User blog:The Terrible Travis/Think Twice: Kelpy G's Dangerous New Proposal

Three days ago, Kelpy G introduced a proposal to repeal some of the more controversial provisions of my policy overhaul proposal. However, I warn my fellow users: Kelpy G is attempting to play a dirty trick on you with this new proposal. He has deliberately decided to wait until after virtually everyone has already voted on the proposal before adding draconian and extremist provisions to it.

Now it should be noted that I also added more controversial provisions to my policy overhaul proposal after many had already voted, but I at least notified the voters about this, and left it so that these controversial provisions could later be repealed if the community disagreed with them. Kelpy G doesn't do either of those things.

Included in his proposal is a provision (one not included in the original draft, mind you) to make it "unamendable for 6 months". What this means is that if Kelpy's proposal passes, all the provisions contained within it will remain SBFW policy for at least half a year. Even if the vast majority of the community supports getting rid of one of the policies contained in his proposal, they won't be able to repeal it unless six months has passed.

This is an extremely dangerous precedent to set and a brazen threat to community consensus. There should be no such thing as an "unamendable" or irrevocable policy - that ruins the entire point of community consenus in the first place.

Kelpy's proposal also proposes to "re-instate the reporting policy", which was recently repealed as a result of my policy overhaul policy. There was a good reason I decided to include that in my proposal. Kelpy's reporting policy makes an absolute mockery of our justice system, reducing it to nothing more than a popularity contest. As I've said before, whether someone gets blocked or not should be up to a vote, it should be based solely on whether they've violated SBFW policy.

Yet another extremist provision in Kelpy's proposal is the one to "repeal rule #8 of the Proposal Policy". Rule #8 is the rule that makes proposals to adopt fanon works invalid. Repealing this rule means that works you created can be forcibly seized from you and given to someone else as long as the majority votes to authorize this. It completely removes creators' autonomy over their own works. It's a disgusting and inane idea.

Currently Kelpy's proposal is at 85% support. We have until January 19th to get it down to below 51% support. Let's do this. '   We absolutely can not allow this extremist proposal to pass.      '

&#35;StopSquidnerd (talk) 03:45, January 9, 2018 (UTC)