Friday, April 25, 2008

Proposal: Overruling a Veto

Self-killed.
-Ornithopter

Adminned at 26 Apr 2008 00:27:26 UTC

Rewrite the rule “Enactment” (1.5) to read as follows:

The oldest pending Proposal may be enacted by any Admin (and the Ruleset and/or Gamestate updated to include the specified effects of that Proposal) if any of the following is true:-

*It has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid vote, more than half of its votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has a number of FOR votes that exceed or equal Supermajority, and has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.
The oldest pending Proposal may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:-

*It has enough AGAINST votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those votes being changed.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of its votes are FOR.
*It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and has fewer than 2 valid votes.
*The Henchman who proposed it has voted AGAINST it.
*The Overlord has voted to VETO it, it has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, and the number of FOR votes is less than Supermajority.
Whenever an Admin marks a proposal as enacted or failed, he must also mark his name, and report the final tally of votes (or the fact that the proposal was self-killed or vetoed).

Proposals the Overlord has voted to VETO are considered vetoed. Proposals the author has voted against are considered self-killed unless the Overlord has voted VETO on them, or they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill vote is placed.

Add a glossary entry under the title “Keywords” (3.3) with the following text:

*Supermajority is equal to two-thirds the number of Henchmen, rounded down, plus one.

Please let me know if I missed anything.  I will try to keep a proposal slot open just in case.

Comments

arthexis: he/him

25-04-2008 04:09:23 UTC

I feel that the last paragraph of your 1.5 amendment is a bit incorrect given the last point you added to the list right before it.

The way I read it, it seems like a proposal could be Vetoed, and then pass thanks to supermajority, while remaining vetoed anyways due to the way the last paragraph reads.
  against

Yoda:

25-04-2008 12:20:58 UTC

Oh, thanks.  I didn’t see that.
against s/k