Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: you know you want 'em

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 9, 2006, at 5:55 PM, shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Don't we already have this?  In that you can put anything you like in
> a proposal, and we often do.  Just recently I saw a proposal that
> said: if proposal X is passed then change rule a to read this;
> otherwise change it to read that... works for me.

E means transactional proposals, so that if some part of a proposal  
can't happen, the rest doesn't either.

For example, I could propose {{
Replace the text of r2-4 with {{
<definition and properties of Sporks>
}}

Create a new rule:
{{
<stuff about Sporks>
}}
}}

But maybe before I got this prop out, somebody else made a proposal  
to repeal rule 2-4. If everyone votes FOR both, then the first prop  
kicks in first, and repeals rule 2-4. Afterwards, my prop kicks in;  
the first clause is nonsensical, because there is no r2-4 and so its  
text obviously cannot be replaced. But the latter clause would still  
happen, and so we'd have a bunch of clutter in the rules about Sporks  
without anything defining what a Spork is.

This is relatively benign example; a more serious example might try  
to change the definition of a Player or define a new class of "Voting  
Entity" that includes all players; if only part of the change takes  
effect, that sort of thing could destroy the game.

-- 
Wonko

> On 12/9/06, bd <nomic@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> I would SO much rather see all actions within a single forum  
>>>> post be
>>>> implicitly transactional unless otherwise specified.  If I'm  
>>>> going to
>>>> write proposals in pseudocode, I don't want it to be SQL.
>>>
>>> Blech.  I second that emotion.
>>
>> It'd be nice to have this for proposals as well... interesting things
>> happen if a proposal goes in halfway.
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