I retract my proposal entitled "That's Just Criminal" and submit the
following:
Proposal (AI=3, II=3) That's Just Criminal
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Amend Rule 2230 to read as follows:
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Any person CAN publish a document alleging that a single entity
(the Accused) has broken a Rule. A person CAN make such a
document into a Notice of Violation with 2 support, or by
announcement if e done so less than 3 times in the same Agoran
Week. A Notice of Violation is invalid if it lacks any of the
following information, and the lack is correctly identified within
one week after the notice is published:
(a) The identity of the Accused;
(b) The allegedly illegal action/inaction in question;
(c) The Crime that was committed;
(d) The Severity of that Crime.
Knowingly issuing a Notice of Violation with incorrect
information is the Crime of Libel.
A Notice of Violation is valid if and only if:
(1) it clearly specifies the required information for a Notice
of Violation;
(2) no previous valid notice specified substantially identical
information (i.e. the same violation for the same specific
act);
(3) the Crime is specified in the rules;
(4) it clearly specifies a specific act (rather than, for
example, a set of actions each one of which may be illegal).
Neither a Notice's incorrectness (i.e. whether its allegation is
false) nor its unfairness (i.e. whether the punishment resulting
from leaving it Uncontested would be manifestly unfair according
to the guidance of the Rules) affects its validity.
As soon as possible after a player makes an announcement that is
reasonably recognizable as an attempt to issue such a notice,
the Insulator SHALL announce whether the Notice was valid. Such
an announcement is self-ratifying. Affirming the validity of
the notice does not in itself certify the correctness of the
allegation.
After a Notice of Violation has been published, any player CAN
close it by announcement, provided e is the accused or it has been
at least 7 days since the publication of the Notice of Violation,
and that no criminal case has been initiated for that particular
Notice of Violation. When a Notice of Violation is closed in this
manner, a number of Rests equal to the Severity of the specified
Crime are created in the accused's possession.
}}
Amend Rule 2143 by removing "Class 2".
Amend Rule 2202 by removing "Class-8".
Amend Rule 911 by removing "Class-N".
Create a new power-2 rule entitled "Crimes":
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A Crime is an offense against Agora, committed by violating a rule
of Agora. There are two types of Crimes - Generic and Specific. A
Specific Crime is an action defined as being a Crime by the Rules,
and such a definition implicitly defines the action as being
illegal. A Generic Crime is any violation of a Rule that is not a
Specific Crime.
Every Specific Crime has a name given to it by the Rule defining
it, while each Generic Crime's name is "Violating Rule N",
where N is the ID Number of the Rule being violated. If multiple
Crimes have the same name, they are the same Crime.
Severity is a Crime switch, tracked by the Insulator, with values
equal to each integer between 0 and 24, inclusive. Changes to
Severity are secured. Any player CAN flip a given Crime's Severity
without objection, or without 2 objections if the new value is
within 2 of the old value. A Specific Crime's default Severity is
the Power of the Rule defining it, rounded up; a Generic Crime's
default Severity is the Power of the Rule for which it is a
violation, rounded up.
When issuing reports containing the Severity of Crimes, the
Insulator need not list a Generic Crime if its Severity is at its
default value.
}}
For each Crime that was defined in the Rules prior to the adoption of
this proposal, flip its Severity to the Class it had prior to the
adoption of this proposal.
Amend Rule 2125 by replacing
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d) The rules explicitly state that it MAY be performed while
certain conditions are satisfied. Except as allowed by the
rules, performing such an action is the Class-N Crime of
Restricted Behavior, where N is the maximum power of the
rules explicitly allowing it (rounded up as needed to become
a valid Class of Crime).
}}
with
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d) The rules explicitly state that it MAY be performed while
certain conditions are satisfied. Except as allowed by the
rules, performing such an action is a violation of the m
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Amend Rule 1504 by removing "Players SHOULD NOT create rules defining
Crimes of a Class greater than 14." and "When a judicial question on
culpability is judged after a number of rests have been created in the
Accused's posession due to the associated notice, those rests are
destroyed.", by replacing
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Criminal cases are a subclass of judicial cases. Any
first-class person can initiate a criminal case by an
announcement calling for judgement on the circumstances
surrounding a specified valid Notice of Violation alleging a
rules breach by a single entity (the Accused). The initiator
and each member of the Accused's basis are unqualified to be
assigned as judge of the case.
}}
with
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Criminal cases are a subclass of judicial cases. Any
first-class person can initiate a criminal case by an
announcement calling for judgement on the circumstances
surrounding a specified valid unclosed Notice of Violation
alleging a rules breach by a single entity (the Accused). The
initiator and each member of the Accused's basis are unqualified
to be assigned as judge of the case.
}},
and by replacing
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* SILENCE, a number of Rests, equal to the defined Class of the
Crime or (if the breach is not a defined crime) the power of
the breached Rule, rounded to the nearest integer with ties
broken by rounding up, are created in the possession of the
Ninny. The judge CAN, with 2 Support, set the fine at a
different integral level between one half and double that
amount, and SHOULD attempt to do so if necessary to ensure
that the correlation between the fine and the severity of the
breach is appropriate, or to account for the faith (good or
bad) shown by the Ninny in contesting the notice or in aiding
or obstructing the course of justice.
}}
with
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* SILENCE, a number of Rests are created in possession of the
Ninny, to be determined by the judicial question on severity.
A criminal case has a judicial question on severity, which is
applicable if the question on sentencing is applicable and has
a judgement of SILENCE.
The valid judgments for the judicial question on severity are the
nonnegative integers within 2 of the Severity of the Crime
breached by the Ninny. When the judicial question on severity is
assigned a judgment, a number of Rests equal to the judgment are
awarded to the Ninny. In addition, any player CAN, within the
next two weeks and without 4 objections, set the Severity of that
Crime to the judgment, unless the judgment has been set aside or
the question on severity is inapplicable.
If the judge believes that the Severity of the Crime does not give
him the leeway to assign an appropriate number of Rests, e MAY and
SHOULD delay eir judgment long enough for em to change the
Severity of that Crime.
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Amend Rule 2170 by replacing
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A person SHALL NOT make a public statement intended to mislead
others as to the identity of its publisher.
A player SHALL NOT select a confusing nickname, including but
not limited to a name that has generally been used to refer to
another entity within the past three months.
}}
with
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A person SHALL NOT make a public statement intended to mislead
others as to the identity of its publisher. Doing so is the Crime
of Being Unable to Face Oneself.
A player SHALL NOT select a confusing nickname, including but
not limited to a name that has generally been used to refer to
another entity within the past three months. Doing so is the Crime
of Confusion.
}}
Amend Rule 2154 by replacing
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4) If there are no valid options for the Decision, instead of
initiating the Decision, the IADoP SHALL, in place of
initiating the decision, announce this fact, ending the
election. If there is exactly one valid option for the
Decision, the IADoP SHALL, in place of initiating the
Decision, announce the valid option (the candidate), thus
installing that candidate into the office and ending the
election.
}}
with
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4) If there are no valid options for the Decision, instead of
initiating the Decision, the IADoP SHALL, in place of
initiating the decision, announce this fact, ending the
election. If there is exactly one valid option for the
Decision, the IADoP SHALL, in place of initiating the
Decision, announce the valid option (the candidate), thus
installing that candidate into the office and ending the
election. Failing to do either is the Crime of Wasting Our
Precious Time.
}}
Amend Rule 649 by replacing
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As soon as possible after a patent title is awarded or revoked,
the herald SHALL announce the award or revocation.
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with
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As soon as possible after a patent title is awarded or revoked,
the Herald SHALL announce the award or revocation. Failure to do
so is the Crime of Really Awful Trumpetry.
}}
[Note: this is not a comprehensive list of Rule Violations. Rather, it
picks some key points where several ways to violate a rule exist, and
separates them. Rules where many SHALLs exist were not considered as
they will require more exacting consideration.]
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I retract my proposal entitled "Encodings" and submit the following:
Proposal: Encodings (AI=3 II=2)
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Enact a new power-3 rule entitled "Communications"
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For the purposes of this message, an encoding is any manner of
interpreting text, including the base character encoding and any
encodings layered on top of that.
Public messages are normally interpreted using UTF-8 on top of the
transmission protocol (including an encoding such as quoted-
printable required to transmit in a given medium), the default
encoding of Agora. Players SHOULD send messages in the default
encoding, SHALL explicitly specify (possibly with message headers)
when they do not, and SHALL NOT send messages in other encodings
if interpreting them in the default encoding would give an
alternate, valid meaning to it.
Players MAY but SHOULD NOT send public messages with formatting
markup (such as HTML) that does not obfuscate the text, except
where otherwise specified. A message (or portion thereof) is said
to be in plain text if there is no markup in it. Players SHALL NOT
send a public message with a markup that makes the text unreadable
when viewed in raw form.
}}
}}}
