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Hello, it is your friendly neighborhood newspaper Editor, Publisher, unionist and religious dominian fanatic Xander again. I've come to make a suggestion about the whitelist system, specifically for Head Whitelists. I propose that for at least a week (longer if staff would want), after acceptance - head whitelist applications stay open to posting. This will allow the community to provide feedback on the player's usage of the whitelist and the characters they've made for Head roles. At the end of this week, a whitelist app would be formally accepted. This ensures we give/get feedback from BEFORE someone is a head, and AFTER they have been given the ability to be one - before permanently making them one. Essentially a one-week probation period.

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Forgive me if it was said earlier, but is this suggestion referring to giving round-based injunction power to IAA or multi-round injunction power such as CCIA have? Round based only, it would not cross rounds ever.

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Brutish explains much better than I do. An injunction that an IAA would file would be things like 'don't contact this person (restraining-esque order)' after an investigation into harassment. As Arrow said and then completely forget immediately after typing, the IAA is an impartial arbitrator. They are impartial, UNTIL THEY MAKE A CONCLUSION ON AN INVESTIGATION. That is when they have reviewed the facts from a non-biased point of view, and then can make a decision (which inherently means taking a side).

Yes, but its not about the trust. IA Agents are supposed to be "impartial arbitrators of regulations". The moment they file a injunction against someone, they are no longer impartial. In addition, if I am a head of staff of a department, I do not want someone else to indirectly command that department through the use of injunctions without my oversight. If someone wishes to file a injunction against someone in my department, then they should have to go through me. The Head of Security can already order any of your crew and YOU as a Head through an injunction. Do you trust that? Because the HoS doesn't need to consult you at all.

All democratic nations have freedom of the press enshrined in their highest laws. Reporters are under this, so it would make sense if NT had to support this because it was a law. I do not make security bashing channels - I report on Security if they do something wrong, this isn't bashing - it's genuinely what reporters do. We added the job, and we added it to be played - not to be shutdown whenever they do their job. I personally love when reporters report on bad-sec as Captain, it does my job for me and provides evidence most of the time.

I forgot this was a thing. I'm honestly rubbing my hands and going "NEHEHEHE" having been reminded that I can do this to combat someone who really likes using the newscaster as a pedestal to launch their slander upon. Anyway, what I described isn't necessarily a good thing and I wouldn't mind journalists getting some leeway or at least there to be guidelines regarding how to escalate rather than hitting a channel with a D-notice. I'm mainly writing this because I've seen a few heads of staff try to overly protect security. I've seen journalists get D-Noticed or censored for reporting when Security did something like arrest someone without a warrant - even though this was clearly true, and is clearly against regs for security to do - just because they want to protect security's image. It's really sucks that they get abused this way.

Security and Command as of late have been targeting journalists with trumped up charges, instant-censors and D-Notices without the ability to fight this as a journalist. If you are a journalist, a censor immediately erases pretty hard work you did, and a D-Notice ends your career for the round (you CANT make another channel without admin intervention) I propose a directive similar to this (obviously better written):

The IAA can and does inspect the Captain up until the Captain orders them not to.

You do know the same whitelisted, responsible players are the ones play IAA right? We *can* trust them.

Security already has this power. I did not suggest removing it from them.

Request consoles cannot make announcements, only Heads of Staff's can.

In real life, law enforcement do not issue injunctions. Injunctions come from an impartial review body such as a court and serve as a legal order to do, or not do something, the most common of which are restraining orders. CCIA often serve injunctions to crew across shifts for sometimes, month-long lengths and even permanent. If their supervisors can do it for long periods of time, I see no reason that Internal Affairs cannot be given the ability to issue injunctions to crew if they've completed an investigation, or arbitrated a matter formally between two crew.

First, I work very hard as IAA to interact with people - very very very hard, many people STILL do not even know CCIA exist, let alone IAA, or what either does. Secondly, I did work hard for this access. I lobbied for two to three years for the Dev Team to give IAA command access and a command headset - before, they only had sec access. When we finally got extended access, it was a godsend. Don't tell me what I did and did NOT do, thank you very much I also play a range of Heads of Staff that interact with IAAs, and I'm 100% with them having the access they do.

On Baystation, the journalists spawn with a drone that sets up a live video-audio feed to the 'Entertainment Monitors' that we have in some places on the station, allowing them to do live broadcasts. Please port this. [mention]MoondancerPony[/mention] putting you here as you're currently working on journalism stuff.

There is more than enough shuttle seats now, lol - petty reasoning anyways. Secondly, IAA may get a bit lippy with Heads of Staff - 90% of the time this is because the Head is ignoring regulations or bypassing them in a way that is not allowed.

No. We fought very hard for this access. The bridge has consoles IAA need (security records) and serves as a nice place to hangout outside of their office. They are support structure that get paid the SAME amount as heads of staff. They are advisers to the Heads of Staff and Captain, and there is NO need to strip this access. If a Captain does not want an IAA in the bridge, they can ask them to leave - it is the Captain's station. The announcements that I do as IAA let everyone know I am on board and able to take complaints - many people know nothing about the IAA role, and this publicity is required so people know what we do, and that I'm actually on board. This entire suggestion can fuck off, [mention]Synnono[/mention] plz help me here.

This is already a thing. [mention]MoondancerPony[/mention] I've also just posted a bug report about the paper attachment feature being broken, plz review it.

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