On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 11:57 -0400, Jason Cobb wrote: > Hey, another newbie question for you all. > > Rule 2481, point 3 reads: "Non-Festive players cannot flip the > Imminence of any proposal;". However, a simple text search does not > find the word "Imminence" mentioned anywhere else in the SLR (nor > does the string "immi"). > > Are my text-searching skills failing me, or did this Rule just get > left behind in a previous update?
Looks like a left-over rule change, yes. Also a potentially problematic one (that portion of the rule was intended to prevent invasions of large numbers of new players forcing through proposals via preventing the proposals from being distributed, but with "imminence" undefined it doesn't do anything). Imminence used to be a switch that specified whether the Promotor was allowed to distribute a proposal or not (you could submit proposals whenever you liked but had to pay for the distribution). The idea was partly that being able to have your proposals distributed is politically valuable and thus something that can be used as the basis of an economy, and partly to encourage people to think before proposing and to encourage discussion on a proposal before it's voted on. In practice, we tend to enact and repeal imminence mechanisms based on how much players are proposing. -- ais523
