On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:25 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:08 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Proposal: secret votes redux (AI=3)
>
> I retract this proposal and submit this modified version:
>
> Proposal: secret votes redux (AI=3)
I retract this and submit this modified version:
Proposal: secret votes redux (AI=3)
Create a new Power-3 Rule titled "Star Chamber":
Star is a Voting Chamber. The voting limit of an eligible voter
on a decision in the Star Chamber is 1. Submitting a proposal
in the Star Chamber has a cost of A Yaks, where A is the value
of the Insanity Fee, a Budget Switch.
The Chamber of a decision CANNOT become Star except by being
initialized to that value when the decision is initiated. If
the set of options of a decision in the Star Chamber changes, or
such a decision is initiated with more than 1000 options or
eligible voters, it automatically becomes Democratic.
Otherwise, within 24 hours after a decision is initiated in the
Star Chamber, the initiator SHALL once, for each eligible voter:
- construct a document (the Codebook) clearly listing a distinct
code for each option, randomly chosen from a reasonably large
universe of possible codes;
- publish its SHA-1 hash, clearly labeled as the hash of eir
Codebook for that decision; then
- privately send it to that voter, clearly labeled as eir
Codebook for that decision.
A player's Codebook for a decision is the first document whose
hash has been published as described. The initiator SHALL NOT
mislabel any document as a Codebook or the hash of a Codebook.
The initiator SHOULD follow these steps immediately after
initiating the decision; if e fails to do so within the time
limit, players SHOULD make the decision Democratic.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, when submitting a ballot,
an eligible voter can select an option by clearly identifying
the code for that option listed in eir Codebook rather than the
option itself.
Within 4 days after the end of such a decision's voting period,
the initiator SHALL publish each of its Codebooks, clearly
labeled as such; when e does so at any time, the decision
becomes Collapsed. If e does not do so in a timely fashion
after the end of the voting period, then all ballots on that
decision become invalid and the decision becomes Collapsed.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the decision can only be
resolved after the decision becomes Collapsed; if the vote
collector is required to resolve the decision, e need only do so
in a timely fashion after this occurs.
The initiator of a decision in the Star Chamber SHALL NOT
disclose any of its codes, or otherwise allow them to become
known to other persons, before the end of the voting period,
except as previously described, and SHOULD take measures to
assign the codes automatically without em personally seeing
them.
Set the value of the Insanity Fee to 100.
[Puts the burden of maintaining the codes on the Promotor rather than
each voter, and, unlike previous proposals, avoids having to trust
anyone to determine the gamestate. I considered having the initiator
contact the vote collector immediately, but may as well minimize the
number of people who have to handle the codes - I will attempt to be
punctual.
Update: Now with more accountability, as a voter can (but need not, if
e trusts the initiator and doesn't feel like computing a SHA-1 hash)
verify the private message at initiation time. There is no way to
stop a player from falsely claiming not to have received eir Codebook
(could add a truthfulness clause, but then players might make such
claims to a-d) and causing democratization, but hopefully nobody will
do that.
