Craig Daniel on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:54:10 -0700 (MST)


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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Gamestate collapse.


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:03 -0600, David E. Smith wrote:
>> Depending upon precisely HOW literally one wishes to interpret this rule, it
>> may well be mathematically impossible ever to pass another ballot. There
>> probably have been thousands of votes cast between (whenever this was
>> active) and (now), such that without some clever player-cloning scheme no
>> one ballot will ever earn enough affirmative votes to overcome several years
>> of inertia.
> "Players may vote multiple times; the last vote on any given issue shall
> be the one counted."
>
> Not sure if that affects things... It probably rules out the
> interpretation above, by implying that votes are on a particular issue.
>
> In fact, it possibly means a proposal passes if the last vote cast for
> it (by anyone) was FOR, even if previous votes were AGAINST.

I'll leave it to you to figure out what proposals passed, then.

> We're going to have fun with this Sixth Era, I think...

Yeah.
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