On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:25, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, ais523 wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 11:05 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>>> This version:
>>> http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2008-September/013955.html
>>>
>>> has Section 11 votes so that a Sell Ticket is a ticket to vote up to one's
>>> voting power; under that section more than one ticket is against the 
>>> contract
>>> or impossible to fill (and the x5 is redundant or informational to indicate 
>>> the
>>> worth of the voting limit).
>>>
>>> Section 13 votes (SELL X-Y) that include an option fit your model.
>>>
>>> By not having Y I think BobTHJs vote's fit the section 11 model.
>>
>> No, I don't think you missed an amendement, but I (and I assumed
>> everyone else until this message) treated BobTHJ's votes as a section 13
>> vote with Y missing. Section 13 explicitly allows Y to be missing, and
>> defaults it to PRESENT if it is. Section 11 (under which your Sell
>> Ticket fell) doesn't define a sort of Sell Ticket at all, but instead
>> merely mentions what happens if someone creates a ticket referencing an
>> Agoran Decision.
>
> Okay then, here's my question.  A section 13 is still a (conditional)
> offer to vote in a certain way on an agoran decision (Endorse or
> otherwise).  As such, don't section 13 tickets still fall under the
> section 11's default requirement that a single ticket represent a
> player's "full voting power"?  In other words, doesn't this make any attempt
> to split votes and sell multiple tickets for one decision a "non-default"
> option, so that the burden is on sellers like root (who intend to split)
> to be abundantly and absolutely clear as to their intent, whereas in the
> case of unclarity it should default to "one ticket for the full voting
> power"?
>
> -Goethe
>
That is how I would interpret it.

BobTHJ

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