Evexians! Please take a close look at the voting results this week. You'll notice a rule suggestion making the "strange place known as" rule optional (so no longer in effect). But if you scroll down to the rule removal vote - only half of the people who voted for that suggestion voted to have the rule removed. It makes no sense that 18 voters would vote for a rule to no longer have effect but then only 9 would actually want it removed.

The Problem: I think the problem is that as we add more rules, the rule removal ballot gets larger and larger and voters don't bother to read through each rule and think carefully if they want it removed. They just (at best) pick a few and move on. This results in the vote being split and rules that we really don't want stay on the books.

Possible Solutions:

• Grant the president a REPEAL/VETO power. The president could select a rule to REPEAL and then it would go to a vote on the next ballot. If we agree, then it's gone.

• Only put enforceable / in effect rules on the rule removal ballot. This would limit it to rules that actually have a lasting effect. For instance - the latest rule "Hold a vote on a national anthem" doesn't really apply after the election is held. So there's no need to vote on it. This would help limit the number of rules on ballot, but it might get tricky for the mods determining which rules to put on the ballot.

• Make rule removal the same as vote suggestions. So in this way - people comment in the suggestion thread. But suggestions to remove a rule are treated separately from suggestions for a rule. Top 5 rule suggestions go to ballot AND top 5 rule removal suggestions go to ballot. This way we limit the number of rules to vote on for the removal process and incease the chances of a more focused vote on rules that are actually unpopular.

These are just my initial thoughts so please let me know what you think! I plan on using the take-aways from this discussion to submit a new referendum to reform the rule removal process.

TL/DR: The rule removal ballot is too big. It's gotten so big that the vote is split and unpopular rules never get removed. How do we improve the rule removal process?