DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Help with Forgotten Announcements, Support Improvements

[Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion]

> On Jan 29, 2020, at 1:46 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business 
> <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 
> Proposal: On Possibility (AI=1)
> {{{
> Enact a new power-1 rule entitled "Default Mechanisms" reading as follows:
> {
> If the Rules other than this one, as a whole, provide that a person CAN
> perform an action, but do not state the mechanism by which e can do so, e
> CAN perform it by announcement.
> 
> If the Rules other than this one, as a whole, provide that a non-person
> entity CAN perform an action, but do state the mechanism by which e can do
> so, any person CAN cause that entity to perform that action with Agoran
> Consent.

AFIACT, this exists even if the rule already has a mechanism for causing that 
entity to do things. For example, we have provisions that allow contracts and 
instruments to do things—this would make those things performable with consent 
(in practice, those things are largely too high powered, but the bug could 
still exists). 

> 
> If the Rules other than this one, as a whole, provide that an action CAN be
> performed but do not specify any entities as being capable of performing
> that action, any person CAN perform that action with Agoran Consent.
> 
> For the purposes of this Rule, the Rules provide a mechanism for an action
> to be performed even if they specify a mechanism with a precondition which
> is not currently met, and they specify that an entity can perform that
> action even if no appropriate entity currently exists. This Rule defers to
> all Rules which permit actions to be performed by specific mechanisms.

Oh, I hadn’t noticed this clause. But I’m not sure if it works. I’d argue that 
providing an alternate mechanism to do something isn’t a conflict between the 
rules, so I’m not sure this deference does anything. 

> }
> }}}
> 
> Proposal: Support of the Person (AI=3, coauthors=G.)
> {{{
> Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Satisfaction) by:
> 
> 1. Replacing "However, the previous sentence notwithstanding, the initiator
> of the intent is not eligible to support it." with "Announcing intent to
> perform an action implicitly announces support for that action; such
> support may be withdrawn as per usual."
> 2. Replacing "The action is to be performed With N support, and there are 
> fewer
> than than N Supporters of that intent." with "The action is to be performed
> With N support, and there equal to or fewer than than N Supporters of that
> intent."
> 3. Replacing "The action is to be performed with N Agoran consent, and
> the number
> of Supporters of the intent is less than or equal to N times the number of
> Objectors to the intent." with "The action is to be performed with N Agoran
> consent, and the number of Supporters of the intent is less than or equal
> to O or less than N * O, where O is the number of Objectors to the intent."
> }}}
> 
> -Alexis