Call for Judgment: Clarify Emperor self-kill
Times out and fails 6-10. -coppro
Adminned at 03 Nov 2011 17:40:21 UTC
In the rule “Special Proposal Voting”, replace:
The Vote will count as the same as the Emperor’s Vote.
with:
The Vote will count as the same as the Emperor’s Vote, but never counts as a self-kill.
Self-kills take effect immediately, but DEFERENTIALs are resolved retroactively: the value of a DEFERENTIAL vote can depend on a later vote by the Emperor. If the author of a proposal (or a representee - the wording is the same, “votes AGAINST”) votes DEFERENTIAL on it, does the vote count as a self-kill (a) never, (b) only if the Emperor has previously voted AGAINST, or (c) retroactively if the Emperor later votes AGAINST? I think this is ambiguous. Since the Emperor can just veto the proposal anyway, this CfJ would make it “never”.
This fix would help my pending proposal, but the ambiguity has existed for a long time; when ais523 was the Emperor,
<CallForJudgment> I know I’ve done 
s/k on other people’s proposals before now, and it lead to an argument
(I’m curious what the argument was, incidentally, but it would be difficult to search for that - anyone have a link?)
It would not break “More VM Cleanup!”, because that specifies a replacement for the entire rule in question.
ais523: