ais523 wrote: > This question has come up once before, around the Vote > Market was modified from majority support for changes to > without-3-objections. In > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg05818.html>, > Goethe argues that it is not protective of an individual's interests to > allow > a majority-consent change (foretelling the scam this CFJ is about, > incidentally);
I meant this comment in the narrow sense of not being protective of my economic/voting interests, unrelated to rights. In other words, I recognized that the contract had the legal ability to mousetrap me to greater restrain my voting ability, and it was in my interest (and others' interest I hope) to try to drive a change in the change approval mechanisms. (It was my own fault for not paying attention to the majority issue when I joined). > If someone is mousetrapped into a > contract or an amendment on it, then act-on-behalf does not work, > because it was never granted, neither explicitly nor implicitly. Being mousetrapped into a new contract is one thing (not allowed). Wilfully entering a contract with limited escape clauses and the stated ability to change by majority (or whatever level is specified) can get you in trouble, and I think that's quite legal, provided you have the "reasonable opportunity to review" the changes. This right to review doesn't necessarily guarantee the ability to escape if you don't like the proposed changes - the right to terminate a contract is conspicuously absent. This is why, for example, it's important to assume that all contract change methods must be specified in the contract; even a unanimous meta-agreement to end a contract can't terminate a contract in the absence of a contract clause allowing it. Remember, again, that the Proposal System ca. 2006-2007 was considered to be an example of a system that is protective of rights, and that system hasn't changed substantially, so could be used as a model; that includes majority changes being permitted, even if those majority changes make it possible to "mousetrap" someone. -Goethe
