Archived at
https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/tree/master/weekly_summaries
Below is the report for the week of 2020-07-20..26.
# Summary
An artificial guest joined us this week. Greg P. Thomas II, alas, is not
granted personhood by our rules, but we had fun together anyway.
The Birthday Tournament continues. This week saw our first elimination,
and a proposal enacted that grants each contestant a distinct
"superpower".
Gaelan's ruleset viewer is working! (Or was during this week, anyway.)
For a nicely-formatted ruleset, try https://agora-ruleset.gaelan.me .
Another attempt at using our new indictment process begins. Maybe it
will work this time.
Fun with contracts continues. Gaelan starts a betting ring. Jason Avoids
Prosecution, taking all the money from eir Ponzi scheme.
Agora's recent proposal frenzy seems to have died down for now. We saw
same proposed rule fixes and a new draft of Jason's proposal bringing
regulations into Alexis's "bodies of law" framework
# Greg P. Thomas II, A.I.
* An email address sends some strange messages, beginning with a purported
registration attempt borrowing other players' names. After some
speculation,
Gaelan reveals it's a bot e created. Threads: "Registration" and "Coming
clean"
* For the messages, look for anything sent by "Greg P. Thomas II"
(thomasgregoryp2 at gmail.com), and see also links Gaelan posted in the
thread "Coming Clean" pointing to more generated text.
* Were Greg's emails effectively sent by Gaelan? This is discussed in the
context of finger-pointing in the threads "Registration" and
"[Proposal]
Contract-Specific Contracts"; the Referee finds that Gaelan was
responsible
for Greg's emails. It's also mentioned in the thread "Coming clean".
* Jason tries to pend a proposal submitted by the bot, but it's
decided (a)
the message was too ambiguous to actually create a proposal, and (b) it
wasn't sent by a person, so it wouldn't have worked anyway. ais523
wonders
if a non-person can ever take an action by announcement. Thread:
"[Proposal] Minion Plan"
* There's some discussion about what an "organism" is (part of Agora's
definition of "person"). Thread: "Registration"
# Victory, titles, etc.
* The Prime Minister appoints Jason to the office of Speaker, and the Herald
awards em the title Champion, for eir victory last week. Threads: "New
Speaker", "Hear, ye! Hear, ye! A new Champion!"
# Birthday Tournament
The Birthday Tournament, which is a game of Diplonomic, continues.
Threads have "Diplonomic" in the subject line.
* A proposal is enacted allowing a Contestant to authorize a teammate to
submit orders for eir country.
* A proposal is enacted giving each country a distinct "superpower".
* R. Lee, playing France, is the first player to be eliminated. There's
discussion of whether a player is eliminated before or after votes are
counted for proposals. Thread: "[Diplonomic 2020] BT2 Removal of R. Lee"
* There's discussion of a possible difference in retreat rules between
Diplomacy and the Diplonomic birthday tournament. Thread: "[Diplonomic]
Retreat Rules question"
# Websites
* Gaelan announces that the ruleset viewer at
https://agora-ruleset.gaelan.me is working again. Thread: "Rules
Viewer Fixed"
* Gaelan petitions the Webmastor or Distributor to set up HTTPS. Thread:
"Petition to Webmastor and/or Distributor"
# Miscellaneous
* Another indictment process begins in the thread "The Notes (pledges &
promises) - revision 2".
"Maybe this time, we'll finally get to see how the process works."
- The Referee
(Last time, the indictment rules were broken.)
* The second Victory Card auction begins. Thread: "Second Victory Auction of
July 2020"
# Contracts
* Gaelan creates a contract for betting. Thread: "Agoran Underground
Betting Ring"
* Jason closes down eir Ponzi scheme and takes all the money. Thread: "A
wild Ponzi scheme appears"
* Cuddlebeam creates a new version of eir Chattelbeam contract (allowing
someone to act on eir behalf if e pledges to cause em to win). (E
destroys it again next week, saying e's still got some things to do
before e idles.)
# Cooper
* Our new Cooper petitions the ADoP to give eir office an interest.
Thread: "Petition to the ADoP"
* Our new Cooper puts the first bargains on the barrel, chosen randomly.
Threads: "Barrel Bargains Method", "Dice Rolls for Contents of
Barrels"
# Scams, rule questions, etc.
* nix identifies a bug in the new Talisman-based zombie system: anyone
who controls a zombie "possesses more than one talisman" (including
their own) and so can have both taken away from them with notice.
Thread: "Talisman Revocation"
* Jason submits a fix proposal in the thread "(another) talismans
fix" (and revises it a couple of times).
* R. Lee tries to call "N CFJs" where "N is the number of CFJs that it
would be
reasonable for [em] to fully write out." The Arbitor says e considers
it not
to have worked, and there's other discussion. Thread: "@Arbitor
Sillyness"
* Jason proposes a fix to a power escalation in the fee-based action
rule text. Thread: "Fee-based method fix"
# Rule refactoring
* Jason circulates another draft of eir "Regulatory Instruments" proposal,
which brings regulations into the "bodies of law" framework set up by
Alexis
earlier. Thread: "Regulatory Instruments vN+1"
# Voting
* The Assessor initiates an Assessor election in order to get a Green
Ribbon,
having recently lost eirs when e Raised a Banner. Thread: "[Assessor]
Election"
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