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Date of this ACORN: 18 Jun 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table of Contents: Auction Regulations * Regulation AM0: Generalized Auction * Regulation AM1: Forward Auctions * Regulation AM2: Sealed-bid Auctions * Regulation AM3: Second-price Auctions * Regulation AM4: Nonwinning-price Auctions * Regulation AM5: Selective-bid Auctions Administrative Regulations * Regulation PA0: Certification * Regulation PA1: Proposal Style Guide * Regulation RA0: Limitations to Powers of Interim Referees * Regulation RA1: General Enforcement Policies * Regulation RA2: Guidelines to Referees for Compiling Weekly Reports * Regulation RA3: Holiday Rule Reminder Practice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Auction Regulations This section has the regulations, written by the Treasuror, governing how auctions proceed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM0/2 Generalized Auction Generalized auctions exist to give context to the form of other types of auctions. They CANNOT be held directly. Other auction methods that use this type of auction as a starting point can override attributes of generalized auctions except when it is explicitly stated that that attribute is not able to be overridden. INITIATION: When a person CAN begin an auction by this or any derivative method, e CAN only do so by specifying the type of auction method to be held, a list of lots to be auctioned off, and the currency for the auction in a public message (henceforth the "initiation message"). The bidding period starts at this point. BIDDING: Players CAN place a bid on an auction in its bidding period by creating a public message (henceforth a "bid message") specifying a number of the auction's currency as eir bid not equal to the bid of another player. Players CAN withdraw from an open auction by announcement. TERMINATION: The bidding period ends four days after the final instance of any of the following events' occurance: * the auction begins * a bid is placed * a player withdraws from the auction RETRIEVAL: When the bidding period ends, the retrieval period begins. During the retrieval period, bidders will be allowed to retrieve the assets required to pay for their bid. The retrieval period lasts three days. Failing to have the requisite assets when the retrieval period for an auction ends constitutes the Class 1 Crime of Underfundedness. AWARDING: For each auction, there are a number of awardees equal to the number of lots. The Nth lot of an auction goes to the Nth awardee of that auction. If the identity of an awardee is undecidable, then that lot cannot be given away. Auction methods specify how awardees are picked for auctions using that method. PAYMENT AMOUNT: The amount that an awardee in an auction is required to pay for eir lot is, unless otherwise specified, the amount of the auction's curency specified in eir highest bid on that auction. FUNDED PLAYERS: Derivative auction methods should ensure that only players who, at the end of an auction's retrieval period, have at least as much of that auction's currency as the amount that e is required to pay in that auction (hereafter "funded players") can be selected as awardees for auctions using that auction method. DISTRIBUTION: The auctioneer for an auction CAN and SHALL, within seven days of the ending of that auction's retrieval period, create a public message (henceforth the "distribution message") that contains a full history of bids on the auction and withdrawals from the auction. It must also clearly indicate each awardee and the lot e recieves. In this message, the auctioneer CAN and SHALL destroy the amount to be paid from the inventory each awardee and transfer to that player (or create in eir possession if the item is new) the set of assets associated with the lot e won. Failing to publish a distribution message constitutes the Class 3 Crime of Auction Abandonment. ACTIVE BIDS: The set of active bids for an auction is the set of all funded, non-withdrawn players' highest bids on that auction. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 28 Mar 2021 Amended(2) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM1/1 Forward Auctions Forward auctions function like generalized auctions except: * The Nth awardee for a forward auction is the player who submitted the Nth-highest active bid on that auction. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM2/1 Sealed-bid Auctions Sealed-bid auctions function like generalized auctions except: * Players can only submit bids on a sealed-bid auction if they do not have a bid in that auction. * Bids must be initially hidden so that it is impossible to tell its value but that it is verifiable that the amount bid was decided before the bid was placed. Anything that claims to be a bid and fits these conditions is considered a bid. * The retrieval period for a sealed-bid auction lasts for seven days. * Each player SHALL reveal eir bid amount on a sealed-bid auction while the auction is in its retrieval period. Failing to do so is the Class 2 Crime of Potential Faking. * The termination message need not indicate any bids for which the amount bid is not known. * The Nth awardee of a sealed-bid auction is the player whose bid is the Nth-highest active bid on that auction. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM3/1 Second-price Auctions Second-price auctions function like forward auctions except: * The amount to be paid by the Nth awardee is the amount of the auction's currency specified by the (N-1)th highest active bid on that auction or the lowest active bid if such a value does not exist. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM4/1 Nonwinning-price Auctions Nonwinning-price auctions function like forward auctions except: * The amount to by paid by all awardees is the amount of the auction's currency specified by the highest active bid on that auction not placed by an awardee or the lowest active bid if such a value does not exist. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation AM5/1 Selective-bid Auctions Selective-bit auctions function like generalized auctions except: * Bidding messages on a selective-bid auction must also specify a lot that is preferred. * The Nth awardee of a selective-bid auction is the player who placed the highest active bid whose preferred bid is the Nth lot. History: Enacted by Trigon, 08 Aug 2020 Amended(1) by Trigon, 05 May 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================== Administrative Regulations This section has regulations enacted by officers, pursuant to Rule 2630. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation PA0/0 Certification For the Promotor to cause a proposal to become pending with 2+N support, where N is equal to the number of times e has done so in the past 7 days, is for em to certify it. A proposal is certifiable if: 1. it is reasonably narrowly tailored to fix one or more problems, including a) bugs, b) errors, c) ambiguities, and d) vulnerabilities*; or 2. unusual or exigent circumstance render it in the public interest for it to become pending via this method. * Note: Any of these problems may arise from a single source or the interaction of multiple sources, which may be individually unproblematic. This provision is to be interpreted broadly and flexibly to effectuate its spirit. The Promotor SHOULD NOT certify a non-certifiable proposal. Players SHOULD support an intent to certify a proposal if and only if it is certifiable. The author of a proposal in the pool CAN, by announcement, request certification of the proposal, provided e does so in a message that has either "Promotor" or "Proposal" in the subject line; e SHOULD NOT do so unless e believes eir proposal is certifiable and is ENCOURAGED to explain why eir proposal is certifiable. Once certification is requested, the Promotor SHALL respond publicly before publishing the next report that contains the proposal, unless the proposal is withdrawn or pended in the interim. Petitioning the Promotor to certify a proposal is DEPRECATED. History: Enacted by Aris, 13 Sep 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation PA1/0 Proposal Style Guide Players SHOULD format proposals in accordance with the following guidelines. These guidelines represent the Promotor's preferred formatting. Most of these guidelines are flexible recommendations, but where something is marked as STRONGLY DISCOURAGED, doing it is actively inconvenient for the Promotor. I. Headers and Metadata. 1. Format headers as close as possible to the heading used for distributions, which looks like this: Title: _____ Adoption index: _._ Author: ____ Co-authors: ____, ____ To be clear: a) write the fields in that order; b) write out all the fields, even the ones that have default values; and c) write each field on its own line. 2. a) Give proposals titles 35 characters or less. b) Giving proposals titles over 70 characters is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. II. Bodies. 1. Indent Proposals two spaces per indent level. 2. a) Wrap proposal lines to 80 characters or less. b) Making it so the Promotor cannot wrap lines to 80 characters or less is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED unless it is absolutely unavoidable (e.g. in the case of URLs). 3. Players are STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from placing markings that indicate the start of the proposal's text on the same line as the start of the text. History: Enacted by Aris, 13 Sep 2020 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation RA0/0 Limitations to Powers of Interim Referees An interim holder of the office of Referee (henceforth known as an ‘Interim Referee’) SHALL NOT impose summary judgement more than twice a week. It is PROHIBITED for an Interim Referee levy a fine to a person who commits the Class 2 Crime of Tardiness, if the person's deadline to perform eir duty occurs during a Holiday, as defined by rule 1769. A Referee MUST NOT enact or amend any other regulations in such a manner as to cause any of them to take precedence over this regulation. This regulation takes precedence over all other administrative regulations promulgated by any Referee. History: Enacted by JTAC, 31 Jan 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation RA1/0 General Enforcement Policies If a Referee wishes to impose the Cold Hand of Justice on any perp for the Class 2 Crime of Tardiness, e is strongly RECOMMENDED to specify the violation as forgivable, unless the perp has consecutively committed the violation or the evidence indicates that the perp has used or has attempted to use the violation as part of a plan to abuse eir official position. Referees are ENCOURAGED to amend this regulation to specify best practices for other crimes and violations. History: Enacted by JTAC, 31 Jan 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation RA2/0 Guidelines to Referees for Compiling Weekly Reports Courtesy of the illustrious Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, when making eir weekly report on blot holdings, a Referee is ENCOURAGED to additionally include: 1. A section tracking investigations resulting from a finger being pointed of which the Referee is the investigator, which have not been concluded at the time of the report’s publishing; e SHOULD provide the following fields for each entry: a. Name of the perp b. Name of the person who pointed eir finger d. Summary of the available findings at the time of the report The Referee is strongly DISCOURAGED from reporting on investigations of which e is not the investigator. At the time of the promulgation of this regulation, the only rule-defined circumstance in which the Referee is not the investigator is when the Referee is the perp. As such, eir reports on such investigations may be misleading and are at a high likelihood of violating rule 2471. 2. A section tracking historical changes to the blots possessed by persons. If available, the time period tracked is RECOMMENDED to begin from approximately two years prior and end at the time of the report’s publishing. E SHOULD provide the following columns for this section: a. Name of person in whose possession the number of blots has changed b. Change in number of blots c. Date of change d. Reason of change History: Enacted by JTAC, 31 Jan 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regulation RA3/0 Holiday Rule Reminder Practice In addition to the recommendations contained within rule 1769, the Referee is strongly ENCOURAGED to remind the players of the end of the Holiday by announcement. This SHOULD be done between 2 to 4 days before the end of the Holiday. History: Enacted by JTAC, 31 Jan 2021 Annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------------------