Donald Whytock on 13 Jan 2002 23:02:04 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: zero-based nweek 3 votes


On 1/12/02 at 9:41 PM Josh Utterback wrote:

>Jorg Rathlev wrote:
>
>
>>
>>>Proposal 220/0:Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Fenrir)
>>>
>> NO
>> (PLEASE VOTE NO ON THIS ONE! It might stop the game by putting more
>> than 2/3 of all players on leave, which will stop the clock, which in
>> turn will prevent garbage collection from working!)
>
>
>*Thanks* for mentioning that when there was something that could have
>been done about.  (Note sarcasim)  That proposal was listed for 6 days
>and only Glotmorf made any comments on it.  I might have been able to
>revise the otherwise good proposal to your liking.  Of course, maybe it
>slipped through your attention, which is another supporting reason for
>bandwidth limitation, since only a few proposals get any discussion at
>all, even when there is disagreement on it.
>
>Besides, A) if you have that many players that are inactive to the point
>that this proposal will shut the game down, the Nomic is probably on the
>verge of death anyway, B) if it is just a temporary anomoly, players can
>come off leave and start the clock again and C) if anyone is paying
>attention then that threat can be intentfied ahead of time and dealt
>with as appropriate.
>
>Fenrir

If you have that many players inactive, you'll eventually get down to one player...who can vote himself the winner.  Assuming, of course, you still have an administrator too...

						Glotmorf