Saturday, March 29, 2025

Proposal: None Shall Pass

Reaches quorum with 7-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 30 Mar 2025 08:25:46 UTC

In “Equity”, replace “No other publicly tracked dynastic variables held by individual Nomicers may be proposed in this dynasty.” with:-

Nomicers should not make proposals which do any of the following:

* Create any new publicly tracked dynastic variable held by individual Nomicers.
* Add any way to gain or remove Chips or Jokers, outside of Nomicers spending them to perform game actions.

Other Nomicers are encouraged to vote against such proposals, and the Imperator may freely veto them.

Per earlier comments on this, making new-variable proposals possible but doomed, rather than platonically invalid. (I had to squint at How Not To Write Proposals to decide whether “the author of the earliest-created Warning that that proposal matches” counted as a kind of publicly-tracked Nomicer variable, and whether I should mark it as an invalid proposal. I’m still not 100% sure.)

Rolling in Jonathan’s suggestion on Six Shots or Only Five, although allowing them to be spent on other actions seems okay.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

29-03-2025 14:38:00 UTC

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JonathanDark: he/him

29-03-2025 14:38:59 UTC

And I already posted my thoughts on “How not to write Proposals” as to whether or not it counts. I think it tip-toes across the line in the wrong direction.

Raven1207: he/they

29-03-2025 15:05:18 UTC

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DoomedIdeas: he/him

29-03-2025 16:13:09 UTC

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SingularByte: he/him

29-03-2025 17:00:35 UTC

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ais523:

29-03-2025 18:52:48 UTC

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ais523:

29-03-2025 22:51:43 UTC

Note that I think the same problem that affects “How not to write proposals” is close to affecting this proposal too (which is the fix for the problem!) – it adds a rule that cares about the author of a proposal, which is a publicly tracked variable. (I consider it a variable of the proposal rather than of the author, but that’s based on playing other nomics that do make that distinction, and as other people say, BlogNomic might not).

I think we’re luckily OK for this specific proposal – the exact wording of the current rule is “No other publicly tracked dynastic variables held by individual Nomicers may be proposed in this dynasty.” and this doesn’t propose a variable tracking the author of a proposal because, fortunately, one already exists (in “unless the Nomicer already has 2 Proposals pending” in the core rules), and thus it was proposed in a previous dynasty.

Darknight: he/him

30-03-2025 04:07:29 UTC

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