spoon-business: Proposal: Limitation of Veto Power and Clarification of Administrative Powers

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

_Limitation of Veto, Explicit Clarification of Administrative Powers_

(aka the LOVECAP act)  ;-)

Rationale: To provide checks on the administrative veto power and its
adverse effects on players, whilst also empowering the administrator to
reject technically unfeasible proposals.

Modify Rule 32/6 by adding the following:
  
{{If a proposal would have passed, but is deemed failed *only* due to
the Administrator's veto, then:

a) The author of the proposal shall not gain or lose Charm.  

b) The author of the vetoed proposal also shall not lose points from eir
Score, but gain nd3 points, where n is the number of yes votes received
by the vetoed proposal minus the number of no votes received by the
proposal.  If n is greater than 5, the author shall instead receive 5d3
points.

Any player wishing to override veto of a proposal may do so if the
proposal is resubmitted in a subsequent nweek and at least 3/4 of the
votes counted for it are affirmative.  [[Pretty obvious corollary to the
current text of Rule 32, but I wanted to make it explicitly permitted.]]
}}

Add to the end of rule 126/1: 

{{If at any time a player deems an Administrative action invalid,
believes an Administrative action has altered the ruleset or gamestate
in a manner inconsistent with the rules, or suspects the Administrator
of unfairness, nepotism, or cheating in a given action, eir remedy is to
use the Call For Judgement process.

In the event of a CFJ naming the Administrator as defendant, the duty of
randomly selecting a judge shall fall to the player with the highest
Score.  That player will also be ineligible to judge the CFJ.}}   

Add a rule entitled 
_Powers of Executive Tidiness_

{{
The Administrator is explicitly empowered to do the following:

1) Correct the spelling or grammar of any rule, proposal, or CFJ,
providing such correction does not alter the meaning of that rule,
proposal, or CFJ.
2) Correct the spelling, grammar, or content of any game documents or
web pages, provided such correction does not alter the game state.
3) Make corrections to the game state when system errors, system
downtime, program errors, or other unanticipated system events have
altered the game state in a manner not explicitly permitted by the
rules.
4) Adjust the Clock and/or Watch as necessary to correct for errors
introduced by system errors, system downtime, program errors, or other
unanticipated events.

Should a player object to the Administrator's actions in executing these
powers, eir remedy is the Call For Judgement process.
}}