i actually genuinely think that the proposal i created is probably the best fix for this, it means you can certify a proposal but you accept the risk of a massive fine (and that fine will be nominal if it's actually, manifestly, incredibly necessary or whatever)
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:45 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > 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 > -- >From R. Lee
