Monday, April 02, 2007

Proposal: Amendments take 2

self-killed
-Amnistar

Adminned at 03 Apr 2007 03:25:13 UTC

Create a new Dynastic Rule “Amendments” with the following text:

A Lifeform may propose an Amendment by posting an entry in the “Amendment” category with the title “(Proposal to be Amended) Amendment” provided all of the following are true:

*The Proposal to be Amended is a currently pending proposal.
*The Lifeform that is posting the Amendment is the same Lifeform that posted the Proposal to be Amended.

An Amendment counts against a Lifeform’s daily limit of 3 proposals, but does not count against a Lifeform’s limit of 2 Pending proposals.

All Lifeforms may add votes of agreement or disagreement in comments to this entry, using appropriate voting icons (a Lifeform’s later votes overriding eir earlier ones).  Amendments continue until one of the following conditions is true: The Pending Proposal in the Amendment’s title ceases to be pending, in which case the Amendment is considered failed or the pending proposal receives Quorum/2 votes FOR and the Amendment is considered passed.

If the Amendment is failed, then the Amendment has no effect.  If an Amendment is passed, the proposal it amends is failed, regardless of its location in the proposal queue, and then a new proposal, with the same name is posted, with the text of the amendment.

Amendments may make no changes to any Proposals other than the one in the title and may make no changes to the gamestate except where explicitly listed above.

Alright, took alot of your ideas and put them into this new version.  Again, proposing as a dynastic rule so that we can try it out first and see how it works.

Comments

ChronosPhaenon:

02-04-2007 21:53:34 UTC

against

All Lifeforms may add votes of agreement or disagreement in comments to this entry, using appropriate voting icons (a Lifeform’s later votes overriding eir earlier ones).

Why don’t call it FOR and AGAINST, instead of “agreement or disagreement”

The Pending Proposal in the Amendment’s title ceases to be pending, in which case the Amendment is considered failed or the pending proposal receives Quorum/2 votes FOR and the Amendment is considered passed.

I guess these two sentences shoud go into separated paragraphs, for clarity’s sake.

Another point: how to round Quorum/2?

Amnistar: he/him

02-04-2007 22:02:02 UTC

point 1: This is the same wording as that in the CfJ section (used it cause I knew it was legal), though I can change it.

Point 2: I can seperate those into bullet points, make things a bit clearer.

Point 3: Shoot, should say “At least” Quorum/2 to get by that problem.

Seebo:

02-04-2007 22:40:39 UTC

against

Just make use of the “Voting” core rule that already exists. Then you don’t have to deal with voting yourself, since that mechanic is already tested and works.

Also, the number doesn’t technically need to be rounded, he just needs to add “at least” like he said :P

Hix:

03-04-2007 01:09:15 UTC

against Bugs as above.  Fix up and I’d be willing to give it a trial run.

Amnistar: he/him

03-04-2007 01:24:04 UTC

against SK