Is there a penalty for deputising incorrectly?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > There is currently no reward for Deputisation (except we might say thanks :) > ). > > The relevant part of Rule 1607 is here: > > The Mutability Index (MI) is a Budget Switch. > > A proposal that was in the Proposal Pool at the beginning of a > given week is a pending proposal. > > The Promotor CAN distribute a proposal which is in the Proposal > Pool at any time. > > In a given Agoran week, the Promotor SHALL, as part of eir > weekly duties: > a) distribute MI pending proposals (or all, if there are > fewer than MI of them) such that the sum of the > Distributabilities of the distributed proposals is > maximised, and > b) distribute all disinterested pending proposals. > > > Since you CAN only deputise something that SHALL be done, what this means is, > in order to deputise, you have to distribute the correct set of Distributable > proposals and ALL disinterested ones (you can't just do some, if you try to > do some, you won't have fulfilled this duty, and the deputisation fails). > > ANOTHER option, though, is to Assume the office, distribute a few of them, > then resign the office. That way, you're safe from doing it wrong. > > -G. > > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Henri Bouchard wrote: > >> Also, what is the meaning of MI? >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Henri Bouchard <henrib...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> If the Promotor office is vacant, how are we making and voting on >> >> proposals? From my understanding, the Promotor is responsible for >> >> recieving and distributing proposals. If there is no Promotor, who >> >> is >> >> receiving and distributing proposals at this time? >> >> >> >> -Henri >> >> >> >> >> >> Yes, you've identified a problem. >> > >> > I have thought about deputizing to do so, but I realized that I would >> > need to know the sum(MI) of all proposals, or a deputization might >> > platonically fail. >> > >> > >> >
