[Nomic02] Some rule suggestions (fwd)

[Carl Muckenhoupt]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Admiral Jota wrote:

>      Any player may post a proposal for a change which requires the
>      unanimous agreement of all players. All other players may vote "aye"
>      or "nay" in response to the proposal by posting this vote to the
>      list. Any player may change his or her vote on a proposal until such
>      time as the voting is complete. The proposer is assumed to cast an
>      initial "aye" (but may change it, like any other vote). Any player
>      who hasn't voted on a particular proposal within the first 72 hours
>      is assumed to have voted "aye", but may change that vote up until the
>      proposal is officially ratified or removed from consideration. If at
>      any point any player has voted against a particular proposal, then
>      any other player (including other "nay" voters) may declare it to be
>      dead, and removed from consideration. If at any point all players
>      have voted in favour of a particular proposal (either by voting "aye"
>      or failing to vote within the alloted 72 hours), the original
>      proposer may declare it to be ratified by posting a message
>      containing the text of the proposal, a summary of the votes on it,
>      and the time it will come into effect: the issue under consideration
>      is considered to have been unanimously agreed by all players after a
>      period of one hour from the time of this posting has elapsed.

I'm willing to accept this,  although don't think you can still claim
that it's simpler than my proposals.