Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Proposal: The House Always Wins

Failed 3-14, cannot be enacted without a change of vote. Failed by Angry Grasshopper.

Adminned at 08 Feb 2007 17:22:02 UTC

Add a new rule, entitled “Powers of Patronage”:

The Investor may never have a hometown other than LA.

If a quorum or more of all Actors have eir hometown set to locations other than LA, then any gains ey may make to eir Fame are halved, while any gains made by actors who are still in LA are doubled.

If you want to make the news, it’s much easier if you’re where all the paparazzi are anyway.

posted by Josh at 07 Feb 2007 19:07:00 UTC Comments (26)

Comments

ChronosPhaenon:

07-02-2007 19:20:15 UTC

against “ey” is not defined.

Cosmologicon:

07-02-2007 19:26:45 UTC

against

Hix:

07-02-2007 19:48:34 UTC

against rounding?

spikebrennan:

07-02-2007 20:05:28 UTC

for

alethiophile:

07-02-2007 20:20:15 UTC

against no no no

spikebrennan:

07-02-2007 20:22:11 UTC

The Proposal’s meaning is ambiguous.  Does “ey” refer to “all Actors”, or “all Actors having a hometown other than LA?”

snowballinhell7001:

07-02-2007 20:30:54 UTC

against

Elias IX:

07-02-2007 21:21:38 UTC

for

Angry Grasshopper:

07-02-2007 21:31:36 UTC

I agree that the referent of our pronoun is not very well defined. If we have Q+5 Actors with some other Hometown, do we refer to the whole Q+5, or just Q of them, or some figure in between?

Otherwise this idea is great.

for

Josh: he/they

07-02-2007 21:40:09 UTC

“ey” is not defined.

If “3 previous three days” can be a typo, then I don’t see why this can’t be either.

ChinDoGu:

07-02-2007 21:46:50 UTC

against

And josh, I still dont think 3 previous 3 days is a typo…

spikebrennan:

07-02-2007 22:35:42 UTC

against CoV, because of the defects.

Josh: he/they

07-02-2007 22:44:31 UTC

It wasn’t aimed at you personally, Chin :)

Edometheus:

07-02-2007 22:49:40 UTC

Just because I love Ok Go:  for

viewtyjoe:

07-02-2007 23:47:54 UTC

against

Doodle:

08-02-2007 02:54:27 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

08-02-2007 03:15:19 UTC

Josh, the intended meaning in 3 previous three thing is clearly obvious and can be amended easily. The “ey” thing is not. Did you mispell “They” or “e”?

Josh: he/they

08-02-2007 09:34:00 UTC

It is obvious, because ‘e’ would be grammatically nonsensical.

snowballinhell7001:

08-02-2007 18:01:21 UTC

No one would ever leave LA for fear of having their fame gains halved.  against

Angry Grasshopper:

08-02-2007 18:05:38 UTC

snowballinhell7001, how do you know that? ;p

snowballinhell7001:

08-02-2007 21:11:56 UTC

Just a prediction.

Doremi:

08-02-2007 21:21:45 UTC

against I like coming from exotic places. Hometown is where you come from, not where you currently live.

Kevan: Concierge he/him

08-02-2007 22:10:24 UTC

against Using Spivak for plurals? This is why it’s annoying to enforce its usage.

Tiberias:

08-02-2007 23:47:30 UTC

against I think that makes quorum.

Amnistar: he/him

09-02-2007 00:15:29 UTC

against

Angry Grasshopper:

09-02-2007 01:21:18 UTC

against

CoV, to speed up things a bit.