avpx wrote:
According to rule 106:
"A Proposal with an Adoption Index of less than 2 is Ordinary. All
other Proposals are Democratic."
This seems fine and all, except that the powers of the Wielder of Veto
describe (2019):
"The Wielder of Veto CAN veto an ordinary proposal in its voting
period by announcement; this increases its Adoption Index by 1."
Putting these two together, a Proposal could be made with an AI of 1,
and the Wielder of Veto could increase it to 2, therefore making it
democratic. This does not seem to be the intention of a veto, however.
I interpret this as though it is supposed to say that the Wielder of
Veto increases the Adoption Index, but that this does not make it a
democratic proposal, which seems to be the way it is intended.
However, the way it is written is ambiguous.
This is indeed a bug in Rule 106. Rule 2142 is unambiguously broken
because of this bug.
I've been trying to fix the bug as part of "The Republic of Agora"
(which also changes the terminology used by these rules), but previous
drafts were more ambitious and got shot down for unrelated reasons. No
one has bothered to try fixing it individually.
