The Civitas Islands wrote:Tinhampton wrote:All I do is step away from the computer to start a new game of Football Manager Handheld 2013 for what feels like the first time in five years for a couple of hours and all of a sudden Civvie's only gone and submitted it... why did you believe that 2.5 hours was a sufficent drafting period for a controversial-by-definition proposal authored by a resident of the affected region?
(I've led Juve Stabia to a valliant zero-points-out-of-nine start, for what it's worth.)
"Because it's not the language of the proposal that is being challenged. It is the intent. Discussions over intent can happen during the proposal phase."
To be clear, your proposal was drafted between:
1am and 3am in India
2:30am and 4:30am in western Indonesia, including Jakarta
3:30am and 5:30am in Singapore, China, the Phillippines, Western Australia, and much of eastern Indonesia
4:30am and 6:30am in South Korea and Japan
5am and 7am in Southern Australia and the Northern Territory
5:30am and 7:30am in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania
Your decision to draft this proposal for two hours, without editing at all in that timeframe, has deprived almost every single player living in those areas of the world - which harbour a significant part of the global population, including high-ranking CCD figures and prominent Security Council authors - of an opportunity to comment on the "intent" of your proposal. Not least since it is a Monday in all of those countries.
You know how to draft a proposal over a multiple-day period. It is disappointing that you did not do so here - especially when there is a proposal at vote for the next three days, which will substantially increase the chances of your repeal getting quorum-raided (compared to if you had submitted with twelve hours left on the at-vote clock).
