On 9/10/19 4:10 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote:> I do wonder if maybe "all
the interlocking cogs... turning fine" is part of the problem. In
real-life political systems, things keep changing because people still
feel that they are inadequate or unjust, or because there are current
events that need to be responded to. But in Agora, there seems to be a
general consensus that the current system is fit for purpose and needs
no major improvements or alterations. So, naturally, nothing much tends
to change with the "core" rules, and instead we've been distracting
ourselves with a series of sub-games.
Perhaps it's time to deliberately tinkering some of the core rules and see what
happens?
Right, this is exactly how I envisioned C&B. A deliberate change to the
core ruleset. Economic systems, despite shifting due to the needs of the
rest of the rules, are still a core part of the game. C&B would change
up the process a little bit, perhaps spurring a change to the rest of
the ruleset. Do you want me to expand this to more parts of the core
ruleset? I have plenty of ideas for that.
For example, I know from archives that proposals tend to oscillate between "free and
accessible to everyone" and "gated behind game mechanics". When I registered a year
and a half ago, proposals cost a nominal fee, and now they're totally unrestricted - so we've gone
through a phase of direct democracy. What would people think about changing that?
For the record, I've never really been completely on-board with infinite
completely free proposals for all. I would love if someone brought
proposal fees back.
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Trigon
