Best resolution of 2020 (A Q2 Annual Review)

[Imperium Anglorum]

I cancelled this tally to wait for the end of the year and synchronise on the calendar. (2020-11-03)

The GA is for resolution lovers!

It's that time of year where we try to find out what the best resolution of the last year was. Certainly, though, as this hasn't been run since... 2015? No, that can't be right... Oh really? Wow. 2015, this might be a bit different from the olden days.

I will probably look towards doing another run in early 2021 to get us synced back up with the years.

Below you can find two things: (1) a list of all the resolutions in the last year and (2) links to the other threads that I have – or am going to – create that divide our 28 resolutions into four groups of seven. In each thread, vote only for two resolutions. Then we will have a final round in which we will similarly do limited-approval voting for the eight winners. If there is interest in a wild card round, shout below.

After this we will run a poll in a to-be-established region for the final round of 8 (maybe +1) resolutions, with restrictions for WA membership, which will crown the winner!

Resolutions

#	Title	Category	Sub-category	Author	Co-authors	Implemented
467	Affordable Transgender Hormone Therapy	Civil Rights	Mild	Morover	United Massachusetts	2019-07-16
468	Prohibit Private Prisons	Social Justice	Mild	Christian Democrats		2019-07-22
469	Reducing Food Waste	Social Justice	Mild	Kenmoria	Australian Republic, Dmitry II	2019-08-22
470	Repeal "Prohibit Private Prisons"	Repeal	468	Marxist Germany		2019-09-28
471	Repeal "Preventing Desertification"	Repeal	432	Concrete Slab		2019-10-04
472	Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc	Civil Rights	Mild	Imperium Anglorum		2019-10-22
473	Responsible Land Management	Environmental	Agriculture	Refuge Isle		2019-10-26
474	Financial and Economic Education	Education and Creativity	Educational	Imperium Anglorum		2019-10-30
475	Promoting Natural Sciences in Schools	Education and Creativity	Educational	Kenmoria		2019-11-03
476	Protecting Borrower Rights	Civil Rights	Significant	Imperium Anglorum		2019-11-07
477	Convention on Animal Testing	Health	Bioethics	Marxist Germany	United States of Americanas	2019-11-19
478	Ensuring Commercial Vessel Navigation	Regulation	Transportation	Terttia	Araraukar	2019-12-24
479	Repeal "Convention on Animal Testing"	Repeal	477	Concrete Slab	Maowi	2020-01-01
480	Wartime Healthcare Protections	Global Disarmament	Mild	Maowi	Araraukar	2020-01-05
481	Data Protection Accord	Regulation	Consumer Protection	Marxist Germany	Kenmoria	2020-01-14
482	Ensuring Safe Syringe Use	Health	Healthcare	Sylvai		2020-01-25
483	Promotion of Recycling	Environmental	All Businesses - Mild	Greifenburg		2020-02-28
484	Disease Naming Compact	Health	Bioethics	Tinhampton		2020-03-17
485	Repeal "Disease Naming Compact"	Repeal	484	Gorundu	Kelssek	2020-03-29
486	Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation	Civil Rights	Mild	Maowi	Marxist Germany, Imperium Anglorum	2020-04-24
487	Ban on the Administration of Unwanted Substances	Regulation	Safety	Morover		2020-05-06
488	Repeal "Ensuring Safe Syringe Use"	Repeal	482	Morover		2020-05-22
489	Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research	Health	Bioethics	Maowi		2020-05-26
490	Military Identification Tag Act	International Security	Mild	Alba and Cymru		2020-05-30
491	Rights of the employed	Civil Rights	Strong	The Greater Soviet North America	Tinhampton	2020-06-07
492	Proper Hygiene For Medical Instruments	Health	Healthcare	Morover	Imperium Anglorum	2020-06-11
493	Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals	Education and Creativity	Cultural Heritage	Morover		2020-06-15
494	Regulating Desalination	Environmental	All Businesses - Mild	Honeydewistania	Kenmoria	2020-06-19
495	Supporting and Valuing the Humanities	Education and Creativity	Educational	Castle Federation		2020-06-23

Voting

You can find the groups at the links below. They will be open only for seven days from present. At the end, the semi-finalists will be tallied and a site-side poll held.

• https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=487869
• https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=487870
• https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=487871
• https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=487872
  
  • Poll 1: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161087
  • Poll 2: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161086

[Imperium Anglorum]

Nb accidental omission of GA 494—a ±1 error in parsing GA resolutions from the API—means that Group 4's poll was reset to add it.

[Omigodtheykilledkenny]

Uh, whoops. I guess I forgot to tell you: being the maintainer of the resolutions list sort of makes you de facto in charge of these polls. Mik foisted the job on me once upon a time, so by rights I should have been able to foist the job on you. But like I said, I forgot. Sorry about that.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Just a note for everyone; voting on these groups ends shortly (later today)!

Also, please respond if you are interested in a wild card round.

[Morover]

Looks like the voting has now ended.

I am generally supportive of a wild card round.

[Imperium Anglorum]

The Group 4 poll was brigaded, by UM, per admissions on Discord. While I announced earlier that I would be tallying votes, I want to hear first, however, thoughts on (1) whether Group 4's poll ought to be redone and (2) what strategies might be taken to ensure that any redone poll is less vulnerable to brigading of this sort.

[Araraukar]

Deffo redo. Do you have anyone TG-blocked? Could restrict to WA nations via TG?

[Honeydewistania]

Deffo redo. Do you have anyone TG-blocked? Could restrict to WA nations via TG?

Maybe we can have threads where people put forum posts detailing their two preferences? Won't be anonymous though.

[Araraukar]

Deffo redo. Do you have anyone TG-blocked? Could restrict to WA nations via TG?

Maybe we can have threads where people put forum posts detailing their two preferences? Won't be anonymous though.

Wouldn't stop spamming vote with undeclared puppets.

[Honeydewistania]

Maybe we can have threads where people put forum posts detailing their two preferences? Won't be anonymous though.

Wouldn't stop spamming vote with undeclared puppets.

Well IA could easily remove all the puppet voting and say only WA members can vote (or must declare and confirm their WA et cetera)

[Araraukar]

Wouldn't stop spamming vote with undeclared puppets.

Well IA could easily remove all the puppet voting and say only WA members can vote (or must declare and confirm their WA et cetera)

Thread votes can't be closed and if they didn't believe "one vote per person", they're not going to listen to "WA nations only". That is why I said WA nations only and via TG. Asking IA to check founding dates of every voter (to weed out newly created puppets) is a bit too much, but people most likely wouldn't risk ejection from WA for a year by WA-multiing.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Thoughts on creating two regions in which people can vote (for one resolution) by NS poll? It would get around the puppeteering problem.

[Imperium Anglorum]

We didn't reach a consensus on this topic. Would love to hear thoughts.

[Honeydewistania]

We didn't reach a consensus on this topic. Would love to hear thoughts.

I agree with the regional poll solution.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Two polls have been created in two different regions. Do not vote for the same resolution twice. If you do, I won't count that vote in the final tally. You must be a WA member to vote.

Poll 1: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161087
Poll 2: https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161086

Both polls will run for one week from now. I will amend the OP to redirect to those two polls.

[Imperium Anglorum]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161087
https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=161086

Repeal "Ensuring Safe Syringe Use": 0 + 0
Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research: 2 + 1
Military Identification Tag Act: 0 + 0
Rights of the employed: 1 + 1
Proper Hygiene For Medical Instruments: 1 + 3
Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals: 5 + 2
Regulating Desalination: 1 + 2
Supporting and Valuing the Humanities: 0 + 1

Which yields final tallies of:

Repeal "Ensuring Safe Syringe Use": 0
Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research: 3
Military Identification Tag Act: 0
Rights of the employed: 2
Proper Hygiene For Medical Instruments: 4
Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals: 7
Regulating Desalination: 3
Supporting and Valuing the Humanities: 1

From the various groups, the following move forward to the next round:

Affordable Transgender Hormone Therapy
Ban on Sterilisation of Minors etc
Financial and Economic Education
Wartime Healthcare Protections
Data Protection Accord
Prevention Of Forced Sterilisation
Proper Hygiene For Medical Instruments
Language and Education Rights for Deaf Individuals

A tie was broken in group 2. Is there any interest in a wild card round? If not, I will create a poll tomorrow with four selection options to winnow down for a final poll to be conducted site-side.

[Maowi]

A wild card round would be great – do we just use this thread for suggestions? If so, I'll nominate GA#469 Reducing Food Waste.

[Refuge Isle]

I'm also in support of a wildcard round, for what it's worth.

[Kenmoria]

For what it’s worth, I’m also in favour of a wildcard round. It would introduce a bit more variety into the contestants.

A wild card round would be great – do we just use this thread for suggestions? If so, I'll nominate GA#469 Reducing Food Waste.

Aww, thanks.

[Honeydewistania]

A wild card round would be great – do we just use this thread for suggestions? If so, I'll nominate GA#469 Reducing Food Waste.

I'll second that

For what it’s worth, I’m also in favour of a wildcard round. It would introduce a bit more variety into the contestants.

A wild card round would be great – do we just use this thread for suggestions? If so, I'll nominate GA#469 Reducing Food Waste.

Aww, thanks.

Kenmoria using an emoji?

Anyways its a good resolution

[Morover]

I'll nominate Promotion of Recycling, if we're doing that.

[Honeydewistania]

I'll nominate Promotion of Recycling, if we're doing that.

Lol.

I'm nominating Food Waste and Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research

[Marxist Germany]

I second the wildcard round.

[Imperium Anglorum]

Please put your nominations in here. They must be seconded.

[Honeydewistania]

I'll restate my seconding of Food Waste and nomination Ethical Treatment of Animals in Research.