Proposal: Shred 2.0
Times out 2-4. Failed by pokes.
Adminned at 10 Aug 2018 10:11:20 UTC
Make a new rule titled “Strike-out” with the text
An author of a pending proposal may Strike-out certain sections of their proposal, which are ignored during enactment. An author Strikes-out a section by commenting “STRIKE-OUT X” on the relevant proposal, where X is a comma separated list of the number for each section to be ignored. A Proposal is divided up into numbered sections according to the following guidelines:
* A section which appear inside of another section are not numbered and therefore can’t be Stricken-out separately from their parent section.
* text which is clearly intended to be put into the ruleset, such as being inside of blockquote tags or quotes, is not considered when examining the proposal for words that affect the ruleset.
* For these guidelines, the variables X, Y and Z stand for text which matches the criteria of the first bullet point.
* conditionals affecting proposed changes to the ruleset are a section.
* text similar to the following forms “replace X with Y”, “add to rule Y X”, “make a new rule X with Y”, “append to X Y”, “repeal X”, “remove X from the ruleset”, “in X change Y to Z”
If an author’s first line of their proposal contains only the text “on strike”, they cannot strike-out any sections of that proposal. If an author makes a comment consisting of only the text “ON STRIKE”, that proposal may not have any more sections stricken-out.
the shred proposal came in handy a few times last dynasty, maybe a more general purpose one would be helpful?
Kevan: he/him
Lots of potential for surprise scams that remove a chunk at the last minute, here. Card shredding worked because cards were independent from each other, or would be obvious if they weren’t. This isn’t the case for proposal chunks.