ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 14:55 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sean Hunt <ride...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Also, perhaps we should allow the Assessor to end a voting period early >>> if there is a certain amount of positive votes (say, VI twice the AI and >>> at least half of all active players voting). >> Tweaks? (Allow arbitrary changes to the gamestate without objection) > > Agora used to have a rule like that, but it was repealed (I can't > remember why, but there was a good reason).
IIRC it was repealed after then-Distributor Steve's Spam Scam (e had a confederate forward a spam message to the list, configured the mail server to hold it, inserted a statement of intent about 200 lines down, then released the hold). It was ruled not to work (due to unclear communication), but the point was made.
