Resolution queue

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The resolution queue is the top most section of the proposal queue. It is comprised of only proposals that have recieved enough UN Delegate approvals to reach a quorum. Sometimes there are no proposals in the resolution queue, other times there can be more than one page of proposals that received enough UN Delegate approvals to eventually become resolutions.

Just because a proposal is in the resolution queue, does not guarantee that the proposal is legal nor that it will not be removed from the queue by the moderators. In fact, a number of proposals have achieved quorum only to have later been deleted by the moderators for a violation of one of the proposal submission rules. One of the most common reasons for a proposal being deleted even after having achieved quorum is that the moderators were holding private discussions about the most appropriate proposal category for the proposal based on its text.

When multiple proposals have achieved quorum, they will wait in the queue in the order in which they were submitted to the proposal queue. Even if a proposal achieved quorum before another proposal, the proposal that will first leave the resolution queue to become a resolution and be voted on by all UN members will be the proposal that was first submitted to the proposal queue.

Typically proposals do not achieve quorum and reach the resolution queue until the final day of their 4-day proposal queue cycle. This is because it is still difficult to get over 100 UN Delegate approvals in a single day. However, proposals may still gain or lose Delegate approvals even after they have reached quorum. If a resolution is on the UN floor, all of the proposals in the resolution queue will wait until after that resolution has finished voting and the UN server has gone through a full update. This means that there will be a minimum of a half day period between the close of a UN vote on a resolution and the start of a new UN vote. Some proposals have spent weeks in the resolution queue, waiting for other proposals and resolutions to reach the UN floor. Proposals that spend longer periods of time in the resolution queue tend to receive between 200 and 300 approvals before moving from the resolution queue to the UN floor.

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