“Appeals are sent to Conclave.” As an RO, I direct people specifically to the Viceroy. I suppose I assumed that contacting a Viceroy and requesting appeal is how it’s presented. Before we get back to this, let’s address the sections Nociav brought up.
“Additionally, any Citizen may appeal to the Conclave via trial on any government action taken against them.”
This, I interpret as separate from the right to appeal RMBRA bans, which is secured by statutory law, and not explicitly denied by the Concordat. The Concordat does say that citizens can appeal action against them, but it doesn’t have anything I can see that prevents laws from saying “Former citizens can appeal their bans, too”.
As such, I do not believe this section is inherently relevant. Sure, the Concordat doesn’t say that non-citizens have the right, but it doesn’t say they can’t be granted it outside of the Concordat. This is where statutory law comes in - The RMBRA, specifically, which does extend this right.
“A request for an appeal must be presented to Conclave in the form of an application by any party in that suit, the Delegate, or any Arbiter.”
Presented to Conclave does not inherently mean “Presented in the Conclave forum.” Of course, this does make the most sense, because this is where Judicial Review and Advisory Questions are presented, HOWEVER, the SOC specifically covers this - “2.1.2- Upon receipt of request, the Viceroy shall initiate public and private threads which outline the bill in its entirety, along with the end-date for the deliberation of the law.“ for Judicial Review and “This must be done in an approved manner, if specified.” for Advisory Questions.
Trials are also in forum threads because of the SOC - 2.3.3, specifically, for those interested. As appeals are not covered in the SOC, these don’t apply to them.
On top of that, one can see in 2.3.2 that the SOC does have precedent for using other forms of communication to do conduct Conclave business: “The Viceroy shall at this point notify the parties involved via telegram, forum message, or other applicable communications with the dates as well as posting it in the public thread.”
Why is any of this relevant? It does two things. (1) Proves that forums are not the official medium for all things Conclave, and thus appeals don’t need to be on forums, and (2) provides precedent for official Conclave communication outside the forums.
Based on these discoveries, I can safely say that contacting Conclave - especially through the Viceroy - is how appeals are made, and thus the medium used - forum, discord, telegrams, twitter DMs - does not matter. This brings me back to my original assumption as RO that directing banned individuals to the Viceroy is the way to do it. I would say this method is as official as making a thread in the Conclave forum, and is even better in that it means I don’t have to answer your second question - because they don’t have to do it here.
I may have missed a clause somewhere that undoes everything I’ve said, so if so please point it out.
P.S. As for OOC bans being brought up with Admin, I agree only if those bans are ordered by admin. For bans through the RMBRA, Conclave does handle that. It is an IC law and violations are thus inherently IC and addressed by the relevant IC body. Since the RMBRA doesn’t refer to the Article G admins, they aren’t involved with RMBRA bans. If someone violated the RMBRA and Admins ordered their ban based on it, yes that would be Admin, but without Admin order, the ban isn’t OOC. I agree completely with Comrade Padoru Bear on this. (Good luck to future historians with this.)