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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4875314" data-attributes="member: 46559">Scenario A:  Proposal gets its deciding vote (the one that pushes it into the victory conditions) at midnight on Monday.  It will become official at midnight on Wednesday.  On wednesday evening, sometime between 11 PM and 1 AM, the site goes down, but no one knows exactly when.  Sometime on Thursday it comes back up, and another judge comes in and says that they were going to vote No on Wednesday night, but the site was down.  If they had gotten in in time, their No vote would have bumped the proposal out of the victory conditions.  Scenario B:  As in A, but the No judge doesn't speak up until Friday morning.  No one is sure whether their No vote comes within 24 hours of the site coming back up.   Scenario C:  As in A, but the No judge doesn't post until a week later, saying that he suddenly had to go out of town while the site was down.  Scenario D:  A proposal has 2 Yes votes and no No votes.  On Wednesday night between 11 PM and 1 AM, the server goes down.  It stays down for over 48 hours, and comes up sometime Saturday morning.  On Saturday morning, two judges vote.  One says Yes, and says that they tried to vote Wednesday night but the server was down, and the other says No, but is only just getting to it.  If the server had been up the whole time, the proposal would have passed and been official before the No judge got to it.  Any other scenarios we need to worry about?Common sense would seem to indicate that in A and B, the proposal doesn't pass.  In C it does, and in D it doesn't.  I'm not sure how to write a proposal that describes that sort of reasoning.</blockquote>

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