Referendums

To ensure that there is no controlling entity in the team, all decisions affecting members must be voted on. 🗳️

Unanimity consensus

All votes shall be unanimous.

At the first AGAINST, the referendum is considered as REJECTED.

Once all members have voted FOR, the referendum is considered as APPROVED.

Expiration

Polls only have a window of 3 days before they are considered EXPIRED. After that, no new votes will be accepted.

Referendum Types

Inviting a user

You can invite other users to join your team.

Once the decision has been made, the target user will receive an invitation.

Invite a user form

Conditions

• The target user must not already be invited

• The target user must not be in a team

• The new team size must be under 5

An invitation cannot be cancelled by the team.

Kicking a user

A user can only be kicked from the team if he or she accepts the kick.

This is the only way someone can leave a team. (apart from disbanding).

Kick a member form

Conditions

• The target user must be a member of the team

• The target user must not be the last member of the team (use a disband instead)

Promoting a leader

Only the team leader will have a rank on the leaderboard.

Other members can still participate and appear on the leaderboard; they will just not be ranked.

Promote a leader form

Conditions

• The target user must not be the team leader

• The target user must be a member of the team

Not all competitions are using leaders to represent teams.

Accepting a user

Teams that advertise for new team members can receive requests for people to join their team. When a user makes a request, it triggers a referendum.

View of a user searching for a team

Request to join form

Conditions

• The target user must not be already invited

• The target user must not be in a team

• The new team size must be under 5

Some competitions allow for larger teams.

Disbanding a team

Teams can be deleted by disbanding them.

Disband a team form

The deletion of a team cannot be undone.

Voting

Voting to invite happy-mike

Post-vote failure

Some referendum can fail to be deployed if some conditions are not true anymore, a few examples includes:

• The team is full

• An invited user joined another team

• An invited user rejected the invitation

Depending on the reason, teams can re-create another referendum.

If a team of one member try to create a referendum, it will be automatically accepted.