixes increment the fourth version identifier by the number of fixes applied. The fix cannot contain any semantical changes to the wording that would alter the line item's meaning. Fixes are usually restricted to typos, misspellings, grammatical errors (not violating the previous sentence).

Ratification Clause

The ratification of this Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of the Omniversal Triumvirate. By agreeing to ratify this constitution, the individual agrees to work towards internalizing the Core Values and obeying the Laws of the |UGA|. In addition, the Universal Admiral of the |UGA| agrees to remove all comments in this Constitution and that no edits will be made that do not comply with the Versioning Clause.

Ratifiers

  1. PatPeter
  2. Sox207
  3. Fullmetal
  4. Rezin
  5. Raxor
  6. Kagnarok
  7. Wazza
  8. The Village Idiot
  9. Joey

Vetoers

  1. White

Abstainers

  1. TechPanda
  2. Fishy

©2010-2012 Universal Gaming Alliance.

Version 5.76.58.58 of the Universal Gaming Alliance Constitution. All rights reserved. All content on this page identifies as intellectual property of the |UGA|.
This Constitution began on 2010-07-13 23:14:00 GMT-06:00. Check the History for the last edit.

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