Your dynamic idle time has the added benefit of plugging directly into the current ruleset; just replace “idle time is foo” with “idle time is formula foo”. So I’m more in favor of that.

Hot Quorum would be much more of a pain for the admins, as you say. I’m cautiously in favor of the dynamic idling time formula.

the dynamic quorum
the Hot Quorum per Brendan

Much more in favour of dynamic idle time.

Dynamic Idling makes sense, I think it could be fun. 

Another alternative could be that after population reaches a certain point Quorum becones 1/3 instead of 1/2?

Amnistar: Reducing Quorum would be bad for Core Proposals or CfJs, I think just Dynastic Proposals should have faster enactments.

I’d go with dynamic idle. Reduced quorum only works with a minimum time to adopt proposals, incidentally (or you’re vulnerable to timing scams).

Since we could really use this right now, would it make sense to make this change with a CfJ, or would that be frowned upon? My reasoning is that this is an actual issue (game is awfully slow) that needs to have some attention.

I’d like to toss in a for dynamic idling time.

I just don’t really see the point. Idle people will be a pain in either circumstance.

Clucky: A pain yes, but different levels of pain. What about reducing fail time to 36 instead of 48? Approve time can stay at 48.

Actually one that could work would be allowing failure if a quorum has just Voted on the proposal and it has more Against than For.

Then again, I’m running the numbers now… using the more aggressive idling time of 3 days, 6 players would be idled now, reducing Quorum to 21, which would be enough to fail the currently outstanding proposals. So perhaps the formula should be less conservative:

Quorum > 20 -> 3 days Idle time
Quorum <= 20 -> 5 days Idle time

Amnistar’s suggestion could also work. You should propose that!

Can’t outa proposal slots.

Besides, you don’t want me writting core rules, they will have massive problems.

Version 1 is good, Hot/Cold quorum is bad.

Ditto Pavitra and pretty much everyone else.

I’m not sure if this is arguing that if the game is busy then most people probably aren’t here to play, or if the game is busy then we should kick out anyone who wants to play it at a slower pace, but both of these seem a little ominous.

Would it make more sense to address the calculation of Quorum itself, if the concern is that a large player base slows down the proposal queue?

Reducing Quorum below half-plus-one could in theory lead to time-zone-based factions trying to get shenanigans passed while each other are asleep. Probably not an issue in practice, though.

I like dynamic Idle time, 2nd version.