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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: And now, the moment we've all been waiting for...

« on: July 20, 2014, 06:40:03 PM »

The council also has the right to revoke voting privileges from a member.

Does it make sense to move this clause into the Membership section, and give it a proper procedure for doing this? It seems a little crazy to let the ZC pick on anyone it wants to for any reason it feels like?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: And now, the moment we've all been waiting for...

« on: July 20, 2014, 06:34:23 PM »

Section I: Ratification

In order to take effect, this constitution must be ratified by all five (5) members of the Zetetic Council.

Section II: Amendment

After ratification, this constitution may only be altered by the process of amendment. A Zetetic Council member must put forward the change to the council. Following this, the change must be agreed upon by a four fifths majority.

In extension to what Parsifal said, you'd normally define that something as important as a constitution to be passed by the society members, or at least give them the ability to do it. Otherwise you could end up with a situation a few years down the line that in which a crazy ZC decides to give themselves autocratic powers, and there'd be pretty much nothing anyone could do about it (other than succeeding... again)

Council holds the right to veto nominations for any reason

lol wot

An 80% majority of official members vote in favor of the act

80% is pretty high, even for a super majority. Especially if this is for all members, which are notoriously difficult to get everyone to vote in...

Up to two council members may be impeached at one time.

What counts as "at one time"? Per council session? Per day?

The Zetetic Council may not be allowed to, at any time, have fewer than three members.

It's not entirely clear what happens if this is the case - you've said that interim elections can take place, but you've also said that ZC can decide against that from happening. So if there are less than 3 members do we just not have a ZC? Do the 1 or 2 elected members have power to prevent an election in this case? What if noone runs in the byelection - do we just not have a ZC?

Moderators will be in charge of managing discussion and enforcing rules.

You haven't defined what these rules are (unless these are defined elsewhere. Soz for my noobiness)

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 06, 2013, 11:13:21 PM »

emily is pizaaplanet?

No pizaaplanet is pizaaplanet.

emily is emily.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 06, 2013, 10:57:16 PM »

emily is probably a guy.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 06, 2013, 02:54:23 PM »

I'm unconvinced of the merit of using this CDN at this point. There would be the benefit of high availability, which means I could use the main website to post status updates if and when my VPS goes down. I think I'll sleep on it.

AWS' CDN uses their slower S3 servers - it's more about offloading requests from your servers, rather than actually using faster servers. So if your VPS isn't under strain, it's probably better to leave it like that. Probably better to just focus on preventing your VPS from going down