Friday, July 30, 2010

Proposal: Climbing the Ladder (and getting shoved back down it)

Procedurally Vetoed. - lilomar

Adminned at 30 Jul 2010 06:01:55 UTC

Create a subrule to the rule “Clearance Levels”, call it “ProDemote”, give it the text

To Promote is to raise the clearance level of a Citizen or a Rule, and to Demote is to lower the Clearance Level of a Citizen or a Rule.

* Citizens of ULTRAVIOLET Clearance may Promote to any Clearance and may Demote from VIOLET or lower Clearance.
* Citizens of VIOLET Clearance may Promote to INDIGO or lower Clearance and may Demote from INDIGO or lower Clearance.
* Citizens of INDIGO Clearance may Promote to GREEN or lower Clearance and may Demote from BLUE or lower Clearance.
* Citizens of BLUE Clearance may Promote to ORANGE or lower Clearance and may Demote from GREEN or lower Clearance.
* Citizens of GREEN Clearance may Promote to RED Clearance and may Demote from YELLOW or lower Clearance.
* Citizens of YELLOW Clearance may Promote to RED Clearance and may Demote from RED Clearance.
* Citizens of ORANGE Clearance may Demote from RED Clearance.

In order to Promote or Demote, a Citizen must make a Story Post describing the Promotion or Demotion. More than one Promotion and/or more than one Demotion may be described in a single Story Post. If, within 24 hours of such a Story Post being posted, a Citizen who may legally Demote from the Clearance of the Author makes a comment to that Story Post that contains the word “OVERRULED”, all Promotions and Demotions made in that Story Post are reverted.

Comments

Hix:

30-07-2010 01:22:45 UTC

By the time an overruling happens, it might be hard to figure out how to revert.  For example, if someone’s clearance has changed several times since the Story Post. against

Keba:

30-07-2010 01:36:08 UTC

against  Sorry, but I don‘t get the sense of this Proposal. I can promote and demote to any Clearance level. Additionally any Citizen can revert this, but not the actions I have done in another Clearance Level:

If you are ULTRAVIOLET, you can promote to any Clearance. If not, you can become ULTRAVIOLET while demoting from any other Clearance.

Additionally “to Demote is to lower the Clearance Level” contradicts with eg. “Citizens of ULTRAVIOLET Clearance may Promote to any Clearance and may Demote from VIOLET or lower Clearance.”, as “VIOLET or lower Clearance” is a lower Clearance than ULTRAVIOLET, demoting from those Clearances would mean to raise, but per definition it should lower Clearance. It‘s similar for the other Levels.

Generally, I do not see what you try to achieve. In my opinion “climbing up” should be a hard/long process.

glopso:

30-07-2010 01:47:06 UTC

arrow I would for  it, but the aforementioned problems are too bad.  against

Princerepulsive:

30-07-2010 01:53:29 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

30-07-2010 02:40:09 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

30-07-2010 08:17:25 UTC

against Seems a bit too cheap, and over-reliant on second-guessing the High-Programmer’s reaction. And whenever anyone gets ahead, they have the potential to temporarily demote every other player to infrared, if they think the High-Programmer won’t be around for while.

Purplebeard:

30-07-2010 08:44:53 UTC

against

lilomar:

30-07-2010 13:01:11 UTC

against per hix then.
procedural veto