Well, omd proposed a fairly radical reform in October.  Proposal 7608
here:  
http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2013-October/010556.html

It got a lot of good response, but failed because it (maybe!) was broken in a 
very specific (and easily fixable) way which might have caused it to break 
the whole proposal system if it passed.   If that were fixed up it might do 
very well (I kinda assumed e would, but e hasn't).

But simplification of course runs into trouble.  For example, one might say
the "dependent actions" rule is very complicated and long (it is!)  But the
mechanism behind it is a great and simple one:  post something, people Support 
and Object, and the Supporters/Objectors decide what happens.  That's really
a very simple and intuitive way to actually adopt game changes.  So would
whatever replaced it actually be "better" because it was written more shortly?

Officeholders are another example.  I think we want to continue to divide
responsibilities between us (rather than have the Speaker do it all, for
example).  And if so, Elections are often more interesting than not.  But
could the rule for holding an election be simpler, if we want to have 
nominations and so forth?

On the other hand, removing the "Agoran Decision" layer from proposals, as
omd proposed, is a great simplification I think; that layer doesn't add
much and is quite complicated.

One version I had, that I liked, removed a huge amount of legalese (e.g.
edge cases).  That might be a way to go...

-G.

On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote:
> My apologies. We should all be thinking about this, which I bet most
> of us are. We just need to face the problem openly, and the fastest
> (and probably most risky) road to change would be to accept some
> radical changes. Maybe we aren't taking enough risks?
> 
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote:
> >> [This is the start of The Simplification]
> >
> > Also, just a nitpick:  this "simplification" started with
> > the recently-passed 'Low-Hanging Fruit', and is continuing with
> > the 'Just Not Rights' which you might want to take a look at...
> > and partially inspired by omd's attempts in the fall.
> >
> > (I wouldn't normally nitpick, but one reason I've been so quiet
> > in late fall was that I made several attempts at complete overhauls
> > that I ended up not liking enough to post.  So I've been thinking
> > about this a lot! :) )
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