This is a suggestion that was created from discussions in the North Pacific WA Symposium about update-bumping. In the discussion, viewable on the Discord server for anyone interested, I raised an idea about a technical way to limit the practice while not affecting too many other topics. The suggestion is that approvals given by delegates to WA proposals can be removed only by the delegate that instated them, and aren’t removed if the delegate loses power. Clearly, this would prevent update-bumping as well as a coup suddenly changing a delegate’s approvals, which I feel would help make the GA game in particular fairer, since unrelated Gameplay actions cannot affect perfectly innocent proposals.
There would still be the ability to counter-campaign in order to prevent a proposal from making it to vote, and raiding and defending as a whole wouldn’t be affected. This is just a technical suggestion to limit update-bumping, particularly its impact on unrelated proposals, though I of course have no idea whether this feasible or even possible from a coding standpoint.
EDIT: The idea has been dropped, thank you for your feedback.
