On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:51 -0500, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Aaron Goldfein <aarongoldf...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > A player CAN, with 2 support, change an ordinary decision to be democratic >> > provided the voting of the people has not already commenced >> >> The voting of the people commences when the decision is created. > > That hasn't stopped Goethe /trying/ to democratise a decision before it > was created; IMO, that fails, but IIRC, it never makes a difference. > > The whole democratisation-of-5707 brouhaha was pretty interesting and > instructive, though. Referring to a decision by the number of the > proposal it's about is usual; referring to a decision by the number of > the proposal it's about fails utterly if the number hasn't been > allocated yet, though.
You recently intended to create an object that's not defined by the rules in the expectation that it will be defined when you resolve the action. In the 5707 case, the intent to democratize was made before the number was assigned, but it was resolved after it was assigned.
