[Nomic] and for sanity's sake

[John-Joseph Wilks]

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>I propose the following change to the rules:
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>Alter the text of Rule 4, Consensus of Opinion from:
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>A Consensus of Opinion on a particular change to the rules exists when one 
>entity named on the List of Voters proposes the change to all other 
>entities named on the List of Voters and obtains unambiguous consent to 
>that change from each such entity.
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>to:
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>A Consensus of Opinion on a particular issue exists when one entity named 
>on the List of Voters makes a proposal describing the issue to all other 
>entities named on the List of Voters, obtains unambiguous consent to that 
>proposal from each such entity and then posts a public Notice of Consensus 
>to the other members detailing the issue upon which Consensus of Opinion 
>has been reached. ==========
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>As such, we make people responsible for tracking the acceptance of their 
>own proposals and declaring them to have passed. This also makes it 
>possible for voters to veto their own proposal, simply by declining to post 
>a Notice of Consensus. As it was, we had the possibility that everyone 
>could consent to a proposal, but no-one might notice, and the proposal 
>would technically come into efect despite no-one having had the faintest 
>clue that it had done so.

Nice plan, it makes that work quite nicely, and allows vetos without doing 
anything boring like coming out and saying so :) Aye, but are we sure we 
actually *want* this to be reworded so as not to apply to rules 
specifically, rather than creating slightly different methods for other 
things? We're likely to want the ability for players to do something without 
having to obtain concensus from all others at some point.
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>One more new-rule proposal before I go to bed, just for fun:
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>Rule of Girls
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>Notices of Consensus are considered to be printed on coloured paper. Any 
>electronic document purporting to be a Notice of Consensus is only deemed 
>to be so if it clearly describes what colour paper it is printed on. 
>==========

Oh, why not. Aye.

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