DIS: Re: BUS: (@Promotor) No Taxation Without Representation

[Janet Cobb via agora-discussion]

On 2/15/24 12:41, 4st nomic via agora-business wrote:
> I submit the following proposal:
> {
> Title: No Taxation Without Representation
> Adoption Index: 2.0
> Author: 4st
> Co-author(s):
>
> [Currently, democratic proposals can pass even if the quorum is much lower
> than the number of active players. This means that democratic proposals
> have the potential to not represent a representative amount of them.
> Democratic proposals should not only meet a high adoption index, but should
> also meet that adoption index with representation.]
>
> Amend Rule 2606 ("Proposal Classes") by appending "The quorum of a
> democratic proposal is 2/3 of the active players, rounded down."
> }
>

We almost never have 2/3 of active players actually voting on proposals.
This would almost certainly come close to locking us out of changes to
Power 3+ rules (but with no ossification risk, since ossification
assumes all players are acting).

Interestingly, BlogNomic tried something almost identical to this
recently, then got rid of it because it was causing problems.

-- 
Janet Cobb

Assessor, Rulekeepor, S​tonemason