Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Ballot, nweek 8

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Rob Speer,

> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:53:12AM +0000, David E. Smith wrote:
> NO > Proposal 387/0: Bean sucks, but Vows of Poverty don't (Bean)
> [[ I didn't like the idea of the Scoring Gremlin having limited money in
> the first place, so I'd rather not have it become a significant part of
> the game. ]]
> 
> NO > Proposal 389/0: Let's Nip This In The Bud (Scoff!)
> 
> YES > Proposal 390/0: You Can't Have Football Without Color Commentary
> (Scoff!)
> YES > Proposal 391/0: Fix The Haiku Bonus (Scoff!)
> YES > Proposal 392/0: Same As It Never Was (Rob)
> YES > Proposal 409/0: I Have Found The Solution! (Baron von Skippy)
> YES only if 409 fails, NO otherwise > Proposal 410/0: Another Way to Remove a
> Splinter (Baron von Skippy)
> ABSTAIN  > Proposal 411/1: The Gremlin Factory (Dan)
> NO > Proposal 412/2: Bribes for the Gremlin Game (Dan)
> [[ Unfortunately, this doesn't make sense. How is the total influence 20
> greater if it starts at 0 when nobody has any influence? ]]
> 
> YES > Proposal 413/0: Someday We'll All Look Back On This and Laugh Nervously
> (Rob)
> [[ Until this passes, be sure to scrutinize every statement Dave makes,
> so that two weeks from then we don't have to pretend the game never made
> any sense. ]]
> 
> YES > Proposal 414/0: A Journey of a Thousand Words (Glotmorf)
> [[ After all that effort, I can't vote against it. ]]
> 
> YES > Proposal 415/1: Hiding Really Means Hiding! (The Administrator)
> NO > Proposal 416/0: Do Gremlins Go To Heaven? (Glotmorf)
> [[ It doesn't work. The gremlin defining rules state with certainty that
> 'There exists a Gremlin named...', so anything which makes such a
> Gremlin not exist would conflict. ]]
> 
> YES > Proposal 417/1: Watch Your Step! (Glotmorf)
> NO > Proposal 418/1: Them's Good Eatin' (Glotmorf)
> NO > Proposal 419/0: There Was A Young Siren From Nantucket... (Scoff!)
> [[ They need a rock to sit on... ]]
> 
> YES > Proposal 420/0: Second Law of Thermodynamics (The Voice)
> [[ I didn't like this at first, but now I find it strangely appealing.
> ]]
> 
> NO > Proposal 421/0: No, YOU'RE A Blowhard! (The Voice)
> YES > Proposal 422/0: Mommy, my Idol's broken! (The Voice)
> YES > Proposal 423/0: Inaugural Declaraion of Respect (The Voice)
> NO > Proposal 424/0: They're everwhere too! (Wonko)
> YES > Proposal 425/0: Football fixes (Bean)
> YES > Proposal 426/0: Only running is boring (Bean)
> YES > Proposal 427/0: Only running is boring II: Bean Boots Back (Bean)
> YES > Proposal 428/0: Nomic Revival (Rob)
> [[ Paradoxes aren't the only thing which kill a Nomic. If it takes too
> long to get a proposal through, people will give up. This rule will
> automatically discourage things like Quorum on A Nomic. ]]

Um... send this to business, maybe?

--Wonko

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to
dance."
- George Bernard Shaw