Arth vetoed this, but didn’t admin it -Darth
Adminned at 23 Jan 2009 08:34:26 UTC
Add the following to the end of the core rule Victory and Ascension:
If a Member of the Staff votes against their own DoV, said DoV may be failed at any time by any admin. However, the creator of the DoV may not post another DoV until 120 hours have passed since the time their DoV was failed.
This was brought up before. It seems to encourage people to post more DoV’s.
Waz, that was why the delay was placed. The S.K. removes it, ending a haitus, but you have to wait 5 days to try again.
Making DoVs less of a slow, clunking nuisance will encourage people to post more of them. I guarantee we’d see a lot of lazily speculative “what the hell, this probably won’t work, but I’ll self-kill it in a couple of hours” DoVs - limiting them to one every five days won’t make any difference, outside of actual endgame.
And self-killing gives a lot of power in the ability to freeze and unfreeze the game at will. If victory is near and I don’t want anyone messing up my plans overnight, I can get an accomplice to issue a spurious DoV, and agree to self-kill it when I’m awake again.
CoV Per Kevan. However, I think we should have a mechanism in place to dispatch baseless DoVs (and CfJs too) that have no chance of passing anyways. BTW, once again: Warm.
Hmm,what about a s/k that only the Watcher or equivalent can implement? Which is to say, it can be failed at any time by the Watcher following a self-kill, thus preventing Kevan’s problem.
COV per Kevan. Whoever thought such a simple rule would promote abuse? Who abuses these kinds of rules anyway?
Maybe this is Warm because the theme involves declaring victory and then killing yourself?
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Warm (just to make it really official)
Amnistar: he/him
I’ll probably sit down with the core rules in the future and see if it’s possible to clean them up to prevent any of the issues we have that continuosly pop-up.