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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Proposal: Protocols

This is a revamp of our old Tributes rule and creates a sort of "nomic within" mechanics. Notice that the trigger of the Protocol may be something like "whenever a Member casts a vote in discordance with the Speaker's vote", efectively creating means of enforcing Party lines. The last paragraph is intended to avoid the creation of exploits within a small Party, at least without the cumplicity of the Prime Minister.

In the Parties rule, move the following text to the end of that rule, under a sub-title called Speakership Determination:

Parties have a Speaker. Any Lord in a Party and not Speaker of that Party is referred to as a Member. All Lords within a Party must name a Lord, within that Party, which they want to be the Speaker, and they may only change that nomination once per day. At any time, if the totaled number of Electoral Votes of all Lords thus naming a Lord for Speakership exceeds the totaled number of Electoral Votes of all Lords thus naming the current Speaker, any Lord in the effected Party may change the Party’s Speakership.

If a Party has currently no Speaker, any Lord of that Party may change the Party’s Speakership so it goes to the Lord with the higher totaled number of Electoral Votes of Lords naming him.

Create a rule Protocols:

At any time a Lord may attempt to create or repeal a Protocol inside his own Party, by requesting a Caucus with that Party, with a topic of "[Create/Repeal] Protocol: [Title]".

The Prime Minister may cast a Veto to a Caucus creating a Protocol in any Party, as if he would the Speaker of that Party.

If the Caucus is approved, any Admin may append or delete the text of the approved or repealed Protocol to the end of this rule. Upon doing so, the Admin may transfer to himself up to 5 Confidence from the Petitioner. The text of all Protocols shall at all times be found on this rule and comply with it.

If the Caucus is rejected, the Petitioner loses 10 Confidence.

The text of a Protocol must specify the following points, and only these points:

* The name of the Protocol.
* The Party it applies to.
* Who is the Enforcer of the Protocol.
* Conditions that trigger the enforcing of the Protocol.
* Restrictions, if any, to the first Paragraph of rule 16 (Caucuses), saying when a Lord is able to petition the Party this Protocol applies to.
* Alterations, if any, in the procedure governed by the other Paragraphs of rule 16 (Caucuses), when a Caucus is being tallied in the Party this Protocol applies to.
* Alterations, if any, in the procedure governed by the Paragraphs of rule 11 (Parties) under sub-title "Speakership Determination" when the Speakership of the Party this Protocol applies to is being determined.
* Limits, if any, of applicability of the Protocol.
* The powers the Enforcer is entitled to.

The only powers a Protocol may entitle the Enforcer to are:

* Take any positive amount of Confidence and/or Electoral Votes from any group of Lords which are Members or the Speaker of his Party and distribute up to the same amount taken from these Stats to the same Stat of any group of Lords, even if in other Party.
* Change the Party affiliation of a Lord in his Party to "-" (meaning no Party), applying to that Lord any legal penalties for leaving a Party.
* Take any positive amount of the Supporter Perc of his Party’s Speaker and transfer it to any group of Speakers of other Parties.

A Protocol may not contain any text that refers to either rule 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10.

A Protocol may not be enforced in the period of 24 hours within its enactment. During that time, the Prime Minister may choose to Veto that Protocol, by applying the Imperial Seal to the comments of the Blog entry with the Caucus which created that Protocol. Any Admin may then delete the text of that Protocol from this rule and transfer up to 5 Confidence to himself from the Prime Minister.


0-6. Self-fail. ShadowSliver's vote is interpreted as a single EV DEFERENTIAL to Chronos. Failed by Orson 11/10.