Elliott Hird wrote:
> On 2009-03-16, Sean Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I join the Vote Market.
>>
>
> It does not exist
That shouldn't stop me from agreeing to it, but if you wish to be pedantic:
If I was a party to any contract named the Vote Market, I cease to be a
party to it.
I create and agree to a contract with the following text:
{{
1. The name of this contract is the Vote Market II.
2. The Brokor is a role. Its holder must issue reports as if it were an
office. Its holder is responsible for maintaining the Vote Market.
Initially the Brokor is coppro, it may subsequently be changed by
announcement without objection from any party to this contract.
3. The Brokor's monthly report shall contain a record of every change in
VP in the last 90 days. The Brokor's weekly report shall contain the
status of every Buy or Sell Ticket for which the status has changed
since the previous report and the report he is required to issue as
recordkeepor of VP.
4. Vote Points (VP) are a currency used in the Vote Market II. A party
CANNOT take an action that would cause the VP of any party to be reduced
below zero. The Broker is the recordkeeper of VP.
5. At any time a party CAN post a Sell Ticket by announcement. A Sell
Ticket must include:
* A description of an action that the party is able to take.
* A cost in one or more currencies (typically VP), which may be
conditional or variable as long as it can be determined with
certainty when that ticket is filled.
* Optionally a set of target parties. If not specified, this
defaults to the set of all parties to the Vote Market II.
Only parties designated as targets may fill a ticket. A Buy Ticket
expires and ceases to exist if it becomes impossible for any party
to perform the specified action.
If it becomes impossible for the party to perform the specified action,
the Sell Ticket expires and ceases to exist.
6. Any party other than the ticket's poster CAN fill an existing Sell
Ticket by announcement. When e does so, a number of the specified
currency or currencies equal to that Sell Ticket's specified cost is
transferred to the party who posted the Sell Ticket.The party who posted
the Sell Ticket is then obligated to take the action described in the
Sell Ticket as soon as possible. However, if for any reason during the
48 hours following the filling of a Sell Ticket it becomes impossible
for the party who posted the Sell Ticket to perform the specified action
then e is released from such obligation. When a Sell Ticket is filled,
it expires and ceases to exist.
7. At any time a party CAN post a Buy Ticket by announcement. A Buy
Ticket must include:
* A description of an action
* A cost in one or more currencies (typically VP), which may be
conditional or variable as long as it can be determined with
certainty when that ticket is filled
* Optionally a set of target parties. If not specified, this
defaults to the set of all parties to the Vote Market II.
Only parties designated as targets may fill a ticket. A Buy Ticket
expires and ceases to exist if it becomes impossible for any party
to perform the specified action.
8. Any party other than the ticket's poster CAN fill an existing Buy
Ticket by announcement. When e does so a number of the specified
currency or currencies equal to that Buy Ticket's specified cost is
transferred to the filling party. The filling party is then obligated to
take the action specified by the Buy Ticket as soon as possible. A Buy
Ticket that has been filled expires and ceases to exist unless otherwise
specified by its poster.
9. Any player may join the Vote Market II by announcement. Upon a
first-class player joining the Vote Market II, 50 VP are created in the
possession of that player.
10. Any party with 50 or more VP may cease to be bound by the Vote
Market II by announcement. Upon such an announcement all VP held by that
player are destroyed. A party MAY NOT cease to be party to this
agreement by any other means. Regardless of the above, no party may
cease to be bound by this agreement if that party has an unfulfilled
obligation imposed upon them by this agreement.
11. Any party may amend this contract without three objections. Any
party may act on behalf of this contract without three objections.
12. The Grace Period is a number of days determined by a person's status
within the contract Airstrip One and is determined as follows:
Marine - 45 days
Pilot - 75 days
Captain - 90 days
Other or undetermined - 60 days
When the average VP of a first-class party is less than 50 over the
course of the most recent period of days equal to their Grace Period
they are Indebted. An Indebted active player MUST for each distribution
of proposals vote SELL (2VP) on at least half of those proposals. Such
an average must only track each change in VP with an accuracy of plus or
minus 12 hours.
13. For the purposes of Buy and Sell Tickets, if the specified action is
to vote in a certain manner on an Agoran decision, a party only fills
eir obligation to take the specified action if eir valid votes at the
end of that decision's voting period are in the manner described in the
ticket. In particular, the number of such votes shall equal eir voting
limit on that decision, unless both parties agree on a lower limit no
later than the time the ticket is filled.
14. As it's cost a Buy or Sell Ticket may specify the word "AUCTION". At
any time, a target party may place a bid on a Ticket with a cost of
AUCTION by announcement. Such a bid should specify an amount of currency
(or currencies). At any time the poster of a Ticket with a cost of
AUCTION may accept any bid on that Ticket which has not been retracted.
The currency (or currencies) specified in that bid become the Cost of
the Ticket, and the party who placed that bid becomes the filler of that
ticket.
15. SELL (X - Y), when used instead in place of a vote on an Agoran
Decision, means that the poster creates a Sell Ticket with a cost of X.
The filler of the ticket may act on behalf of the poster to vote on the
decision; any set of votes issued by the filler on behalf of the poster
satisfy section 12. SELL(X) is shorthand for SELL(X - PRESENT).
}}
I issue the Brokor's monthly and weekly reports:
VP: coppro: 50
Average VP over the last 90 days: All players: 0.
Open Tickets: None.
