Replies inline. Gaelan
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Jason Cobb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/31/19 8:28 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: >> { >> Amend rule 2350 “Proposals” as follows: >> * replace “A player CAN create a proposal by announcement“ with “A player >> CAN create a proposal With 23 Hours Notice.” >> * after the list, add a new paragraph: “Additionally, a player CAN, but >> SHALL NOT, create a proposal by announcement, specifying the same >> information required above. >> } >> >> Explanation: reduce promotor work by reducing the number of proposals >> created and soon retracted in favor of a minorly-fixed version. It’s 23 >> hours so people don’t have to count minutes, just do it at about the same >> time on the next day. The CAN but SHALL NOT mechanism is there to avoid >> ossification if dependent actions break. > > > I'm not completely convinced that this would be significantly better than the > status quo, but I will of course defer to the H. Promotor's judgement. As will I. > > Worrying, I think this might criminalize the creation of all proposals - the > dependent actions end up by enabling performing the action by announcement, > and this would criminalize the creation of a proposal by announcement, so I > think this even criminalizes the dependent action method. I worried about that too—that’s why I made it a separate mechanism, not “CAN with 23h notice or by announcement but SHALL NOT by announcement.” Not sure if that fixes it, now that you mention it. > > > And a style thing: a little while ago, we decided that all uses of dependent > actions should be as lowercase as possible, so "with 23 hours notice" would > be preferred to "With 23 Hours Notice". [There are still some > inconsistencies; those were my fault by botching the cleanup proposal.] Case in point for the trivial fix thing, although in this case it was a proto. (Protos often go ignored, though) > > -- > Jason Cobb >
