SoyBooru Senate

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The SoyBooru Senate was an assembly of Ϫ (rounded up to 7) elected representatives that served as a mediating body for SoyBooru referendums. Its primary duty was to review the consequences of passed referendums before implementation and veto any it deemed unsuitable.

All senate members pre-dissolution.

History

Following the creation of SoyBooru's referendum system by Cobblestone, a flurry of referendums emerged seeking to effectively ban members of the site's administration. Most notably, a referendum banning Mustard from using the site was passed but was never implemented, prompting calls for the referendum system to be completely reworked or abolished.

On June 27, 2026, the proposed constitution for the SoyBooru senate was posted for a vote. It received an immediate influx of support, while prospective senators began announcing their candidacies in the metadiscussion section of the Boorum. The referendum passed the following day, adding the Senate to the official rules and formally beginning the race for its seats.

Polling was subsequently held, with the leading candidates including Gold, Hate, H3K, muscular_engineer, CobsonTALKS, Turrican, and Hans_Amsler.

On June 30, 2026, after a wave of low-quality Senate election advertisements flooded the gallery, election posts were prohibited there, with violations carrying a one-day ban.

Constitution

Rule 15: The Soybooru Senate shall be created in accordance with the following sub-rules.

1. The Soybooru Senate shall consist of thrembo Senators, rounded up to 7 to prevent tied votes.
2. The Senate shall have the power to approve or deny referendums. It shall choose among itself by majority decision whether to approve or deny them. No referendum shall be passed without the approval of the Senate, regardless of the results of any popular vote attached therein.
3. Election: If the Senate lacks any number of members, they shall be elected as follows: The longest-serving Senator, or (if there are no Senators) an admin, shall make a forum post asking for senatorial candidates. Users may recommend themselves or others as candidates on their behalf. After a three-day period, a vote with each candidate listed as an individual choice shall be held. Senatorial election votes shall have options "Multiple Choice" and "Display Voters" enabled, with an expiration time of 72 hours. When the vote expires, vacant Senate seats shall be filled by candidates in order from most votes to least until all vacant seats are filled.
   In the event two or more users are tied with the most votes for any Senate seat, a runoff vote shall be held for this seat containing only those users as candidates, but otherwise conducted in the same manner as other Senatorial elections.
4. Recall: Individual Senators can be recalled at any point, for any reason, by a forum post demanding such action and containing a vote of at least 100 votes with 75% or greater "yes". Recall votes shall be posted in the same manner as referendums but with the option "Display Voters" enabled. If a recall vote is successful, the recalled Senator shall immediately cease their senatorial duties and be removed from the Senate. The Senate shall not veto any Senatorial recall.

How it works

Due to how poorly written and confusing the original constitution was, the senate has been reworked multiple times by Mustard himself. When someone creates a referendum, which must be labeled as either [forum] or [booru] depending on which part of the site it affects. Instead of users deciding the outcome through a direct vote, senators vote on the referendum, publicly explain their reasoning, and may follow or override popular opinion, but Mustard retains the authority to dissolve the senate, invalidate referendums, and disregard proposals. This was done so that senators have power to accomplish things but not give them unreasonable amounts of power like the original constitution proposed.

Potential constitutional issues

Referendum lockout

Due to the wording within the Senate constitution, it may be impossible to legally pass referendums anymore, as subsection 2 of rule 15 states that:

>No referendum shall be passed without the approval of the Senate

This would imply that all referendums are inherently "unpassed" until the senate approves them regardless of having achieved the requirements needed for passing, and therefore cannot be voted on by the Senate as they can only vote after a referendum has passed as clarified by Mustard.

Indefinite abstention

The senate has no mechanism to handle abstentions within voting in the senate, meaning that a malicious senator could indefinitely stall voting on a referendum by refusing to vote on the matter, resulting in a tied vote.

July 2026 Senate elections

On July 1, 2026 senate elections began, slated to finish on July 4, 2026.

The elections concluded mostly uneventfully^{[It just did, ok?]} and the following senators were elected and given an optional special magenta name:

• H3K ('ki page)
• Hate
• Gold
• muscular_engineer
• CobsonTALKS ('ki page)
• Aryan_Warrior
• Coemskong

Full results

Click to expand results table

Name	Votes	Percentage
KILLTRANNIES	14	0.4%
MarketPliers	28	0.9%
cobaltstone	11	0.3%
sackz2	8	0.2%
Wow	13	0.4%
Prince_Narcissist	62	1.9%
RealSammyplop	22	0.7%
Garzon	18	0.6%
moss	12	0.4%
N_A	13	0.4%
Gendarmor	9	0.3%
swag	10	0.3%
Uncle_Spaghettio	20	0.6%
Vale	56	1.7%
Turrican	83	2.6%
silohpso_	10	0.3%
Ranch	7	0.2%
Gloot	6	0.2%
MazelTV	21	0.7%
Goop	7	0.2%
Nobeidore	46	1.4%
Colorlesspy	14	0.4%
Vergilius	18	0.6%
Som3phono	10	0.3%
MEKLAV	25	0.8%
mendoza_chud	6	0.2%
helichadian	9	0.3%
Nuniggar	16	0.5%
Kaiser	36	1.1%
grinshrek	12	0.4%
sarmatian	16	0.5%
rayenari	16	0.5%
WicklowFrog	14	0.4%
soycheckmark	15	0.5%
Chud0	11	0.3%
Deece	9	0.3%
Coemskong	87	2.7%
Fen	19	0.6%
cucumber	9	0.3%
Dino	19	0.6%
QQlive	7	0.2%
nobaldi	39	1.2%
Olgol	43	1.3%
Emerald	18	0.6%
Texan_Bvll	41	1.3%
H3K	120	3.7%
Dysprosium	12	0.4%
Jableh	22	0.7%
Eshelionite	16	0.5%
Vashkentya	14	0.4%
lunchfordinner	10	0.3%
cranberrygiga5	8	0.2%
Fellow_Scotsman	37	1.1%
autisticnuswa1488	35	1.1%
el_kentubano	16	0.5%
Mymykiller1488	17	0.5%
CascadiaWON	35	1.1%
Govnoje	19	0.6%
alson2	50	1.6%
Funnybenny18	86	2.7%
___	19	0.6%
Owais	10	0.3%
krest1kk	10	0.3%
TexasPal1143	40	1.2%
snoop_cob	12	0.4%
27caca46	22	0.7%
pivKom__	9	0.3%
ToprACK	14	0.4%
williamafton147	8	0.2%
Pseudo	22	0.7%
MymyWABAG	35	1.1%
sulfurald	8	0.2%
AndreyVlasovREAL	11	0.3%
Admre	37	1.1%
Aryan_Warrior	94	2.9%
booruaccount	8	0.2%
Glisterald	14	0.4%
Pineapple	48	1.5%
luthanasia	17	0.5%
Sawoot	8	0.2%
AdolfTrumpson	11	0.3%
failkeeeek	9	0.3%
Gold	147	4.6%
Hans_Amsler	83	2.6%
sourpatch	8	0.2%
million	13	0.4%
math	13	0.4%
Wikingtog88	33	1.0%
Garf	18	0.6%
Acoustic	14	0.4%
spongie	28	0.9%
andyverse	53	1.6%
Aishi	6	0.2%
barabeero	6	0.2%
sisa9000	25	0.8%
Margarine_Man	65	2.0%
loot	11	0.3%
FishyFishyFIsh	15	0.5%
Beni	28	0.9%
Sigma_nigga45	10	0.3%
Dr_Ek	8	0.2%
SNCAenthusiast	11	0.3%
CobsonTALKS	109	3.4%
FillKaggots	14	0.4%
Bluntmore	6	0.2%
Rubycon	20	0.6%
dinotoast23	26	0.8%
sneeperino	7	0.2%
IsaYermaw	12	0.4%
TLD7777	12	0.4%
Onzikn	20	0.6%
NemanjaVidih	9	0.3%
muscular_engineer	110	3.4%
Hate	114	3.5%
Blackred	19	0.6%
UMAMI	7	0.2%
Metro2033	47	1.5%
mreps	18	0.6%
quiddy	20	0.6%
NJr	16	0.5%
DelawARYAN	31	1.0%
rittie	14	0.4%
soiteenoualgoassimil	15	0.5%
Slvt4BIBISI	33	1.0%

Aftermath

Immediately following the end of the election on July 4, 2026, senator Gold would call for the unpinning of the initial referendums thread, claiming that the senate existed to approve or deny referendums regardless of vote share, this was met with a large amount of backlash from other users as Gold failed to even understand what his role as senator even was and the rules regarding how referendums work, resulting in him getting threadbanned from the referendum thread.

A constitutional crisis would emerge as senator muscular_engineer would claim that the senate was in fact able to pass referendums that received 100% no votes, despite the senate rules never stating that the senate can nor should be able to do this, and the discovery that senators are able to indefinitely stall referendums by abstaining from voting.

Senator Gold would later attempt to claim that Mustard had granted senators a 1/7th vote in all referendums from one comment he made stating that the senate would "[...] convert referendums into a republic focused system", implying that senators were chosen representatives to make choices on the behalf of voters. Mustard would then go on to state that he had changed his mind on the republic system and that senators had to have referendums passed in order to do this, causing senator Gold to leak his clitty all over the boorum and get forcibly removed as senator by Mustard after having admitted to trying to use the senate to install himself as an admin, he served for a total of 4 hours. Funnybenny18 was then chosen as Gold's replacement by Mustard. CobsonTalks would attempt to bring Gold back as a senator but this did not work as he failed to properly format the referendum.

Senator muscular_engineer would also attempt to amend rule 15.2 in order to let senators pass referendums without the need for a poll and turn the senate into an oligarchy. However this was met with overwhelming backlash from most users.

The Poopocaust

Dozens of literal who's would commit suicide via janny and get themselves banned for posting poop a rule created via referendum, including former booru admin Cobblestone. All of the poop bans forced Mustards hand to nullify all previous referendums and re-work how the entire system works. All previous referendums were to be wiped and considered null and void, with everyone who was banned from these referendums being unbanned.

This was later reverted and all people who were banned for poopposting were unbanned.

Well, that was quick.

The Senatecaust

H3K loses his senator role, as other senators do

On July 7, 2026 the senate was dissolved entirely by Mustard. His reasoning behind it was that it was too large of a scope to reasonably work. The senate would only end up lasting 3 days after being implemented. Coemskong, one of the 7 senators, demanded Mustard to resign over this incident and doubted over the reasons Mustard gave to shut it down.

See also

• List of SoyBooru senators
• /dem/
• Direct Democracy Week