On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:13 AM Rebecca via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:24 PM Aris Merchant via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:11 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business > > <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 6/3/2020 11:00 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote: > > > > A player SHALL NOT cast a ballot or induce another person to do so > > in a > > > > way primarily intended to affect popularity. Doing so is the Class-2 > > > > Crime of Vote Manipulation. > > > > > > Notice of honour > > > -1 Aris, for starting us down the road to criminalizing intent with that > > > awful forbidden arts thing, and continuing the criminalization of intent > > > by proposing penalties for the basic free act of voting. > > > +1 D. Margaux, for being a generally good person. > > > > I retract Vote Manipulation. > > > > The forbidden arts thing doesn't even consider intent! Grumbles. This > > one *does* consider intent though, and that's a fair argument against > > it. I maintain that requiring people to at least *hide* what they're > > doing could make it more interesting. Still, since it's you, and you > > care this much, I'll retract the proposal. Next time maybe ask before > > taking the honor? "Aris, I *really* think this is a bad idea", coming > > from you, would have had the same effect. > > > > -Aris > > > Everyone's been too snippy recently. > > And besides, we already criminalize intent. We do that by making it illegal > to intentionally lie to mislead. > > -- > From R. Lee
While I agree and think we should all work on this, I also think that we should give each other a bit of a break given the state of the world and the increased stress that everyone is likely experiencing.
