BobTHJ wrote:
I honestly don't feel that quorum serves much of a purpose other than to slow the pace of the game now and then and make it difficult to pass anything during periods of low activity. What is the benefit?
It makes it difficult to adopt a proposal that only a few people bothered to read and vote on, or that is backed by a small group of scamsters exploiting a rule bug, or a small group of players with high VLOP. The Speaker can rubberstamp ordinary proposals down to quorum of 3, but a group of 4 players can make proposals AI=1.1 and thus democratic. I somehow mis-wrote Rule 2144 (Limited Partnerships) such that it fails to prevent a repeat of the HPn scam, but I believe some fix legislation is currently in the pipeline (and besides, who would want to directly copy a recent scam?)
