Proposal: How not to write proposals
Withdrawn and therefore failed -SingularByte
Adminned at 30 Mar 2025 08:20:47 UTC
Create a new rule, “Warnings”:
The wiki page [[Warning List]] is gamestate (but the contents of that page are not rules and have no effect on gameplay except as detailed in this rule), and may only be updated as permitted by the ruleset. The Warning List is intended to contain a list of common mistakes in proposal-writing, and Nomicers are encouraged to review it prior to submitting proposals.
As a daily action, a Nomicer may create a new section at the end of the Warning List wiki page, including the following details:
* a section heading of that Nomicer’s choice, which does not duplicate the heading of any existing section on that page; and
* a truthful statement that specifies which Nomicer created the section; and
* a description of a property that a proposal might have, that the Nomicer creating the section sees as undesirable; and
* an explanation of why the Nomicer creating the section sees that property as undesirable.Such a section is known as a Warning. A proposal “matches” a Warning if it has the property described in that Warning.
To encourage Nomicers to avoid writing proposals that match Warnings: if a proposal that matches at least one Warning is resolved as Failed or Illegal, the author of that proposal loses 4 Equity, the author of the earliest-created Warning that that proposal matches gains 3 Equity, and (unless the proposal was failed by the Imperator) the admin who failed the proposal gains 1 Equity.
To encourage Nomicers to avoid writing Warnings that match desirable proposals: if a proposal that matches at least one Warning is resolved as Enacted, all those matched Warnings are deleted from the Warning List, and each Nomicer who created at least one of those matched Warnings loses 3 Equity.
If there is a wiki page Warning List, blank it (or leave it alone if it is already blank); if there isn’t, create it as a blank page.
I’ve been thinking for a while that it would be good to have a list of common mistakes in proposal-writing available (some mistakes seem to come up again and again), and because this is something of a “pure-nomic” dynasty I thought it might be fun to gamify it.
The 1 Equity for the enacting admin is meant as compensation for the extra work that admins may have to do – in previous dynasties with a similar mechanic, we’ve found that such a reward is helpful.
Josh: Imperator he/they
Against-leaning
; if this looks close I might switch it.