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amend(105): Allow players to abstain, define quorum #22

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@mburns mburns commented Feb 21, 2016

What

This defines Quorum required for a vote (the amount of participation amongst Players needed to certify a vote as valid) to be "more than half" of eligible voters.

Previously, all votes required 100% participation.

Why

100% participation is impractical in this medium and sets the bar for active participation to be too high would-be casual Players.

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# Rule

Every player is an eligible voter. Every eligible voter must participate in every vote on rule-changes.
Every player is an eligible voter. Quorum for a vote is reached when more than half of all eligible voters participate in the proposed rule-change.
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Can we include the formula used here? e.g. (n div 2) + 1

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A more formal definition:

let n = number of active players
let v = number of votes
let q = Floor(n / 2) + 1

if v >= q, quorum is reached.

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jirwin commented Feb 22, 2016

+1

@@ -7,7 +7,21 @@ Type: Mutable

# Rule

Every player is an eligible voter. Every eligible voter must participate in every vote on rule-changes.
Every active player is an eligible voter.

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We should say that achieving quorum is required for a ruling to take place.

@mburns mburns changed the title amend(105): Set Quorum to be 50%+1 instead of 100% amend(105): Allow players to abstain Feb 23, 2016
@mburns mburns changed the title amend(105): Allow players to abstain amend(105): Allow players to abstain, define quorum Feb 23, 2016
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mburns commented Feb 23, 2016

Was tempted to make this two rules, but the idea of quorum requires that voters can choose to not vote, as opposed to voting against the proposal outright.

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jirwin commented Feb 23, 2016

+1

This changes the required amount of participation in any given vote from 100% (everyone) to 'more than half' (50%+1)
@mburns mburns merged commit 197a540 into master Aug 15, 2016
@mburns mburns deleted the define-vote-quorum branch October 31, 2020 09:07
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