BUIP081: Unambiguous definition of 1 year membership period
Proposer: Gal Buki (@torusJKL)
Submitted on: 2017-11-26
Status: passed
The Bitcion Unlimited defines members as someone who has been accepted
and has voted at least once during the last 1 year.
Because the voting ballet is usually open over multiple days a vote can
be casted at the beginning or at the end of the time frame.
This in turn makes the “voted within the last 1 year” definition
ambiguous as one could count from the date the member voted or the date
the ballot was closed. It incentivizes members to vote last minute to
extend their period as far as possible. And it could punish a member who
voted early.
This BUIP wants to change the wording such that the calculation is
unambiguous and there is no incentive to vote at the last minute.
Instead of using the date of the individual member vote we will use the
close date of the ballot in which the user has voted last.
E.g. a ballot that was running from 01.12.2017 - 05.12.2017 and in which
the member has voted on 02.12.2017 would be extend the membership until
04.12.2018 (1 year after the ballot was closed),
Under Article 2, II the following member definition:
Member: an individual who is invited (by BUIP) to join the
Confederation, signs this document, and has joined or voted within the
last 1 year. Non-publicly identified members may have restricted voting
or other restrictions as determined by subsequent BUIPs - this measure
may be needed to restrict duplicate accounts.
will be replaced with the following new text:
Member: an individual who is invited (by BUIP) to join the
Confederation, signs this document, and has joined or voted within the
last 1 year (in both cases the closing date of the ballot in which the
member has joined or voted is used for the cut off calculation).
Non-publicly identified members may have restricted voting or other
restrictions as determined by subsequent BUIPs - this measure may be
needed to restrict duplicate accounts.