spoon-discuss: comments on judgement

[Matthew G Potter <mpotter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I initially had these as bracketed comments in my judgement, but they 
aren't really germane to the judgement itself, and as such probably 
shouldn't be included with it in any sort of permanent record.  I'll give 
them here.

Dammit Joel, the definition of active rules in 222/0 sucks.  It says, "Live 
Proposals not deactivated are 'active'; all other Live Proposals are 
'inactive'."  Active proposals are defined by not being inactive, and 
inactive proposals are defined by not being active.  I know jack about 
symbolic logic, so for all I know this may work just fine, but it would be 
nice to have an independent statement on what constitutes an active or 
inactive proposal in there for those of us who don't necessarily believe 
language is essentially mathematical. :P

As it stands, the beginning voting period creates a de facto 'end of the 
nweek,' since any proposals made after the beginning of the voting period 
will fall on the subsequent nweek's ballot as though they were activated in 
that nweek.  While it sort of works, this lame duck period is ugly and I'm 
sure will offend Joel's sense of taxonomical clarity.  We should probably 
resolve it somehow in the near future.

Potter