Am I reading this wrong or does this allow any proposal to be adopted with 2 support? Where's the actual vote count?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, omd wrote: > Proposal: Fast Track (AI=3) > > Create a new Power-3 Rule titled "Fast Tracking": > > A player CAN, without objection and with 2 support, fast track a > given unadopted proposal, so long as the proposal has adoption > index 1 and the intent being acted on was published at least 7 > days earlier. This causes the proposal to be adopted, as > described in other rules. The proposal is removed from the > Proposal Pool if present, and any ongoing decision on whether to > adopt it is immediately cancelled (without being resolved). > > A message purporting to fast track a proposal constitutes > self-ratifying claims that such a proposal existed, was adopted, > and took effect. > > All messages containing intents to fast track a proposal SHALL, > if technically possible, be submitted with some explicit > notation to this effect in their subject lines. Attempting to > obscure such an intent is the Class-8 Crime of Ridering. > > [The minimum time from proposal submission to adoption is currently > one week, same as in the proposed rule. But that's if the Promotor > distributes instantly and the Assessor resolves right after the end of > the voting period; in practice, the proposal latency is at least twice > that. For a long time this has kept Agora going slow. This is > arguably a good thing, if it smooths out spikes in activity, but I am > interested to see what happens if completely uncontroversial proposals > can get through using a more informal process. I admit that this has > the possibility to confuse people by scattering 'votes' through > multiple threads, but there aren't that many at the moment, and with > the explicit subject line clause as protection, I honestly want to see > what happens. > > Incidentally, I submitted a similar proposal some four years ago. It > failed due to AGAINST votes only from Murphy and Yally, under a > non-democratic proposal system.] > > Amend Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) by removing the second paragraph, > and changing the first to: > > When a decision about whether to adopt a proposal is resolved, > if the option selected by Agora is ADOPTED, then the proposal in > question is adopted. When a proposal is adopted, unless other > rules prevent it from taking effect, its power is set to the > minimum of four and its adoption index, and then it takes > effect. Except as prohibited by other rules, a proposal that > takes effect CAN and does, as part of its effect, apply the > changes that it specifies. If the proposal cannot make some > such changes, this does not preclude the other changes from > taking place. Causing a proposal to be adopted is secured with > power threshold equal to its adoption index. > > [The second paragraph is: > > If there is no Agoran Decision to adopt a particular proposal > that has an outcome of ADOPTED, that proposal CANNOT take > effect, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. > > This is an old clause which never really did anything other than help > with a scam at one point.] >
