Ed Murphy wrote: >4955 AGAINST (more non-integer Power; also, I think this makes Ordinary > proposals too weak)
As your Oligarch scam has demonstrated, Ordinary proposals are currently too strong. My intention is to use the Support Democracy mechanism only when an Ordinary proposal threatens the integrity of the Democratic proposal mechanism: essentially, under the same circumstances set out in the Public Policy proposal. I'll support the removal of Support Democracy once the Democratic mechanism has benn rendered safe from low-Power meddling. What I'm aiming for here is a stable and democratic mechanism for amending high-Power stuff alongside a more fluid system for low-Power stuff which can be as undemocratic as it wants. With the current Ordinary/Democratic system we have an imperfect implementation of this. Once the Democratic mechanism is properly entrenched, I'd like to expand the scope of the Ordinary system a bit: give it a range of Power levels that it can reach, perhaps up to Power=1.5 (and require Democratic proposals to have a minimum AI of 1.6). That'll mean supermajority politics interacting with VLOP, which currently doesn't happen. A related bit, which has come to mind seeing all the votes against my AI=3 proposals: VCs should be earned only for Ordinary proposals. Might have to increase the award to compensate. -zefram
