spoon-discuss: Changing votes

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 4/25/02 at 10:13 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>> 
>>> Mithter A...Both Rob and Wonko thay Prop 5-8-8 uthed to have the wordth
>> "I
>>> propothe a rule" in it, yet Prop 5-8-8 didn't thow that it wath making a
>> rule
>>> that contained a rule.  Therefore my vote wath bathed on a prop with a
>> typo in
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> Pleathe correct Prop 5-8-8.  My vote on the correct verthion of it ith
>> "yeth".
>>> 
>>> Glotmorf
>>> 
>>> 
>> Sorry, but you can't do that.
>> --
>> Wonko
> 
> Thought it was worth a try.  After all, if I cast a vote on an incorrect
> version of the proposal, the existentialists might argue my vote was cast on a
> nonexistent proposal, and therefore my vote on that nonexistent proposal can't
> exist either.  Certainly, if I cast my vote on a nonexistent proposal, I
> didn't cast it on the actual, correct proposal.
> 
> Gee...is existence a dimension?  And does it have values other than 0 and 1?
> 
> Glotmorf

Actually, R4 - "Every modification to a revisable object that does not
eliminate it from play creates a new version of it."

OTOH, R19 - "Proposals may only be revised by their original author."
suggests that the Admin may not be able to rectify things at all.

-- 
Wonko