Given that I think VJ Rada is the only person who has purchased a vote in the whole existence of me selling votes, I am inclined to agree. Real life tends to get in the way of me carefully considering proposals (that is, I fail to allocate time to the task due to the lack of free time) and I might as well try and profit from my inaction in case if someone actually cares on a decision. I mean, it's also free Trust Tokens and can be used on elections, so if someone wants to start a bidding war, they certainly could. (I had actually considered making it a Vickrey auction, but there hasn't been enough interest to buy my votes for it to be worth the effort to write the legislation to implement one)
天火狐 On 25 October 2017 at 12:52, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > > > That's fair enough, I was mainly thinking of ways like utilising > > > contracts and offering wincon progress or selling your vote, and in > > > general I feel like people don't really use what's there as much as > > > we possibly could? > > > > I completely concur with this. We've had/do have so many systems that > > would work if people (myself absolutely included) were more interested > > in them. I mean, there's currently a vote-buying pledge and a vote- > > buying contract but nobody's using either. I plan to create a couple > > of contracts over the coming days but yeah guys...I feel like maybe we > > (me included) should sit back for a bit and try & utilize the current > > systems to their full potential. > > People don't spend to buy others' votes. They just don't. I have > theories as to why, but while I've seen many many people set up contracts, > etc. to sell votes, over years of observed play they rarely make more > than a few shinies here and there. A bought vote might help one little > scam/victory proposal here and there, but it's not a basis for gameplay. > > And yeah, Contracts for contracts sake (without something basic > and stable underlying the purpose of contracts) is just pointless. > > >
