On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 9:49 PM Rebecca via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:40 PM Alex Smith via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Friday, 5 June 2020, 19:11:36 GMT+1, James Cook via agora-discussion < > > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > If a proposal does get enough votes, I think this makes the Assessor > > > the one who violates the rule, when e resolves it. I guess Aris's "New > > > Defenses" would protect em. Probably not a big deal. > > > > Gratuitous: in the unlikely event that a proposal that would ossify/end > > Agora does end up being voted FOR, I would prefer the Assessor to not > > resolve it. If resolving it were illegal, this would give em a good excuse > > to violate the rules requiring em to resolve it. > > > > (For example, if we catch that a proposal has an ossifying effect at some > > point after the voting period closes, the Assessor delaying the resolution > > would likely be a necessary step in fixing the situation, buying time to, > > e.g., pass a proposal to proactively negate the ossifying proposal's > > effects.) > > > > Something similar has happened in other nomics: Wooble once "forfeited" > > (effectively, deregistered from) B in order to avoid having to resolve a > > proposal that would end the game. (It was eventually discovered that due to > > some brokenness earlier, the proposal in question had never existed, > > although B was dead anyway at that point.) > > > > -- > > ais523 > > > > Yes, it is a class 2 ( but really class 1) crime to be Tardy on resolving a > proposal, and it is a class 4 crime to resolve it, ossifying agora. The > correct course of action for an Assessor who is worried about an ossifying > proposal is definitely to call a CFJ and not resolve the proposal, and the > rules encouraging that is not such a bad thing. >
Note that my proposal, at written, cares about rule power and not crime class. That's because I didn't want lower power rules to be able to override SHALLs in higher-powered rules. The obvious solution is to move the prohibition into AiaN, so it overpowers everything. I may propose that. -Aris
