On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 6:03 PM Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote:
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> Replies inline.
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> Gaelan
>
> > On Oct 31, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/31/19 8:28 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote:
> >> {
> >> Amend rule 2350 “Proposals” as follows:
> >> * replace “A player CAN create a proposal by announcement“ with “A player
> >> CAN create a proposal With 23 Hours Notice.”
> >> * after the list, add a new paragraph: “Additionally, a player CAN, but
> >> SHALL NOT, create a proposal by announcement, specifying the same
> >> information required above.
> >> }
> >>
> >> Explanation: reduce promotor work by reducing the number of proposals
> >> created and soon retracted in favor of a minorly-fixed version. It’s 23
> >> hours so people don’t have to count minutes, just do it at about the same
> >> time on the next day. The CAN but SHALL NOT mechanism is there to avoid
> >> ossification if dependent actions break.
> >
> >
> > I'm not completely convinced that this would be significantly better than
> > the status quo, but I will of course defer to the H. Promotor's judgement.
Thanks, both of you. I really appreciate it when people think of
reducing my (not inconsiderable) workload. However, I don't think this
change would really help. Firstly, as a player, I tend to oppose any
change that makes it harder to submit proposals. As Promotor, I note
that a rapidly retracted proposals don't tend to create that much
extra work. Sure, they can be confusing, but I almost always catch
them quickly before doing the full write up. Furthermore, having to
check if people had actually given intent and gone through the
deadline would actually add to my workload, although admittedly I'd
probably just trust that people were following the requisite rule. For
these reasons, I don't think this particular change would be a good
idea, though I really appreciate the thought.
On a semi-related note, I keep thinking of publishing an informal
style guide for how to format proposals (not the rule content, which
is more the Rulekeepor's domain, just the proposal itself). If people
followed it, it would save me some time. Would people be averse to the
idea?
-Aris
