It'd also encourage some interesting attempts at shorthand. On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:42 PM, ATMunn <iamingodsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Haven't read the rest of the discussion, but what if there was a rule that > maybe, say, allowed a free pend every week, as long as the proposal is > under some character count. It might need some tweaking, but it could work. > > > On 2/14/2018 6:21 PM, Alexis Hunt wrote: > >> I find that, when economic limits are put on proposals, inevitably it >> becomes less "why do I need to pay to propose" and more "why do I need to >> pay to fix this typo". It's true that I did pay in this case, but pending >> a >> proposal is very expensive right now (non-officeholders can only propose >> 3/month if anyone else objects). Making it harder to propose simple fixups >> is very bad for the game because they tend not to get written. If you have >> 3 proposals per month, are you really going to spend one of those on a >> small fix that everyone agrees is good? Imposing delays on simple fixup >> proposals is not good either, especially since they're the sort of >> proposals that are easily forgotten so the author may forget to resolve >> the >> intent. >> >> It's tempting to play spoiler and just to object to all intents to prove a >> point, honestly. >> >> (disclaimer: in the above, when I say typo, I'm assuming that we can't use >> the cleaning rule on it because it involves some semantic change) >> >> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 at 18:12, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Alexis Hunt wrote: >>> >>>> That still has the problem of delaying proposals by an additional 4 >>>> days, >>>> which is the exact opposite of what we want to do with controversial >>>> >>> ones. >>> >>> I feel like review periods are good things, especially when you're >>> specifically >>> asking Agora if the proposal is enough in the good interests of the game >>> to get >>> out of paying for it. >>> >>> Given the Promotor's schedule (close to a fixed weekly time, say >>> Mondays), >>> there's only 4 days in the week (e.g. Thu-Sun) that it would delay >>> anything. >>> And since the Assessor might delay up to a week anyway, the 4 days is >>> not big. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
