On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 15:09 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > IIRC, the pending system worked rather differently when we invented > > proposal competitions. > > Yeah. For everyone who doesn't know, we didn't have an economy until December.
The previous "economy" was based on the "superpowerful officers" idea; the concept was that because we didn't have any economic goods to pay them in, we'd pay them in political power. Many remnants of this are still in the rules. > > Proto: the pender of a proposal and the submitter must be different > > people. When a proposal is pended, the pender gains some fraction of > > the pend fee. (In my experience, preventing people from doing something > > for themselves has been the most reliable way of getting people to do > > it for each other.) > > I like this idea. Do you mean the submitter gets part of the pend fee? Err, yes, the submitter. (This is why you proto things :-P) > Also, this would be a great time to bring back some free pends for the > Promotor, as an emergency measure and/or a public service. I like that idea. Many office perks are still in place, after all; the Promotor's got removed (probably accidentally) when Shinies were invent ed, and I can't see a good reason not to bring it back. -- ais523
