On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 19:38 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I’m skeptical of rules which serve to disenfranchise players > generally, and more so of rules that disenfranchise new players > specifically. In general, I think raising the bar to participation is > an extremely high-risk move for the health of Agora. > > Having said that, I really like the structure of this proposal. The > default state is full franchise for all players, new and old, and the > disenfranchisement system has two separate built-in ratchets that > appear to guarantee that the franchise will be restored even in the > face of continuous effort to deny new players the ability to vote.
Right, the idea is that you have full participation most of the time, but can also reduce participation in an emergency. The proposal's designed so that it's impossible to lock out new players indefinitely. I also suggest that game custom should be that Festivals should be rare, and that attempts to start one without good justification should not be supported. (This is true of the previous rules we've had along these lines, too.) -- ais523
