[Nomic] Summary of Proposals 2

[Martin O'Leary]

On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 15:33, John-Joseph Wilks wrote:
> The following proposals appear to exist, in these forms, and I believe these 
> to be the votes people have cast on them, though I'm not bothering to list 
> ones completely rewritten or with more than a couple of Nays.

> 5. The Rule of Assumed Consent
> The current form of this is as follows:
> A player shall be considered to have given their consent to a proposal if 
> the following are true:
> The proposal was suggested more than 72 hours ago, and they haven't 
> explicitly expressed a lack of consent.
> Ayes: Maz, JJ
Aye.

> 7:The Existence of the Council
> There shall exist the Great Council of the Elder Turtles, which shall 
> contain a number of Posts. Each Post shall consist of a Title, which can be 
> assigned a member of the List of Voters, and a list of duties which the 
> member holding that Post should perform. Failure on the part of that member 
> to perform these duties shall make them guilty of the crime of
> 
> (This proposal has been reworded to remove some of the objections)
> 
> Aye: JJ
> Withheld: Maz, Stumo, Martin
> Nay: ahdok (But surely we're going to need some way to assign things to 
> people? ed.)
Oh, make it an aye.

> 14: The Law of Total Annihilation
> "Should thirteen paradoxes be discovered to exist simultaneously, the nomic 
> game ends, and the voters must lament having destroyed the universe by 
> trying to be too clever."
> 
> Ayes: dok
> Nay: JJ (pending description of how a paradox is actually defined, 
> especially whether you want it to be only within the rules)

Nay. I don't want the game to end.

> 15: Create a rule named Keeping Up With the Nomeses, with the following 
> text:
> There shall be a role entitled "Data Integrity Consultant" to be filled by a 
> member of the List of Voters, who is to investigate an automatic on-line 
> method of storing and cataloguing Proposals, Counter-Proposals and Consent. 
> This role can later be incorporated into a Committee post if such a body is 
> created.
> 
> Ayes: JJ, Mike, Stumo, dok

Aye.

> 16: I'm Not a Window Cleaner
> The entity Mike Cripps shall be the first holder of the role of Data 
> Integrity Consultant, and shall be immediately appointed to that role if it 
> exists when this rule is passed, assuming in both cases that the entity Mike 
> Cripps is a member of the List of Voters
> 
> Ayes: JJ, Mike, Stumo, dok

Aye.

> 18: On the Numbering of Proposals
> Each proposal shall be numbered by its proposer. These numbers shall be 
> sequential integers beginning from 1 for the first proposal after this rule. 
> Counter-proposals to a proposal N should be numbered Na, Nb, Nc etc.
> 
> Nay: adam (on the basis that two proposals may be cross-posted with the same 
> number. Workaround counterproposals are invited)

Nay, on the same grounds.

Martin