RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: Titles, and a be tter bandwidth limit

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:15 AM 1/11/2002 +0000, you wrote:

> > We change that to singular -- (e.g. A proposal is a formal request for a
> > Rule Change or other change) and we have no problem with lengthy 
> legislation.
>
> That just doesn't work at all. All you see is people creating a rule which 
> performs all the separate rule changes and then repeals itself, so you end 
> up with proosals which are actually slightly longer (and much uglier).

Which can be easily solved by making a Proposal the only vehicle for a Rule 
Change. Hence you couldn't implement a Rule full of Rule Changes.

I would argue that Rule 19/4 does that already, and it's probably the 
intent of 19/4, but not explicit enough. It would be an easy enough to fix 
with the addition of an additional sentence:

"A proposal is a formal request for a Rule Change or other change. Rule 
Changes may only be implemented via a Proposal."

In any event, I'm sure that you can come up with a way to attempt to 
circumvent that as well. Doesn't matter. My point is I'd rather deal with 
the odd player trying to circumvent what's regulated, than to attempt to 
manage proposal spam via deterrence.