Proposal: Grade Hath Its Priveleges

Some people have more power than others.

Create a rule, Voting on the Caine, with the text

For the purposes of Rule 4 -- Voting, crewmembers' votes are not all equal. Each crewmember has a Voting Power according to the following scheme:

Type of crewmember	Voting Power
Non-officers	equal to eir Grade, or 1, whichever is higher
Officers	equal to eir Grade + 10
Officers with Gold Star	20
Officers with Galactic Spiral	20, and may Veto proposals in the same manner as the Computer
Computer	0
Space Mad crewmembers	0

Quorum is changed to the total Voting Power, divided by two rounding down, plus one. When a crewmember posts a vote on the blog, e must indicate eir voting power in the text of the comment or the vote is void, and the proposer of a proposal must indicate eir Voting Power either in the text of the proposal or in a comment. Each crewmember's vote is counted as a number of votes equal to eir voting power when deciding if a proposal passes or fails. For instance, if Able votes for a proposal with a Voting Power of 10, Bob votes against with a Voting Power of 2, and Charlie votes against with a Voting Power of 7, the proposal is enacted.

Note that while the computer has no intrinsic votes it still controls IMPERIAL votes, and that if a crewmember's Voting Power changes after e votes on a proposal, there is no affect on that proposal.

It should be possible to calculate Quorum automatically and have it posted to the blog in the same way as it currently is by parsing the data in the GNDT with a couple of lines of code. If this is not possible, and this would be hard to administer otherwise, Kevan may auto-fail this proposal by posting a comment containing the Veto icon.

Self-Failed. Failed by Smith, 1st of May at 04:09.