Re: [s-d] Proposal: hard rules

["Peter Cooper Jr." <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Andy Jones" <shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Proposal: "Hard rules"
>
> 1) Change rule 2-2 to replace this paragraph:
> {{When a Proposal becomes Historical, if there exist more players
> whose Final Vote on that proposal was FOR than there exist players
> whose Final Vote on that proposal was AGAINST, the Proposal Passes.}}
> with:
> {{When a proposal becomes historical, the votes are tallied and the
> proposal either passes or fails, according to the votes cast.}}

Our current prop system lets players vote as many times as they want,
but it only counts their most recent vote when figuring out whether it
passes. This looks like it counts all votes, which may not be what you
intended. If you're just going to count "votes", then you should
probably reword other parts of the rule to clarify that you can submit
an initial vote, and change a vote, but you can only vote once.

> 2) Add a new rule titled "hard/soft":
> {{Two types of rules exist: hard and soft.
>
> Proposals changing or removing hard rules only pass if more than 80%
> of the votes available are cast as FOR.
> 
> All other proposals pass if more than 50% of the votes available are
> cast as FOR.

Do the "votes available" include players who didn't vote at all on
that proposal? Does this wording mean that voting ABSTAIN is the same
as voting NO?

You've got to be *very* careful and meticulous about wording things as
fundamental to the game as voting.

> A proposal is treated as "changing or removing hard rules" if, without
> further vote by the players, it would cause a hard rule to be changed
> or removed.
>
> If this rule conflicts with another rule or rules, the other
> conflicting rules are ignored.

As Wonko mentioned, ignoring whole rules may not be the intended
effect in some cases here.

Also, is changing the type of a rule from hard to soft considered
changing the rule? Or is it just changing the rule's type?

-- 
Peter C.
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