NationStates Jolt Archive

does anyone know how often resolutions are updated on ns? as in, how often does a new resolution come to a vote. thanks!

Whenever a proposal gets enough endorsements to become a resolution. The times are perfectly random. In some cases, we've had several proposals with enough endorsements.

are there any in the queue now?

and it's, what, a couple days between resolutions when there's a backlog in the queue?

Proposals are voted on for (I believe) four days, same as the List Proposals queue. I think that the passed proposal goes off at the end of vote, but any queued proposal won't appear until the next major or minor update, so there's a 12 hour gap.

There is a certain vagueness about the timing that I've never fully explored, but I think that's mostly accurate.

Proposals are voted on for (I believe) four days, same as the List Proposals queue. I think that the passed proposal goes off at the end of vote, but any queued proposal won't appear until the next major or minor update, so there's a 12 hour gap.

There is a certain vagueness about the timing that I've never fully explored, but I think that's mostly accurate.

Perhaps I'm misreading your answer, but this is what I've observed.

If there is a proposal that reaches quroum, it will wait until the major update (which seems to happen when I'm asleep on the US Pacific Coast) before reaching the UN Floor as a "resolution".

If there is a resolution already on the floor, the proposal will stay near the top of the proposal queue and continue to collect (or lose) Delegate endorsements until the current resolution has finished its full time on the floor and then the proposal that was first submitted to the queue (in case there are more than one waiting) will wait until the major update.

Basically I've not seen a resolution *start* debate in the middle of the day.

The part I've not really figured out is the timing of how long proposals stay in the proposal queue to collect delegate endorsements ... I've always just felt like it is 3 and a half days, but it could be that based on where I live that it is just very difficult for me to wake up at 4 am local time and try submitting a proposal at a time other than when I first wake up or start to head to sleep. (Translation: I don't know squat about the length of time proposals stick around.)

I could be wrong, but I think resolutions get 4.5 days. I can't remember one that didn't get a half day. You can see that the closest two resolutions can reach each other is 5 days:

http://pweb.netcom.com/~mierzwa10k/una/Ressummary.pdf

Look at the Humanitarian Intervention and Repeal "The Global Library" resolutions, HI closed on 2005.02.14 and R:TGL closed on 2005.02.19, implying that the repeal had around 5 days, but that last day is a half day.