Applying all suggestionsgovernance-amendment

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/policies/constitution.md b/policies/constitution.md
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@@ -22,16 +22,15 @@ The Mana World Team is the executive body of The Mana World. It is made up of De
 
 ### Structure
 - The purpose of the TMWT is to make or delegate executives decisions regarding the running of The Mana World organisation.
-  - To become a TMWT Member, one must be approved by a majority of TMWT and needs to gain membership in the one of the following categories of  contributors: Developer, Game Master, Server Admin;
+- To become a TMWT Member, one must be approved by a majority of TMWT and needs to gain membership in the one of the following categories of  contributors: Developer, Game Master, Server Admin;
 - Someone may hold any role within The Mana World and not be a TMWT Member, but they need to have the required knowledge or experience to fulfill that role;
-  - In the event that no TMWT members remain, but roles are fulfilled by non-TMWT members, those members may assume TMWT membership to fulfill TMWT's duties to the best of their ability;
+- In the event that no TMWT members remain, but roles are fulfilled by non-TMWT members, those members may assume TMWT membership to fulfill TMWT's duties to the best of their ability;
 - TMW Team will be the [SPI](https://spi-inc.org) Liaison or appoint one among its members.
-- TMWT will only act as an ultimate arbitrary in the management of active development projects or in a guarantor capacity for inactive projects;
- - TMWT may consider inactive a project lacking a lead or representative (can be any Admin, Developer or GM) willing to speak for it for over 90 days.
+- Regarding its development projects, TMWT will only act as an ultimate arbiter or in a guarantor capacity, preserving the autonomy of their teams;
+- TMWT may consider inactive a project lacking a lead or representative (can be any Admin, Developer or GM) willing to speak for it for over 90 days.
 
 ### General Duties
 - Stewardship all TMW development projects;
-- Maintain the community [Website](https://themanaworld.org/) [Forum Board](https://forums.themanaworld.org/) and [Wiki Board](https://wiki.themanaworld.org/);
 - Maintain documentation and archival information relating to The Mana World;
 - Provide tutorials, training and/or time to newer contributors;
   - Attempt to encourage newer contributors and to do so with respect;
@@ -49,8 +48,9 @@ The Mana World Team is the executive body of The Mana World. It is made up of De
 - A poll must be opened in the ["TMW Team" private section](https://forums.themanaworld.org/viewforum.php?f=23) of the [forums](https://forums.themanaworld.org/);
 - The poll will allow re-voting and a running time will be set for 7 to 30 days (usually 7 days);
 - Once the first vote has been cast (excluding the poll author's), the poll duration may not be reduced;
-- A simple majority of 50%+1 is required for a poll to be valid, unless stated otherwise by the author at the time of the poll's opening;
-- Any valid poll must attain at least 3 votes and include an option directly against the relevant proposal or an option for status-quo.
+- A simple majority of 50%+1 is required for a poll to have passed, unless stated otherwise by the author at the time of the poll's opening;
+- Any valid poll must attain at least 3 votes and include an option directly against the relevant proposal or an option for status-quo;
+- In no circumstance will a poll be considered as "passed" if the option for the status-quo  or against the relevant proposal attain a simple majority of 50%+1.
 
 ### How to conduct a consultative poll
 - Any poll conducted in the TMW Team private section which does not follow the above format is considered a consultative poll;
@@ -97,10 +97,6 @@ TMWT members roughly fit into three categories: Administrators (Admins), Develop
 ## Affiliated groups
 These groups are closely affiliated with TMWT and TMW as an organisation, but are not necessarily direct members of the Team. TMWT may revoke membership of these groups through a voting poll.
 
-### Sysadmins
-- Those who are granted ssh access to themanaworld.org servers;
-  - Must be TMWT members or Advisers;
-  - Must unanimously approve the appointment of new Sysadmins.
 
 ### Advisers
 - To become a member of this group, a person needs to be a prior contributor and TMWT Member;