Bay 12 Games Forum

R001:
Any player may set forth a motion to take some official action. Official actions include, but are not limited to, amendment of or additions of rules.

R002:
All official motions must be in bold and italics and begin with "I make a motion to..." Additionally, official motions must end with "For the purposes of voting, this motion shall be referred to as [username]'s motion to...", followed by a summary of the motion's actions, with "[username]" replaced by the motion-maker's username. For example, one could say "I make a motion to put the comma that is directly outside the quotes in rule R002 inside the preceeding quotes, after the ellipses. For the purposes of voting, this motion shall be referred to as kerfuffleninja's motion to save grammar Nazis from developing a nervous twitch."

R003:
To vote in favor of or against a motion, one must declare one's vote by saying "I cast my vote [in favor of/against] [motion-maker]'s motion to [motion summary]." For example, one could say "I cast my vote in favor of kerfuffleninja's motion to save grammar Nazis from developing a nervous twitch."

R004:
Once a motion has received five votes, they are tallied. If a motion receives three or more votes in the affirmative, it passes and is acted upon. Otherwise, it fails. If the motion passes, and requires that the rules be amended, the motion-maker must do this as soon as possible, and post the revised ruleset. If the motion-maker fails to do this within 48 hours of the motion's passage, the motion's state is changed, and it fails.

R005:
The rules are to be followed in their most current form.

R006:
It is against the rules to vote on a motion more than once.

R007:
A simulated world governed by our rules exists. It is called Nomia (adjectival form Nomic) and is composed of a 100x100 grid in an open Google Doc, with each little component being  Ocean (deep water), Sea (shallow water), Desert (sandy, dry, arid areas), Grassland (flat areas covered mainly in grass), Forest (areas covered mainly in trees), Swamp (wet areas with fairly thick vegetation), Hills (soily lumps), Mountain (rocky lumps of great size), Wasteland (rocky plains), or Tundra (icy areas).

b_boy_212's motion to provide incentive : 2/0
b_boy_212's motion to provide a win condition: 1/3
GreatWyrmGold's motion to improve our parliamentary procedure: 3/0
GreatWyrmGold's motion to force us to think of a more interesting example: 1/ 0
Harry Baldman's motion to deformalize voting: 0/2
b_boy_212's motion to avoid conflict: 1/1
b_boy_212's motion to fix his mistake: 1/1