Sunday, January 27, 2013

Proposal: Dispute Resolution

Reaches quorum 9-0 and is enacted by unanimous consent. -scshunt

Adminned at 28 Jan 2013 11:27:39 UTC

Enact a new rule called “Points of Order”, reading as follows:

Any Honourable Member wishing to resolve a matter of controversy through a quick process may make a Point of Order, which is a story post with a title beginning with “POINT OF ORDER:”. The Honourable Member shall explain the nature of the controversy and their opinion on the matter in the Point of Order, and other members may add their own views in the comments.

No sooner than 12 hours after the Point of Order is posted, the Speaker shall Rule the Point of Order to be Well Taken if he agrees that it properly indicates a matter of controversy, and Not Well Taken otherwise. He shall indicate his ruling in the Admin field of the post, and mark the post as Enacted if it is Well Taken and Failed otherwise. If he rules that it is Well Taken, he shall additionally rule on the controversy in order to resolve it. In any case, he shall provide, along with his ruling(s), the reasons therefor. For the duration of the dynasty, the Speaker’s rulings shall be used in interpreting the rules unless overruled by a Proposal or CFJ.

A Point of Order may not cause any change to the game state, but may cause game state tracking (such as the GNDT or the wiki) to require changes due to the interpretation of the game state.

A few rules, notably the Commitment rules, beg a dispute resolution mechanism. Fortunately, the House of Commons has one!

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

27-01-2013 23:49:18 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

28-01-2013 00:04:03 UTC

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scshunt:

28-01-2013 00:07:36 UTC

I should add that I intend to interpret rules loosely but sensibly when the text is not entirely clear. However, where the text is explicit, naturally it will govern.

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28-01-2013 00:16:58 UTC

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RaichuKFM: she/her

28-01-2013 00:29:48 UTC

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Cpt_Koen:

28-01-2013 00:34:30 UTC

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28-01-2013 09:23:00 UTC

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