That all the LJ nomics to try it died quickly and horribly; using default Nomic on LJ, your nomic dies the moment someone either doesn't propose, or doesn't vote. This is a Bad Thing - so our base ruleset was designed around post-mortems of the other LJ nomics we could find, and I think we can be fairly confident that it worked.

On the other hand, if by 'original ruleset' you mean the one for the first game: there's nothing at all wrong with it, and I'd happily start with it again.