Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-22 Thread ais523
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 23:50 -0400, Sgeo wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve > >> to escape from situat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-22 Thread ais523
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 20:10 -0400, ihope wrote: > The proposal system's 12 (actually higher than 12, of course) gets > bigger whenever 26 gets bigger. A with-support rule's 12 does not. I challenge that "actually higher"; barring vetos, I believe that a team of 11 Scamsters working together could c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Sgeo
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve >> to escape from situations where the normal proposal system doesn't work, >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread ihope
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve >> to escape from situations where the normal proposal system doesn't work, >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve > to escape from situations where the normal proposal system doesn't work, > maybe after seeing it happen to B Nomic at least twice in the last year. B does

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: >> Nobody has 12 friends. Unless, I guess, they're non-Agoran friends who >> all register at once. Maybe we could limit registrations to >> one-per-week-or-without-three-objections. > > That was the sort of situation I met, and I don't think this would be > wo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Ben Caplan
> >> No, it has the problem that anybody with 12 friends can do > >> anything they want. > > > > Isn't this true of the proposal system in general, for > > sufficiently large values of 12? > > The proposal system's 12 (actually higher than 12, of course) gets > bigger whenever 26 gets bigger. A wit

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread ihope
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2008 05:53:58 pm Ian Kelly wrote: >> No, it has the problem that anybody with 12 friends can do anything >> they want. > > Isn't this true of the proposal system in general, for sufficiently > large va

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Ben Caplan
On Saturday 20 September 2008 05:53:58 pm Ian Kelly wrote: > No, it has the problem that anybody with 12 friends can do anything > they want. Isn't this true of the proposal system in general, for sufficiently large values of 12?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 5:03 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve >>> to escape

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread ihope
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve >> to escape from situations where the normal proposal system doesn't work, >> maybe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still have a strong feeling that Agora needs some sort of safety valve > to escape from situations where the normal proposal system doesn't work, > maybe after seeing it happen to B Nomic at least twice in the last year. > I tho

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread ais523
On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 16:31 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I submit the following proposal (AI=3, II=1): > > > > Add a rule with the following text, and set its power to 3: > > {{{ > > Any player can make arbitrary changes to th

DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency exit, part 2

2008-09-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I submit the following proposal (AI=3, II=1): > > Add a rule with the following text, and set its power to 3: > {{{ > Any player can make arbitrary changes to the rules with 12 Support. > }}} > Very strongly AGAINST. -