Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Proposal: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Timed out 3 votes to 3, failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 14 Jul 2006 09:08:39 UTC

Add the following to Rule 2.14 “Paradox Prevention”

Members of the Paradox Reduction Company (PRC) are expected to behave as exemplars to the Traveller community. As a result, any failure of members to observe the letter and the spirit of the laws of time will be dealt with extremely harshly. Any Traveller may accuse a member of the Company of violating a law of time by posting to the front page of the blog to that effect. Once such an accusation is made, the Company member is “suspended”. This is a status tracked in the “Company” column in the GNDT . A suspended member of the company retains the influence benefits of being a member of the Company, but may not quit the company and can take no official action as a member of the PRC (in case there ever are other actions PRC members may take). All Travellers may vote on the accusing post. If at any time after the accusing post has been in existence more than 12 hours there a number of “for” votes equal to or greater than quorum, the accused member of the PRC has been found to have violated the laws of time. If after the accusing post has been in existence for 48 hours the conditions for the member of the PRC to be found to have violated the laws of time have not been met, the accusation is found to be unsubstantiated and the accused member is restored to active status within the PRC. If the member is found to have violated the laws of time, e is immediately expelled from the PRC, wihch change is tracked in the Company column of the GNDT . Expelled members may not rejoin the PRC. The expelled member also looses an additional 5 points of influence. This is in addition to any penalties that might attach to the violation of the law of time.

If a majority of the votes on this proposal contain the phrase “boy who cried wolf” add to the above:

If an accusation is found to be unsubstantiated, the person who made the accusation looses 3 influence.

10 points of influence can’t be free…

Comments

Hix:

12-07-2006 18:54:40 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

13-07-2006 03:11:13 UTC

for Wordy, but good.

Rodney:

13-07-2006 18:22:00 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

13-07-2006 18:42:09 UTC

against

TAE:

14-07-2006 03:55:11 UTC

Can I just ask the naysayers what your issue with this rule is?

Kevan: he/him

14-07-2006 12:10:43 UTC

It wouldn’t hurt to simplify it; I think the whole voting bit is probably extraneous - it’d always be fairly obvious that a crime had been committed, and if someone did eject a traveller from the PRC incorrectly, it’d just go to a CfJ.

Angry Grasshopper:

14-07-2006 13:49:31 UTC

The language. It’s hard to vote for a proposal that puts the phrase ‘extremely harshly’ into the ruleset.

Should this pass, I’m certain we’ll simplify the wording.

for