On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:16 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> > On 4/10/2020 1:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:05 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business > > <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 4/10/2020 12:21 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote: > >>> On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 21:34, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > >>> agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> LET IT FURTHERMORE BE KNOWN that I hereby charge and petition the > >>>> responsible officers of my cabinet, namely the Honorable Promotor, > >>>> Arbitor, Tailor, and Associate Director of Personnel, to initiate > >>>> forthwith proceedings to award the patent titles they are responsible > >>>> for. > >> > >> As Arbitor I hereby respond to the petition: "I'll plan to have a look > >> sometime. I'm really not keen on petitions." > > > > I like them, but I also seem to be the only one who uses them. I won't > > be too disappointed if they get repealed. > > To be clear, AFAIK I've never not responded to polite (or even not-polite) > requests and I'll really try to get around to this one before the month > ends (the database is still missing a dozen cases from early 2019) :). > Honestly I didn't notice the 'petition' keyword in your announcement until > Alexis attempted to point fingers. That's entirely fair. TBH, I've been meaning to send out a reminder to all the officers involved, and just haven't ever gotten to it. I was going to do that today, after sending out my call for nominations, and then give everyone another few days at least before pointing any fingers. Maybe this represents an inherent weakness of the petition model though. -Aris
