Maud wrote:
I hereby place a bounty of one magic cookie and a (virtual) pat on the
back to the first person to write a good proto or proposal which would
repeal rules 1688, 1482, and 1030. Goodness of protos and proposals
will be evaluated relative to my biases, of course.
This only achieves two-thirds of your goal, but...
Proto-Proposal: Reversing precedent with Agoran consent
(AI = 3, please)
Repeal Rule 1482 (Precedence between Rules with Unequal Power).
Repeal Rule 1030 (Precedence between Rules with Equal Power).
Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Consent) by replacing this text:
(c) more players have announced (and not withdrawn) support than
have announced (and not withdrawn) objections to the action
since the intent was published.
with this text:
(c) the support index exceeds one and meets or exceeds the
consent index of the action. The support index is the
ratio of the number of other players who have announced
(and not withdrawn) support to the number of other players
who have announced (and not withdrawn) objections. The
consent index is one unless otherwise defined.
Create a rule titled "Precedence between rules" with Power=3 and this
text:
a) In a conflict between rules with different Power, the rule
with higher Power takes precedence.
b) In a conflict between rules with equal Power, the rule with
lower number takes precedence.
c) If at least one of the rules in conflict claims that it takes
precedence over another rule (or type of rule) or defers to
another rule (or type of rule), and none of the others
contradict that claim, then that claim supersedes the previous
methods of determining precedence.
d) If all the rules in conflict agree on a different method of
determining their precedence over one another, then that method
supersedes the previous methods of determining precedence.
e) A player may, with Agoran consent with a consent index of
H/L, perform an action and cause a rule with Power L to take
precedence over a rule with Power H with regard to that
action. E must be otherwise permitted to perform that action,
taking the altered precedence into account.
f) No change to the rules can occur that would provide any other
means of determining precedence between rules. This rule takes
precedence over any rule that would permit such a change.
