So, I've seen 2 episodes of Heroes.

[active_apathy]

Hiro is officially on my list of best characters ever. Officially.

I think he may have tele-ported there.

That is all.





Well, ok, it's not all, but that's just because I remembered other stuff.

Firstly, a metaquotes post yesterday has made me want to start a game of Nomic.

Secondly, I think it might almost be useful if I added fandom tags to my taglist. It'd likely have things like Buffy, Firefly, Angel, Firefly, BSG, Firefly, and so forth. Oh, and Firefly.

So! A poll.

[Poll #905342]

Comments

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but that depends on the proposer writing the rule out many times in discussion. So, I think, if no final proposal is submitted, the wording for the vote could be that which appears last in the discussion post.

The if possible works.

Absences won't affect votes overmuch; I wasn't planning on having compulsory voting be part of the starting rules. It's proposals that could make absences a bit tricky.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Good point – we don't want bloated proposal posts. The rule for transmission-of-proposal should still be mutable, though.

So, it's purely percentage of voting voters that determines passage, even if not all eligible people vote? There should be a rule defining quorum, then.

Actually, that opens up another possibility: how do we handle it if there are insufficient votes? Extend it a week? Penalize players who missed the deadline (or reward players who didn't) at the end of the second week, if a quorum still doesn't exist?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Do we need to start with a quorum rule? If it turns out we need one, it's possible to add one later, after all - and I'd like to keep the starting ruleset fairly lightweight.

Failing that, a quorum of 60%+1 eligible voters would work, and it means that nothing could pass in the first round of proposals with less than 54% of the possible votes.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

...yeah, you're right. The quorum rule could have a number of problematic repercussions. Plus, without it, negotiating for people to abstain becomes a viable tactic.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Plus it's not like we can't just make up new rules. :)

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

(Have you noticed that the comments get shorter as they're squeezed towards the right here?)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, they get longer when they're squished right up against the edge of the layout, and then there's line after line of one word.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt you. :)