Active Player Inclusion Act Voting Thread

[devintheroaster]

This is the official voting thread for the Active Player Inclusion Act. View it here! 

[Alvero]

I would encourage Members of Congress to vote AGAINST this bill.

I'll reiterate the same points I made in the voting thread and previous debates on this. Essentially there's no proof that extending the scrutiny period will impact member participation in any meaningful way. In fact, we've had several laws come up to a vote with the 3 day scrutiny period, and it hasn't impacted participation at all, nearly everyone participates in the first few days. We keep seeing this come up, but they have yet to provide a strong reason why our scrutiny period (or voting period in the last legislation) should be extended. Extending our scrutiny period comes at the expense of slowing our legislative process down and making it less adaptive to change in the region. Should we enter another crisis and need to pass emergency legislation, every day counts and extending the process by even a day would be impactful.

[studentloandebt]

Mar 28, 2020 13:13:02 GMT Alvero said:

Extending our scrutiny period comes at the expense of slowing our legislative process down and making it less adaptive to change in the region. Should we enter another crisis and need to pass emergency legislation, every day counts and extending the process by even a day would be impactful.

Again, the argument of "an emergency could happen" supports a further reduction of days instead of keeping it where it is. If we fear an emergency and use that to say the period cannot be longer, then we should reduce the period even more if an emergency is as large of a threat as you say it is.
Also, this is just a 1 day extension, not going back to a 14 day period. 1 extra day would in no way make the legislative process less adaptive to change. I don't think we should fear long periods so much that 1 extra day would seem like the end of the region

[Alvero]

Mar 28, 2020 16:09:49 GMT studentloandebt said:

Mar 28, 2020 13:13:02 GMT Alvero said:

Extending our scrutiny period comes at the expense of slowing our legislative process down and making it less adaptive to change in the region. Should we enter another crisis and need to pass emergency legislation, every day counts and extending the process by even a day would be impactful.

Again, the argument of "an emergency could happen" supports a further reduction of days instead of keeping it where it is. If we fear an emergency and use that to say the period cannot be longer, then we should reduce the period even more if an emergency is as large of a threat as you say it is.
Also, this is just a 1 day extension, not going back to a 14 day period. 1 extra day would in no way make the legislative process less adaptive to change. I don't think we should fear long periods so much that 1 extra day would seem like the end of the region

And again, I agree with the idea, we should have the minimum days possible, but there was a reason 3 days was chosen. That was the amount of days nearly every player participated in. There's no justification for 4 days at all. For voting we saw maybe 1 or 2 players vote past 3 days and I don't think I have ever seen the scrutiny period used past 3 days.

[jes5862]

This should be considered the Final Bill on the matter.

[Venovica]

I’d recommend voting FOR this legislation. In my opinion it would provide time for members who are more active on the weekends to both vote and voice their opinions on a certain piece of legislation. Personally I often am unable to interact on NationStates during the week at most times. This especially would harm those who are students. This is even more prominent during exam weeks. I do not believe that this is just a way to make things better for our case with SLU.

[Deleted]

I urge citizens if the DSA to vote no on this. The period is already plenty long enough, and extending it by one day slows everything down with very minimal impact.

[Dekks]

I have personally voted against this bill, however I don't believe that it will have a large impact regardless, La Pays' point is a good on however, that this should be the last bill, since SLD's bill expanded the period total to 8 which congress found to be too much, so I do believe that the right scrutiny+voting period is either 6 or 7 days.