Constitution of Cubeframe

§ I.1 This Constitution is the highest law of Cubeframe. Any rule, law, executive order or decision that conflicts with it has no effect.

§ I.2 In this Constitution:

(a)“Owner” means the owner of the Cubeframe Discord server.

(b)“President” means the member elected under Article XIII.

(c)“Moderator” means any member holding a moderation role appointed by the Owner.

(d)“Eligible Member” means any member who has reached Level 5 or holds the Trusted role.

(e)“Criminal Code” means the server rules that define offenses and their punishments.

(f)“Public Vote” means a vote held under Article X.

(g)“Day” means a period of 24 hours.

(h)“Raid” means a coordinated attempt, usually by several accounts or by people from outside Cubeframe, to flood the server with spam, disruptive or harmful content or harassment, or to take control of it.

(i)“Safety threat” means a real and immediate risk that a member’s private information will be exposed; that a member will be threatened with harm, encouraged to harm themselves, or exploited; that illegal content will be spread; or that an account, bot or permission with power over the server has been compromised.

(j)“Emergency measure” means an action taken because of a raid, a safety threat or an urgent need to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service, without the announcement, vote or notice that would normally be required first. It includes lockdowns, mass actions, immediate mutes and removals, and urgent changes to bots, permissions or settings.

(k)“Restrictive emergency measure” means an emergency measure that limits what members in general can see or do, such as a lockdown, slowmode across the server, paused invites or hidden channels.

(l)“Major decision” has the meaning given in § VII.2 and § VII.3.

§ I.3 The Owner, the President and every Moderator are bound by this Constitution and the Criminal Code in the same way as any other member. The only exception is the one set out in § V.14.

§ I.4 Time zone

All dates, times and deadlines in this Constitution and the Criminal Code are in Central European Time, as used in Budapest, including daylight saving time: CET in winter and CEST in summer.

§ II.1 Every member of Cubeframe holds the rights set out in Articles II to IX.

§ II.2 The rights

The rights of members are:

(a)freedom of speech, under Article III;

(b)fair moderation, under Article IV;

(c)equal treatment, under Article V;

(d)the right to petition, under Article VI;

(e)the right to information, under Article VII;

(f)the right to leave and return, under Article VIII; and

(g)protection from retroactive rules, under Article IX.

§ II.3 Limits

Rights may be limited only to enforce the Criminal Code that was in force at the time of the conduct in question. This applies to:

(a)messages, at the time the message was sent;

(b)statuses, bios, usernames, nicknames and profile pictures, at the time they were shown on the server;

(c)any other conduct on the server, at the time it took place.

§ II.4 No reduction

No law, executive order, Public Vote, decision of the Owner, or act of the President or any Moderator may remove or reduce a right in Articles II to IX, except through an amendment under Article XIX or, where it applies, Article XX.

§ II.5 Who holds the rights

The rights belong equally to every member, including:

(a)new members and members below Level 5;

(b)members who are serving a punishment, except to the extent that the punishment itself lawfully limits them;

(c)members who have left and returned; and

(d)the Owner, the President and every Moderator.

§ II.6 Rights cannot be signed away

No member may be asked or required to give up a right as a condition of joining, receiving or keeping a role, taking part in an event or giveaway, or ending a punishment. Any agreement to give up a right has no effect.

§ II.7 Meaning of punishment

In Articles II to IX, “punishment” means any action that puts a member at a disadvantage, including:

(a)warnings, mutes, timeouts, kicks and bans;

(b)deleting or hiding their messages or other content;

(c)removing or withholding roles, XP, levels, candy or any other server currency or item;

(d)removing their access to any channel, voice channel or feature, or applying slowmode, filters or other limits to them alone;

(e)excluding them from events, giveaways, elections, Public Votes or petitions;

(f)removing them from the Moderator role or any other role or office;

(g)threatening them or warning them off, in public or in private, or publicly shaming or humiliating them; and

(h)any other action that would discourage a reasonable member from using their rights.

§ II.8 Meaning of moderation action

In Articles II to IX, “moderation action” means any punishment given because a member is said to have broken the Criminal Code, whether it is given by a person or by a bot.

§ II.9 Reading rights broadly

Rights must be read broadly and limits on them narrowly. When the meaning of any rule is unclear, the reading that best protects the member’s rights must be used.

§ II.10 No retaliation

No member may be punished for using any right, including for appealing, petitioning, voting, asking for information, reporting a breach of this Constitution, or helping another member to do any of these. If a member is punished within 14 days after doing any of these, the person who punished them must show evidence that the member broke the Criminal Code and would have been punished in the same way anyway. If that evidence is not shown, the punishment has no effect.

§ II.11 No indirect action

No one may do indirectly what Articles II to IX forbid them to do directly, whether through another person, a bot, an alternate account, a rule change, a change to permissions or settings, or by asking or allowing someone else to do it.

§ II.12 Examples are not limits

The lists in Articles II to IX are examples. Any action that has the same effect as an action these Articles forbid is also forbidden.

§ II.13 Discord’s Terms of Service

Anyone who relies on Discord’s Terms of Service or Community Guidelines to limit a right must name the specific term that was broken. General references to “safety”, “Discord’s rules” or “protecting the server” are not enough.

§ II.14 Enforcement by Public Vote

If a member appeals an action on the ground that it breaks a right, and the appeal is refused or not decided within 72 hours, any Eligible Member may call a Public Vote to declare the action void. This applies despite § XI.6(a). The vote must be worded so that it does not reveal private information about any member.

§ II.15 Remedy

An action that breaks a right has no effect and must be fully undone: lost roles, XP, levels, items and access are restored, deleted content is restored where possible, and the action is removed from the member’s record.

§ II.16 Abuse of power

Knowingly breaking a right of a member is an abuse of power. For a Moderator, it is misconduct under § XVI.3.

§ II.17 Rights are not a shield

A right does not protect conduct that is an offense under a Criminal Code provision that meets the requirements of Articles II to IX, or that breaks Discord’s Terms of Service. Claiming a right does not stop a lawful moderation action from taking effect while an appeal is decided, unless these Articles say otherwise.

§ II.18 Bad-faith claims

A claim that a right was broken that is made knowingly falsely, or with false or edited evidence, must be dismissed. The member who made it may be punished only if the Criminal Code makes that conduct an offense.

§ II.19 Conflicting rights

If two rights appear to conflict, they must be read together so that each has as much effect as possible.

§ III.1 Every member has the right to freedom of speech and expression on Cubeframe, as set out in this Article.

§ III.2 Scope

Freedom of speech covers every form of expression on Cubeframe, including:

(a)messages, replies, threads and forum posts;

(b)speech in voice channels, video and streams;

(c)reactions, emojis, stickers, GIFs, images, links and attachments;

(d)polls, statuses, bios, usernames, nicknames and profile pictures;

(e)memes, jokes, satire, parody and fiction;

(f)quoting, sharing or reposting what someone else has said; and

(g)choosing not to speak, react or take part.

§ III.3 Right to criticize

Every member may criticize, question, disagree with or make fun of the Owner, the President, any Moderator or any candidate in their public role, and any decision, law, executive order, Public Vote result, amendment, or this Constitution itself.

§ III.4 Right to call for change

Every member may argue for or against any candidate, proposal, veto, executive order, law or amendment; may call on others to vote in a particular way; and may call for the removal of the President, the removal of a Moderator, a change to the Owner’s powers, or a change to any part of this Constitution. This is subject only to § XVIII.6.

§ III.5 Only the Criminal Code limits speech

In line with § II.3, no member may be punished for speech unless that speech is an offense under the Criminal Code. Speech is not an offense merely because it is unpopular, harsh, embarrassing, critical or inconvenient to the Owner, the President or any Moderator.

§ III.6 No punishment for lawful speech

No punishment, as defined in § II.7, may ever be given to a member because of speech that does not break the Criminal Code. This includes threatening them or warning them off, in public or in private, and publicly shaming or humiliating them.

§ III.7 Exception for self-exposure

Despite § III.6, a Moderator may delete or hide content that does not break the Criminal Code if it exposes private information about the member who posted it, such as their real name, address, phone number, school, photos of themselves, or account details. The Moderator must tell the member why it was removed. Removing the content in this way is not a punishment: it may not be counted against the member, it may not be combined with any other punishment, and the member may post the same message again without the private information.

§ III.8 Clear rules only

A Criminal Code offense may limit speech only if it:

(a)describes the forbidden speech clearly enough that a reasonable member can know in advance what is not allowed;

(b)forbids the same speech whoever it is about, so that the Owner, the President and the Moderators receive no more protection from criticism than any other member;

(c)does not forbid any opinion or point of view as such; and

(d)was made under Article XV.

§ III.9 Vague terms

Terms such as “disrespect”, “toxicity”, “negativity”, “causing drama”, “undermining staff” or “bad attitude” may not be used to punish speech unless the Criminal Code defines exactly what they cover, in line with § III.8.

§ III.10 Doubt favors speech

When it is unclear whether speech breaks the Criminal Code, it must be treated as not breaking it.

§ III.11 No pretexts

No one may punish a member for lawful speech by giving a different reason. If a member is punished within 14 days after criticizing the person who punished them, or a decision that person made, the person who punished them must show evidence that the member broke the Criminal Code and would have been punished in the same way had they not criticized. If that evidence is not shown, the punishment has no effect.

§ III.12 Topic, spam and channel rules

Rules about where and how members speak, such as channel topics, spam and slowmode, are allowed only if they apply in the same way whatever opinion is expressed and are not used to silence any member or point of view. Posting a criticism once, or in a channel where it is on topic, is never spam.

§ III.13 A place for criticism

At least one channel open to all members must always exist where criticism of the Owner, the President, the Moderators and their decisions is on topic. That channel may not be deleted, archived, locked or hidden from members, and its rules and slowmode may not be stricter than those of the server’s main general chat.

§ III.14 No permission needed

No member needs permission before speaking. No one may require criticism to be sent only in private, approved in advance, or phrased in a particular way, except as required by an offense in the Criminal Code. No member may be muted or restricted in advance to stop criticism they have not yet made.

§ III.15 Lockdowns

A channel or the whole server may be locked only to deal with a raid, a safety threat or a breach of Discord’s Terms of Service. The reason must be announced publicly, and the lock must be lifted as soon as the threat has passed. A lockdown may never be used to stop criticism or debate. Lockdowns are emergency measures and are also bound by §§ XII.6 to XII.17.

§ III.16 Bots and filters

Bots, AutoMod, word filters and blocklists are bound by this Article in the same way as people. They may block only content that breaks the Criminal Code or Discord’s Terms of Service, except that links not on the link whitelist may be blocked under § XII.19, and may never block the names of the Owner, the President or any Moderator, or words used to criticize them. Any member whose content is blocked may appeal under § IV.8.

§ III.17 Deleting and editing content

Except as allowed by § III.7, § III.25 and § III.26, content may be deleted or hidden only if it breaks the Criminal Code or Discord’s Terms of Service, and the author must be told which rule it broke and why, as required by § IV.2. No one may edit a member’s content so that it says something different, or pin, quote or repost it in a misleading way to make it appear to say something it does not.

§ III.18 Speech outside Cubeframe

No member may be punished on Cubeframe for criticism of Cubeframe, its staff or its decisions made outside the server, including in direct messages, other servers or other platforms.

§ III.19 No forced speech

No member may be forced to praise, apologize, agree, pledge loyalty, or delete or take back past criticism, whether as a punishment, as a condition of ending a punishment, or as a condition of any role, appeal, vote or candidacy. No member may be required to reveal who told them something, or punished for refusing.

§ III.20 Reports against lawful speech

Reports filed against a member for lawful speech must be dismissed. Many reports against the same lawful speech do not make it an offense.

§ III.21 Staff are members too

The President and every Moderator have the same freedom of speech as any other member. A Moderator may criticize the Owner or the President without losing their role.

§ III.22 Powers cannot override this Article

No protected power of the Owner under § XII.1, no executive order, no law, no decision and no emergency measure may limit speech beyond what this Article allows.

§ III.23 Fair appeal

An appeal against a punishment for criticism may not be decided by the person who was criticized. If such an appeal is refused or not decided within 72 hours, any Eligible Member may call a Public Vote under § II.14.

§ III.24 What is not protected

This Article does not protect speech that is an offense under a Criminal Code provision that meets § III.8, or that breaks Discord’s Terms of Service, such as threats, sharing another person’s private information, or illegal content.

§ III.25 Exception for edited messages

Despite § III.6 and § III.17, Cubeframe’s automated system may delete a message that has been edited, even if it does not break the Criminal Code. This is allowed because an edited message can be used to frame a member, which could get their Discord account banned wrongly. Deleting a message under this section:

(a)is not a punishment, may not be counted against the member, and may not be combined with any other punishment;

(b)must be done automatically, to every edited message in the same way, whatever it says and whoever sent it;

(c)may not be used by staff to target any member, opinion or message, or to delete messages that have not been edited; and

(d)does not stop the member from posting the same content again as a new message.

§ III.26 Off-topic content in topic-restricted channels

Despite § III.6 and § III.17, staff or a bot acting for staff may remove off-topic content from a topic-restricted channel, even if it does not break the Criminal Code. A topic-restricted channel is one whose channel description states its topic and that off-topic content may be removed, such as an announcements, showcase or media channel. Removing content under this section:

(a)is allowed only for content that is plainly outside the channel’s stated topic;

(b)must apply in the same way whatever opinion the content expresses, and may not be used to remove criticism that is on topic in that channel;

(c)may never be used in the channel for criticism under § III.13;

(d)is not a punishment, may not be counted against the member, and may not be combined with any other punishment; and

(e)does not stop the member from posting the same content in a channel where it is on topic.

§ IV.1 Every member has the right to be moderated fairly, as set out in this Article.

§ IV.2 Notice

Every member who receives a moderation action must be told, no later than 24 hours after it is taken:

(a)the specific rule of the Criminal Code they broke;

(b)what they did that broke it, including which message or conduct;

(c)the punishment and, if it is temporary, when it ends; and

(d)how to appeal.

§ IV.3 How notice is given

Notice must be given privately, such as by direct message or a private ticket. If that is not possible, it must be given in a way that does not publicly shame the member. A record must be kept of when and how the notice was given.

§ IV.4 No notice, no effect

A moderation action for which notice is not given under § IV.2 has no effect and must be undone. A member may still be muted, timed out or removed from a channel immediately to stop a raid, an immediate safety threat or a breach of Discord’s Terms of Service, as long as notice follows within 24 hours.

§ IV.5 Only Code punishments

Only punishments listed in the Criminal Code for an offense may be given for that offense. No unofficial punishment, such as taking away roles, candy or access, may be given as a penalty unless the Criminal Code lists it.

§ IV.6 Proportionate punishment

A punishment may not be more severe than the Criminal Code allows for the offense and its severity level. A punishment may be made heavier for repeated offenses only where the Criminal Code says so.

§ IV.7 Conflicts of interest

A Moderator may not take a moderation action in a dispute they are personally part of, against a member who has criticized them, or in a case involving a close friend, partner or family member. If urgent action is needed to stop immediate harm, the Moderator may act, but must hand the case to another Moderator or the Owner for review within 24 hours.

§ IV.8 Right to appeal

Every member may appeal any moderation action at any time while it is running, and in any case within 14 days after it was taken. A method for appealing that banned members can use must always be announced.

§ IV.9 Who decides an appeal

An appeal may not be decided by the person who took the moderation action, by anyone personally involved in the incident, or by anyone the member was criticizing. If the Owner and every Moderator are excluded by this rule, the President decides the appeal. If the office of President is vacant, the appeal is decided by Public Vote, worded so that it does not reveal private information about any member.

§ IV.10 Fair hearing

In an appeal, the member may:

(a)see the evidence against them, with private information about other members removed;

(b)give their side of the story; and

(c)submit their own evidence.

§ IV.11 Time limit

An appeal must be decided within 72 hours, with written reasons. If it is not decided in time, § II.14 applies.

§ IV.12 Outcomes

An appeal may uphold, reduce or cancel a moderation action. A punishment may never be increased because a member appealed it.

§ IV.13 Cancelled actions

A moderation action that is cancelled on appeal is fully undone under § II.15.

§ IV.14 No double punishment

No member may be punished twice for the same conduct, except where the Criminal Code lists the punishments as one combined penalty. A moderation action cancelled on appeal may not be given again for the same conduct unless new evidence comes to light.

§ IV.15 Automatic moderation

Actions taken by bots and AutoMod are moderation actions. A member may appeal them, and every such appeal must be reviewed by a person.

§ IV.16 Mass actions

Bans, kicks or purges of many members at once may be used only to stop a raid, bots or spam accounts. Any member caught up in a mass action by mistake must be restored as soon as it is found.

§ IV.17 Moderation record

Every member may ask for their own moderation record and must receive it within 7 days. Cancelled actions must be removed from it.

§ IV.18 Repeated appeals

A member may appeal the same moderation action only once, unless they bring new evidence. Repeated appeals without new evidence may be dismissed without a hearing.

§ V.1 The Criminal Code applies equally to every member, including staff, the President, the Owner and their friends. The only exception is the one set out in § V.14.

§ V.2 Same conduct, same treatment

The same conduct must lead to the same treatment, whatever the member’s role, level, friendships, popularity, time on the server, boosting, donations or wealth in candy or any other server currency.

§ V.3 No exemptions

Except as set out in § V.14, no person or role may be exempt from any rule of the Criminal Code. Staff permissions, such as access to staff channels, are not exemptions from the Criminal Code.

§ V.4 No special protection

Conduct aimed at the Owner, the President or a Moderator is an offense only if the same conduct aimed at any other member would also be an offense, and carries the same punishment.

§ V.5 Offenses by staff

When a Moderator breaks the Criminal Code, another Moderator or the Owner deals with it. No Moderator may moderate themselves or cancel their own punishment. When the Owner breaks the Criminal Code, the offense must be announced publicly and the Owner must serve the same punishment as any other member, as far as Discord allows.

§ V.6 Friends and relatives

A Moderator may not handle a case involving a close friend, partner or family member, and must hand it to another Moderator or the Owner.

§ V.7 Alternate accounts

Alternate accounts of staff are bound by the Criminal Code in the same way as any other account. No one may use an alternate account to avoid a rule or punishment.

§ V.8 No selective enforcement

Rules may not be enforced against some members and ignored for others. A Moderator who knows that several members committed the same breach must treat them the same way.

§ V.9 Matching lighter punishments

If a member shows that another member received a lighter punishment for the same offense in similar circumstances within the previous 30 days, they may appeal to have their punishment reduced to match.

§ V.10 Equal access

Every member has the same access to public channels, events, giveaways and other features, except for:

(a)roles, channels and features that depend on level, the Trusted role or Eligible Member status;

(b)staff channels and tools;

(c)perks that Discord itself gives to server boosters; and

(d)any other requirement that is announced publicly and applies to everyone in the same way.

§ V.11 Giveaways, events and contests

The person who runs a giveaway, event or contest may not win it, or decide its winner in favor of themselves or a friend. Staff and their friends may enter only on the same terms as everyone else.

§ V.12 Server economy

No one may give candy, XP, items or any other server currency to themselves or to a friend, or take them from any member, except under rules that are announced publicly and apply to everyone.

§ V.13 No discrimination

No member may be treated worse because of their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age, or because of their opinions, or how they voted or campaigned.

§ V.14 Owner’s advertising exemption

Any rule of the Criminal Code that forbids advertising or self-promotion does not apply to the Owner. This exemption:

(a)covers only advertising, such as posting invites to other servers or promoting communities, content or social media accounts;

(b)does not allow the Owner to break any other rule of the Criminal Code, Discord’s Terms of Service or the law, including through what is advertised;

(c)belongs to the Owner personally, and may not be given or extended to the President, any Moderator, any other member or any alternate account, except a bot posting on the Owner’s direct instruction;

(d)does not change how the advertising rule applies to every other member, which must still be enforced equally under this Article; and

(e)may not be widened, and no other exemption for any person or role may be created, except through an amendment under Article XX.

§ VI.1 Every Eligible Member may start a Public Vote on a proposal or a veto under Article XI.

§ VI.2 Suggestions by any member

Any member may suggest a proposal. Only Eligible Members may start a Public Vote on it.

§ VI.3 No permission needed

No petition needs the approval of the Owner, the President or any Moderator. If a Public Vote has to be opened by staff, it must be opened within 24 hours after a valid petition is made.

§ VI.4 Valid petitions

A petition is valid if:

(a)it is written clearly enough for members to know what they are voting on;

(b)it asks a single question;

(c)it is not excluded by § XI.6;

(d)it is not a repeat that is blocked by § XI.5; and

(e)the member who starts it has not already started 3 petitions in the previous 7 days.

§ VI.5 Rejection

A petition may be rejected only because it does not meet § VI.4. The reason for any rejection must be announced publicly.

§ VI.6 Wording

No one may change the wording of a petition or its vote options without the agreement of the member who started it. The options must be neutral, such as “For” and “Against”.

§ VI.7 No interference

No one may delay, hide, bury, misdescribe or delete a petition or its Public Vote, or hold the vote in a channel that some Eligible Members cannot see.

§ VI.8 Secret ballot

No one may publish how an individual member voted without their consent, or reward or punish any member for how they voted or whether they signed or supported a petition.

§ VI.9 Consideration of passed petitions

A petition for a new proposal under § XI.4 that passes its Public Vote does not take effect automatically. It must be considered by the Owner and the President, as follows:

(a)each of them may approve or reject it, and if either of them rejects it, it does not take effect;

(b)a rejection must be announced publicly, with the reasons for it, within 14 days after the vote closes;

(c)if neither of them rejects it within 14 days after the vote closes, it is approved automatically;

(d)while the office of President is vacant, the Owner considers it alone;

(e)an approved petition must be carried out within 7 days after it is approved, or, if it needs more time, a plan with a deadline must be announced within those 7 days; and

(f)a rejected petition may not be put to a Public Vote again for 30 days, unless something important about it has changed.

§ VI.10 Carried out in good faith

A petition approved under § VI.9 must be carried out as it was written. It may not be carried out in a way that defeats its purpose, and it may be changed or reversed only by a later Public Vote, or where Discord’s Terms of Service or members’ safety require it.

§ VI.11 No targeting

A petition may not be used to punish, target or single out any individual member.

§ VI.12 Petitions and rights

A petition that would remove or reduce a right in Articles II to IX is valid only as an amendment under Article XIX or, where it applies, Article XX.

§ VI.13 Conflicting results

If two passed petitions conflict, the later one applies.

§ VII.1 Every major decision, whether made by the Owner, the President or a Moderator, every executive order, every law and the result of every Public Vote must be announced publicly.

§ VII.2 Major decisions

A “major decision” is any decision made by the Owner, the President or a Moderator, acting in their role, that applies to members in general or changes how the server works, rather than dealing with one member. It includes any decision to create, change, remove, start or stop any of the following:

(a)channels and categories, including their names, purpose, permissions and slowmode, and whether they are archived or deleted;

(b)roles that members can earn, receive or buy, and what those roles allow;

(c)the server rules or the Criminal Code, or how any rule is generally interpreted or enforced;

(d)the server economy, including candy and any other currency, prices, rewards, shops, and the rates at which XP and levels are earned;

(e)events, giveaways and contests, including their rules, entry requirements and prizes;

(f)who holds the Moderator role, and what Moderators are allowed to do;

(g)bots, including adding or removing a bot, and any bot setting that moderates members, filters content, or affects XP, levels or the economy;

(h)permissions or server settings that affect what members can see or do, including the verification level, invites and who can join;

(i)the server’s name, icon, banner, welcome screen or rules screen;

(j)partnerships, mergers or official links with other servers;

(k)how Public Votes, petitions, elections or appeals are run, including the bot or method used; and

(l)anything else that applies to a group of members rather than to one member.

§ VII.3 What is not a major decision

When it is unclear whether a decision is major, it must be treated as major. Splitting a major decision into several smaller decisions does not stop it from being major. Only the following are not major decisions:

(a)moderation actions against individual members, which are dealt with under Article IV;

(b)small edits to a channel’s topic or description that do not change what the channel is for;

(c)correcting spelling or formatting without changing meaning;

(d)slowmode of up to 1 hour in a single channel to calm a busy conversation;

(e)carrying out an event, giveaway or contest that has already been announced, such as picking winners under its announced rules;

(f)emergency measures, which must instead be announced as required by § VII.4 and Article XII; and

(g)changes to the link whitelist under § XII.19.

§ VII.4 Where and when

Announcements must be made in an official announcements channel that every member can read, before or at the time the decision takes effect. An action taken in an emergency under the Owner’s protected powers must be announced within 24 hours after it is taken.

§ VII.5 What an announcement says

Every announcement must state, in plain language:

(a)what has changed;

(b)when it takes effect;

(c)the reason for it; and

(d)whether it can be vetoed, and until when.

§ VII.6 The veto period

The veto period under § XI.1 starts only when a decision has been announced as required by this Article. A decision that must be announced and has not been announced has no effect.

§ VII.7 No burying

An announcement may not be hidden in a long unrelated message, posted only in a channel few members read, or deleted afterwards.

§ VII.8 No rewriting

An announcement may not be edited to change its meaning. Corrections must be posted as new announcements.

§ VII.9 No false information

No official announcement may be knowingly false or misleading.

§ VII.10 Public records

The following must always be available in a channel that every member can read:

(a)the current text of this Constitution and every amendment;

(b)the current text of the Criminal Code;

(c)the Executive Order Register;

(d)a list of all Public Votes and their results; and

(e)a list of the current Moderators.

§ VII.11 Vote counts

The result of every Public Vote must include the number of votes for and against, and the number of votes declared void under § XVIII.7, without naming any voter.

§ VII.12 Your own information

Every member may ask for their own moderation record, the evidence used against them with other members’ private information removed, and the XP, level and server currency recorded for them. This must be provided within 7 days.

§ VII.13 Questions

Any member may ask the Owner, the President or a Moderator a question about a public decision. It must be answered within 7 days, or the member must be told why it cannot be answered under § VII.14.

§ VII.14 Information that may be withheld

Information may be withheld only if it is:

(a)private information about a member;

(b)a detail that would help raiders, spammers or anyone trying to get around the server’s security, such as exact filter lists;

(c)evidence in a case that is still open, until the case is finished; or

(d)information that Discord’s Terms of Service or the law forbid sharing.

§ VII.15 Saying that information is withheld

When information is withheld, it must be said that it is being withheld and under which part of § VII.14. Its existence may not be denied.

§ VIII.1 Every member may leave Cubeframe at any time and for any reason, without being punished, shamed or asked to explain why.

§ VIII.2 Keeping your standing

A member who leaves Cubeframe keeps their history and standing if they return, including their level, XP, earned roles, the Trusted role, server currency and items, and Eligible Member status.

§ VIII.3 Restoring what was lost

If a bot removed any of these when the member left, staff must restore it on request, as far as the member can show what they had.

§ VIII.4 No wiping

No one may reset or take away a member’s XP, currency, items or roles because they left.

§ VIII.5 Offices and staff roles

The Moderator role is not restored automatically, but a Moderator who left may be appointed again. A President who leaves the server and does not return within 48 hours leaves the office, and the office becomes vacant.

§ VIII.6 Running punishments

A time-limited punishment that was running when a member left does not run while they are away. The time that was left when they left must be served when they return.

§ VIII.7 Open cases

Leaving does not end an open moderation case or appeal. It may be decided while the member is away, and the member must be told of the decision when possible.

§ VIII.8 Kicks and bans

A kick is not a ban. A member who was kicked may rejoin at once, unless the Criminal Code says otherwise, and keeps their history and standing under § VIII.2. A banned member may return only when the ban ends or is cancelled.

§ VIII.9 No blocking return

No member may be banned or blocked from rejoining because they left, why they left, or what they said when leaving.

§ VIII.10 Votes and candidacies

A vote cast before a member leaves still counts. A candidate who leaves during an election is withdrawn. A returning member who meets the requirements is an Eligible Member again immediately.

§ VIII.11 New accounts

A member who returns on a different account keeps their history and standing only if they prove to the Owner that it is the same person. A new account may not be used to escape a punishment, and any running punishment applies to the new account.

§ VIII.12 Private information on leaving

A member who leaves may ask for their private information to be removed from server records, except evidence for a punishment that is still running.

§ IX.1 No member may be punished for an action that was not an offense under the Criminal Code at the time it was done.

§ IX.2 No heavier punishment

No punishment may be heavier than the punishment that was in force for the offense at the time it was committed.

§ IX.3 Lighter punishment applies

If the punishment for an offense is reduced after it was committed, the lighter punishment applies. If an offense is removed from the Criminal Code, any punishment for it that is still running ends.

§ IX.4 When a rule is in force

A new or changed rule applies only to conduct after it takes effect under Article XV. A rule that has not been published is not in force.

§ IX.5 New interpretations

A new interpretation that makes a rule cover conduct it did not clearly cover before counts as a new rule. It applies only to conduct after it has been announced.

§ IX.6 Content still shown

If a status, bio, username, nickname, profile picture or other content that is still shown on the server breaks a rule made after it was first shown, the member must be told and given at least 72 hours to change it before it can be treated as breaking that rule.

§ IX.7 Old messages

A message sent before a rule took effect may never be punished under that rule. It may be removed only if it breaks Discord’s Terms of Service, and the author must be told why.

§ IX.8 Ongoing conduct

Conduct that continues after a rule takes effect may be punished only for the part that happens after the rule takes effect and after any notice required by § IX.6.

§ IX.9 Amendments and emergency changes

This Article also applies to amendments to this Constitution and to changes made under § XV.5.

§ IX.10 Open votes and elections

A change to the rules on voting, elections or who is an Eligible Member does not apply to a Public Vote or election that is already open.

§ IX.11 What was earned

No rule may take away roles, XP, levels, currency or items that were earned lawfully under earlier rules, except by a decision that is announced under Article VII and applies to all members equally.

§ X.1 Only Eligible Members may vote in a Public Vote, an election or a removal vote.

§ X.2 Each Eligible Member has one vote. Each person may vote with one account only.

§ X.3 A Public Vote stays open for 48 hours from the moment it is announced.

§ X.4 A Public Vote passes by simple majority: more than half of the votes cast must be in favor. A tie means the vote fails.

§ X.5 Public Votes are run through the official Cubeframe bot or another method announced in advance, following the procedure in the voting channel under § XVIII.9. Results are published when the vote closes.

§ X.6 The result of a Public Vote is binding on the Owner, the President and the Moderators, except that a petition for a new proposal takes effect only as set out in § VI.9. Veto votes, removal votes, amendments and changes to the Criminal Code are not affected by § VI.9.

§ X.7 Minimum turnout

A vote counts only if at least 3 Eligible Members cast valid votes in it. This applies to every Public Vote, veto vote, removal vote, election, runoff and yes-or-no vote. If fewer than 3 valid votes are cast:

(a)a Public Vote, veto vote, removal vote, petition or amendment vote fails;

(b)an election, runoff or yes-or-no vote is held again, starting within 7 days; and

(c)if an election, runoff or yes-or-no vote fails for this reason twice in a row, the office of President stays vacant until the next scheduled election.

§ XI.1 Every decision announced by the Owner may be challenged by a public veto for 48 hours after it is announced.

§ XI.2 Any Eligible Member may call a veto vote within that window. The vote then runs as a Public Vote under Article X.

§ XI.3 If a veto passes, the decision is reversed and the Owner must undo it as far as possible.

§ XI.4 Any Eligible Member may also petition for a new proposal, such as a new channel, event, rule change or change to the server economy. The proposal is put to a Public Vote and, if it passes, is considered under § VI.9.

§ XI.5 A decision that has been upheld in a veto vote may not be vetoed again for 30 days, unless something important about it has changed.

§ XI.6 The following may not be vetoed or petitioned:

(a)individual moderation actions, such as warnings, mutes, kicks and bans, which have their own appeal process;

(b)actions the Owner takes to keep the server compliant with Discord’s Terms of Service;

(c)changes to bots, permissions and settings needed to keep the server running safely.

§ XII.1 The Owner keeps the following protected powers:

(a)final say on moderation, including bans, raids and safety;

(b)acting immediately to keep the server compliant with Discord’s Terms of Service;

(c)control of server infrastructure, including bots, permissions and settings;

(d)appointing Moderators.

§ XII.2 The Owner is bound by the results of all Public Votes, subject to § VI.9, and may not use protected powers to get around them.

§ XII.3 Every decision of the Owner outside protected powers is subject to the public veto under Article XI.

§ XII.4 The Owner may not run for or serve as President.

§ XII.5 While the office of President is vacant, the Owner performs the President’s duties of approving amendments and signing laws, but may not issue executive orders.

§ XII.6 Emergency measures

An emergency measure may be taken only by the Owner or a Moderator, and only while a raid, a safety threat or an urgent need to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service actually exists.

§ XII.7 What is never an emergency

The following are never a raid, a safety threat or an emergency, however many members take part:

(a)criticism, disagreement, debate or heated discussion;

(b)petitions, veto votes, Public Votes, elections or campaigning;

(c)complaints, appeals or a large number of reports; and

(d)anything that is merely embarrassing or inconvenient to the Owner, the President or any Moderator.

§ XII.8 Least restrictive measure

An emergency measure must be no wider and last no longer than needed to deal with the emergency. If locking or restricting particular channels or accounts is enough, the whole server may not be locked or restricted.

§ XII.9 Aimed at the emergency

An emergency measure must be aimed at the raid, the safety threat or the breach of Discord’s Terms of Service. It may not be used to punish, silence or single out any member, or any opinion, that is not part of the emergency.

§ XII.10 Announcement

Every restrictive emergency measure must be announced publicly as soon as possible, and no later than 24 hours after it begins. The announcement must state:

(a)whether it is because of a raid, a safety threat or Discord’s Terms of Service, and, for the Terms of Service, which specific term;

(b)what was done; and

(c)when the measure will end.

§ XII.11 Time limit

A restrictive emergency measure ends automatically 24 hours after it begins. It may be renewed for up to 24 hours at a time by a public announcement explaining why it is still needed. No restrictive emergency measure may last longer than 72 hours in total unless a Public Vote approves a longer period.

§ XII.12 No restarting the clock

A new emergency measure taken because of the same raid or safety threat counts as a renewal of the earlier one, and counts toward its 72-hour limit.

§ XII.13 Ending a measure

An emergency measure must be ended as soon as the emergency is over, even if its time limit has not run out. The end of every restrictive emergency measure must be announced publicly.

§ XII.14 What emergency measures may not do

An emergency measure may not:

(a)change this Constitution or the Criminal Code, except as allowed by § XV.5;

(b)cancel, close early or change the result of any Public Vote, veto vote or election;

(c)remove the President or any Moderator, or appoint a Moderator;

(d)take away any member’s roles, XP, levels, currency or items, except to undo the damage of a raid; or

(e)punish any member, except through a moderation action that meets Article IV.

§ XII.15 Votes during an emergency

If a restrictive emergency measure stops Eligible Members from taking part in an open Public Vote, veto vote or election, or from calling a veto within the period in § XI.1, that vote, election or period is extended by the length of time the measure lasted.

§ XII.16 Running the server safely

In § XI.6(c), changes “needed to keep the server running safely” means changes needed to deal with a raid, a safety threat, a bot or setting that is broken or compromised, or an urgent need to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service. Other changes to bots, permissions and settings are ordinary decisions and may be vetoed.

§ XII.17 Review

After an emergency measure ends, any Eligible Member may call a Public Vote to declare that it was not justified under this Article. If the vote passes, any lasting effect of the measure must be undone, and taking it counts as an abuse of power under § II.16.

§ XII.18 Blocked content

Content that has been blocked on Cubeframe, whether by a bot, AutoMod, a word filter, the link whitelist or a permission setting, may be allowed again only if a Public Vote approves it and the Owner approves it. This includes links, invites, attachments, embeds, file types and words. The President may not allow blocked content by executive order, by changing a channel’s settings, by signing a law, by approving a petition, or in any other way. This section does not limit the Owner’s powers under § XII.1(c) and § XII.19.

§ XII.19 Link whitelist

The Owner may add links to, and remove links from, the server’s link whitelist at any time without a Public Vote, and these changes may not be vetoed. In using this power, the Owner must respect Article III, and so:

(a)the whitelist must apply in the same way to every member;

(b)no link may be removed from the whitelist, or refused a place on it, because of the opinion it expresses, or because it criticizes Cubeframe, the Owner, the President or any Moderator;

(c)a message that is blocked only because it contains a link not on the whitelist is not an offense, and the member may not be punished for it; and

(d)any member may ask the Owner to add a link to the whitelist.

§ XIII.1 The President is elected by the Eligible Members under Article XVIII.

§ XIII.2 Any Eligible Member may run for President, except the Owner.

§ XIII.3 A presidential term lasts 6 months.

§ XIII.4 No person may serve as President for more than 12 months in any 24-month period.

§ XIII.5 The President has the following powers:

(a)to issue executive orders on channels under Article XIV;

(b)to propose laws and to sign laws passed under Article XV;

(c)to approve or reject amendments passed under Article XIX;

(d)to remove a Moderator for proven misconduct under Article XVI.

§ XIII.6 The President has no other moderation powers. The President may not warn, mute, kick or ban members by virtue of the office.

§ XIII.7 The President is subject to the Criminal Code like every other member.

§ XIII.8 Limit to the main server

The powers of the President apply only to the main Cubeframe Discord server. They do not extend to any other server connected with Cubeframe, including but not limited to the Cubeframe Appeals server. The President may not issue executive orders, take any action as President, or use any other power under this Constitution in those servers, and holding the office of President gives no role, permission or authority in them.

§ XIV.1 The President may issue executive orders. An executive order is binding and takes effect immediately when it is announced.

§ XIV.2 Executive orders may only be used to:

(a)create new channels; and

(b)modify, archive or delete channels that were created by executive order.

§ XIV.3 An executive order may never modify, archive or delete any channel that existed before it, or any channel not created by executive order.

§ XIV.4 For a channel created by executive order, an executive order may change only:

(a)its name and topic;

(b)its slowmode and other channel settings, except as limited by § XII.18;

(c)who can see and post in it, which must be either all members or Eligible Members only;

(d)whether it is archived or deleted.

§ XIV.5 No executive order may create, or turn any channel into, an NSFW or 18+ channel.

§ XIV.6 An executive order may not:

(a)override or conflict with this Constitution;

(b)change the Criminal Code;

(c)affect any moderation decision, including warnings, mutes, kicks and bans;

(d)punish, target or single out any member or group of members.

§ XIV.7 No more than 3 channels created by executive order may exist at the same time. Archived channels do not count toward this limit.

§ XIV.8 The President may issue no more than 3 executive orders in any 7-day period.

§ XIV.9 Every executive order must be announced publicly and include:

(a)its number, issued in order starting from 1;

(b)its full text;

(c)a short written justification explaining why it was issued.

§ XIV.10 An executive order that does not meet § XIV.9 has no effect.

§ XIV.11 When an executive order is announced, a 24-hour veto vote opens automatically. This replaces the 48-hour period in Article X for executive orders only. If a simple majority votes against the order, it is overturned. A tie means the order stands.

§ XIV.12 When an executive order is overturned, any channel it created is archived, not deleted, and any change it made to a channel is undone.

§ XIV.13 An executive order may be amended only by a new executive order. The amending order counts toward the limit in § XIV.8 and gets its own veto vote under § XIV.11.

§ XIV.14 The President may revoke their own executive orders or those of a previous President. A revocation is announced publicly and does not count toward the limit in § XIV.8.

§ XIV.15 When a President's term ends, all channels created by executive order during that term are automatically archived, and the executive orders that created them end.

§ XIV.16 The Owner may archive or remove a channel created by executive order only when it breaks Discord's Terms of Service or puts members' safety at risk. The Owner must announce the reason publicly.

§ XIV.17 A read-only Executive Order Register channel lists every executive order with its number, text, justification, date, veto vote result and current status.

§ XIV.18 An executive order that breaks this Article has no effect. Any Eligible Member may call a Public Vote to declare it void.

§ XV.1 The Criminal Code defines offenses and their punishments, sorted by severity into Tiers 1 to 5, where Tier 1 is the least serious and Tier 5 is the most serious.

§ XV.2 The President, or any Eligible Member by petition, may propose a change to the Criminal Code.

§ XV.3 A change to the Criminal Code takes effect only when it has passed a Public Vote and been signed by the President. While the office of President is vacant, the Owner signs instead. Changes to the protected parts of the Criminal Code are governed by § XX.8 instead.

§ XV.4 A new or changed offense applies only to conduct after it takes effect, in line with Article IX.

§ XV.5 The Owner may make an immediate change to the Criminal Code only when needed to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service. That change must be put to a Public Vote within 7 days, unless it is required by those terms.

§ XVI.1 Moderators are appointed by the Owner.

§ XVI.2 Moderators enforce the Criminal Code fairly and equally, and must tell every punished member the rule broken and the reason.

§ XVI.3 The President may remove a Moderator only for proven misconduct, meaning abuse of moderation powers or a breach of the Criminal Code.

§ XVI.4 Before removing a Moderator, the President must:

(a)write down the misconduct and gather evidence of it;

(b)give the evidence to the Owner and to the Moderator concerned;

(c)allow the Moderator at least 48 hours to respond;

(d)announce the removal and its reason publicly, without revealing private information about any member.

§ XVI.5 A removal without proven misconduct, or without following § XVI.4, has no effect.

§ XVI.6 A removed Moderator may appeal through a Public Vote. If the appeal passes, the Moderator is restored.

§ XVI.7 A Moderator who is removed may be appointed again by the Owner only after 30 days, or earlier if a Public Vote approves it.

§ XVII.1 Any member who can prove that the President committed an offense of Tier 3 or above under the Criminal Code may report it to the Owner with their evidence.

§ XVII.2 If the Owner confirms the evidence, a removal vote is opened and run as a Public Vote under Article X.

§ XVII.3 If a simple majority votes for removal, the President is removed from office immediately.

§ XVII.4 Whether or not the President is removed, the President is punished for the offense in the same way as any other member.

§ XVII.5 When the office becomes vacant, a new election begins within 7 days. The new President serves a full term.

§ XVII.6 Inactivity

A President is inactive if, for more than 14 days in a row, they send no messages on Cubeframe and take no action as President, such as issuing or revoking an executive order, proposing or signing a law, deciding on an amendment, or acting under Article XVI.

§ XVII.7 Inactivity vote

Once the Owner confirms from the server’s records that the President has been inactive for more than 14 days, any Eligible Member may call a vote on whether the President should be removed. The vote runs as a Public Vote under Article X. If a simple majority votes for removal, the President is removed from office immediately.

§ XVII.8 Continued inactivity

If the vote does not remove the President, and the President stays inactive for a further 14 days after the vote closes, the President loses the office automatically, without another vote.

§ XVII.9 Returning to activity

A President who sends a message on Cubeframe or takes action as President is no longer inactive, and any count of inactive days starts again from zero.

§ XVIII.1 A presidential election runs in three stages:

(a)nominations: 3 days, during which Eligible Members may declare their candidacy by following the procedure in the voting channel under § XVIII.9;

(b)campaign: 5 days, during which candidates present their plans;

(c)voting: 48 hours.

§ XVIII.2 The next election begins 10 days before the current President’s term ends, so the new President takes office when the old term ends.

§ XVIII.3 If two or more candidates tie for the most votes, a runoff vote is held between them for 48 hours.

§ XVIII.4 If only one candidate runs, a yes-or-no vote is held. The candidate wins only with more than 50% yes votes. Otherwise nominations reopen.

§ XVIII.5 If no candidate runs, nominations reopen once. If still no candidate runs, the office stays vacant until the next scheduled election.

§ XVIII.6 The following are forbidden in any election or Public Vote:

(a)voting with alternate accounts or having others vote on your behalf;

(b)buying or selling votes, including with candy or any other server currency;

(c)threatening, pressuring or harassing voters or candidates.

§ XVIII.7 Votes cast in breach of § XVIII.6 are void.

§ XVIII.8 If it is proven that a candidate was involved in a breach of § XVIII.6, the candidate may be disqualified. Breaches are also punished under the Criminal Code.

§ XVIII.9 The voting channel

A channel named “⭐・voting”, or any later name it is given, must always exist in Cubeframe and be readable by every member. It sets out the procedure for:

(a)declaring candidacy for President;

(b)voting in presidential elections, runoffs and yes-or-no votes; and

(c)voting in Public Votes.

§ XVIII.10 Following the procedure

A candidacy or vote counts only if it is made by following the procedure set out in the voting channel. A candidacy or vote that follows the procedure, and is made by a member entitled to make it under this Constitution, may not be refused.

§ XVIII.11 Limits on the procedure

The procedure in the voting channel:

(a)must be posted before nominations open, and before any Public Vote is announced;

(b)may not add any requirement to run or to vote beyond those in this Constitution;

(c)may not be changed while nominations, an election or a Public Vote is open, except to fix a fault that stops members from following it; and

(d)may be changed only by a public announcement, and any change is a major decision under § VII.2.

§ XVIII.12 If the voting channel cannot be used

If the voting channel cannot be used, or its procedure cannot be followed for a reason that is not the member’s fault, the nominations or voting period is extended by the time lost, and members may use another method announced publicly until the channel can be used again.

§ XVIII.13 Counting votes

Votes in every election and Public Vote are counted by the official Cubeframe bot. Where § XVIII.12 applies, they are counted by the backup method that was announced. The result recorded by the bot or that method is the official result.

§ XVIII.14 Publishing results

The official result must be published as soon as the vote closes, as required by § VII.11. Until a dispute under § XVIII.15 is decided, the published result stands.

§ XVIII.15 Disputing an election

Any member may dispute the result of an election, runoff or yes-or-no vote by reporting it to the Owner, with evidence, within 48 hours after the result is published. A dispute may be made only on the ground that:

(a)votes were cast in breach of § XVIII.6;

(b)the bot or backup method recorded or counted votes wrongly; or

(c)the election did not follow this Constitution or the procedure in the voting channel.

§ XVIII.16 Deciding a dispute

The Owner must decide a dispute within 72 hours and announce the decision and the reasons publicly. The Owner may uphold the result, remove void votes under § XVIII.7 and correct the result, have the votes counted again, or order the election to be held again, starting within 7 days.

§ XIX.1 Any Eligible Member or the President may propose an amendment to this Constitution.

§ XIX.2 An amendment is adopted when it passes a Public Vote and is approved by the President. Amendments to protected provisions are governed by Article XX instead.

§ XIX.3 While the office of President is vacant, the Owner approves amendments instead.

§ XIX.4 Every adopted amendment is published with its date and added to this Constitution.

§ XX.1 Protected provisions

The following parts of this Constitution are protected:

(a)the Owner’s protected powers in § XII.1;

(b)the Owner’s advertising exemption in § V.14;

(c)the emergency rules in § I.2(h) to (k) and §§ XII.6 to XII.17;

(d)the office of President and the election system, set out in § I.2(b) and (d) and in Articles XIII, XIV, XVII and XVIII;

(e)the rules on blocked content and the link whitelist in § XII.18 and § XII.19; and

(f)this Article.

§ XX.2 Protected rights

A change that would reduce any right in Articles II to IX below the level set out in those Articles as originally published on October 25, 2026 is also protected. A right that is added or strengthened by a later amendment is not protected, and it may be changed or removed through Article XIX, as long as the change does not reduce any right below that original level.

§ XX.3 Changing a protected provision

An amendment that changes, suspends or removes a protected provision, or that is protected under § XX.2, takes effect only if:

(a)it passes a Public Vote under Article X; and

(b)the Owner approves it.

§ XX.4 Role of the President

The President may propose an amendment under this Article, but may not approve or reject it. § XIX.2 and § XIX.3 do not apply to it.

§ XX.5 No indirect changes

No executive order, law, decision or emergency measure may change, suspend or get around a protected provision. An amendment to any other part of this Constitution that would have that effect, such as by changing a definition, is itself protected and needs the Owner’s approval under § XX.3.

§ XX.6 Doubt

When it is unclear whether an amendment changes a protected provision, it must be treated as doing so.

§ XX.7 Protected parts of the Criminal Code

The following parts of the Criminal Code are also protected:

(a)the Owner’s advertising exemption in § I.4 of the Criminal Code and the note on it under Chapter 12;

(b)§ I.7(g) of the Criminal Code, which says that the President is not staff;

(c)escalation to the Owner under § VII.9 of the Criminal Code;

(d)Offenses 1.2 and 1.3 (inciting harassment, and threats);

(e)Offenses 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 (private information and extortion);

(f)Offenses 3.2 and 3.3 (using self-harm as an insult, and encouraging self-harm);

(g)Offenses 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 (discrimination and bigotry);

(h)Offenses 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6 (protection of minors);

(i)Offenses 7.2 and 7.3 (explicit sexual content, and graphic violence and shock content);

(j)Offense 9.2 (piracy);

(k)Offenses 13.2, 13.3 and 13.4 (scams, malware and phishing, and raids);

(l)Offenses 15.2 and 15.3 (impersonation);

(m)Offense 18.1 (other breaches of Discord’s Terms of Service); and

(n)Offense 19.1 (abuse of moderation powers).

§ XX.8 Changing protected parts of the Criminal Code

Despite § XV.3, a change that alters, weakens or removes a part of the Criminal Code listed in § XX.7, including an offense’s definition, tier or punishment, takes effect only if it passes a Public Vote under Article X and the Owner approves it. A change to another part of the Criminal Code that would change how a protected offense is punished, such as a change to the punishment ladder or wipe period of its tier, is also protected. The President may propose such a change, but may not sign or refuse it. This does not limit § XV.5.

§ XX.9 Offense 19.1 and the Owner

Any change to Offense 19.1 of the Criminal Code that the Owner approves must include a clause stating that the original version of Offense 19.1, as published on October 25, 2026, continues to apply to the Owner. A change without that clause has no effect. Where the original version is stricter than the changed version, the original version applies to the Owner, so that no change can make Offense 19.1 less strict for the Owner.

§ XX.10 The server’s name

The name of the server, Cubeframe, is protected. It may be changed only if a Public Vote under Article X approves the new name and the Owner approves it, except where a change is needed to comply with Discord’s Terms of Service under § XII.1(b). No petition, executive order, law, decision or emergency measure may change it otherwise. If the name is changed under this section, references to Cubeframe in this Constitution and the Criminal Code mean the server under its new name.

§ XXI.1 This Constitution was written on October 24, 2026 and takes effect when published on October 25, 2026.

§ XXI.2 The election system begins on November 1, 2026 if, during the week of October 25 to 31, 2026, more than five members:

(a)chatted in Cubeframe;

(b)each earned at least 25 XP from chatting during that week; and

(c)are each at least Level 5.

§ XXI.3 If the condition in § XXI.2 is not met, it is checked again at the end of each following week. The election system begins on the first day after a week in which the condition is met.

§ XXI.4 Until the first President takes office, the Owner performs the duties set out in § XII.5.