acka-research Digest Sunday, February 28 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 046 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: K 2 Subject: Re: acka : P 4095 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 04:24:55 -0500 (EST) Uri Bruck wrote: > >{{[Currently voting on a proposal is effectively worth half a Bonus Vote > > is that such a bad thing? > It just makes voting cost effective. It means there isn't much of a reason not always vote 130 - of cource if the proposal ends up boring.... (130 'cause that way you gain the 20 Mannna (via points) that the players who voted 60 also gained.) K 2 ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: acka : P 4095 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:53:29 -0500 (EST) On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, K 2 wrote: >> >{{[Currently voting on a proposal is effectively worth half a Bonus Vote >> >> is that such a bad thing? >> It just makes voting cost effective. > >It means there isn't much of a reason not always vote 130 - of cource if the >proposal ends up boring.... > >(130 'cause that way you gain the 20 Mannna (via points) that the players who >voted 60 also gained.) Actually, I think that's a *good* thing.. Being that otherwise there is no real incentive to NOT vote the proposal into boringness (which we've been seeing a lot of lately) --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: K 2 Subject: Re: acka : P 4095 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:41:02 -0500 (EST) > Actually, I think that's a *good* thing.. Being that otherwise there is > no real incentive to NOT vote the proposal into boringness (which we've > been seeing a lot of lately) > but that defeats the purpose of boring A boring vote on a proposal is a statement that the outcome of this proposal is less important than gaining a small voting advantage. As things stand now the boring vote is in fact 120 and large excesses of Mannna abound... K 2 ------------------------------ End of acka-research Digest V4 #46 **********************************