THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL
VOLUME 52, BACK ISSUE 6
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
10/1 BobTHJ deregisters.
Murphy protoes Fifth Third Agoran Bank, a replacement for the
Agoran Credit Union.
10/2 Proposal 5245 (to repeal Precedence between Rules with Unequal
Power) is distributed.
Adopted proposals:
5230 (reintroduce "players must follow the rules", albeit at
lower power)
5234 (Contests open to all)
5235 (No enshrinement of the courts)
5239 (Official frequencies)
Rejected proposals include:
5233 (Refactor regulation)
5236 (Ministers Without Portfolio)
5238 (More types of judges)
5240 (Implicit Switches)
5241 (Loser)
5242 (FireRed)
Levi proposes "Agora taking action" (players MAY act on behalf
of Agora with Agoran Consent).
10/3 The AFO (controlled by Murphy) proposes:
* "More types of judges" split into three parts
* "Class expansion" (partnerships are second- through
fourth-class depending on whether their partners are
players, non-players, or both)
* "Let the AFO judge" (partnerships with non-player partners
can judge judicial cases)
Taral proposes "Sleeping on the job" (the Clerk of the Courts
SHALL make a player supine after recusing em with cause).
comex protoes "Let the AFO vote" (partnerships get one vote per
non-player partner on democratic proposals).
10/4 Murphy protoes "Aliens" (title for non-players in contracts).
10/6 Distributed proposals include:
5246 (Agora taking action)
5248-50 (parts of "More types of judges")
5251 (Sleeping on the job)
5252 (Class expansion)
5253 (Let the AFO judge)
Proposal 5244 (Water and oil) is rejected.
Murphy terminates the Agoran Credit Union and agrees to the
Fifth Third Agoran Bank.
10/7 Murphy (via the AFO) proposes "Resurrect the Notary", "Encourage
contests" (VCs for contestmasters), "Use it or lose it" (VCs
decay monthly), "Minister Without Portfolio", and
"Deregistering the absent".
10/8 CFJs 1750-51 are judged in favor of players remaining partners
after deregistration.
10/9 Distributed proposals:
5254 (Resurrect the Notary)
5255 (Encourage contests)
5256 (Use it or lose it)
5257 (Ministers Without Portfolio)
5258 (Deregistering the absent)
10/13 Adopted proposals include:
5246 (Agora taking action)
5248-50 (parts of "More types of judges")
5251 (Sleeping on the job)
Rejected proposals:
5252 (Class expansion)
5253 (Let the AFO judge)
10/14 Murphy protoes "The Republic of Agora" (US Congressional
metaphor, make a proposal democratic without raising its
AI) and "Generalize security" (definition of "secured"),
and re-protoes "Ministers Without Portfolio".
10/16 Zefram initiates CFJs 1765-66 to determine whether "SHALL
by announcement" implies "CAN by announcement".
Murphy re-protoes "Generalize security".
10/17 Adopted proposals:
5254 (Resurrect the Notary)
5258 (Deregistering the absent), deregistering Manu and Quazie
Voting period extended due to lack of quorum:
5255 (Encourage contests)
5256 (Use it or lose it)
5257 (Ministers Without Portfolio)
Murphy (via the AFO) proposes "Trust-busting, again" (dissolve
Primo without altering voting limits).
10/18 Murphy protoes "Marks" (transferrable centi-VCs awarded for
minor events).
10/20 Proposal 5260 (Trust-busting, again) is distributed.
CFJs 1765-66 are judged in favor of "SHALL by announcement"
implying "CAN by announcement" (including after the deadline,
as the implication persists as long as the obligation does).
root proposes "Falling Down" (standing players can change eir
posture).
10/21 pikhq protoes "Corrections on Agoran Actions" (actions can be
retracted and re-performed with corrections).
pikhq initiates CFJ 1767 to determine whether agreeing to a
panel action must itself be public; it is judged FALSE.
Murphy protoes "More pragmatic ID numbers" (ineffective
assignments can be re-done later).
10/22 Peekee publishes:
1+1 = 3
Based on the above: I am the winner there are no rules.
Peekee protoes "Fastest Judge In Agora" (Patent Title for the
fastest time from initiation to assignment to judgement, not
counting cases where two or more of these actors overlap).
comex protoes repealing the ID Numbers rule.
Murphy protoes basing rule precedence on creation date instead
of ID number.
comex proposes "2158 changes" (make case suspension a switch),
"Stare Decisis", and two proposals to down-power some Power=3
rules.
comex initiates CFJ 1768 to determine whether prohibiting
knights from lying violates eir right of participation in
the fora. This is judged FALSE on the grounds that the
right is limited to participation for their intended purposes.
comex initiates CFJ 1769 to determine whether equity cases can
target the rules.
10/23 Primo Corporation votes non-unanimously to disband.
Distributed proposals include:
5261 (Falling Down)
5263 (2158 changes.)
5264 (Stare Decisis)
5265-56 (comex's down-power proposals)
10/26 Murphy and Goethe register.
Adopted proposals include:
5255 (Encourage contests) - delayed to 10/27 due to a mis-count
5256 (Use it or lose it)
5257 (Ministers Without Portfolio)
pikhq proposes "Lazy" (Patent Title for officers failing to
report for two or more months; prompted by the Herald,
though it was pointed out that e had only been installed
about two weeks ago).
10/27 Proposal 5269 (Lazy) is distributed.
Murphy protoes "Voting debits and refraction" (VC loss can send
you into debt; being in debt for over a month is illegal,
being chokeyed for it clears your debt; spread VC recordkeeping
over multiple offices related to the sources of those VCs), and
proposes:
* revised "Implicit Switches" (with the AI=3 portion as a
separate proposal)
* Exit clauses
* Aliens
* Generalize security
Cubing requests to be listed as a watcher.
10/28 CFJ 1769 is judged UNDETERMINED due to lack of explicitly
labeled evidence. comex initiates CFJ 1772 to compensate; it
is judged FALSE on the grounds that simply describing the rules
as a contract at Power=1 is insufficient to overrule various
other clauses that don't work like contracts.
comex (with the cooperation of Levi, Murphy, and Cubing) creates
ten partnerships and contests to give the AFO a win by points.
Zefram proposes "truthfulness" (repeal Knaves; extend prohibition
on lying to persons, not just players, and base it on belief
that one is telling the truth). comex makes a similar proposal
(also removing the "overall truth" clause).
comex mentions the impossibility of assigning a judge to "an
equity case if there was a contest that everyone was part of",
foreshadowing the creation of the Agoran Agricultural
Association three months later (a contest that has routinely
had all non-supine players as parties, eventually leading to
an amendment to re-qualify parties other than the initiator
when needed).
comex attempts to inflate Blue VCs by initiating 10,000 CFJs on
the same statement ("This is Sparta"). pikhq separately
proposes "Judicial abuse" (excess frivolous CFJs are a rule
violation and you can't initiate more for a week), removing
the current set, and granting Scamster to comex. root
proposes reinstating the old Excess CFJ mechanism (CFJs past
five per week per initiator can be refused by the CotC).
Murphy protoes reinstating a rule describing the ruleset as a
contract. Zefram lists several specific concerns.
10/29 Murphy protoes "More prerogatives" (Wielder of Extra Votes,
Diplomatic Immunity [against sentences of APOLOGY]).
BobTHJ claims to cause Fookiemyartug (a contract of undisclosed
nature) to register.
Levi proposes "Active MWPs" (only active Ministers Without
Portfolio get Prerogatives), then protoes removing the title
from deregistered or inactive holders.
10/30 Distributed proposals include:
5271-72 (Implicit Switches)
5273 (Exit clauses)
5274 (Aliens)
5276 (Generalize security)
5279-80 (truthfulness, both versions)
5281-83 (pikhq's anti-CFJ-spam proposals)
5284 (Reinstate Excess CFJs)
1756-57 are judged FALSE on grounds of non-multi-classing and
consequent inclarity.
10/31 Proposal 5260 (Trust-busting, again) is (redundantly) adopted.
Adopted proposals include:
5261 (Falling Down)
Extended due to lack of quorum:
5263 (5158 changes.)
Rejected proposals include:
5264 (Stare Decisis)
5265-56 (comex's down-power proposals)
comex announces eir intent to deputise for the Clerk of the
Courts to rotate the bench and assign the Sparta CFJs to
emself, then initiates CFJ 1776 on whether the first is
possible (rotating is not itself a duty, merely a prerequisite
for the duty of assigning judges).
Murphy initiates CFJs 1774-75 to determine whether the Sparta
CFJs were ineffective, or were only a single CFJ.
