Friday, January 25, 2013

Proposal: Neutrality

Passes 8-0 with 2 unresolved DEFs. Scshunt should gain 2 credibility, but he has 200, so nothing happens. Next, since the Speaker has cast a DEF, all votes of DEF are not considered valid. Thus, Clucky, Cpt_Koen, IceFromHell, Kevan, Klisz, Murphy, quirck, scshunt, thingnumber2 all haven’t cast a valid vote, and lose one credibility. — Quirck

Adminned at 27 Jan 2013 10:35:59 UTC

Enact a new rule entitled “The Chair”, reading as follows:

Votes, other than VETO, cast by the Speaker on a Proposal are not Valid unless every other Honourable Member has voted on that Proposal or that Proposal has been pending for more than 48 hours.

If the Credibility of the Speaker is ever 0, then the Speaker must post a Resignation. A Resignation is a Votable matter and is voted on, resolved, and causes Hiatus as if it were a Declaration of Victory. If the Resignation is Enacted, then all Dynastic Rules are repealed and a new metadynasty begins.

If there is a rule entitled “Parties”, amend it by replacing “Each Honourable Member may belong to a Party” with “Each Honourable Member, other than the Speaker, may belong to a Party”

It has long been the tradition that the Speaker does not vote except to break a tie, but I’d like to preserve the veto. And the Speaker is never a member of a party. I don’t expect the resignation to come into play, but I hope that it will influence members not to discredit the chair too much.

Comments

scshunt:

25-01-2013 17:15:48 UTC

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nqeron:

25-01-2013 17:59:11 UTC

How does your vote make sense?  Who are you deferring to?  You are still the speaker ...

Josh: Observer he/they

25-01-2013 18:52:04 UTC

The Emperor voting DEF counts as an explicit abstention.

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Josh: Observer he/they

25-01-2013 18:52:04 UTC

The Emperor voting DEF counts as an explicit abstention.

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scshunt:

25-01-2013 19:14:33 UTC

As would most DEF votes if this rule is adopted, since it will be rarer for my vote to come into play.

Larrytheturtle:

25-01-2013 21:16:32 UTC

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nqeron:

25-01-2013 21:17:55 UTC

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Patrick:

25-01-2013 22:29:46 UTC

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Skju:

25-01-2013 23:09:40 UTC

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Probably wouldn’t have voted for it if someone else had written it, but interesting. It would make it a little harder to reach Quorum, no? (Which is okay with the “pending for more than 48 hours” part.)

RaichuKFM: she/her

26-01-2013 01:34:20 UTC

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quirck: he/him

26-01-2013 06:41:25 UTC

imperial

robo1995:

26-01-2013 19:28:51 UTC

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Spitemaster:

27-01-2013 14:30:02 UTC

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