Going On-Break

Any leader of either tier may go "on-break" at any time - for any (reasonable) duration. This will remove the user's leadership roles, grant them the honorary "Leader (On-Break)" role, and revoke access to leadership chat and tools. Leaving the server will be considered "on-break" unless a formal resignation is submitted.

As of now, Leaders may go "on-break" as often as necessary, and for any reason.

That said, within two weeks of the adoption of this document, we commit to deciding on formal guidelines for:

• A threshold of "excessive breaks" (both in length and frequency)
• What happens if the number of members in a Tier 2 body dips below its minimum size due to the break
• "Abuses" of the concept of a break (such as a Tier 2 conveniently taking a break every month to dodge a meeting)
• As Mediators on break pose special challenges, potential special procedures if a Mediator goes on break (especially if all existing Mediators have a conflict of interest in a situation)

All of these situations will need guidelines put in place and the work will be done on this during the internal policy reform immediately post-restructure, with this document updated to reflect that.

For any votes, the On-Break member will be considered as abstaining.

NOTE: Due to stupid technical details with our ticket system, leaders have to manually leave Every. Single. Ticket. to lose access. On Break leaders are not expected to do this (but obviously cannot participate in them). We hopefully will adopt a new ticket system without this problem relatively soon, but it's lower priority than many other tasks. That said if On-Break leaders want to leave tickets for a more relaxing vacation, they are heavily encouraged to do so.

NOTE: Due to Discord limitations, the Server Owner has a few caveats when going On-Break, explained in their role section.