Some of you new Oranges have submitted requests to join the exclusive /r/GroveRepublic and for your verified flair.

This is great!

However some of you have waited nearly a week for this.

This is not great.

I am terribly sorry for the long wait. I have to assign access and flairs manually and I have not had the time recently due to problems IRL.

All those who sent requests have been added or flaired. If your request has not been answered please send it again and I will add it as soon as possible.

Thank you for your understanding.

/u/filthyplatypus has given back the subreddit and I have fixed all the damage they have done. A bit late now but time to rejoice!

Also join your orange brethren in /r/TheButtonMinecraft

The /r/Emerald_Council has agreed to an alliance!

I don't know how I feel about this. I knew deep down that democracy was a terrible idea.

Oranges of /r/thebutton must know freedom and democracy.

Verified oranges in addition to getting access to voting in /r/GroveRepublic also get an Orange flair here. If you haven't received your orange flair please send me a PM.

There is a new poll in /r/GroveRepublic, if you are an Orange and would like to vote on future policies please come and vote.

67% of the subreddits current population has voted and it's results are unaminous.

I thank everyone who voted and the winners will be modded. I intend that the oranges will be the first fully fledged button democracy with every policy being voted upon.

To vote for current propositions click here!

The button Olympics have started over at /r/ButtonOlympics! Be sure to support our team of the Button Grove - Redguard Alliance!

What makes you two factions different? Are you religiously orange, and they casually? Or vice-versa? What are your views on the button and other colors?

The terrorists have been eliminated. It appears they were from /r/theBluetherhood and they hung a /r/Periwinkle battle flag and were quoted "Periwinkle will rise again!" and "Death to /r/Orangered!". Obviously they wanted to kill the button equivalent of Orangereds.

Welcome to life under my iron fist. It will be incredibly unpleasant for you.

Every month, taxes 2x that of your yearly income are to be paid. Failure to fufill this debt will result in a life sentence to the Gulag.

Speaking out against me or any other mods is strictly prohibited. Life in the Gulag. This is a very subjective area of sentencing, so I'll lay out some rules.

1. This rule is up to the discretion of any mod

Disagreeing with mods also is a life sentence to the Gulags.

Attempting to coordinate anti-moderator peace efforts (here or in /r/UnitedColors) is punishable by life in the Gulags for you and your family.

Failure to use high-tier adjectives such as "great", "powerful", "benevolent", "supreme", "wise", or anything of the sort, before saying the name of a dictator is strictly prohibited.

Any mod (especially myself) can give you life in the Gulag for anything whenever we want.

I will be forming a secret police to patrol the people. Volunteers are to report to me directly, and will receive special privileges under my rule. Bonus points if you rat somebody out as a traitor when you join (whether they are one or not- feel free to abuse this to attack your enemies!).

 
I know what you are all wondering. "But O benevolent Robert, what exactly happens in the Gulags?". That I cannot tell you. All you need to know is that those who are sentenced will not be heard of again.

I'll admit it, mistakes were made.

I bit off far more than I can chew and I am overwhelmed. Not only am I moderating here checking granting flair and letting people into /r/GroveRepublic, making sure everyone is a Orange. I also have to deal with the mess I made in my other subs (namely the poorly time Crusade at /r/ChurchOfTheButton)

So in order to fix this mess I have to change things. The fact that we have 2 subs is redundant. It was necessary in the first days of our beautiful democracy where we had to cut down Shades voting anti-press sentiments (BTW after we made the private sub they stopped completely) but Oranges are no longer a rarity and our grove has grown to an unbelievable size.

From now on you can pick your flair without verification and /r/GroveRepublic will no longer be used.

Sorry for the mess.

Please step forward (and provide proof!):

• /u/Bgro

• /u/Glorious_Debauchery

• /u/Shiklin

• /u/Shrimpables

• /u/BananaMunkey

• /u/Mensae14

• /u/SalamanderNewt

• /u/AnalToothbrush

• /u/p0tatoman

• /u/Emilio_Tagpro

• /u/Maybe_A_Doctor

• /u/DJMarkMoore

• /u/football1

We need to spread the wonderful orangeness once again.

Time to liven up this place with some open, unfettered discussion! Nothing is off the table!

^{Commentary which supports pressing the button most definitely won't not result in a shadowban.}

I'm thinking of making some. Any suggestions for recipes, or tips that make it better/easier to make?

I will start working on the constitution immediately but it may take a while. In the meantime does anyone have any questions?

We have joined /r/UPTO which is a defensive alliance between other presser subreddits. If this subreddit falls to the Shades other member subreddits will come to our aid.

Otherwise nothing else has changed.

The first two questions asked the opinion of the voter among 2 major factions, The Knights and the Assassins. Essentially it asked if the voter was pro or anti press and that would have been a better question but it was 5 am and I still haven't slept when I made the poll. The following results are:

What do you think of Knights of the Button?

What do you think of the Assassins?

The third question asked if they preferred another faction and they were all either sub-factions of Knights or Assassins or a religion.

The 4th question asked which Button religion the voter followed. A lot of Shades and Holy 0 voted which goes against their religion to press the button. The results are:

Button religion of choice?

The last two questions concerned foreign policy. The results were the following.

Contact Lemons and Limes?

Join war against Purples?

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Due to a significant amount of votes voting for a specific faction/religoin is a very short period of time voting fraud is suspected and from now on only Orange citizen of the Grove Republic have the right to vote. If you have an Orange flair please send a message with a post/comment containing your orange flair in /r/thebutton and you will eligible to enter /r/groverepublic/ and vote on future policies and laws.

A place for all oranges!

The first oranges!

CSS is still under construction.

Also vote on policy!

Vote for leadership here!