Comments on omd's proto: This is a really long proposal that makes a heck of a lot of changes, some of which I disagree with; I'd almost certainly vote AGAINST it, or any similar proposal, unless it were broken into something like a dozen smaller proposals, in which case I'd vote AGAINST only the objectionable parts and FOR the rest.
Besides, a proposal of this length is very likely to contain mistakes, perhaps multiple significant ones; going through the proposal and checking to make sure there aren't any significant mistakes seems like a pretty significant effort. As for the particular parts I find objectionable: To me, Power has always felt like one of the defining pillars of Agora; it seems useful enough to be worth keeping around, and surely not confusing or complicated enough to be worth getting rid of. Second-class persons pass in and out of fashion in Agora; keeping the definitions around allows them to keep doing so as Agorans wish, whereas removing the definitions would make it significantly more difficult to bring second-class persons back even if we want to. Rule 105 "Rule Changes" does in fact do something, though I admit perhaps it doesn't do very much; I'm thinking of CFJ 3300, where the existence of Rule 105 allowed us to conclusively show that whichever-rule-it-was was not turned into a Slave Golem (because making a rule into a Slave Golem is not a Rule Change, and rules cannot be modified except via Rule Changes). There may have been other objectionable bits, but I don't remember them. —Machiavelli
