to hit the other pending proposals.

This interferes a bit with some mechanisms I want to introduce.  Also, I don’t really like this mechanism for gaining/losing Credibility.

I instinctively dislike this kind of rule, but it’s nice to leave the comfort zone from time to time.

This will discourage amateurs (like myself) from making proposals for the fear of losing credibility.

Although I agree with Patrick, I think this would make people more careful and get Credibility moving because it affects almost all of the game. I would like to see some kind of related incentive for risky Proposals and perhaps decrease Credibility loss to 2 to lessen possible fear.

‘The “at the first moment at which it could have been Enacted” ensures that there are no timing scams with people changing votes before resolution to avoid penalties.’
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t block *every* possible timing scam of the like.

Note that this proposal will probably make the first few votes on every proposal have more weight, because they’ll incentivizazize the later voters to follow the lead.

Oh, also I don’t like:
“When an Admin resolves a Proposal that was Pending for more than 48 hours, every Honourable Member without a valid Vote on that Proposal loses 1 Credibility.”
I assume you added that to prevent people from deliberately not taking the risk to end up in the opposition… But it means that if someone is away for a couple of days, they’ll be very likely to lose credibility.

I dislike this.

Per Josh. Requiring admins to make a lot of gamestate updates every time they process a proposal can be discouraging, but let’s try it.

Patrixk, Skju: Feel free to come on IRC and discuss with regulars on how to write proposals, to write Protosals (draft Proposals that aren’t in the Proposal category), or just PM someone like myself for some drafting advice.

Here’s how to write protosals: Don’t.

“When an Admin resolves a Proposal as Failed, and that Proposal was not Vetoed, then its author loses 3 Credibility and every Honourable Member who had a valid vote FOR the proposal at the first moment at which it could have been Enacted loses 1 Credibility.”
But it could never have been enacted, only failed.

I’d still vote FOR, as this doesn’t break anything, but I’m still idle. For now.

Good point. Could someone please propose a fix? I’m out of slots.