Proposal: More cleanup
Timed out 5 votes to 7. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 21 Jun 2012 12:58:24 UTC
Remove the line “When a DoV is failed, if it has a number of AGAINST Votes that exceed Quorum, the Time Buddha who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was failed.” from “Victory and Ascension”
In the rule “Idle Time Buddhas” replace
An Admin may render a Time Buddha Idle if that Time Buddha has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past four days, or if that Time Buddha has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time. An Admin may Unidle a Time Buddha if that Time Buddha has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past four days, and Idle Admins may Unidle themselves at any time, unless the Time Buddha who would be Unidled asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous four days, and within the current dynasty.
with
An Admin may render a Time Buddha Idle if that Time Buddha has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past four days and has not requested to become Unidle more recently than they last requested to become Idle, or if that Time Buddha has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time. An Admin may Unidle a Time Buddha if that Time Buddha has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past four days and has not requested to become Idle more recently than they last requested to become Unidle, and Idle Admins may Unidle themselves at any time. A Time Buddha may not be Unidled if they asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous four days, and within the current dynasty.
First change if we really want to keep it there, we need to at least make it so you can’t fail non-pending DoVs. Otherwise I can fail Josh’s DoV every five days and prevent him from ever winning. But I think the rule is kinda dumb to begin with. I know in the past we’ve had problems with spamming DoVs, so the goal is to make people more wary about just throwing up a random DoV, but ultimately it leads to situations where just because you disagree with someone on the rules you suddenly ruined your chance of winning.
Second change prevents people from being idled if they asked to idle, then rejoined at the start of the next dynasty.
Kevan: he/him
Second point is a good one. Could just change “entry or comment from the past four days” to “entry or comment from the past four days and in the current dynasty”, to use fewer words.