spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal Revision: The Bank

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Dan Waldron:
> 
> The following is the first revision of my proposal 347
> 
> [[This is a major revision.  I have essentially rewritten the whole thing
> here and added in a lot of stuff, including rules for dealing with
> debtors, ways for the Banker to act on behalf of the bank, Motions
> submittable by any agent that can require (and allow) the bank to take a
> wide variety of actions.]]
> 
> 
> Enact a rule entitled "The Bank" with text as follows:
> 
> The Bank is an agent, but not an eligible voter.
> 
> If a debt owed the Bank is overdue the Bank may submit a Motion for
> Repayment of that debt, at the discretion of the Banker.
> 
> A Bank Motion is a motion that, once submitted, becomes a Ballot Item on
> the next nweekly voting.  A Bank Motion should describe one or more
> actions to be performed by the Bank.  If it passes, a Motive Order is
> issued for the Bank to perform those actions.
> _____
> 
> Enact a rule entitled "The Banker" with text as follows:
> 
> The Office of The Banker is an elective office.  It is the responsibility
> of the Banker to post actions to the public forum for the Bank.  There are
> some decisions that must be made and some actions that must be performed
> by the bank.  This office acts as the decision-making and
> action-performing part of the Bank.
> 
> If a CFJ finds that the Banker has not allowed the Bank to perform its
> required duties within a reasonable length of time e is expelled from the
> office and fined fifty points.
> 
> It is up to the Banker to decide what actions the Bank will take, and post
> those actions to the public forum.  Eir nweekly report should include a
> summary of all actions taken by the Bank in that nweek, and also a list of
> the scores of each player and all debts owed by or owed to the bank.

Why should the Banker be responsible for Player's scores? Shouldn't the Bean Counter do that, especially since the Bean Counter (if we have one) will be doing that anyway?