On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> On an unrelated note, I would like to see this incorporated into more >> offices. I think campaign speeches are a good idea and a much better >> way to decide than "this guy messed up fewer times in the past." > > A good general policy, certainly. But I'm not sure it needs to be quite > this explicit in the rules. A candidate already SHALL obey pledges to > which e is party; a simple "SHOULD publish a campaign speech in the form > of a pledge governing eir administration of the office's powers" should > suffice.
This needs legislation in special cases like this one, where there are game- relevant values tracked by the officer which e can't normally change (except by proposal or by some difficult method like w/o objection). So in exchange for making the pledge, e is granted the special ability to change the value. It would work for setting scorekeepor's score limits for example; you vote for the candidate promising the score limit you like, and it gets implemented. -G.
