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We hacked RRO recursively for a political campaign: A wine company was importing wine from apartheid South Africa - under NZ law at the time any 100 shareholde
by Taniwha 7y ago
We hacked RRO recursively for a political campaign:
A wine company was importing wine from apartheid South Africa - under NZ law at the time any 100 shareholders could call a SGM every 6 weeks, we had 100 small shareholders ... we started with the AGM where the accounts had to be accepted by the shareholders for the company to continue to trade.
Simply the script went like this:
1) Someone moves a motion of no-confidence in the chair (under the "aged and infirm incompetence act 1897" which does not exist, he turns bright red in anger but is required to step down while the motion is dealt with)
2) a vote must be taken, someone demands a written ballot which is their right
3) the chair proposes scrutineers
4) someone challenges the scrutineers and proposes their own up their own
5) so we have to vote .... at this point you recurse back to step 2, if they ever agree to your scrutineers you have someone in the wings ready to challenge with their own slate of scrutineers ....
(it's important to keep track of how deep you are in recursion because the chair is bound to forget ....)
Of course in practice eventually someone breaks and declares the whole thing silly, restores the real chair and continues the meeting, adopts the accounts etc .... then you go to court because the chair wasn't valid and therefore the accounts weren't really adopted and the company can't trade ... (we never got that far, after one round of this ALL the other wine companies capitulated)
- garmaine 7y agoWhy are you proud of this?
- RandomBacon 7y agoThe commentor didn't say they were proud, just that they did it. It is a clever hack even if it is a morally-bad one.
- firepoet 7y agoWho knows? If the system is rigged against the righteous and the immoral are in charge, maybe hacking the system is the moral thing? Much to ponder on this one...
- Frondo 7y agoIt sounds like he was trying to stop that company from doing business with South Africa during Apartheid, which is a morally praiseworthy stance.
- rory096 7y ago>Of course in practice eventually someone breaks and declares the whole thing silly, restores the real chair and continues the meeting, adopts the accounts etc .... then you go to court because the chair wasn't valid and therefore the accounts weren't really adopted and the company can't trade .. Seems like this is trivially solvable within RRO via a motion to suspend the rules. Assuming your organization ran under one-share-one-vote rules and your small shareholders were a tiny minority, a supermajority should be able to overcome arcane rule-hacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_the_rules#Gordian_knot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_the_rules#Gordia...