Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

[Aris Merchant]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Gaelan Steele  wrote:
> Bah.
>
> I retract “Judicial Reform.”
>
> I create the AI-2 proposal “Judicial Reform v2” by Gaelan, Aris and Quazie
> with the following text: <
>
> Amend R991 “Calls for Judgement” by replacing the last paragraph with {
>
> “Judge Status” is a player switch tracked by the Arbitor in eir monthly
> report, with valid values of “Narrow” (default) and “Wide.” A player may
> flip eir own Judge Status by announcement.
>
>
> When a CFJ has no judge assigned, the Arbitor CAN assign any player to be
> its judge by announcement, and SHALL do so within a week, but CANNOT do so
> if fewer than 2 days have passed since the CFJ was initiated. The players
> eligible to be assigned as judge are players except the initiator and the
> person barred (if any) who fulfill one of these requirements:
>
> 1. Eir Judge Status is set to Narrow, and they have publicly declared
> Interest in the CFJ.
>
> 2. Eir Judge Status is set to Wide, and they have not publicly declared
> Disinterest in the CFJ.
>
> The Arbitor SHALL assign judges over time such that all interested players
> have reasonably equal opportunities to judge. If a CFJ has no judge
> assigned, then any player eligible to judge that CFJ CAN assign it to emself
> Without 3 Objections.
>
>
> If there are no eligible judges for a CFJ for a period of 2 weeks, any
> player CAN judge it as DISMISS with 2 days Notice.
>
> }
>
> For all players who have been assigned a CFJ within the past 2 weeks, flip
> their Judge Status to Wide.

I'm preparing my promotor report. Going through this again, I see some
small errors. Specifically, you use "they" when you should use "e". I
wouldn't mind either in isolation, but the combination feels wrong,
and the latter form is preferred.

-Aris

Re: DIS: Assets v5 (Last Call for Comments)

[Josh T]

> The previous provisions of this paragraph do not apply to an asset if the
  organization is required to provided that asset in order to continue
existing.

I think there is a grammar mistake somewhere in that sentence, and if it
exists it should be fixed.

Aside from that, it looks OK.

天火狐

On 4 June 2017 at 01:52, Aris Merchant 
wrote:

> This will be the last draft of this proposal before I submit it.
>
> -Aris
>
> Title: Assets v5
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Aris
> Co-authors: o, nichdel
>
> Reenact rule 2166, Assets (Power = 2), with the following text:
>
>   An asset is an entity defined as such by a rule (hereafter its backing
>   document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its
>   existence.
>
>   Each asset has exactly one owner.  If an asset would otherwise
>   lack an owner, it is owned by Agora.  If an asset's backing document
> restricts
>   its ownership to a class of entities, then that asset CANNOT be gained
> by or
>   transferred to an entity outside that class, and is destroyed if it is
> owned
>   by an entity outside that class (except for Agora, in which case any
> player
>   CAN transfer or destroy it without objection). The restrictions in the
>   previous sentence are subject to modification by its backing document.
>
>   Unless modified by an asset's backing document, ownership of an asset is
>   restricted to Agora, persons, and organizations.
>
>   An organization's charter CAN specify whether or not that organization is
>   willing receive assets or a class of assets. Generally, an organization
> CANNOT
>   be given assets its charter states that it is unwilling to receive. The
>   previous provisions of this paragraph do not apply to an asset if the
>   organization is required to provided that asset in order to continue
> existing.
>
>
>   The recordkeepor of a class of assets is the entity (if any)
>   defined as such by, and bound by, its backing document.  That
>   entity's report includes a list of all instances of that class
>   and their owners.  This portion of that entity's report is
>   self-ratifying.
>
>   An asset generally CAN be destroyed by its owner by
>   announcement, subject to modification by its backing document.
>   To "lose" an asset is to have it destroyed from one's
>   possession; to "revoke" an asset from an entity is to destroy it
>   from that entity's possession.
>
>   An asset generally CAN be transferred (syn. payed) by its owner to
> another
>   entity by announcement, subject to modification by its backing
>   document.  A fixed asset is one defined as such by its backing
>   document, and CANNOT be transferred; any other asset is liquid.
>
>   A currency is a class of asset defined as such by its backing
>   document.  Instances of a currency with the same owner are
>   fungible.
>
>   The "x balance of an entity", where x is a currency, is the number of x
> that
>   entity possesses. If a rule or proposal attempts to increase or decrease
> the
>   balance of an entity without specifying a source or destination, then the
>   currency is created or destroyed. Where it resolves ambiguity, "Balance",
>   without any currency modifiers, refers to an entity's balance of
> whichever
>   currency is designated as "Agora's official currency", if there is one.
>
>   Assets are always public. [To provide for private contract based assets
> later]
>
> Change the power of Rule 2166 to 3.0.
>
> Change the rule "Economics" to read in full:
>
>   Shinies (sg. shiny) are a liquid currency, and the official currency of
> Agora.
>   They may be owned by Agora, any player, or any organization. The
> Secretary is
>   the recordkeepor for Shinies.
>
>   The Secretary CAN cause Agora to pay any player or organization by
>   announcement if doing so is specified by a rule.
>
>   Shinies cannot be destroyed, except as allowed by rules specifically
>   addressing the destruction of Shinies. Any otherwise successful
>   attempt to destroy Shinies instead transfers them to Agora.
>
> Amend Rule 2459, Organizations, by adding as a paragraph at the end:
>
>   A member of an Organization CAN perform any action the rules authorize
> that
>   Organization to perform, if the Organization's charter states that doing
> so
>   is Appropriate.
>
> For the avoidance of doubt, all shinies existing under the old system
> continue
> to so under the new system, and if they would not otherwise do so, new
> shinies
> are created to replace them.
>
>
> Amend the rule "The Surveyor" to have the folowing text:
>
>   The Surveyor is an office, and the recordkeepor of estates.
>
> Amend the rule "Estates" to have the following text:
>
>   An Estate is a type of liquid asset, which can be owned by players,
>   organizations, and Agora. The following changes are secured:
>   creating, modifying, or destroying an Estate; and causing an
>   entity to become an Estate or cease to be an Estate.
>
>   Estates cannot be destroyed,