Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Well, damn, here's a thought...

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >I pay the Witch Gremlin to Curse Wonko, thus making it impossible for him
> >to
> >do any voting... here's the rationale.
> >
> >256.B.2:
> >If the Witch Gremlin is Active, any player who has not done so already
> >that
> >nweek may pay (10 + 5d3) points to the Gremlin Fund to make the Witch
> >Gremlin Curse a player. As long as a player is Cursed, e may not vote.
> >
> >946.C.2.5:
> >Each shareholder of a player can cast shareholder votes, one per share
> >owned
> >of the player's stock, on each ballot issue, to determine how the player
> >will vote on that issue; a shareholder vote must be one of the valid vote
> >types for a ballot issue. The votes a player casts as eir ballot votes 
> are
> >used to determine eir shareholder votes for that issue.
> >
> >I interpret this as meaning that the Witch Gremlin can block Wonko's
> >Shareholder votes as well as eir regular Votes. Which gives me a window
> >for
> >today's proposal:
> >
> >{{
> >__Wonko: 5, Game: 1__
> >
> >Delete subsection C.2.5 of Rule 946.
> >Give 946.C.2.6 the serial number 946.C.2.5.
> >}}
> >
> >Now, if Wonko had gone Public, I could have bought a majority and
> >controlled
> >all of his Shareholder votes too... ah well. Someone else would have
> >out-bought me.
>
> Bad baron.  No biscuit.
>
> The only way someone can buy a majority of someone else's stock is if the 
> someone else puts a majority of eir stock up for purchase.  There may be 
> other ways in the future, but that's it for now.  R946.C.2.5 isn't a 
> problem if there aren't any player stocks that existed prior to this nweek.
>
> 						Glotmorf
-I think Wonko found the hole there. He bought those stocks before they were 
regulated like that. I don't think anyone should be able to tell someone how 
to vote anyway, not like that. You don't, however, think that my logic is 
bad on the Witch point? That's far more important.-

                                                  [[BvS]]


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