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Author Topic: Proposal by DoctorB: DoctorB wins sinblox Administrator Member # 5 posted August 17, 2002 12:25 PM                    Title : DoctorB Wins. Full Text: To win, a player must be registered in this forum with the name 'doctorb', and be member #16. --- Commence voting. IP: Logged sinblox Administrator Member # 5 posted August 17, 2002 12:26 PM                    I vote nay IP: Logged doctorb unregistered posted August 17, 2002 03:27 PM              I vote yes...an infinite number of times. Yes, I can. -DoctorB IP: Logged sinblox Administrator Member # 5 posted August 17, 2002 06:14 PM                    I retract my previous vote and I vote NAY an infinite number of times! You need 50.1% of the vote, you only have 50%, agreed? IP: Logged doctorb unregistered posted August 17, 2002 11:55 PM              Ahh, math. You're assuming that if (infinity + infinity = 100%), then (infinity = 50%). That's wrong, wrong, wrong. It's not infinity either. It's even better. It's undefined! (Look it up.) I could leave it at that, which I suppose would mean this proposal would stay here forever, with the current rules... but I won't. I'll retract my vote, and vote yes X+1 times, where X = The Total Number Of Nays. Of course, infinity+1 = infinity, so I've really done nothing but make this whole business more complicated. -DoctorB (In case you haven't noticed, I like pointing out holes in the rules by example. ) IP: Logged vulture Junior Member Member # 20 posted August 18, 2002 05:49 AM                     Oh, there´s no rule that says that you can retract your vote, so I assume you can´t I vote no often enough to get this rejected IP: Logged sinblox Administrator Member # 5 posted August 18, 2002 05:21 PM                    Vulture, you're allowed to. Maybe we need to make a rule so you can't. IP: Logged Immortal unregistered posted August 18, 2002 05:28 PM              I vote no an infinite amount of times IP: Logged doctorb unregistered posted August 19, 2002 07:55 AM              By my estimation, the number of NO votes is : (infinity + infinity + number needed to have this rejected) And the number of YES votes is : ((infinity + infinity + number needed to have this rejected) + 1) And the number needed to have this rejected is : (((infinity + infinity + number needed to have this rejected) + 1) + 1). ...and so on, and so on, until insanity. Frankly, I can only see this being a stalemate.(OR...you could just let me win. ) Anyhow, I've made my point. -DoctorB IP: Logged sinblox Administrator Member # 5 posted August 19, 2002 10:37 AM                    Well, 1. You can withdraw this vote (the originator of a proposal has rights over it) 2. A prop can be made to remove it 3. It can sit here forever IP: Logged SkyCrashesDown Junior Member Member # 25 posted October 12, 2002 01:32 PM                        A couple of interesting points: Doc made his votes prior to the 1-vote rule being placed into effect. My interpretation of the rules leads me to believe that, since no rule can be retroactive, his votes remain as valid as ever. However, one possible interpretation would be to require a literal "yes" or "no" (or similar utterance) to be posted to count as a vote. So to make a million yes votes, you would have to post the word "yes" a million times. Whether or not you interpret things that way makes no difference now, though. It seems that I am presently the only active player, and as such my vote is the only vote that counts. Though other players placed votes, those players' votes are not counted in the total because they are now inactive. And since my vote constitutes 100% of the voting population, I can decide the issue once and for all right now. I vote no; the proposal fails. -------------------- Rule 101: Everybody love Pupkin. IP: Logged physics_geek Junior Member Member # 27 posted October 13, 2002 04:20 AM                    I vote no. Proposal still fails. Is there some kind of time limit to this or no? Does sinblox need to move in a finialize the vote? Does everyone have to vote? No one seems to be active anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter. Interesting idea though... IP: Logged SkyCrashesDown Junior Member Member # 25 posted October 13, 2002 07:30 PM                        As I interpret the current rules, as soon as the vote has been definitely decided then it's over. This is based on the 50.1% to win rule, and also the rule that players must follow the rules *as they currently are*, which sort of implies that if a proposal has 50.1% of the votes *currently*, then we must follow the rules and accept the proposal as a new rule. -------------------- Rule 101: Everybody love Pupkin. IP: Logged

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