Re: [s-d] [s-b] Bait and switch

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hehe, very good point. Should maybe include in there some provision banning
the targeting, by any proposal, of a proposal with a higher number.

Billy Pilgrim

On 10/31/07, Mike McGann <nomic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/31/07, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Excellent. This is basically what I meant. The only flood I'm afraid of,
> > though, is not one that would happen at this moment, but rather in the
> last
> > 30 minutes before proposals become open for voting. Think sniping, on
> ebay.
> > "My proposals can squash yours solely because I submitted them 2 minutes
> > from the end. I literally just got the last word." That type of thing.
>
> Yeah, a sniping flood is not a good thing and should not be
> encouraged. The fundamental problem is that a proposal that can create
> an action that targets a proposal can lead to this situation. Another
> variation on the theme is that a proposal number could be used as a
> trump card (I hope Wooble doesn't object to the card analogy). For
> example, submitting a blank (or meaningless) proposal at the very
> beginning of the nweek and revising right before voting to target a
> proposal and getting precedence because of the lower proposal number.
>
> - Hose
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