I think we need a free way of pending patch proposals. The voters appear to agree with me. I know some prominent and respected voices disagree, but the proposal passed, so clearly public sentiment presently favors something along these lines.
However, the mechanism I proposed might have been messy. There are alternative ideas that would cause fewer CFJs. This gets a bit logistically interesting though because it's preferable for any such mechanism to be a) fast, and b) discourage abuse. Unfortunately, those things go against each other. This is why I suggested a criminal mechanism, which punishes abuse after the fact. The obvious alternative is a dependent action. 2 Agoran Consent works pretty well as a cure to abuse of anything. It also takes 4 days, which is too long for patches IMO. That leaves with N support. The problem with actions taken with N support is that you've gotta pick a value of N that is high enough to stop a cabal of taking advantage of it and low enough to be easily achievable. That being said, something like with 5 support backed by a SHOULD might do it. A final solution, which I'm tossing in mostly as a joke, would be to just take the once a week limitation off my emergency pending powers. Or, of course, we could just repeal it. A repeal does remove the problem, though at the cost of also removing a mechanism that we've collectively agreed is a good idea. Thoughts? -Aris
