[Nomic] Proposals

[Adam Biltcliffe]

On Sep 23 2004, Martin O'Leary wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 00:08, Stuart Moore wrote:
> > I seem to remember why this worked well in a newsgroup - threading made 
> > it a lot easier to see who was talking about what and count all the 
> > votes that had been made. I believe it's possible for Mailman to link 
> > this to the newsgroup, shall we try that?
> 
> Or you could just use a mail client with threading. And personally, I
> don't think it worked well on the newsgroup, although that was mostly
> because we introduced rules giving points for successful proposals.
> Also, our initial ruleset was full of cruft.

It seems points for proposals is a staple of Suber rulesets. Most nomics 
seem to get around this by devaluing the possession of points, rather than 
restricting the means of acquiring them, which seems fine.

adam