DIS: Re: BUS: post-judicial-reform proposals

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: [The Order system is obsolete. With Timing Orders gone, the only remaining type of Order would be Legislative Orders, but a proposal can do whatever it wants anyway without requiring this bulky mechanism in the ruleset.] Proposals with ongoing effects have always been a bit fuzz

DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Interest Index (AI = 2, please) Change the title of Rule 2153 to "Interest Index", and amend it to read: The interest index of a proposal is a non-negative integer with a default value of 1 and a maximum value of 3. Before the Promotor distributes a proposal,

Re: DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: > a) When a proposal is adopted, its proposer gains Red VCs equal Coauthors should not get a reward for a disinterested proposal. Otherwise looks good. -zefram

Re: DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Zefram
Second thoughts: with Red VC rewards now varying massively in magnitude, the one-per-week clause needs to be refined. I think that in each week each proposer should receive the largest single Red VC reward available from eir proposals that week, rather than whichever was chronologically first. Ho

Re: DIS: Proto: Interest Index

2007-07-21 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Second thoughts: with Red VC rewards now varying massively in magnitude, the one-per-week clause needs to be refined. I think that in each week each proposer should receive the largest single Red VC reward available from eir proposals that week, rather than whichever was chronolog

DIS: proto: tighten definition of VCs

2007-07-21 Thread Zefram
proto-proposal: tighten definition of VCs AI: 2 {{{ Amend rule 2126 by replacing the text Voting Credits (VCs) are a measure of each player's ability to affect voting limits on ordinary proposals. VCs CANNOT be affected except as described in this rule. When a player re