spoon-business: I second that.

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Man, what a flurry of activity today...

It occurs to me that Poulenc's "Motions to Create or Destroy Points" 
Proposal, P384, needs a mechanism that allows Motions to be seconded. So, 
here is a Proposal to do create such a mechanism, (and also change the 
oft-amended Rule 230 to reflect seconding and make consent even more 
flexible).

So, I submit the following Proposal, entitled "I Second That":

1. Create a new Rule entitled "Consent by Seconding", with the following 
text:

"An Approvable Motion requiring P seconds in N days is granted consent upon 
receiving seconds by P unique eligible voters other than the Motion's owner 
within N days of its recognition. No Motion may be granted consent in this 
way unless explicitly allowed by the Rules.

Any Approvable Motion requiring seconds for which the required number of 
seconds is left unspecified is considered to require one second. Any 
Approvable Motion requiring seconds for which the required period within 
which the seconds must occur is left unspecified is considered to to have a 
period of three days.

An eligible voter may second an Motion requiring seconding by publicly 
indicating e is doing so."

2. Strike the word "unanimous" from Rules 120 and 229.

3. Change the title of Rule 230 to "Tacit Consent" and Amend Rule 230 to 
read:

"An Agent introducing an Approvable Motion may request consent at the time 
of its introduction, or until such time as the granting of consent could 
still occur prior to the nweek's voting, unless the Rules explicitly 
prohibit it.

N-day P-consent on a Motion is granted if no more than P eligible voters 
object to the Motion within N days of its recognition. The appropriate 
level of consent is considered to have been requested automatically for any 
Approvable Motion which may be adopted only by that level of consent or 
greater.

N-day unanimous consent is equivalent to N-day 0-consent. Any Approvable 
Motion for which the required level of consent for adoption by consent is 
left unspecified is considered to require unanimous consent.  Any 
Approvable Motion for which the required period without objection for 
adoption by consent is left unspecified is considered to have a period of 
three days."

-- 
J.