Note: PrOposals, not PrEposals.

Positive votes are undefined, I think you mean ‘FOR votes’.

Also, would more naturally go under Gamestate Tracking, in the Appendix, tacked on after “A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following exception: Whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish.”

Votes on non-Votable Matter posts are undefined.

What would you have me do?

Oh, right.

I think the rule works alright, as it is; if a “Proposal” gets votes while not actually being a Proposal, than making it a Proposal would raise problems;

Would they count as votes? I’m not sure what the verdict there would be.

Would comments made while a Proposal was, well, not a Proposal, constitute as a Proposal being Open for Voting, if they retroactively counted as votes? Most likely not, but it’s an easy example of the kind of problem this would cause.

If you find out a post was not a Proposal, and it gets voted on, it’s not actually that big of a deal to make a second post with the same content, that’s actually a Proposal. And it’s less of a can of worms, and less scammable.

The better solution, I think, is to be judicious with Note: comments, and checking to make sure that a post is actually a Proposal; that goes for the author, before and after posting, and anyone who sees it within fifteen minutes of the post.

A good effort at what you were going for, but I think this is a .

The “no non-official post into an a official post” rule already covers this