Change it to must vote for and I might be interested.  At the moment they will just not vote.

Ditto.

Eh. At first this struck me as very abusable. Somehow get alot of people who are “Cult-Worshipping” and you could technically totally destroy the ruleset. However, I also noted that no one is forcing a vote—you can just not vote if you don’t like the proposal. Still, say I vote   and then Doremi votes —-rules are very unclear on what happens?

(Note that the against was my last icon, and so my vote)

as ChinDoGu

As both ChinDoGu and Clucky.

Seems fine to me.  “must vote FOR” won’t work as an absolute; there’d have to be an “or else” clause with it.  I think it’s best flavorwise as is, but if you want automatic FOR votes, it should say something like “so-and-so’s vote is assumed to have been FOR, and e may not actually vote (exception: imperial VETO)” and specify exactly when the vote is assumed to have been made (at time of posting, or at time of “adminning”?).  Of course, all of this would make “cult-worshipping” pretty powerful for those with high fame;  I figure this to be one of the first in a series of _minor_ effects associated with each of the Gossip Stories.

It also seems clear to me (from grammatical tense) that as proposed, deferential votes are forbidden if and only if the Investor had already made an against vote.  The restriction is only checked at the moment of voting.

Hix’s interpretations are correct. 

I actually thought this would have a warmer reception—it creates what I think is a sexy amount of tension regarding having the gossip story “Cult-worshipping”: it’s a dangerous stat to have… unless you’re the top dog.  Do you dare to try to shoot the moon?

Plus, the clam-teasing is just inherently amusing.

Too much potential to give unprecedented power to one Actor.

Heheh, yeah.

I don’t particularly care for voting restrictions.