I've already attempted to explain why I believe Auphelia is corrupt, yet I attempted that in a rather contemporary way. While I will also attempt to rephrase to make more sense with the same evidence while also presenting new evidence to further prove Auphelia's corruption.

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According to the Criminal Code, corruption is a crime:

Quote:(7) Corruption shall be defined as the misuse of public office for private or personal advantage.

This is the part I've already explained, so I'll just quote what I said before:

Quote:A current Local Councillor, Auphelia, is very corrupt. I originally described this on the RMB. I am now making a criminal complaint. I'll restate what I had originally said on the RMB to be more specific:
Auphelia is always pulling new RMB rules out of thin air. It seems as if she suppresses something that follows every single rule in Midand's etiquette dispatch every single day by now. A great example is when I used "crap" on the RMB. She claimed it was "inappropriate language". While inappropriate language is illegal on the RMB, the term "crap" isn't really inappropriate and she claims it's to protect the children. This, however, isn't a very great example. A better example is when she claims it's exploding in debate and flaming / trolling when somebody disagrees with her. The linked post is only one example, she's done this many times.
The one thing I have yet to explain is how this benefits her. If she "enforces" the rules, then people are obviously going to think more highly of her. A good example is when Erithaca, who moves to different NS regions to score them, gives a higher regional score for double-posting rules. You can find a lot of examples of this, however. A minority of people, which includes me and Techolandia, are the only people that actually attempt to give feedback when she does this. Because me and Techolandia are only a minority, most people seem to think she's just enforcing the rules, especially the origin of the (as of now) 8 upvotes of her LC campaign dispatch.

I also later added this argument:

Quote:Auphelia has quote edited in a negative way in an attempt to hurt my Local Council campaign. My original post was a small joke about TSSS, but Auphelia quote edited to make it seem as if I would be the biased LC that she is. I even tried to call her out on it right after by explaining what rule she broke, but she completely ignored it and (likely) thought I was only joking.

However, I didn't explain why this was corruption. She pretty much only gets to do this because she's an LC. If somebody else was there to suppress it, it would've been suppressed. She basically abuses her position as LC to do whatever the hell she wants. I also have another example of this:
As described by Siames in the other thread, she illegally roleplays a lot on the RMB. She was not only part of an RP that was in the RMB, but she later suppressed the RP she was part of for being illegal, because roleplay on the RMB is illegal, but also because it was inappropriate. If that RP was really inappropriate, then she contributed to it, because she was a part of that RP. She wouldn't be able to roleplay on the RMB if she wasn't an LC, because then an LC would suppress it. She clearly likes to roleplay on the RMB, and is abusing her position as LC to illegally do it. She's also abusing her power to suppress things simply because she likes suppressing things. Although I can't find actual evidence of it, she has said before that she likes suppressing posts.
I also had this point:

Quote:Read through this page of the RMB. Basically what's happening/happened is Auphelia tells Midand that she's in trial for corruption. She makes it a big deal to Midand and nobody else because she's obviously trying to use her position as LC to her advantage and is likely looking for the other LC members to be defensive of her. It doesn't appear to be working, but I think she's clearly trying to do that.

Midand did later go into the thread for the previous complaint and defend her.
Although I probably should've been more clear about this other point I made in the thread, I still made it. To summarize, Auphelia tries to be the LC. She basically has taken over the LC by contradicting them so much to the point where the other LCs may as well not even be present. This gives her personal benefit because she gets to be the only one to actually make a difference in the RMB and be a "good" LC that "enforces" the rules. This is obviously going to make people think more highly of her and less highly of the other LC candidates. For example, if you take a look at prelim round 2 for the current LC elections, you'll see that a lot of people are getting more votes than Midand. It's clearly because basically the only thing Midand is doing is maintaining the RMB etiquette dispatch and the TSP Regular. (In my opinion) Midand is also a great LC. I'd also like to use my points in the other thread:

Quote:She doesn't work with other members at all, which you'd think wouldn't be required. If you take a look at this post and the entire RMB page with it, you'll see that another Local Councillor, Havenfell, completely allows swearing. This entire thing happened because I said "dammit" in this post. I even directly tell Auphelia in this post that another LC during the same term had absolutely no problem with it and completely allowed it, but she just doesn't care. She doesn't even work with the other LC members and could probably care less about them.

Quote:In other words, she is basically acting as the entire Local Council and not taking criticism about it.

EDIT: Another great example of Auphelia contradicting other LCs: https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=31296369.
Both Midand and Havenfell clearly have no problem with inappropriate language, yet she does.

However, you're probably also wondering why I didn't just call this thread "Auphelia is Corrupt {2}". Well, here's why: She also might be breaking the Local Council Laws. I don't have much evidence to back this up, though. If we take a look at this quote from Auphelia:

Quote:I have NS 8 tabs open, have 3 RMB's ongoing, and am managing 4 different RP's and you don't see me double posting now, do you?

From this statement alone we can tell that Auphelia is moderating 4 other RMBs, meaning she might (theoretically) have positions in other regions which aren't stated in her conflict of interest in Tsunamy's LC election dispatch. This breaks the law:

Quote:- Any nation running must be a resident of The South Pacific, and all candidates must file a Conflict of Interest disclosure, detailing their positions in other regions.

which can be found in the Local Council Laws dispatch.