Proposal: Eating grass is serious business
Reaches quorum and passes, 18-0. Josh
Adminned at 12 Apr 2011 05:35:23 UTC
Create a new dynastic rule, “Officials”:
Each Sheep can hold up to one Official Position. Official Positions are listed in subrules of this rule. Official Positions can be held by at most one Sheep at a time, and might not be held by any; which Official Position (if any) is held by each Sheep is tracked in the GNDT. The holder of an Official Position is known as an Official.
As a weekly action, a Sheep can take an Official Position that is not currently filled by another Sheep, unless another rule bans this.
Each Official Position has Duties, a list of requirements relating to that position. It is not illegal for an Official to fail to perform his duties; however, if an Official Position’s Duties are not fulfilled (either by the appropriate Officer, or by anyone else), any Sheep can cause that Official Position to become vacant, and the Sheep holding it to hold no Official Position, as long as they explain the way in which the Duties weren’t fulfilled in the comment to the GNDT update. Official Positions can also have Powers, rules that only have an effect while someone holds that Official Position, and which often depend on the holder.
If more than half the EVCs on this proposal contain the phrase “Get it Started”, add the following subrules to the above rule, then install ais523 as the Default Sanitiser:
“Default Sanitiser”:
Duties: Must ensure no office stays vacant for more than 48 hours.
Powers: Nobody can take an official position that was created within the previous 48 hours, unless the Default Sanitiser first gives them permission in a blog post or blog comment.
“Sheep Counter”:
Duties: Must ensure Quorum remains at least 8.
“Mr. Alarm Clock”:
Duties: Must ensure that a blog post or comment reminds Sheep (other than Mr. Alarm Clock) who come within 48 hours from idling due to activity or missing an Official duties deadline that such a deadline is coming up, before the deadline actually passes.
Really, you don’t want to see what happens when sheep get organised. It’s scary. And rather bureaucratic. Some example officials to get us started; someone responsible for making sure that new offices aren’t a free-for-all, someone who has to try to keep the dynasty interesting enough to prevent people idling out (somehow), and someone who reminds people when they’re about to idle. (No doubt I’ve judged it wrong in the first proposal, but you can always EVC these out and/or propose your own.) We should have a lot more, many of which are a lot easier than this, and perhaps some even harder but with larger rewards.
Forcing quorum to stay at 8 is just asking to exploit the loophole in 1.2
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