Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Joint proposals proposal

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:41:36PM +0100, J?rg Rathlev wrote:
> - The owner decides whether or not to make someone a contributor. This might actually work, because if people see someone never credits the contributors they'll stop suggesting improvements to his proposals and simply vote no. The problem is that they can't make any proposals on their own since that would be "piracy".

So this amounts to extortion. Other people can essentially say "either you give
me a share of your Adopted Proposal Award, or I'll vote against you", and this
would be an expected part of the game.

And I really don't like the part about piracy. In a week with a low Failed
Proposal Fine, a player could monopolize proposals just by coming up with a
crappy proposal for each area of interest at the beginning of the nweek. It
would also serve as a further discouragement from making proposals, because you
might get fined for it being too similar to someone else's.

Anyway, I've found the situations where two conflicting proposals have been up
for voting to be interesting. I wouldn't want to make that situation illegal.

--
Rob Speer