Thursday, March 11, 2021

Proposal: ostracized, pun on ostrich… Tarred and Feathered…something with ostrich feathers? fix this later

Timed Out. Passes 5-0—Clucky

Adminned at 13 Mar 2021 19:25:14 UTC

Append to the second paragraph of the rule “Ethics of the Nobility” the following:

If an Elector’s Scandal is more than half their Political Power, that Elector is Ostracized.

As I’ve brought up a couple times, and as Josh pointed out on Slack today, Scandal doesn’t really do anything if you can just pass off all your power to someone who hasn’t incurred it. This makes things a little stickier.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

11-03-2021 18:22:01 UTC

I’m think its fine to block transfers/maybe set heft to 0. But making them Ostracized makes it so that they don’t contribute to the heft of others as well. Which I think is probably too much punishment.

Brendan: he/him

11-03-2021 19:00:22 UTC

There’s nobody active who would be ostracized by this as is, to the best of my knowledge—as long as you don’t try to dump off all your power, there is no punishment.

Bucky:

11-03-2021 19:26:54 UTC

This change really ought to modify the definition of Ostracized in 2.1 rather than treating the change as a miscellaneous Scandal-related rule in 2.4.

Brendan: he/him

11-03-2021 20:58:36 UTC

Bucky, I considered that, but when a rule refers to terms that appear both early and late in the ruleset, I try to group it with the latter so all the terms have been introduced by the time a reader arrives there.

Josh: Observer he/they

11-03-2021 23:30:32 UTC

imperial

Lulu: she/her

12-03-2021 12:25:02 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

13-03-2021 03:48:33 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

13-03-2021 08:49:54 UTC

for