Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > I've edited out the bits of the proposal I think are unproblematic; here > are comments on the other bits. I think I took on all of your suggestions, especially including tightening up security (e.g. restricting proposal cards to operating on ordinary non-

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Paul VanKoughnett wrote: >>> On a partially-related note, all elections should include a VACANT >>> option. Or perhaps only if someone 'nominates' it? Vacant-option with 3 >>> support? >>> >>> EMPTY THRONE >>> >> Why? What if this happened to e. g. the Promotor? >>

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Paul VanKoughnett wrote: >> On a partially-related note, all elections should include a VACANT >> option. Or perhaps only if someone 'nominates' it? Vacant-option with 3 >> support? >> >> EMPTY THRONE >> > Why? What if this happened to e. g. the Promotor? > On one hand it's

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Paul VanKoughnett
> On a partially-related note, all elections should include a VACANT > option. Or perhaps only if someone 'nominates' it? Vacant-option with 3 > support? > > EMPTY THRONE > Why? What if this happened to e. g. the Promotor?

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron Goldfein
>  Any office whose duties include being a dealer is a high-priority office. Office priority has been repealed.

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Benjamin Caplan wrote: > >>> On an unrelated note, I would like to see this incorporated into more >>> offices. I think campaign speeches are a good idea and a much better >>> way to decide than "this guy messed up fewer times in the past." >> >> A good g

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> On an unrelated note, I would like to see this incorporated into more >> offices. I think campaign speeches are a good idea and a much better >> way to decide than "this guy messed up fewer times in the past." > > A good general policy, certainly. B

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Benjamin Caplan
Paul VanKoughnett wrote: >> * if the deck's dealer is part of an Officer's duty, then, >>during an election for that office but before the last >>four days of the election's voting period, a candidate for >>that office CAN make and publish a pledge expli

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Paul VanKoughnett
>          * if the deck's dealer is part of an Officer's duty, then, >            during an election for that office but before the last >            four days of the election's voting period, a candidate for >            that office CAN make and publish a pledge explicitly, >            clearly,

Re: DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Alex Smith
I've edited out the bits of the proposal I think are unproblematic; here are comments on the other bits. On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:20 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If a card class has a position, there is always exactly one such > instance of the class in existence, and it CANNOT be eith

DIS: Firmer Card draft

2009-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
As I was finishing up the proposal I see comments have come in. I'll look at them and based on ais523's comments assume I'll incorporate some of those as per discussion. Meanwhile, here's one worth looking at; note that by splitting up cards into multiple decks there may be room for a few more