Friday, May 04, 2018

Proposal: Talking and Supporting

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 04 May 2018 11:58:47 UTC

Change

A comment:
* on The Ballot Box,
* of the form “I support X”, where X is the name of a Candidate,
* that is not a vote from a Pawn for themselves,
* does not have a more recent valid vote from the same poster, and
* is posted before 0:01 on May 5 (“Closing Time”)
is considered to be a valid Vote from the comment’s poster for X.

to

A comment:
* on The Ballot Box,
* that contains the text string “I support X”, where X is the name of a Candidate,
* that is not a vote from a Pawn for themselves,
* does not have a more recent valid vote from the same poster,
* is the last valid vote in the comment, and
* is posted before 0:01 on May 5 (“Closing Time”)
is considered to be a valid Vote from the comment’s poster for X.

Comments

Axemabaro:

04-05-2018 01:53:53 UTC

against ‘Cause I don’t like people

card:

04-05-2018 01:59:51 UTC

against wouldn’t do anything because the text that’s supposed to be changed doesn’t exist in the ruleset.

Lulu: she/her

04-05-2018 02:50:12 UTC

Did I screw up again?

card:

04-05-2018 03:39:50 UTC

yeah, try copying the text from the current ruleset and not an older proposal

Kevan: he/him

04-05-2018 07:53:38 UTC

against

Is there some concern that “does not have a more recent valid [ballot] from the same poster” doesn’t actually work, and allows infinite ballots from a player? What’s the reasoning there?

Cpt_Koen:

04-05-2018 08:27:12 UTC

against
The phrasing “A comment that does not have a more recent valid vote from the same poster” is kind of an invitation to argue that a Pawn may have several valid ballots, as long as the comment does not have a more recent valid ballot.

“has a ballot” also leaves a huge ambituity between “has cast a ballot” and “has received a ballot”.

Kevan: he/him

04-05-2018 08:33:05 UTC

Worth noting here that “Rolling Heads” was enacted incorrectly and didn’t change “has received the most valid ballots” to “is supported by the most valid ballots”, which may be causing unnecessary concern about whether older ballots are counted. I’ve now updated the rule to the wording that should have been enacted.

Lulu: she/her

04-05-2018 11:54:25 UTC

against