Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proxy Fixes

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/21/03 at 10:47 PM Adam Hill wrote:

>--- "Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I don't buy that.  If a bunch of people vote together, it overwhelms
>everyone anyway.  If a bunch of people arrange to vote together via the
>actions of a single person, that's not different from everyone voting
>together.  The giving of proxies has to be done on the public forum, and
>the possession of proxies is recorded on the roster.  It's not something
>that's going to accidentally sneak up on people.  If someone has a
>majority of votes through proxy, it's because a majority of people are
>willing to vote all the same way.
>>
>>						Glotmorf
>
>Yes, but that's assuming that a proxy giver agrees completely with the
>proxy receiver, which is practically impossible.  For example, bd and I
>usually vote the same way, so if I needed to proxy I would proxy to em.
>But there are always going to be votes where bd and I disagree.  If
>everyone gives their votes to bd, and bd doesn't agree with all of those
>people on one particular vote out of many, then that screws up the
>majority system.  It doesn't mean that there's an alliance, or that bd is
>scheming; it means that popular opinion gives way to compromised opinion.
>The one-proxy-per-person rule is standard in legislative arenas, and I
>think it would work better in our paradigm as well.

Not sure which legislative arenas you're talking about.  It's a common occurrence in stockholder voting for a given person to hold the proxies for hundreds or thousands of minority shareholders.  And the last two homeowner associations I was in would ask for residents to give proxies to one of the board members of their choosing to ensure a quorum.

Besides..."because everyone else does it that way" usually isn't the most powerful argument possible in a Nomic game...:)

						Glotmorf

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