Saturday, December 31, 2005

Why was Happy Christmas. [Late] Failed?

I don’t understand why Happy Christmas. [Late] was Failed. Either deferential/imperial votes are counted as votes or they aren’t. If they aren’t (which seemed the general attitude response to the Proposal Keeping the Status Quo), then the votes were 3-1 and it Passed. If they are, then neither of the conditions “at least half of its votes are AGAINST” nor “more than half of its votes are FOR” were satisfied, and it shouldn’t be admin’d. I don’t see what logic makes it Fail under the current Rules.

Comments

Angry Grasshopper:

31-12-2005 17:22:00 UTC

I had read the clause:

“If the oldest pending Proposal has enough AGAINST votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those votes being changed, ....”

But clearly there are nineteen Protagonists, and only ten have voted, so this condition is not satisfied.

I believe that the condition to time out votes was less stringent in some previous version of 1.5. In any case my action was illegal.