On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Sean Hunt wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yep. It's "end of voting period" so people pay attention to that type
> > of thing, and if you beat someone by jumping in at the last minute: well
> > done. And a reason to spend rubles defensively, too.
> >
> > Think of it as awarding wins for people who find bugs that allow that
> > to happen too easily...
>
> I'll just submit a hundred Plutocratic proposals and spend all my
> rubles on random proposals right before the end of the voting period.
> Odds are very good one or more will hit.
Well, that's quite the bug, seeing that someone could do the same thing
right now with a "nasty" proposal... and no real AI limit there, either.
A *very* last minute conditional is the defense: "If scshunt has spent
X on any one of these proposals, I spend Y and vote". Then it would be
just a race to get the last timestamp. And messy.
Er, shall we fix plutocracy then, one of:
1. tweak quorum to include first class persons with 0 voting power,
2. put default voting power of 1,
3. make it cost to make a proposal plutocratic in the first place,
4. allow spending on these decisions to be conditional on end-of-
voting conditions, like conditional votes ('if anyone else
spends X on this proposal, I spend Y and vote'). Takes the race
condition away.
Choice of fix?
-G.
