[Nomic] Proposal: It's broke, so lets fix it.

[Adam Biltcliffe]

On Sep 28 2004, Stuart Moore wrote:

> Following some discussion on IRC, the general consensus was we have some 
> holes that need patching.
> 
> Proposal to reword the Rule of Assumed Consent
> 
> Change the text of "The Rule of Assumed Consent" to read:
> 
>      A member of the list of voters shall be considered to have given 
> their consent to a proposal if the following are true:
>    -  The proposal was suggested more then 72 hours ago
>    -  The member has not explicitly voted against the proposal

I object to this proposal for now. There seems to be some suggestion that 
voting against a proposal followed by giving consent to it is not 
'unambiguous' and therefore that a vote against a proposal cannot later be 
changed to a vote in favour. Since this rule uses the phrase 'voted 
against' (which I think is a little dodgy anyway, given that there's no 
definition of voting), this would currently make it impossible to prolong 
discussion on a proposal without shooting it down entirely, so I will not 
give consent until the proposal to replace 'unambiguous' with 'explicit' is 
passed.

> Create the rule: Public Records

I consent.

adam