Thursday, February 07, 2013

Proposal: Consensus on Consensus?

Reaches quorum 6-0 and is enacted. -scshunt

Adminned at 09 Feb 2013 16:30:39 UTC

Modify the rule “Party Consensus” to read:

A Debater of a Proposal is an Honourable Member other than its author.

A Party is Eligible to Hold Consensus over a given Pending Proposal if it is the Party of the Proposal Author or if it is In Power, and if at least one Debater in that Party has voted on that Proposal, and if the total number of votes FOR from Debaters in the Party is different than the total number of AGAINST votes from Debaters in the Party. Among all the Parties Eligible to Hold Consensus over a given Pending Proposal, the Party with the largest absolute value of T*(F - A) Holds Consensus over that Proposal, where T is the total number of votes from Debaters in that Party, F is the total number of votes FOR from Debaters of that Party, and A is the total number of votes AGAINST from Debaters in that Party. Votes of DEFERENTIAL do not count in this calculation. In the event of a tie, then the Party of the Proposal’s Author Holds Consensus over the Proposal if it is Eligible to do so, otherwise no Party Holds Consensus over the Proposal.

If a Party Holds Consensus over a Pending Proposal, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL cast on that Proposal are instead considered to be valid votes FOR or AGAINST the Proposal, whichever is more common among the valid votes of Debaters from the Party Holding Consensus. This effect overrides the Speaker’s vote unless the Speaker’s vote is VETO.

Scshunt’s logical phrasing + RaichuKFM’s math

Comments

Skju:

07-02-2013 03:01:22 UTC

for  arrow

RaichuKFM: she/her

07-02-2013 03:17:54 UTC

for  arrow

Larrytheturtle:

07-02-2013 03:38:49 UTC

for  arrow

Skju:

07-02-2013 03:41:06 UTC

... And there’s the Consensus!

Spitemaster:

07-02-2013 06:19:49 UTC

for  arrow

Josh: Observer he/they

07-02-2013 08:53:20 UTC

for

nqeron:

07-02-2013 16:36:29 UTC

for  sure

Klisz:

07-02-2013 18:24:44 UTC

for  arrow

Purplebeard:

08-02-2013 07:33:21 UTC

imperial