RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proosals

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:43 PM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> On 1/7/02 at 5:35 PM Doig, Gavin wrote:
>
> >> Sorry, guy.  Rule 155 says that if a proposal tries to determine who
> >voted
> >what
> >> for itself, all the votes would come from Bob the Voting Fish.  Which
> >means all
> >> those points you promise would go to Bob too.
> >
> >No. The proposal does nothing of the sort; it creates a rule which does,
> >but
> >that's not covered by r155.
> >
> >uin.
>
> Ah, but the proposal is creating the rule, and the rule is creating the 
> points, which means the proposal is creating the circumstances under which 
> the points are created.  Les'n you can think of a way of creating the rule 
> without a proposal.

You don't even have to go through those hoops. 155/0 says:

"When a proposal goes into effect, if its actions include making use of the 
information of what people's votes were for that proposal, this information 
is denied to the proposal, in the following way: "

The actions of the proposal going into effect -- e.g. the creation of a 
rule -- makes use of information about people's votes for that proposal.

Ergo, Bob the Voting Fish gets the points.

Go Bob!

--gritter