On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 5:45 PM ais523 via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2024-03-10 at 15:38 -0700, Edward Murphy via agora-discussion
> wrote:
> > If so, and if Kate indeed gained five Ribbons on 2023-08-31, and no
> > one else gained as many, then:
> > * Only Kate's vote counted on any proposal resolved after 230.
> > * Only Kate's support counted on any tabled action resolved after
> > 230.
> > which should have been enough for eir dictatorship to become
> > effective.
>
> What was quorum? If it ever got low enough for that to work, then there
> is something badly broken with the quorum rules and we need to revise
> them.
>
> --
> ais523
>
from Rule 2481 (Festival Restrictions) Power 3.1:
{
While Agora's Festivity is nonzero, the following apply:
....
2. Quorum for Agoran Decisions is equal to half the number of
Festive players, rounded up;
}
Quorum was 1 if Festivity was 5, since Kate would be the only Festive
player. Except!
Rule 879/40 (Power=3)
Quorum
Each Agoran decision has a quorum. This is a number set when the
decision is created, and thereafter cannot be changed. When a
person initiates an Agoran decision, that person SHALL state the
quorum of that decision. However, incorrectly stating the quorum
of a decision does not invalidate the initiation, nor does it
actually change the quorum of the decision.
The quorum that an Agoran decision gains as it is created can be
defined by other rules of power 2 or greater. If no other rule
defines the quorum of an Agoran decision, the quorum for that
decision is equal to 2/3 of the number of voters on the referendum
that had been most recently resolved at the time of that
decision's initiation, the whole rounded to the nearest integer.
As an exception to the previous paragraph, the minimum quorum of
an Agoran decision is 2, or 1 if there are fewer than 2 players in
the game. If the rules would attempt to set the quorum of an
Agoran decision to less than the minimum quorum, it is set to the
minimum instead.
It seems like because of Rule 879, Rule 2481 attempts to set quorum as 1,
but then it is set to 2 instead. This means if festivity was 5, all
distributions initiated would fail quorum.
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