The proper way to make a proposal is to place it on the voting noticeboard. The prescribed voting period begins at the moment that the proposal is placed on the voting noticeboard.
At any point up until the end of the prescribed voting period, the proposer of a proposal may retract it. When a proposal is retracted, it is removed from the voting noticeboard and its proposer loses 9 points.
If the proposer does not retract it, the proposal may not be removed from the voting noticeboard until the end of the prescribed voting period unless another rule specifically mandates its removal.
-- Blob says: I think thats fine. I'll second Sat Dec 5 17:28:37 1992