On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 15:25, ais523 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 12:17 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, ais523 wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:41 -0500, Aaron Goldfein wrote: > > > > You can also raise your voting limit on a proposal by 2 for a single > > > > erg. > > > > > > That rule always confuses me, because AFAIR it's survived a whole bunch > > > of different economic systems (sometimes getting repealed and later > > > re-enacted later), and it's never been used except for occasional scams > > > where a group of scamsters force a deliberately buggy proposal through > > > that people forgot to democratise, just before the voting period ends. > > > (I must do that again sometime...) > > > > I've considered it often, but not bothered due to too easy democracy > > (even after the voting period ends). That is, I'm worried that if my few > > vote buys are the difference, doing the buying will just draw attention > > to it and an opponent will just make it democratic at their leisure. > > You could bribe the Assessor (or be the Assessor), and buy just before > the voting period ends, assessing just after. I seem to remember I was > part of a scam that dodged democratisation like that once. > > -- > ais523 > I'm not sure I entirely understand the point of the "democratization /w 2 support" rule. If it's protection against invasion/dictatorship, why not make it apply only during emergency sessions?
