Proposal: [Building Blocks] Making Revisions More Acceptable Again
Popular, 8-0 with 1 DEF and Concierge voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Apr 2025 18:10:36 UTC
In the Building Blocks rule “Revisions Allowed”, replace the text “If a proposal’s author withdraws it using REVISE, and there were at least as many votes REVISE as votes AGAINST among the other (non-author) Agents’ Votes on that proposal at the time” with the text “If a Proposal is considered Revisable”.
In the same rule, insert the following as a second paragraph in that rule:
A Proposal that is Pending is considered Revisable if any of the following are true:
* If a Proposal’s author withdraws it using REVISE, and there were at least as many votes REVISE as votes AGAINST among the other (non-author) Agents’ Votes on that proposal at that time
* If a Proposal’s author withdraws it using REVISE, and the sum of FOR and REVISE votes for that Proposal exceeds or equals Quorum at that time
In the same rule, append the following text:
When the Concierge has a valid REVISE vote on a Votable Matter, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Votable Matter are instead considered to be valid and counted as REVISE votes.
Fixes multiple issues pointed out in the current rule for REVISE votes. The reason for the “sum of FOR and REVISE” is in there is in the case where the FOR votes outnumber the AGAINST votes, but the AGAINST votes outnumber the REVISE votes. In that case, we’d like to count the FOR votes as also being ok with REVISE, and have REVISE count with FOR to allow the Proposal to be revised (if the author chooses to vote REVISE) rather than waiting for it to time out and be enacted.
The drawback is that it makes resolving Proposals with REVISE a little more complicated.
I’m pretty neutral on this – revise-withdrawing a proposal that’s at quorum already is only really useful in cases where a serious bug is discovered late or when the queue before it is really blocked, because in other cases you could generally pass-and-fix, and I’m not sure how often that’s actually going to happen. Allowing deferential copies of REVISE votes is probably a good thing, though.
Trapdoorspyder: he/him