[Nomic]Proposals 316-324

Jonathan D. Amery jdamery at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sat Jul 22 12:58:44 2000


On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Martin Read wrote:

> Duncan Richer writes:
> > Proposal 316 - Jonathan Amery
> > Some degree of reversability
> > 
> > Enact the following as a rule:
> > 
> > "
> > Some degree of reversability
> > 
> > A Player may at any point at which one of their proposals is still
> > available
> > for voting perform the action of repudiating it.
> > 
> > A repudiated proposal is immediately deemed to be defeated, however the
> > author of the proposal only looses half the number of points that they
> > would
> > usually loose in such an occurance.
> > 
> > This rule takes precidence over any rule specifying what happens when a
> > proposal is defeated.
> > "
> 
> I'm not sure about this; I think people who make bad/hasty proposals
> should have to deal with the results.

 This would save some time if proposals can be shown to be broken, and
reduce the chance of such proposals being voted in.
 

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