Protosal: Compromise Candidate
Add a new core rule, after the rule entitled “Resolution of Proposals”, called Quarantine:
If the RNG’s vote, or at least half of the EVCs, on a proposal also contain the voting icon for QUARANTINE, and that proposal would pass under the terms set out in rule 1.5, then instead of having its stated effect upon the ruleset or gamestate it is moved in its entirety to Quarantine. Proposals in Quarantine have no effect upon the rest of the ruleset or the gamestate until they are moved out of Quarantine by a further proposal - either by amending and fully enacting its effects or by removing it from the ruleset. To all intents and purposes, a Quarantined proposal is considered to have been enacted.
Add the following to the end of the first paragraph of rule 1.1:
Section 4 is the Quarantine, which contains proposals that have passed but which currently have no effect upon the ruleset.
Amend the following paragraph, from the rule entitled “Victory and Ascension”:
When a DoV is enacted, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the @ who made the DoV as its RNG. (That @ may pass this role to another @ at this point, if he wishes.) The Hiatus continues until the new RNG posts an Ascension Address to the BlogNomic weblog - this shall specify the RNG’s chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally include a proclamation that any number of Dynastic Rules will be repealed, and/or that the words @ and RNG will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset.
as follows:
When a DoV is enacted, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the @ who made the DoV as its RNG. (That @ may pass this role to another @ at this point, if he wishes.) The Hiatus continues until the new RNG posts an Ascension Address to the BlogNomic weblog - this shall specify the RNG’s chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally include a proclamation that any number of Dynastic Rules will be repealed, and/or that the words @ and RNG will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset, and/or that any or all of the proposals in Quarantine are removed.
Add a new voting icon, which corresponds to the string :QTINE:
The veto question seems increasingly factionalised. The debate between ais and Kevan in the newest iteration of the debate focuses on how to deal with proposals that are popular but flawed. ais cites the threat of good proposals being lost in an extended proposal queue; Kevan suggests that protracted examination time is worthwhile, and a collaborative approach to proposal crafting is in any case more desirable.
Both points have merit and this is a modest attempt at pleasing both impulses. Rather than enforcing a fail-and-repropose cycle - which can be interpreted as punishment - this aims at more of a pass-and-correct model. By considering Quarantined proposals enacted, the original proposer gets any credit mandated by the ruleset for passing their proposal, freeing other players to rework quarantined ideas and openly collaborate. And as quarantined proposals can’t affect the rest of the game, a suitable length of time for reflection can be made use of.
It should be mentioned that I would like to see this replace the procedural veto, so I’d appreciate feedback both on the proposals’ own merits and its merits as opposed to the procedural veto.
With lilomar’s idea. This idea feels very Nomic to me.
lilomar:
Issue: when voting
- :QTINE: on a proposal, you are trusting the other voters to also vote :QTINE: if they don’t, you run the risk of voting 
on a potentially broken proposal.
A better solution would be to make :QTINE: it’s own vote, that counts as
, unless at least half of all votes are :QTINE: in which case it counts as 
, with the effect you describe above.
This would, however, break both alethioscript and blognomicbot’s vote counter.