Monday, March 01, 2010

Proposal: Abstention

Self-killed. Josh

Adminned at 03 Mar 2010 03:34:21 UTC

Replace the first sentence of rule 1.4 voting with “Any Commoner may cast his Vote on a Pending Proposal by making a comment on that entry using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, DEFERENTIAL, or ABSTAIN.”
To that rule, add the following:

Quorum is treated as one lower for the purposes of enacting or failing a given proposal for every Commoner who votes ABSTAIN on that proposal.

Replace

A vote of DEFERENTIAL is a vote of no opinion, or of faith in the decision of the Mad Prince. The vote will count as the same as the Mad Prince’s vote. If the Mad Prince casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, it serves the purpose of cancelling any previous vote on that proposal that was cast by the Mad Prince. If there is no Mad Prince, a vote of DEFERENTIAL counts as an explicit vote of abstention.

with

A vote of DEFERENTIAL is a vote of faith in the decision of the Mad Prince. The vote will count as the same as the Mad Prince’s vote. If the Mad Prince casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL on a proposal, it serves the purpose of cancelling any previous vote on that proposal that was cast by the Mad Prince. If there is no Mad Prince, a vote of DEFERENTIAL counts as a vote of ABSTAIN.

Should not be scammable.

Comments

ais523:

01-03-2010 18:51:00 UTC

against You messed up the formula; abstention should reduce the required quorum by ½, not by 1. Otherwise, a proposal can be quorumed both ways simultaneously, which is weird. Even without that, I’m not sure if having both abstention and deference is particuarly useful; the def system tends to make dynasties go the way of the Mad Prince almost naturally, which is one big advantage of BlogNomic, rather than needing contrived means like vetos.

redtara: they/them

01-03-2010 18:52:33 UTC

*sigh*. If you hadn’t comented I could have edited it. S/K against