Monday, July 10, 2006

Proposal: Paradox Prevention Patrol

8-0. Timed out.—Chronos.

Adminned at 12 Jul 2006 05:58:46 UTC

Create a new rule titled ‘Paradox Prevention’:

Some Travelers are members of the Paradox Reduction Company. Any Traveler who is not a member of the Company may join it by giving notice to the front page, and any member of the Company except the Arbiter may quit it by giving notice to the front page. The Arbiter is always a member of the Company.

On joining the Company a Traveler gains 10 points of Influence. On quitting the Company a Traveler loses 10 points of Influence.

At any given moment, one member of the Company except the Arbiter may be the High Sheriff of Time, charged with enforcing causality and prosecuting Cronocrime. The current Sheriff shall always be listed in the next line. Currently X is the High Sheriff of Time.

If the Sheriff quits the Company, e ceases to be the Sheriff, and this change shall be noted in the above paragraph.  In this case the Arbiter may appoint a new Sheriff at eir pleasure.

If more than half of the counted votes contain the phrase “I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot X”, where X is the name of a Traveler other than Arbiter, then X becomes the Sheriff and shall be listed above in the rule. Otherwise in default Rodney becomes the High Sheriff of Time and shall be listed in place of X above.

posted by Angry Grasshopper at 10 Jul 2006 04:02:00 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

ChronosPhaenon:

10-07-2006 13:08:11 UTC

for  “I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot Angry Grasshopper”

Purplebeard:

10-07-2006 13:32:09 UTC

for “I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot Kevan”

Rodney:

10-07-2006 13:55:58 UTC

for

Angry Grasshopper:

10-07-2006 15:37:40 UTC

for

Explicitly.

kaddar:

10-07-2006 17:27:00 UTC

for  “I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot Angry Grasshopper”

Hix:

10-07-2006 17:48:56 UTC

for I recommend to the enacting admin that a GNDT column be created with a simple yes/no dropdown for membership in the Company.  This Proposal doesn’t say it explicitly, but I assume that the Sherrif becomes a member upon enactment, and that both the Sherrif and the Arbiter get the 10 Influence (it would be strange if Rodney becomes Sherrif upon enactment, quits at some later time, only to be reduced to 0 influence).

Rodney:

10-07-2006 18:31:23 UTC

Hix: A “PRC/None” would be better, as we may end up with more organisations like this.

Hix:

10-07-2006 19:12:04 UTC

I suppose it depends whether membership in (yet-to-be-defined) organizations is limited to only one.

Bucky:

11-07-2006 02:52:07 UTC

for I shot the Sheriff, but I did not shoot TAE.

TAE:

11-07-2006 18:23:15 UTC

for