I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the quorum is 8, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote, as are conditional votes).
ID Author(s) AI Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8388f nch 1.0 The Webmastor 8389f G. 2.0 Just Impeach instead 8390* R. Lee 3.0 Registror 8391* R. Lee 3.0 Notory (Vote Labour) 8392j Jason 2.0 Prior violations 8393f Aris 2.0 Elections Aren't Over Till They End 8394f Jason 2.0 8228 retry 8395l Jason 1.1 Editorial what? 8396e grok, G. 1.0 Auction End Clarification 8397l P.S.S. 2.0 Referral 8398* Murphy, nch, G. 3.0 More conservative implicit announcements 8399j R. Lee 1.0 E had two months! 8400l R. Lee 1.0 Clinton v City of New York 8401j Aris, P.S.S. 1.0 Defense Against the Dark Arts 8402* Aris, Falsifian 3.0 Promises 8403* Trigon 4.0 1698 shortening 8404j P.S.S., [1] 1.7 High Crimes and Treason [1] Murphy, nch, G. Proposal pool report: At the beginning of this week, the proposal pool contained the following proposals, in addition to those listed above: Author(s) AI Title --------------------------------------------------------------------------- G., R. Lee 1.7 Mooting moots G. 1.0 a Proposed Contract Aris, [2] 1.0 Backup Conservatism [2] G., Jason, Murphy Legend: <ID>* : Democratic proposal. <ID># : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber. <ID>e : Economy ministry proposal. <ID>f : Efficiency ministry proposal. <ID>j : Justice ministry proposal. <ID>l : Legislation ministry proposal. <ID>p : Participation ministry proposal. The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8388 Title: The Webmastor Adoption index: 1.0 Author: nch Co-authors: Enact a rule titled "The Webmastor" with Power=1 and the following text: The Webmastor is an office. The Webmastor's monthly report includes a Directory, a Changelog, a Warning Log, and an Error Log. The Directory lists notable currently maintained public resources. The Changelog lists notable changes to resources. The Warning Log lists notable potential issues, such as inaccurate or aging resources or unintended issues with a public resource. The Error Log lists notable losses of resources - where a resource has become inaccessible, unmaintained, or unusable. Where 'notable' is used in this rule its meaning is up to the Webmastor's discretion. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8389 Title: Just Impeach instead Adoption index: 2.0 Author: G. Co-authors: Amend Rule 2531 by deleting: If the Referee attempts to levy three or more INEFFECTIVE fines in a week, any player CAN, with two support, issue a writ of Impartial Arbitration Restoration, immediately making the position of Referee vacant. When a writ of Impartial Arbitration Restoration is issued, the ADoP SHALL initiate an election for the Referee in a timely fashion. [context: When this was written, there were very few protections in this rule, and general impeachment didn't exist. Now with the full list of protections the Referee is pretty constrained, and impeachment exists.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8390 Title: Registror Adoption index: 3.0 Author: R. Lee Co-authors: Retitle the rule 2139 "The Registrar" to "The Registror" Amend each rule that contains the text "Registrar" by replacing that text with "Registror" (This informational segment in brackets has no legal effects. A list of those rules as this proposal is written for your information is rules 869, 478, 2139, 1789, 2532, 2574, 1885, 2581) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8391 Title: Notory (Vote Labour) Adoption index: 3.0 Author: R. Lee Co-authors: Retitle rule 2608 "The Notary" to "The Notory" Amend rules 2608 and 2450, and also any other rule that contains the text "Notary", by replacing the word "Notary" with "Notory" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8392 Title: Prior violations Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Jason Co-authors: Amend Rule 2531 by changing the list item labeled (2) to read, in its entirety: "(2) it attempts to levy a fine for an action or inaction which, at the time the inaction or action occurred, was not prohibited by the rules;" [This ensures that, as long as an action violated the rules when it was committed, it can be punished. For instance, the Assessor could commit a crime immediately before resolving a proposal that changes the definition of the crime. Currently, it's possible the Assessor could not be punished, since the rules at the time of the fine being levied would not prohibit the action, even if it was illegal at the time it occurred.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8393 Title: Elections Aren't Over Till They End Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: [This avoids the weirdness where having two candidates means new candidates can join, but if there are fewer the winner is locked in at the end of the nomination period. This way, new contenders can still join as long as there's still room for them to change the outcome.] Amend Rule 2154, "Election Procedure", by changing the text: "An election is contested if it has two or more candidates at the end of the nomination period, and uncontested otherwise. For a contested election, nominations close at the end of the poll's voting period. For an uncontested election, nominations close at the end of the nomination period." to read: "An election whose nomination period is complete is contested if it has two or more candidates, and uncontested otherwise. Nominations close at the end of the poll's voting period or when the election is ended, whichever comes first." ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8394 Title: 8228 retry Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Jason Co-authors: [This was originally proposed and adopted in Proposal 8228, but it failed due to a specification bug. Zombies holding offices should be banned because it allows people to bypass restrictions on Officers performing actions that benefit themselves.] Amend Rule 2472 ("Office Incompatibilities") by inserting the following paragraph after the paragraph beginning "A player is overpowered if e holds": A zombie is Overpowered if e holds one or more offices. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8395 Title: Editorial what? Adoption index: 1.1 Author: Jason Co-authors: Repeal rule 2599 (The Editor). ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8396 Title: Auction End Clarification Adoption index: 1.0 Author: grok Co-authors: G. Replace the first paragraph of rule 2551 Auction End with the following: "An Auction ends immediately when any of the following conditions are met: 1. The auction was initiated 7 days ago. 2. The auction was initiated at least 96 hours ago, and it has been 96 hours since the most recent placement or withdrawal of a bid in that auction. 3. The auction was initiated 96 hours ago and no bids have been placed or withdrawn in that auction. 4. The auction is terminated." ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8397 Title: Referral Adoption index: 2.0 Author: P.S.S. Co-authors: Amend Rule 2607, "Proposal Chambers", by appending the following paragraph: To refer a proposal to a ministry is to set the chamber of that proposal to the specified ministry. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8398 Title: More conservative implicit announcements Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Murphy Co-authors: nch, G. Amend Rule 478 (Fora) by appending this text: Stating that a person "CAN and SHALL" perform an action, without stating a method, implies "by announcement". [R1023(1) already covers implicit "in a timely fashion".] Amend Rule 2141 (Role and Attributes of Rules) by replacing this text: the Rulekeepor CAN and SHALL assign a title to it by announcement in a timely fashion. with this text: the Rulekeepor CAN and SHALL assign a title to it. Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) by replacing this text: The vote collector for a decision with less than two options CAN and SHALL end the voting period by announcement, if it has not ended already, and provided that e resolves the decision in the same message. with this text: The vote collector for a decision with less than two options CAN and SHALL end the voting period, if it has not ended already, and provided that e resolves the decision in the same message. Amend Rule 991 (Calls for Judgement) by replacing this text: When a CFJ's judge is unassigned, the Arbitor CAN assign any eligible player to be its judge by announcement, and SHALL do so in a timely fashion. with this text: When a CFJ's judge is unassigned, the Arbitor CAN and SHALL assign any eligible player to be its judge. Amend Rule 591 (Delivering Judgements) by replacing this text: When a CFJ is open and assigned to a judge, that judge CAN assign a valid judgement to it by announcement, and SHALL do so in a timely fashion after this becomes possible. with this text: When a CFJ is open and assigned to a judge, that judge CAN and SHALL assign a valid judgement to it by announcement. [Rules 2496 and 2602 use "CAN once" and "SHALL in an officially timely fashion", so leaving those out for now.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 3399 Title: E had two months! Adoption index: 1.0 Author: R. Lee Co-authors: Repeal rule 2609 "Temporary CFJ setup" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8400 Title: Clinton v City of New York Adoption index: 1.0 Author: R. Lee Co-authors: Repeal rule 2597, "Line-item Veto" ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8401 Title: Defense Against the Dark Arts Adoption index: 1.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: P.S.S. Enact a new power 1.0 rule entitled "Defense Against the Dark Arts" with the following text: A proposal is forbidden if it would, upon successfully taking effect, cause Agora to be ossified or to cease to exist. An action is forbidden if it would, upon its successful occurrence, cause Agora to be ossified or to cease to exist. Attempting a forbidden action is PROHIBITED, and is the Class-4 Crime of Engaging in Forbidden Arts. Submitting a forbidden proposal is PROHIBITED, and is the Class-1 Crime of Contemplating Forbidden Arts. Being the author of an adopted forbidden proposal is PROHIBITED, and is the Class-2 Crime of Suborning Forbidden Arts. Having a final ballot that evaluates to FOR in the Agoran decision on whether to adopt a forbidden proposal is PROHIBITED, and is the Class-1 Crime of Abetting Forbidden Arts. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8402 Title: Promises Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Falsifian Enact a new power 2.2 rule, entitled "Promises", with the following text: Promises are a class of assets, tracked by the Notary. Their essential attributes are their text and creator. A person CAN, by announcement, acting as emself, grant emself a promise, specifying its text and becoming its creator. A promise's owner is referred to as its bearer. Promises with the same text, creator, and bearer are fungible. Promises with the same text and creator SHOULD be referred to by the same title, but the title is not an essential attribute of the promise, just a way of referring to it. A promise's bearer CAN, by announcement, cash the promise, provided that any conditions for cashing it specified by its text are unambiguously met. By doing so, e acts on the creator of the promise's behalf, causing the creator to act as if e published the promise's text, and destroys the promise. The bearer SHOULD recite the promise's essential attributes in the same message e cashes it. In a promise's text, "the bearer" (or the like) refers to the promise's bearer, and "this promise" (or the like) refers to the promise. The text of the promise can refer to the context of the message in which it is cashed, but the context of the message does not otherwise change the meaning of the promise. The Library is an entity and CAN own promises. Any player CAN take a specified promise from the Library by announcement, provided e cashes the promise in the same message. Any player CAN revoke a specified promise from the Library without objection. Amend Rule 2608, "The Notary", by changing the numbered list to read as follows: 1. every pledge, along with its title, creator, time window, time of creation, and time of expiry; 2. every contract, with its title, full provisions, and parties; and 3. every promise, along with its title, text, creator, and bearer. Amend Rule 2466, "Acting on Behalf", by changing the text "A person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to do anything except perform a game action; in particular, a person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to send a message, only to perform specific actions that might be taken within a message." to read "A person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to do anything except perform a game action; in particular, a person CANNOT act on behalf of another person to send a message, only to perform specific actions that might be taken within a message, including actions that would otherwise be taken by publishing certain text." Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", by changing it to read in full: A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if, at the time the action took place: 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated that e agrees to the action and not subsequently publicly withdrawn eir statement; 2. e is party to a contract whose body explicitly and unambiguously indicates eir consent; 3. the action is taken as part of a promise which e created; or 4. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the action to take place or assented to it taking place. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8403 Title: 1698 shortening Adoption index: 4.0 Author: Trigon Co-authors: [ Comment: I'm not sure if it's intentional for "proposals" and "other changes to the gamestate" to be separate and have the same clause following them, but, assuming there's not, it couldn't hurt to cut down a bit on the repeated text. ] Replace the following paragraph in Rule 1698 "Agora is a Nomic": If, but for this rule, the net effect of a proposal would cause Agora to become ossified, or would cause Agora to cease to exist, it cannot take effect, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. If any other single change or inseparable group of changes to the gamestate would cause Agora to become ossified, or would cause Agora to cease to exist, it is cancelled and does not occur, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. with: If, but for this rule, the net effect of a single change or inseparable group of changes to the gamestate, including proposals, would cause Agora to become ossified, or would cause Agora to cease to exist, it cannot take effect, rules to the contrary notwithstanding. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8404 Title: High Crimes and Treason Adoption index: 1.7 Author: P.S.S. Co-authors: G., Jason, Murphy Amend Rule 2478 by appending the following text to the end of the rule: A high crime is any crime specified as being class 4 or greater. The Referee CANNOT levy the Cold Hand of Justice to punish a high crime, notwithstanding Rule 2478. Amend Rule 2478 by amending the list to read in full: - Imposing the Cold Hand of Justice on the perp for the cited rule violation, as described elsewhere; - Issuing an Indictment against the perp for the cited rule violation, as described elsewhere; or - if e believes that no rules violation occurred or that it would be ILLEGAL or INEFFECTIVE to levy a fine for it, announcing the Finger Pointing to be Shenanigans. Create a new AI-1.7 rule, "Indictment", with the following text: When the rules authorize an investigator to issue an Indictment for a violation, e CAN do so by announcement, specifying a fine of blots to be issued and the perpetrator and making an argument for the conviction of the accused. When an investigator has issued an Indictment, the perpetrator CAN state a defence. Within 10 days but no less than 4 days after the indictment has been issued, the judge SHALL initiate two Agoran Decisions, one to determine whether to convict the perpetrator and one to determine whether to accept the indictment. For these decision, the vote collector is the Judge and the voting method is AI-majority with AI=1.5. When initiating the decisions, the Judge SHALL, in the same message, publish the full texts of the Indictment and the defence. If both decisions are resolved as ADOPTED, the investigator CAN and SHALL impose the fine stated in the indictment. If the decision to convict is resolved as ADOPTED but the decision to accept is resolved as REJECTED, the investigator CAN issue a new Indictment. If the decision to convict is resolved as REJECTED, a fine SHALL NOT be imposed for the crime stated in the indictment. The Judge of the Indictment is the first of the following players who is neither the investigator nor the perp: the Arbitor, the Speaker, the Prime Minister. If this still fails to specify a player, then the Indictment lacks a Judge until that changes. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Title: Mooting moots Adoption index: 1.7 Author: G. Co-authors: R. Lee Amend Rule 911 (Motions and Moots) by deleting all the text from "If a CFJ has a judgement assigned, a player CAN enter that judgement into Moot" to the end of the rule. Amend Rule 911 (Motions and Moots) by appending: If a CFJ: * has a judgement assigned; and * the judgement has been in effect less than 28 days; and * the CFJ has had a Motion to Reconsider group-filed for it while it has been assigned to its current judge; then any player CAN remit the case with 2 Agoran Consent. The case becomes open again, and the current judge is recused. The Arbitor SHALL NOT assign em to the case again unless no other eligible judges have displayed interest in judging. Change the title of R911 to "Judicial Reconsideration". ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Title: a Proposed Contract Adoption index: 1.0 Author: G. Co-authors: When this proposal takes effect, the following contract is created. Voting FOR this proposal is considered contextual agreement to the contract. ------------------------- Contract: Cold Cash Lotto This proposal CAN be terminated with Agoran Consent; non-parties are not eligible to support or object to an intent to do so. A non-party CAN join this contract for a fee (payable to the contract) of 5 coins. A party's Investment is 1 + the number of coins that party has ever transferred to this contract. If this contract has been in existence for 4 or more days, and no coins have been transferred to the contract in the previous 24 hours, then any party (hereafter the iceman) CAN Freeze the Pot by announcement. Within 24 hours of freezing the pot, the iceman SHALL, using a public and readily confirmable method, select a random party to win the pot and announce the choice. If e does not do so within 24 hours, then any party CAN do so. The probabilities for the selection are proportional to each party's investment at the time the pot was frozen. Upon such a selection, this contract transfers all of its coins to the selected winner. After such a transfer, this contract ceases to exist. ------------------------- 100 coins are hereby granted to the Cold Cash Lotto Contract. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Title: Backup Conservatism Adoption index: 1.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Murphy, nch, G. If the proposal "More conservative implicit announcements" has been enacted, or would be enacted if it were correctly resolved now, the remainder of this proposal has no effect. Enact a new power 1.0 rule, entitled "Default Action Mechanism" with the following text: Stating that a person "CAN and SHALL" perform an action, without stating a method, implies "by announcement". //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////