[Nomic] Proposals

[John-Joseph Wilks]

Okay, I'm going to try to do this all in one mail so as not to clutter 
things up too much.

The following proposals appear to be around (in no particular order):

1. Remove all text after the word 'world' from Rule 3, The List of Voters, 
since it is no longer necessary now the game exists.
On this I vote Aye.

2. The Rule of Autoadoption.
I reserve my vote on this, pending discussion on whether we really want 
people to be able to arbitrarily join without the notification or consent of 
any of the current players, which I suggest may not be a good idea. Perhaps 
a simple majority of the game consenting?

3. The Rule of Nicknames:
I vote aye to this in the current form.

4. The Rule of Structured Names, with the proviso for rules mentioned during 
proposals included.
Aye.

5. The Rule of Assumed Consent:
I counterpropose this rule in the following form:
A player shall be deemed to have consented to a proposed change to the Rules 
if all of the following hold: a) The proposal was made at least 48 hours 
ago. b) They have sent at least one message to the mailing list during that 
time. c) They have not explicitly expressed that they do not consent for 
that change to enter the gamestate.

6: The Law of Lexicography
Aye.
We can argue about who has to keep it up to date later :)

7: The Rule of Dispute Resolution
Nay, I'm afraid, I don't think the game has time for that sort of process, 
and a majority of that form is unlikely to work nicely. We do need something 
to do this, but I'm not sure that's the way. A random selection of judge 
might work better, or the player on the lowest number of points, should we 
ever get a points system.

8. The Rule of Plausible Deniability.
Aye.

I also propose the following:

N. The Existence of the Committee.
There shall exist a Committee, which shall contain a number of Posts. Each 
Post shall consist of a Title, which can be assigned a member of the List of 
Players, and a list of duties which the member holding that Post shall 
perform. The list of Posts follows:

Note that this explicitly does not define either any Posts, or the method by 
which they can be assigned to Players. But I suspect that we're going to 
want to assign someone to keep the rules uptodate, and someone for the 
Definition Dictionary, and so on, and this is a first building block towards 
that, with plenty of space for other sorts of posts as well.

JJ

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