Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Point of Order!

[Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:28 PM, <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Each Player may, starting the first absolute day after the Call To Order
> reaches the Public Forum, and ending at the start of the fourth absolute
> day after the Call To Order reaches the Public Forum, submit a Point of
> Order which is a game document detailing a single change to the Rules or
> Game State of B. Each Player may submit a single vote on each Point of
> Order which can be exactly one of Yea or Nay, up until the end of the first
> absolute day after the Point of Order reaches the Public Forum. If, after
> the first absolute day from its reaching the Public Forum, a Point of Order
> has more Yea votes than Nay votes, it is said to be Selected, otherwise it
> is discarded.
>
> After four absolute days have passed since the Call To Order reached the
> Public Forum, the Chairman shall gather all Selected Points of Order, and
> if necessary implement the changes therein, and is capable of doing so.
> Once all of the changes have been implemented, all Players become Calm, and
> game time may resume.


While I do quite relish the idea of a simpler emergency procedure with the
potential for multiple refresh proposals to be implemented, recent history
has shown B to be collectively quasi-incapable* of agreeing on a single
monolithic RP that is not full of gaping holes. Now, try getting us to pass
multiple RPs that potentially conflict with each other and interact in all
sorts of ways, and you can only imagine that unrest might end up making this
gave VERY interesting ;-)

I'd be somewhat more inclined to vote for this if, even though that might
kill its beauty and simplicity to a certain extent, the unrest procedure
included some simplified version of conflicts and dependencies for points of
order.

I'd also be somewhat more inclined to vote for this if, because the ability
to select an emergency forum is mercifully gone but this means that if spoon
breaks we are screwed, it added some other non-spoon forum (bnomicemergency
perhaps) as a public forum.

Also, what happens if I submit a Point of Order at noon on the 4th day of
Unrest? People have until "the end of the first absolute day after the Point
of Order reaches the Public Forum" to vote, which I'm assuming means the end
of the 5th day. But the Chairman gathers and implements Points of Order at
the end of the 4th day....

But overall, I'm quite favourable to the idea!

* I use the qualifier quasi only because the absence of evidence (for our
capacity) is not evidence of absence. Also. yes we can.

Billy Pilgrim
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