spoon-business: Joint proposals proposal

[Jörg Rathlev <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Heh.  I'm more annoyed that I keep making proposals which other people
> improve on, submit as a different proposal ... We should have some sort of
> "ammend the current proposal" instead of submitting a new proposal.
> Otherwise, we end up with two similar proposals by voting time and the
> person who submitted the idea in the first place not only doesn't get
> credit, but gets a failed proposal.

Yea, I thought about that as well. It's annoying not to get any reward for improving someone else's proposal, but if you make a conflicting proposal one of them is almost certain to fail, or the original author sees the new proposal is better and withdraws his, but doesn't get any reward.

I make the following proposal, entitled "Joint Proposals"

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Create a new rule entitled "Joint Proposals" with the following text:

"A Player may suggest an amendment to a live Proposal owned by another Player by sending eir suggestion to a public forum.

The owner of the Proposal can then decide whether e accepts the amendment or not. If e accepts the amendment, the Proposal is amended as suggested and becomes a Joint Proposal. The Player who suggested the amendment becomes a contributor of that Joint Proposal.

Whenever a Joint Proposal is adopted, its owner owes 1/(N+2) of the Adopted Proposal Award to each contributor; Whenever a Joint Proposal fails, each contributor owes 1/(N+2) of the Failed Proposal Fine to the Proposal's owner. N is the number of contributors.

[[ Examples:

Number of     Share for     Share for
contributors  each of them  the owner

    1             1/3          2/3
    2             1/4          1/2
    3             1/5          2/5
    .             ...          ...

This makes sure the owner, who had the idea, always receives the largest share, while the rest is distributed equally among all contributors. ]]"


Create a new rule entitled "Proposal piracy" with the following text:

"Any of the following is considered Proposal piracy:

1. A Player (pirate) makes a proposal that deals with the same issues as a live Proposal owned by a different Player (victim), and that proposal is an amendment to the exisiting proposal rather than a new idea, unless the Player previously suggested eir Proposal as an amendment to the victim's Proposal, and that amendment was rejected by the victim.

2. The owner of a Proposal (pirate) rejects a suggested amendment to that Proposal, but later amends it as suggested without crediting as a contributor the Player (victim) who suggested the amendment.

If a Player suspects that e has become a victim of Proposal piracy, e can make a Request for Judgement stating that eir Proposal was copied. If that RFJ is ruled True, the pirate owes to the victim 1/2 of that nweek's Adopted Prosal Award, or two Points, whichever is higher. If in case of 1. both Proposals are voted on, and the victim's Proposal fails, the pirate also owes the Failed Proposal Fine of the nweek in which the voting took place to the victim."

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Joerg