Proposal: Immediate Selfkills
Self Kill -SB
Adminned at 17 Jan 2009 09:40:11 UTC
In rule 1.5 remove the sentence “The Member of the Staff who proposed it has voted AGAINST it”.
Change the text “When Writer votes to VETO a Proposal, any Admin may fail that Proposal from that moment on” to “When Writer votes to VETO a Proposal, or when the Member of the Staff who proposed it has voted AGAINST it, any Admin may fail that Proposal from that moment on.”
I’ve never really seen the point of selfkills not being failed immediately, especially since vetos can be immediate.
Self kill.
Kevan: Concierge he/him
It’s because some players (particularly if they had the admin power to fail their own work) would quickly self-kill and repropose a broken proposal as soon as its flaw became apparent. It’d be tempting to kill your own proposal as soon as someone pointed out a serious problem, but maybe it’d actually have several issues that different players would notice over time, if you actually left it up for 24 hours.
The possibility of “wasting” a proposal is a heavy incentive to think a bit more carefully before you propose. If you always have the option to self-kill and try again, then it’s easy to put the burden of proof-reading and critical thought onto other players.