On 9/4/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proto-Proposal: Re-enact perpetuity > (AI = 2, II = 1, please) > > Amend Rule 2154 (Replacing Officers) by replacing the paragraph > containing "If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent" with this text: > > Stability is an office switch, tracked by the IADoP, with > values Temporal (default) and Perpetual. Any player CAN flip > an office's stability with support. A Perpetual office becomes > Temporal when its holder leaves office.
Too easy to flip back and forth. Why not without two objections? > If no attempt to achieve Agoran Consent for changing the holder > of a Temporal office is announced in a given quarter, then the > IADoP shall make at least one such attempt to change the > officeholder in the following quarter, and make the change if > consent is achieved. This requirement is waived if another > player changes the officeholder in this way during the following > quarter. When during the quarter is the office's stability checked for this purpose? Those comments aside, I would support bringing back perpetuity. It seemed foolish to me to repeal it in the first place. -root