On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 at 20:49 Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Nic Evans <nich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I personally find it frustrating that we vote on things before the last > > setis resolved. This should be a relatively safe way to slow down, if we > > want to. > > > > Title: Slower Promotion > > AI: 3 > > author: nichdel > > co-authors: > > > > Amend R1607 (Distribution) by replacing: > > > > In a given Agoran week, the Promotor SHALL, as part of eir > > weekly duties, distribute all pending proposals. > > > > with > > > > In a given Agoran week, as part of eir weekly duties, the Promotor > > SHALL: > > > > * distribute all pending proposals if there are no unresolved > > Agoran decisions to adopt a proposal. > > > > * list all unresolved Agoran decisions to adopt a proposal. The > > Promotor MAY still distribute all pending proposals. > > > > No objections here. Ideally, it would be completely optional whether I > distributed, listed, or both (presuming that there was something to > list), but I certainly don't object to trying this out. > > -Aris > I have to say I'm not a fan of this at all. I've seen rapid bursts of gameplay like this before, and usually you either: a) muddle through and deal with a not-up-to-date ruleset, or b) replace the responsible officers, occasionally c) incentivize them more. a) gives a notable advantage to those willing to maintain their own in-head copies of the rules, which I think is generally a positive rather than a negative; if others wish to fight against that, they should push for b) or c). For a long time, the Rulekeepor was the most highly-paid of offices by a fair margin, for instance. The proposal pipeline we have also allows for the occasional slip-up where two proposals interact in unexpected ways and the result is a weird mistake in the rules and fun emergent gameplay. -Alexis
