[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proposal: Dan makes up for eir lack of forethought

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/24/02 at 11:17 PM Dan Waldron wrote:

>I propose to amend rule 23 to read as follows:
>{{
>
>The Administrator shall, at least 48 hours prior to the close of voting
>each nweek, distribute to all Players the Ballot for that nweek. The
>Ballot shall list all proposals that were issued between the start of the
>previous nweek's voting period and the start of the current nweek's voting
>period.  Any proposals withdrawn from the previous nweek's ballot by their
>authors shall also be included.
>
>During voting, the author of a proposal either on the ballot or that will
>be on the ballot when the ballot is issued by the administrator may
>withdraw it as an action taken in the public forum.  A proposal withdrawn
>in this way shall be removed from the ballot if the ballot has been
>issued, or shall not be included on the ballot if the ballot has yet to be
>issued.  Any votes already cast on a withdrawn proposal are discarded.  A
>withdrawn proposal is not subject to voting or proposal passage/failure
>until the following nweek.
>
>}}

I appreciate the concern, but I'm not sure how happy people would be if they could write proposals dependent upon other proposals that could be removed from the ballot the moment the proposer saw how the votes were going...I could see some deliberate nastiness performed this way.

						Glotmorf


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