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

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/21/02 at 11:29 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>> >>Here's the first one: withdraw the proposal about Shareholder Voting.
>> >>
>> >>						Glotmorf
>> >>
>> >-Why?-
>>
>>Because shareholder voting has its uses.
>-Like what?-
>Because it's not an issue now that Wonko has returned all the player
>stocks;
>anyone selling more than half eir player shares has only emself to blame.
>-But is anyone that dumb?-

That depends. What if someone decides e'd like to risk losing control of emself just to get those last few points to win?  After all, after the win, who's got points to buy eir stock?

>Because it's a backup proxy system for people who'd otherwise be on forced
>leave.
>-Designating a proxy works fine.-

Yes, but this makes for proxy by committee.  And/or it's a mechanism of club voting for non-club props.

>Because you're not good with intelligent actions, so you should do what I
>say.
>-Your logic is flawed. I'm not good with intelligent actions, but you're
>not
>necessarily the obvious superior. Wonko's broken the game enough. E's
>smart.
>I'll listen to em for a while.-

I won't say that Wonko isn't smart.  I will say that a monkey with a monkey wrench can break things too.

>>And because the proposal is a kneejerk reaction to a situation that the
>>rule in question didn't actually cause, which means the rule will get
>>killed before it's even been given a chance to be useful.
>-It should have died before it had a chance to get abused.-

That could have been said about the original stock proposal.  Didn't that pass damn near unanimously?

						Glotmorf


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