DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-03-25 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. Also, if proposals keep coming in this
quickly, I'm likely to just backdate the report to right now, so I can
at least get something out.

-Aspen
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8657*   Murphy  3.0   Schrodinger's report
8658*   Aspen   3.0   SLR Ratification
8659*   nix, G., snail  3.0   Speak Like People
8660*   nix, G., Jason, snail   3.0   The End of Sets
8661&   nix, G., Jason, Trigon  1.0   Stamps v1.2
8662&   snail, Jason, Telna 1.0   Birds! v2
8663&   snail   1.0   The Hexeract
8664&   snail   1.0   Away with the massive points

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8657
Title: Schrodinger's report
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2480 (Festivals) by replacing this text:

  While Agora's Festivity is 0, Festivity is tracked in the
  Tailor's monthly report. Otherwise, it is tracked in the
  Tailor's weekly report.

with this text:

  Festivity is tracked in the Tailor's monthly report. In addition,
  while Festivity is non-zero, the Tailor SHALL announce its value each
  week; a public document purporting to be such an announcement is
  self-ratifying.

[Now that Glitter has been repealed, the existence of the Tailor's
weekly report depends solely on whether a Festival is in progress. I
would rather give up the occasional extra salary than have to deal with
the extra complexity in the ADoP's report.]

//
ID: 8658
Title: SLR Ratification
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aspen
Co-author(s):


Ratify the Short Logical Ruleset published on the 8th of February, 2022,
available here [1].

[1] 
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2022-February/015653.html

//
ID: 8659
Title: Speak Like People
Adoption index:
Author: nix
Co-author(s): G., snail


[Reword welcome packages to unambiguously make "grant" work and also add
a keyword for "cashing in" sets, to fix some clunky language.]

Amend R2577 "Asset Actions" by replacing:

  To grant an entity an asset is to create it in eir possession.

with:

  To grant an entity an asset is to create it in eir possession. To
  grant an entity a set of assets is to create each asset in the set
  in eir possession.

Amend R2499 "Welcome Packages" to read in full:

  A Welcome Package is a set of assets containing:

 * 10 boatloads of coins, AND
 * 1 of each type of card defined in the rules.

  Any player CAN grant a Welcome Package to any player if the grantee
  has neither received one since e last registered nor in the last 30
  days.

Ratify that all current players have received a Welcome Package since
they last registered.

Amend R2620 "Cards & Sets" by replacing:

  A player CAN pay a 'set' of X Cards of the same type

with:

  A player CAN pay a 'set' of (syn: "cash in") X Cards of the same
  type

//
ID: 8660
Title: The End of Sets
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: nix
Co-author(s): G., Jason, snail


Amend R2621 "VP Wins" by replacing:

  Then, the winds change, following which each active player gains 1
  card of each type and eir grant (if any).

with:

  Then, the winds die down.

Add a new Power=3 rule titled "The Winds Die Down" with the following
text:

  When the wind dies down, the following happen in order:

  * The following rules are repealed in order: R2620 "Cards & Sets",
R2623 "Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege", R2629 "Victory
Auctions", R2624 "Card Administration", R2622 "Pending Proposals",
R2651 "Proposal Recycling", and R2653 "Buying Strength".

  * All rules including the text "~>" and "<~" are amended in
ascending numerical order by removing all text between and
including each "~>" and the first following "<~".

  * This rule is repealed.

Amend R2478 "Vigilante Justice" to replace:

  The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings that resulted in
  a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice in the previous
  Agoran Week CAN once grant emself a Justice Card by

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-03-04 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 03:16 -0800, Aspen via agora-discussion wrote:
> My draft report follows.

I submitted a proposal at 13:44 UTC last Friday, which you haven't
included in the draft report.

-- 
ais523



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-03-04 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 3, 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)   AITitle
---
8645*   ATMunn, nix 3.0   Some RTRW Clean-Ups
8646*   Jason, G., ais523   3.0   Deputisation rewrite
8647&   secretsnail, [1]2.0   Birds!
8648&   secretsnail 1.0   Scoring Integer Points
8649&   Murphy  1.0   The Devices v1.1
8650&   Jason   1.0   It's an even grayer world.

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, Aspen, Ørjan 3.0   TIME Act [2]

[1] Jason, Telna
[2] Temporal Incursion Modification and Exclusion Act

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8645
Title: Some RTRW Clean-Ups
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-author(s): nix


Amend R2464 by replacing "set of regulations," with "a set of
regulations,".

Amend R2493 by:

  * replacing "an textual entity" with "a textual entity"; and
  * replacing "an person" with "a person".

Amend R2495 by replacing "This title" with "These regulations".

Amend R2471 by replacing "be not to be true" with "be not true".

Amend R2602 by removing any quotation marks and replacing "or e
corresponding" with "or the corresponding".

//
ID: 8646
Title: Deputisation rewrite
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): G., ais523


Amend Rule 2160 ("Deputisation") by replacing the sole list with the
following:
{
  1. the rules require the holder of that office, by virtue of holding
  that office, to perform the action (this requirement is fulfilled by the
  deputy performing the action); and, it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy
  to perform the action, other than by deputisation, if e held the office;
  and, the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing
  so by deputisation or by temporary deputisation; and, the deputy has not
  held the office in the past 7 days; and,

  2. any of the following are true:
 (A) the office is vacant;
 (B) a time limit by which the rules require the action to be
 performed has expired, the office's holder has not changed
 in the past 7 days, and any of the following are true:

   (i) the deputy announced between two and fourteen days earlier
   that e intended to deputise for that office for the purposes
   of the particular action;
  (ii) the time limit expired between 14 days ago and 28 days ago;
 (iii) the time limit expired more than 28 days ago and the
   deputisation is temporary;
}

[This simplifies the list significantly, hopefully making it clearer. It
also makes the following substantive changes: allows only temporarily
deputisation (or deputisation with notice) for old duties, prohibits
deputies who have held the office in the past 7 days, and prohibits
deputising for an office whose holder has changed in the past 7 days, to
allow a holder time to catch up when they assume a new office, and to
prevent rapid-fire changes resulting from deputisation fights.]

//
ID: 8647
Title: Birds!
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: secretsnail
Co-author(s): Jason, Telna


Create a rule with title "Birds", power 2.0, and the following text:
{
  A bird is a unique indestructible liquid asset defined by the
  rules. To define a bird, the definition must include:
(i) A name unique among birds;
   (ii) A scroll, which is a document specifying the effects of the
bird.

  Ownership of birds is entirely restricted to Agora and active
  players. If a bird is owned by the Lost and Found Department or
  in abeyance, it is immediately transferred to Agora.

  The Avicultor is an office, and the recordkeepor of birds.

  A player that is not Beast Permitted SHALL NOT transfer a bird e
  owns to another player; doing so is the Class 3 Crime of
  Unpermitted Beast Transit.
}

Create a rule with title "Permits", power 2.0, and the following text:
{
  Beast Permitted is a secured negative boolean person switch,
  tracked by the Avicultor in eir weekly report. A player with a
  Beast Permit

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-02-20 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen
---
The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)   AITitle
---
nix 3.0   Some RTRW Clean-Ups
G.  1.7   Cheaters shouldn't prosper


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
Title: Some RTRW Clean-Ups
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: nix
Co-author(s):


Amend R2464 by replacing "set of regulations," with "a set of
regulations,".

Amend R2493 by:

 * replacing "an textual entity" with "a textual entity"; and
 * replacing "an person" with "a person".

Amend R2495 by replacing "This title" with "These regulations".

Amend R2471 by replacing "be not to be true" with "be not true".

Amend R2602 by removing any quotation marks and replacing "or e
corresponding" with "or the corresponding".

//
Title: Cheaters shouldn't prosper
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


[
- clarifies timing of JC grant paragraph
- the default penalty is 2 blots.  a set-complete JC removes 2.5
  blots.  A perp shouldn't profit from their crime by pointing
  at themselves and getting a JC for it.  So this removes self-points
  from the counting.
]

Amend Rule 2478 (Vigilante Justice) by replacing:
  The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings that resulted
  in a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice in the previous
  Agoran Week CAN once grant emself a Justice Card by announcement.
with:
  The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings at other
  players that, in the previous Agoran Week, resulted
  in a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice, CAN once
  grant emself a Justice Card by announcement.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-02-10 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen

---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8638*   secretsnail, Madrid 3.0   Cyan Ribbon Patch
8639*   G.  3.0   sole quorum
8640&   R. Lee  2.0   Minor ruleset edits
8641&   Jason, G.   2.0   Degrees are for persons
8642&   Jason, Ørjan2.0   Hot Potato patch v2
8643&   G.  1.7   Firing Judge Dredd
8644&   Jason, ais523   1.0   Device repeal patch


The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
Murphy   3.0   No audience, no action


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8638
Title: Cyan Ribbon Patch
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: secretsnail
Co-author(s): Madrid


Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing "Cyan (C): When a person
deputises for an office, that person earns a Cyan Ribbon" with
"Cyan (C): When a person deputises for an office, and that person has not
held or deputized for that office within the past 7 days, that person earns
a Cyan Ribbon".

[Fixes an issue which lets a player repeatedly deputize for an office and
award emself up to 5 cyan glitter.]

//
ID: 8639
Title: sole quorum
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by changing its power to 3.

[the basic definition of quorum should be power-3 along with the rest of
voting, right?]


Amend Rule 879 (Quorum) by replacing:
  As an exception to the previous paragraph, the quorum of an
  Agoran decision can never be less than 2. If the rules would
  attempt to set the quorum of an Agoran decision to less than 2,
  it is set to 2 instead.
with:
  As an exception to the previous paragraph, the minimum quorum of
  an Agoran decision is 2, or 1 if there are fewer than 2 players in
  the game. If the rules would attempt to set the quorum of an Agoran
  decision to less than the minimum quorum, it is set to the minimum
  instead.

[If 1 person is the only player, that should be quorum.  Less than 1 is
game-breaking trouble, so minimum=1 protects extra against the final
deregistration]

//
ID: 8640
Title: Minor ruleset edits
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-author(s):


Amend rule 1023, "Agoran Time" by removing the text "Eastman
weeks begin at midnight UTC on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd,
and 29th of each Gregorian month; the fifth one of the
month (if any) lasts till the end of the month."

and by removing the text

"(e.g. Eastman weeks)"


Amend rule 2531, "Defendant's Rights" by removing the last semicolon
and the last "or" after section (9) and by inserting the text " or"
between the word "Finger" and the semicolon at the end of section (8).

Retitle rule 2531, "Defendant's Rights" to "Defendants' Rights"

//
ID: 8641
Title: Degrees are for persons
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): G.


Amend Rule 1367 ("Degrees") by replacing "A specified degree CAN be
awarded" with "A specified degree CAN be awarded to a person".

[Require that degrees are given to persons for their hard work, rather
than arbitrary entities.]

//
ID: 8642
Title: Hot Potato patch v2
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Ørjan


Amend Rule 2645 (The Stones) by replacing "This stone cannot otherwise
be transferred" with "If this stone is not owned by Agora, it cannot
otherwise be transferred".

[Allows transferring the Hot Potato stone from Agora in order to allow
it to actually be auctioned off.]

//
ID: 8643
Title: Firing Judge Dredd
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2478 (Vigilante Justice) by replacing:
  The above notwithstanding, the investigator CANNOT resolve a
  Finger Pointing for which e is the perp.
with:
  The above notwithstanding, the investigator CANNOT resolve a
  Finger Pointing for which e is the perp or the finger-pointer.


[if referee is vacant, someone could point a finger and deput

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-01-27 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen
---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8635*   Murphy  4.0   Outside assistance
8636&   G.  1.5   Points
8637&   G., Jason   1.0   Basic Scoring v0.2


The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8635
Title: Outside assistance
Adoption index: 4.0
Author: Murphy
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 1698 (Agora Is A Nomic) by replacing "players" with
"persons".

[Explicitly avoids the interpretation suggested on CFJ 8591 that
  the "players making arbitrary changes" clause requires a current
  player, even if registration remains unblocked.]

//
ID: 8636
Title: Points
Adoption index: 1.5
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Create the following power=1.5 rule, Points:

  A player's Score, indicated in Points, is an integer player switch
  defaulting to 0, tracked by the Herald.

  Upon a correct announcement from a player that one or more players
  have a score of 100+ points, all players meeting this condition
  win the game.  If a least one player wins the game via such an
  announcement, all players' scores are set to their default.

//
ID: 8637
Title: Basic Scoring v0.2
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): Jason


Create the following rule, "Scoring":

  Each time a player fulfills a scoring condition, the officer
  associated with the condition CAN once by announcement, and SHALL
  in an officially timely fashion, add to that player's score the
  associated amount of points.

  Below is a list of scoring conditions and their associated points
  and officers.

* Being the author of a sponsored proposal that takes effect:
  1 + the power of the proposal when it takes effect (Assessor).

* Being the coauthor of a sponsored proposal that takes effect:
  1 (Assessor).

* Having submitted an unconditional ballot AGAINST a referendum on
  a sponsored proposal, provided that the ballot is valid at
  the time the referendum is assessed, and provided that the outcome
  of that assessment is ADOPTED:  points equal to the voting
  player's voting strength on the referendum (Assessor).

[note: using "1 + the power of the proposal when it takes effect" instead
of "the AI of the proposal" because the AI is unlimited while power
iscapped at 4 by R106].

[v0.2 - specified "add" instead of "change".
  - change in referendum wording suggested by Jason.
]

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2022-01-02 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen

---

The proposal pool is currently empty.


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-12-11 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report is finally done!

-Aspen
---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8634*   Jason   3.0   Laudability

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8634
Title: Laudability
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2438 by appending the following to the paragraph
beginning "For each type of Ribbon":
{

  Laudability is a secured person switch with non-negative integer possible
  values, defaulting to 0, tracked by the Tailor as part of eir monthly
  report. When a person owns more types of ribbons than eir Laudability,
  eir Laudability is set to the number of types of ribbons e owns.

}

Amend Rule 2480 by replacing:
{
  A player who owns at least N types of Ribbon CAN Start a Rank N
  Festival, where N is an integer greater than Agora's Festivity,
  with 4 support from players who own at least N types of Ribbon.
  Upon doing so, Agora's Festivity is flipped to N. Exception: A
  player CANNOT do so if Agora's Festivity has had a value greater
  than or equal to N within the past 21 days.

  A person who owns a number of types of Ribbon equal to or greater
  than Agora's Festivity is known as Festive. Other persons are not
  Festive.
}
with:
{

  A person whose Laudability is greater than or equal to Agora's
  Festivity is Festive. Any other person is not Festive.

  A player who would be Festive if the Festivity was N CAN Start a
  Rank N Festival, where N is an integer greater than Agora's
  Festivity, with 4 support from other players who would be Festive
  if the Festivity was N, except that a Rank N Festival CANNOT be
  started if Agora's Festivity has had a value grater than or equal
  to N in the past 21 days. Upon a Rank N Festival starting, Agora's
  Festivity is flipped to N.

}

The Laudability of each of the following persons is hereby flipped
to the number of existing types of ribbon:
  * ais523
  * Alexis
  * G.
  * Jason
  * Murphy
  * twg

[These are the people who have won by Renaissance.]

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-11-28 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. I sincerely apologize if I missed something again.

-Aspen
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

The proposal pool is currently empty.


DIS: [Promotor] Draft Revision and New Distribution

2021-11-08 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
Here's a draft of a new distribution and revision to my last report. I
apologize again for my error.

-Aspen

---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on 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)   AITitle
---
8633*   Falsifian   3.0   Disbanded distribution

Revision to the last Promotor's report, effective immediately:

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8633
Title: Disbanded distribution
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-author(s):


In Rule 1607 "Distribution", delete the sentence:

  E SHALL then distribute those undistributed proposals the next
  Agoran week.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-11-07 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aspen
---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on 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)   AITitle
---
8631&   G.  1.0   another device defect
8632&   G., nix 1.0   Forgiveness is a process

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8631
Title: another device defect
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2655 by replacing:
  responsible for building and maintaining the Device.
with:
  responsible for building, tracking, and maintaining the Device.

and by deleting:
  This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's
  weekly report.

[with the reporting duty for the device status added, by default a weekly
switch value report, we no longer need this intent to count as a report to
get the weekly report reward.  The intent is still part of "weekly duties"
but not the report.]

//
ID: 8632
Title: Forgiveness is a process
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): nix


The patent title Fugitive is hereby revoked from every person who
holds it.

Henceforth, the Herald SHOULD NOT list people as being "fugitives" in eir
reporting.  [covers any "unofficial" listees who didn't have patent titles].

[note: this may be slightly more controversial than last time, given that
we've uncovered some of those listed actually hold patent titles, and we
generally don't revoke those in order to preserve history. For full
disclosure, who actually holds that title could be reconstructed in a
fairly straightforward manner (I think I found the requisite proposal
records), if the consensus is to keep the patent title holders in the
Scroll].

//



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-10-03 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. I'm sorry this is so late. I'm sure it
contains a substantially greater number of errors than usual, so
please check it out. I would also appreciate it if people could avoid
doing things that would change the report's contents until I submit
it, which will be soon, though possibly past the end of the week
target.

-Aspen

---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8607*   Telna, ais523, Alexis   3.0   Asset Self-Ratification Fix
8608*   Telna, Jason, G., [1]   3.0   Powering Up
8609&   Jason   1.0   Axiom of Limitations
8610&   Jason   1.7   No Immediate Shenanigans
8611&   Jason, Trigon   1.0   Reasonably Responsive Reactivation
8612&   Jason, G., Ørjan1.0   Tournament Conclusion Fixes v2
8613*   Jason, Trigon   3.0   The Name of the Win Cards v2
8614*   Jason   3.0   Simultaneity Security
8615*   Jason   3.0   Supporter/Objector clarification v2
8616&   nix, Telna, Trigon  1.0   Narrowing Margins
8617&   nix, G. 1.0   Forgiveness
8618&   nix, Jason  1.0   Solo Acitivity
8619&   ATMunn  1.0   The Bottomless Pit
8620&   R. Lee  1.0   Im cool
8621*   R. Lee  3.0   Proposal spreading
8622*   R. Lee  3.0   [2]
8623&   Trigon  1.0   No prizeless victory auctions
8624&   Trigon  1.0   I'd like to thank the academy
8625&   Trigon  1.0   giving the gift of an amendment
8626*   Trigon, Jason, ais523   3.0   pledge(2)(2)
8627&   G.  1.0   INSANITY CLAUSES
8628&   G.  2.0   tacking into the win
8629*   G., Telna, nix, [3] 3.0   Independence Day

The proposal pool is currently empty.

[1] R. Lee, Trigon, ATMunn
[1] Allow acting on behalf to support or object
[2] CuddleBeam, cuddlybanana, Jason


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8607
Title: Asset Self-Ratification Fix
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Telna
Co-author(s): ais523, Alexis


In Rule 2166 "Assets", replace the text "This portion of that entity's
report is self-ratifying." with the following:

  A public document purporting to be this portion of that entity's report
  is self-ratifying.

//
ID: 8608
Title: Powering Up
Adoption index:
Author: Telna
Co-author(s): Jason, G., R. Lee, Trigon, ATMunn


Enact a Power-5 Rule titled "High Five" with the following text:

This Power-5 Rule (the first ever) commemorates the Agoran Spirit To
Break The Game.
Agora is no stranger to love. You know the Rules, and so do I.
This is the highest-powered Rule, no matter what. Even if it wouldn't
be, it is.
What is logic? Agora, don't hurt me.
Agora hereby apologises to the Rulekeepor for making em track this mess.

//
ID: 8609
Title: Axiom of Limitations
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2553 by, as a single amendment, replacing "CAN, by
announcement, Transcend Logic," with "CAN, by announcement, Transcend
Logic, specifying that CFJ," and replacing "for at least 7 days" with
"for between 7 and 90 days".

[Requires that people Transcending Logic specify which case they are
claiming the win for, ensuring that the "with respect to that CFJ"
clause actually functions. Also adds a time limit to claim to prevent
shenanigans and limit the scope of any bugs.]

//
ID: 8610
Title: No Immediate Shenanigans
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: Jason
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2478 by appending the following to the paragraph beginning
"Initiating a Finger pointing found to be Shenanigans is ILLEGAL": "The
investigator of a finger pointing SHALL NOT point eir finger for the
Crime of Unjustified Gesticulation with respect to that finger pointing.".

[Prohibits the Referee from ruling Shenanigans, then immediately
pointing eir finger at the first pointer in order to get ahead on the
finger pointing contest.]

//
ID: 8611
Title: Reasonably Responsive Reactivation
Adoptio

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-09-11 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 6:04 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
>
> On 9/11/2021 1:52 AM, Aspen via agora-discussion wrote:
> > 8603&   Jason, Bucky2.0   Buying Strength Eligibility
> > 8604&   R. Lee, G.  2.0   Stony Silence
> > 8605&   G., Ørjan   1.0   Covered under warranty
>
>
> Missing the proposal made by the adoption of proposal 8598?

Yep! Thanks for the catch. I forgot about it, and my standard method
of finding proposals doesn't get that one.

-Aspen


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-09-11 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion


On 9/11/2021 1:52 AM, Aspen via agora-discussion wrote:
> 8603&   Jason, Bucky2.0   Buying Strength Eligibility
> 8604&   R. Lee, G.  2.0   Stony Silence
> 8605&   G., Ørjan   1.0   Covered under warranty


Missing the proposal made by the adoption of proposal 8598?



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-09-11 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. The publishing at the beginning of the week
thing doesn't seem to be working out very well so far, *slight sigh*

-Aspen
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8603&   Jason, Bucky2.0   Buying Strength Eligibility
8604&   R. Lee, G.  2.0   Stony Silence
8605&   G., Ørjan   1.0   Covered under warranty

The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
G.  1.0   another device defect

[1] This proposal has no title. Furthermore, it may not exist.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8603
Title: Buying Strength Eligibility
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Bucky


Amend Rule 2653 by replacing "A player's Voting Strength on referendum"
with "A person's Voting Strength on a referendum".

[There's no reason that buying strength should stop applying on
deregistration, since a non-player can still be eligible to vote.]

//
ID: 8604
Title: Stony Silence
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-author(s): G.


Amend rule 2642, 'Distributing Stones' by replacing its second paragraph
with 'The Stonemason SHALL if possible initiate such an auction monthly and
only once a month, in a timely fashion after a collection notice has been
issued. The Stonemason SHALL auction exactly 2 stones in a month if
possible'

Retitle rule 2644 'The Gauntlet' to 'Zen Gardening' [cosmetic change to
remove the annoying movie reference that I discussed once on discord]

Amend rule 2644 by replacing any instances of the word 'Gauntlet' with
'Rock Garden'

Amend rule 2644 by replacing '5 or more' with '8 or more'

Amend rule 2645 'The Stones' by adding the following text on the end.
"
- Recursion Stone (Monthly, 80%): The recursion stone can be wielded once
  per month as if it had the power of any other stone of your choice.

- Hot Potato Stone (Weekly, 100%):  When this stone is wielded, the
  wielder gains 8 boatloads of coins if the wielder, in the same message
  as the wielding, transfers this stone to a player who has not owned
  this stone since Agora last owned it. This stone cannot otherwise be
  transferred, other rules notwithstanding. This stone is immune if 3 or
  more players have wielded it since the most recent collection notice.

- Blank Stone (Monthly, 5%): This stone has no effect.

- Alchemy Stone (weekly, 70%): Destroy four cards you own. If four cards were
  destroyed this way, gain 7 products of your choice.
"

//
ID: 8605
Title: Covered under warranty
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): Ørjan


Amend Rule 2655 (The Mad Engineer) by replacing:
  skip directly to proposal submission.
with:
  skip directly to announcing intent, below.

and by replacing:
  with Agoran Consent, cause this rule to amend the rule "The Device"
  as indicated,
with:
  with Agoran Consent, cause this rule to amend the rule "The Device"
  as indicated (or, if 007 has been spotted, cause this rule to repeal
  both that rule and this one),

//
Title: another device defect
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2655 by replacing:
  responsible for building and maintaining the Device.
with:
  responsible for building, tracking, and maintaining the Device.

and by deleting:
  This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's weekly report.

[with the reporting duty for the device status added, by default a weekly
switch value report, we no longer need this intent to count as a report to
get the weekly report reward.  The intent is still part of "weekly duties"
but not the report.]

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-08-29 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. I'm having a bit of a rough night, so the
chances I've missed something are greater than normal. I apologize in
advance for any mistakes.

-Aspen

PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)   AITitle
---
8602&   R. Lee  2.0   ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS

The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, Bucky2.0   Buying Strength Eligibility
G.  1.0   [1]

[1] This proposal has no title. Furthermore, it may not exist.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8602
Title: ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-author(s):


Amend rule 2642, 'Distributing Stones' by replacing its second paragraph
with 'The Stonemason SHALL if possible initiate such an auction monthly and
only once a month, in a timely fashion after a collection notice has been
issued. The Stonemason SHALL auction exactly 2 stones in a month if
possible'

Retitle rule 2644 'The Gauntlet' to 'Zen Gardening' [cosmetic change to
remove the annoying movie reference that I discussed once on discord]

Amend rule 2644 by replacing any instances of the word 'Gauntlet' with
'Rock Garden' [sorry for the bad way of putting this, but this rule might
get amended soon so I have to do it for safety]

Amend rule 2644 by replacing '5 or more' with '8 or more' [If there are 10
stones you should need more to win obviously'

Amend rule 2645 'The Stones' by adding the following text on the end.
"-  Recursion Stone (Monthly, 80%): The recursion stone can be wielded once
per
month as if it had the power of any other stone of your choice.

- Hot Potato Stone (Weekly, 100%): You must transfer this stone to a player
of your choice
who has never owned this stone since the last time agora has owned it. Then
the original wielder gains 8 boatloads of coins.
SPECIAL RULE: Other rules notwithstanding, this stone never escapes as long
as at least three players have owned it in the last Agoran month

Blank Stone (Monthly, 5%): This stone has no effect.

Alchemy Stone (weekly, 70%): Destroy four cards you own. If four cards were
destroyed this way, gain 7 products of your choice"

//
Title: Buying Strength Eligibility
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Bucky


Amend Rule 2653 by replacing "A player's Voting Strength on referendum"
with "A person's Voting Strength on a referendum".

[There's no reason that buying strength should stop applying on
deregistration, since a non-player can still be eligible to vote.]

//
Title:
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


submit this statement as a CFJ

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-08-22 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
Here's my draft report. I apologize for its extreme tardiness.

-Aspen
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)   AITitle
---
8596&   R. Lee  1.0   decimation times 9
8597&   R. Lee  1.0   [1]
8598&   G.  1.0   [1]
8599&   G., Murphy  1.0   The Device (mark 2)
8600&   G.  2.0   fix win lockouts

The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, Bucky2.0   Buying Strength Eligibility

[1] This proposal has no title.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8596
Title: decimation times 9
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-author(s):


Create a power 1 rule called "temporary inflation reduction" with the text
"At the end of the month this rule was adopted, each entity's coin balance
is divided by 10, rounded to the nearest whole number. This rule then
automatically repeals itself."

//
ID: 8597
Title:
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-author(s):


[this proposal does nothing]

//
ID: 8598
Title:
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


I create a proposal with this sentence as its text, and make it pending.

//
ID: 8599
Title: The Device (mark 2)
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): Murphy


[inspired by Rules 2192-2193, "The Monster", by Murphy]


Enact a Rule "The Device" with the following text:

  When the device is on:
* click - hummm

  When the device is off:
* whirr - THUNK


Enact a Rule "The Mad Engineer" with the following text:

  The Mad Engineer is an office; its holder is responsible for
  building and maintaining the Device.  The device is a
  singleton switch with values off (default) and on.  The Mad
  Engineer CAN flip the device to either on or off with Agoran
  Consent; any other player CAN do so with 2 Agoran Consent.

  The Mad Engineer CAN act on behalf of
  the device to take any action that the device may take, and
  SHALL act on behalf of the device to ensure that the device
  fulfills all of its duties.

  The Mad Engineer's weekly duties include the performance of the
  following tasks, in order:

  a) Randomly select exactly one rule.  If the selected rule is
 either this rule or the rule "The Device", then
 007 has been spotted near the self-destruct button; skip
 directly to proposal submission.

  b) Select one or more contiguous sentences from the selected
 rule.

  c) Select exactly one noun from the selected text, and replace
 each instance of that noun with "Device" (including
 grammatical variations, e.g. replacing "'s" with
 "Device's").

  d) Announce intent to, with Agoran Consent, cause this rule
 to amend the rule "The Device" by inserting the modified
 text as the last list item in either the "device on" or
 "device off" lists in that rule (or, if 007 has been
 spotted, to repeal both that rule and this one).
 This intent announcement counts as the Mad Engineers's weekly
 report.

  If the announcement of intent above is made with the procedure
  described above, the Mad Engineer CAN, with Agoran Consent, cause
  this rule to amend the rule "The Device" as indicated, and SHALL
  do so if the intent receives sufficient support.


G. becomes the holder of the office of Mad Engineer.

An election for Mad Engineer is initiated.

//
ID: 8600
Title: fix win lockouts
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 2644 (The Gauntlet) to read in full:

  A player CAN, by announcement, Notice the Gauntlet, specifying a
  single player that owns 5 or more stones, provided that no person
  has won the game by doing so in the past 30 days.

  When the Gauntlet is Noticed, the specified player wins the game.
  If a player won the game in this manner 4 days ago, then all
  existing stones are transferred to Agora.


Amend Rule 2621 (VP Wins) to read in full:

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-08-03 Thread Aspen via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. Again, I apologize for the delay.

-Aspen

PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

The proposal pool is currently empty. [1]

[1] It is possible that D. Wet may have submitted a proposal, but unclear
if e did or what its properties would be. As such, this report
takes the position that no proposal was submitted. The relevant
message is here:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2021-July/047104.html


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-06-30 Thread ais523 via agora-discussion
On Wed, 2021-06-30 at 01:30 -0700, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
wrote:
> The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):
> The proposal pool is currently empty.

You might want to fix this before posting your official report.

-- 
ais523



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-06-30 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

Here's my draft report.

-Aris
---
The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
G.  1.0   a new rule

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
Title: a new rule
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):


Enact a Rule.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-06-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. Any checking is appreciated: given the
length, I'm sure there are errors somewhere.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW.

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 7, 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)   AITitle
---
8574&   Trigon, Jason, Aris 1.0   mending the quill
8575&   Jason, Gaelan   2.0   Stone Win Delay v2
8576*   Jason, Aris, Murphy 3.0   "By announcement" loosening
8577*   Jason   3.0   Festival intent eligibility
8578&   Jason, Trigon   2.0   Auction limitation
8579*   Jason, Trigon   3.0   AI voting method clarification v2
8580*   Jason, ais523, Trigon   3.0   Strength Buying Separation v2
8581&   Aris1.0   Grants on Resets
8582&   Aris2.0   The Artistry Lies in the Art
8583*   Murphy  3.0   Clarify switches
8584*   Murphy  3.0   Effective deference
8585*   Murphy  3.0   Clarify variable voting period
8586*   Murphy  3.0   Clarify deputisation
8587&   Murphy, G.  2.0   Clarify nomination period
8588&   Murphy, G.  2.0   Clarify stone retrieval
8589&   ATMunn  1.0   Secret proposal A
8590&   ATMunn  1.0   Secret proposal B
8591&   ATMunn  1.0   Secret proposal C
8592&   ATMunn  1.0   Secret proposal D

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8574
Title: mending the quill
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Trigon
Co-author(s): Jason, Aris


[ Comment: It is not unusual for the final draft of a proposal to be
   submitted by someone other than the person who did most of the
   drafting for that proposal. These proposals have, in several
   instances, made it to the finals. Notably, during the Silver Quill
   2020 discussions, an honorable mention was given to Interesting
   Chambers, which I wrote and did revisions on but never wrote the final
   version of. This kind of stuff has happened before. It isn't too
   worrying, but it would be nice to not have to work around it. Plus,
   proposals are cheap. ]

Amend Rule 2582 by replacing:

  - Silver Quill, awardable by the Promotor to the author of a
proposal of outstanding merit and influence on the game
(additional information: ID Number of the proposal).

with:

  - Silver Quill, awardable by the Promotor to the author of a
proposal of outstanding merit and influence on the game, or to
a coauthor, although e SHOULD only do so if it is generally
agreed that that coauthor contributed more to that proposal
than the person who submitted it (additional information: ID
Number of the proposal).

//
ID: 8575
Title: Stone Win Delay v2
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Gaelan


Amend Rule 2644 to read, in whole:

{

  A player CAN, by announcement, Notice the Gauntlet, specifying a single
  player that owns 5 or more stones, provided that no person has done so
  in the past 30 days.

  When the Gauntlet is Noticed, the specified player wins the game. If the
  Gauntlet was Noticed 4 days ago, then all existing stones are
  transferred to Agora.

}


[Adds a delay to stone wins to bring it inline with VP wins. Also adds a
prevention for rapid-fire stone wins. This doesn't allow the bearer of
many stones to prevent the win, in order to maintain a balance of stone
power.]

//
ID: 8576
Title: "By announcement" loosening
Adoption index:
Author: Jason
Co-author(s): Aris, Murphy


Amend Rule 478 by replacing the following:

{

  Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by
  announcement", that person performs that action by unambiguously and
  clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs it.

}

with the following:

{

  Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by
  announcement", that person performs that action by, in a single public
  message, specifying the action and setting forth intent to perform that
  action by sending that message, doing both clearly and unambiguously.

}


[This unambiguously makes "CFJ: X" and "Proposal: X" work, even though
neither explicitly says they

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-06-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft report.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 3, 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)   AITitle
---
8561&   G., nix 2.0   Election Cycle

The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
ATMunn  3.0   Officializing Discord

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8561
Title: Election Cycle
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): nix


Create a power=2 rule, "The Election Cycle", with the following text:

  A holder of an elected office who did not become its holder by
  winning an election, and has not won an election for that office
  since, is an interim holder. An elected office that is either
  vacant or has an interim holder is an interim office.

  An office is term-limited if the most recent election for that
  office was resolved more than the length of that office's term
  prior. The term for the office of Prime Minister is 90 days. The
  term for all other elected offices is 180 days.

  A player CAN initiate an election for a specified elected office:

  a) with 2 support, if either the office is interim or term-
 limited, and provided that the initiator becomes a candidate
 in the same message.

  b) By announcement, if e is the ADoP (or, if the office is the
 ADoP, if e is the Assessor) and the office is interim, or if
 e is the holder of that office.

  Once per quarter, the ADoP CAN and SHALL publish a Notice of
  Election specifying between 2-4 term-limited offices (if there
  fewer than 2 term-limited offices, the ADoP MUST instead list
  all of them).  Such a notice initiates elections for the
  specified offices.  The ADoP SHOULD prioritize offices that
  have gone longest since their last elections.

  The above notwithstanding, an election for an office CANNOT be
  initiated if one is already in progress.


[Delete this section added to the previous rule - better gathers
election procedure rules in one place].

Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by removing:
  A holder of an elected office who did not become its holder by
  winning an election, and has not won an election for that office
  since, is an interim holder. An elected office that is either
  vacant or has an interim holder is an interim office.


[For the below rule, remove text placed in the new rule above,
and add the Assessor as the vote collector for ADoP elections].

Amend Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) to read in full:

  When an election is initiated, it enters the nomination period,
  which lasts for 4 days. After an election is initiated and until
  nominations close, any player CAN become a candidate by
  announcement. A candidate ceases to be a candidate if e ceases to
  be a player during the election or if holding the office would
  make em Overpowered. During the nomination period, a candidate CAN
  cease to be a candidate by announcement if there is at least one
  other candidate.

  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.

  After the nomination period ends, the ADoP (or, if the office is
  the ADoP, the Assessor) CAN and, in a timely fashion, SHALL:

  1) If the election is contested, initiate an Agoran decision to
 select the winner of the election (the poll). For this
 decision, the Vote Collector is the ADoP (or, if the office
 is the ADoP, the Assessor), the valid options are
 the candidates for that election (including those who become
 candidates after its initiation), and the voting method is
 instant runoff. When the poll is resolved, its outcome, if a
 player, wins the election. If the outcome is not a player, the
 election ends with no winner.

  2) If POSSIBLE per the following paragraph, end the election
 immediately.

  If at any point an uncontested election has a single candidate,
  then any player CAN by announcement declare em the winner of the
  election, thereby causing em to win the election. If at any point
  an uncontested election has no candidates, then any player CAN

DIS: [Promotor[ Draft

2021-03-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. It's a short one this week.

-Aris
---
The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal:

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, nix  1.0   Ministry Normalization

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
Title: Ministry Normalization
Author: Jason
Co-authors: nix
Adoption index: 1.0


Amend Rule 2624 by inserting the following line after the line "Ministry
of Participation: 1 Voting Card": "Ministry of Legacy: 1 Victory Point"
and by deleting "and 1 Victory Point to every other player whose
Ministry Focus is Legacy".

[This allows the Concentration Stone to work (at least partially) for
players focused on Legacy.]

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-03-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft. I'm sorry there hasn't been a report for a while —
I've been busy finishing up my quarter, but I'm out of school now.
Corrections are, as always, welcome.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 3, 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)   AITitle
---
8549&   Aris, Gaelan, G.2.2   You Can Only Stack Turtles So High
8550&   Aris, nix   2.2   I Want My Promise Back!
8551&   G.  1.0   something to vote on


The proposal pool currently contains the following proposal(s):

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, ais523   1.0   Apathy for all
Jason   1.0   Slightly less apathetic

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8549
Title: You Can Only Stack Turtles So High
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Gaelan, G.
Adoption index: 2.2


[This fixes G.'s scam, which would otherwise allow indeterminacy to be
created through infinite promise loops.]

Amend Rule 2618, "Promises", by inserting, after the text:

  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 text:

  However, to limit recursion, no promise can be cashed during the execution
  of another promise unless it existed before the execution of that promise
  began.

//
ID: 8550
Title: I Want My Promise Back!
Author: Aris
Co-authors: nix
Adoption index: 2.2


[This is intended to remove the need to put in a special provision
to a promise allow the creator to destroy a promise in the possession of
the Library. Since that's usually what's wanted, this makes it the
default behavior, while still allowing the creator to override it.]

Amend Rule 2618, "Promises", by inserting, after the text:

  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.

the text:

  The creator of a promise CAN take or revoke it from the Library by
  announcement, unless the promise's text unambiguously designates
  it as irrevocable.

//
ID: 8551
Title: I Want My Promise Back!
Author: Aris
Co-authors: nix
Adoption index: 2.2


The player who voted unambiguously FOR, and had the highest
unique[*] voting strength (at the end of the voting period) on,
the decision to adopt this proposal

  is hereby granted

    1 Victory Card   *

[* "Highest unique" means if the top two are 15 and the next
highest is 14, and no one else is at 14, the 14 wins].

//
Title: Apathy for all
Author: Jason
Co-authors: ais523
Adoption index: 1.0


Amend Rule 2465 by replacing, as a single amendment, the text "set of
players" with "set of persons" and the text "specified players" with
"specified persons".

//
Title: Slightly less apathetic
Author: Jason
Co-authors:
Adoption index: 1.0


Amend Rule 2465, "Victory by Apathy", by replacing the final "."
character with the following: ", except for those who have won the game
through this Rule in the past 14 days."

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-02-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My draft report follows.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8544*   Murphy  3.0   Clarify dependent actions
8545*   Aris, Murphy3.0   Uncanny Fixes
8546*~  G.  3.0   Talisn't
8547*~  Jason, G.   3.0   ER office restriction
8548&~  Jason   2.0   Stone defaults

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8544
Title: Clarify dependent actions
Author: Murphy
Co-authors:
Adoption index: 3.0


Amend Rule 2595 (Performing a Dependent Action) to read:

  A rule that purports to allow a person (the performer) to perform
  an action by a set of one or more dependent actions thereby allows
  em to perform the action by announcement if all of the following
  are true:

  1. A person (the initiator) published an announcement of intent
that unambiguously, clearly, conspicuously, and without
obfuscation specified the action intended to be taken and the
method(s) to be used, including these values if relevant:

  * If the action is to be taken with T notice, then the value
of T.

  * If the action is to be taken without N objections, with N
support, or with N Agoran Consent, and N is not equal to 1,
then the value of N.

  2. The time between the announcement of intent and the action is
at most 14 days. In addition:

  * If the action is to be taken without N objections or with N
Agoran consent, then it is at least 4 days.

  * If the action is to be taken with T notice, then it is at
least T (minimum of 4 days).

  3. At least one of the following is true:

  * The performer is the initiator.

  * The initiator was authorized to perform the action due to
holding a rule-defined position now held by the performer.

  * The initiator is authorized to perform the action, the
action depends on support, the performer has supported the
intent, and the rule authorizing the performance does not
explicitly prohibit supporters from performing it.

  4. Agora is Satisfied with the announced intent, as defined by
other Rules.

  5. If the announcement of intent stated any conditions, then those
conditions are all met.

  If the action is to be taken with N Agoran consent, then the
  performer SHOULD publish a list of supporters and objectors.

Amend Rule 2124 (Agoran Satisfaction) to read:

  A Supporter of an intent to perform an action is an eligible
  entity who has publicly posted (and not withdrawn) support for an
  announcement of that intent.

  An Objector to an intent to perform an action is an eligible
  entity who has publicly posted (and not withdrawn) an objection to
  the announcement of that intent.

  The entities eligible to support or object to an intent to perform
  an action are, by default, all players, subject to modification by
  the document authorizing the dependent action. However, the
  previous sentence notwithstanding, the initiator of the intent is
  not eligible to support it, and a person CANNOT support or object
  to an announcement of intent before the intent is announced, or
  after e has withdrawn the same type of response.

  Agora is Satisfied with an intent to perform a specific action
  unless at least one of the following is true:

  1. The action is to be performed without N objections, and there
are at least N Objectors to that intent.

  2. The action is to be performed with N support, and there are
fewer than than N Supporters of that intent.

  3. The action is to be performed with N Agoran consent, and the
number of Supporters of that intent is less than or equal to N
times the number of Objectors to that intent.

  4. The action is to be performed without N objections or with N
Agora consent, and an objection to that intent was withdrawn
within the past 24 hours.

  5. The Speaker objected to that intent within the past 48 hours.

//
ID: 8545
Title: Uncanny Fixes
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Murphy
Adoption index: 3.0


[CAN requires a method, but there are a bunch of places it occurs
without a method or is othe

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-02-20 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report!

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)   AITitle
---
8541*+  Aris3.0   You CAN, CAN'T You?

The proposal pool currently contains the following proposals:

Author(s)   AITitle
---
Jason, Aris 2.0   Stone Excitement Act
Jason, Aris, nix1.0   En Passant v2


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
& : Ordinary proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.
+ : Before any other action in this message, I pay
a pendant to pend this proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8541
Title: You CAN, CAN'T You?
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


[Currently, there are a bunch of CANs without a method that thus fail.]

Amend Rule 2585, "Birthday Gifts", by replacing:

  During a player's Agoran Birthday and the 7 days following, each
  other player CAN, once, grant em X boatloads of coins, where X is
  3 if it is actually the day of the player's birthday, and 2
  otherwise.

with:

  During a player's Agoran Birthday and the 7 days following, each
  other player CAN once grant em X boatloads of coins by announcement,
  where X is 3 if it is actually the day of the player's birthday, and 2
  otherwise.

["Public designation" is used instead of "announcement" so as to not
invalidate the current method of simply publishing a report with the
relevant information.]

Amend Rule 2141, "Role and Attributes of Rules", by replacing:

  Every rule shall have an ID number, distinct among current and
  former rules, to be assigned once by the Rulekeepor.

with:

  Every rule shall have an ID number, distinct among current and
  former rules, to be assigned once by the Rulekeepor by public
  designation.

Amend Rule 2608, "The Notary", by replacing:

  If the Notary is required to report a title, but none has been
  otherwise publicly provided, e CAN select one.

with:

  If the Notary is required to report an entity's title, but none has been
  otherwise publicly provided, e CAN assign one by public designation.

//
Title: Stone Excitement Act
Author: Jason
Coauthors: Aris
Adoption index: 2.0


Amend Rule 2643 "Collecting Stones" by replacing the final paragraph
with the following:
{

  A collection notice includes zero or more random choices of whether each
  stone escapes. Each choice results in escape with probability equal to
  its escape risk; a stone escapes if any choice selects escape. When a
  collection notice is published, stones that escape are transferred to
  Agora in an order specified by the collection notice.

  If a stone is immune, there are zero escape choices; otherwise, there is
  one choice if the stone was used in the previous Agoran month, or two if
  it was not.

}

//
Title: En Passant v2
Author: Jason
Coauthors: Aris, nix
Adoption index: 1.0


Amend Rule 2621 "VP Wins" to read, in whole:
{

  If a player has at least 20 more Victory Points than any other player, e
  CAN Take Over the Economy by announcement, provided no person has done
  so in the past 30 days.

  When a player takes over the economy, e wins the game. If a player Took
  Over the Economy 4 days ago, all Cards and all Products are destroyed,
  then each active player is granted 1 card of each type.

}

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-01-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My draft report follows. Corrections are, as always, welcome.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 2, 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) AITitle
---
8530#^  nix, Jason1.0   No Honour
8531#^  Jason 1.5   Patent Title Restoration v2 [1]


The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
nix, Gaelan, Aris3.0   Personhood Revisited
JTAC, Jason, G.  2.0   Extension to Blot Expungement Definitions


[1] Chamber: Compliance

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8530
Title: No Honour
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: nix
Co-authors: Jason


Repeal R2510, "Such is Karma".

[Karma gets rare, sporadic usage and I'd prefer not to maintain it if
it's not going to be used. I'm also open to supporting efforts to revive
it, but I don't have the time/interest to write such proposals myself
right now.]

//
ID: 8531
Title: Patent Title Restoration v2
Adoption index: 1.5
Author: Jason
Co-author(s):


Amend Rule 649 by replacing "A Patent Title is a legal title given to a
person in recognition of the person's distinction" with "A Patent Title
is a legal title held by an entity in recognition of eir distinction".

[The current version could plausibly be read to strip patent titles when
an entity ceases to be a person. This makes it so that patent titles can
be held by all entities, but can only be awarded to persons. The
requirement on personhood/citizenship is explicit for most awarding
methods (including the Herald's general method), while the other methods
require 2 Agoran consent, which should be enough to prevent them going
to non-persons if we don't want them to as a group. There's not really
an easy place to put an explicit restriction, because some of the 2
Agoran consent methods are at Power 3, while the patent titles rule is
at Power 1.5.]

Award all Patent Titles to eir former holders that were lost solely due
to the entity not being a person (under any current or former definition
of "person"), other than Hero of Agora Nomic or Grand Hero of Agora Nomic.

[Don't try to award HAN/GHAN because it seems unlikely they were ever
stripped and because this proposal doesn't have high enough AI to do so.]

//
Title: Personhood Revisited
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: nix
Co-author(s): Gaelan, Aris


Amend R869 by replacing:

  Any entity that is or ever was an organism generally capable of
  freely originating and communicating independent thoughts and
  ideas is a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other
  entities are persons.

with:

  Every intelligence is a person. A group of persons can elect to
  create a composite person, which is in eirself a person for all
  Agoran purposes. A person cannot become a player if e is part of a
  composite person that is already a player. A composite person
  cannot become a player if any part of em is already a player. A
  person does not ever cease to be a person for the purposes of
  Agora.

[This reworks and combines versions put forth by both Aris and Gaelan.]

//
Title: Extension to Blot Expungement Definitions
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: JTAC
Co-author(s): Jason, G.


Amend Rule 2555 by adding "If expungement would destroy N blots, but the
target has P

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2021-01-02 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My mostly weekly draft follows. Comments are, as always, welcome.

-Aris

---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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) AITitle
---
8527#^  PSS, nix, Aris1.7   Specified Crime not Rule
8528*^  Aris, Gaelan  3.0   Gaining Assets

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8527
Title: Specified Crime not Rule
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Co-authors: nix, Aris


Amend Rule 2478, "Vigilante Justice" by replacing the first paragraph
with the following:
  A player CAN by announcement Point eir Finger at a player (the
  perp); the announcement is INEFFECTIVE if it does not explicitly
  name the perp, cite a specific rule or named crime, and specify an
  alleged violation of that rule or commission of that crime by that
  person.

[ This will allow someone to use the name of a crime without specifying
which rule defines it. This also addresses some concerns raised by nix
regarding unnecessary or archaic provisions.]

//
ID: 8528
Title: Gaining Assets
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-author(s): Gaelan


[There are reasonable complaints that the word "earn" is confusing,
because it conveys the idea of becoming entitled to an asset, rather than
the idea of coming into possession of an asset. It also clashes with the
terminology we use for ribbons. This proposal fixes the problems
by changing the word to "gain", to match "loose".]

Amend Rule 2577, "Asset Actions", by replacing:

  For an entity to earn an asset is for that asset to be created in
  that entity's possession.

with:

  For an entity to gain (historical syn. earn) an asset is for that asset to be
  created in that entity's possession.


Amend Rule 2499, "Welcome Packages", by replacing "earns" with "gains".
Amend Rule 2559, "Paydays", by replacing "earns" with "gains".
Amend Rule 2620, "Cards & Sets", by replacing "earn" with "gain".
Amend Rule 2623, "Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege", by replacing "earn"
with "gain".
Amend Rule 2627, "The General Store", by replacing "earns" with
"gains" and replacing "earn" with "gain".
Amend Rule 2631, "Charities", by replacing "earns" with "gains".
Amend Rule 2645, "The Stones", by replacing each instance of
"earns" with "gains".

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-12-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly draft. I'm sorry this is so late. This week was
finals week, and, as always during finals week, I was swamped.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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) AITitle
---
8526#^  G.1.0   Debarreling

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8526
Title: Debarreling
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Repeal Rule 2627 (The General Store).

Repeal Rule 2628 (Bargains on the Barrel).

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-11-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My weekly draft follows.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 9, 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) AITitle
---
8524#^  nix   2.0   Agora's Stones Are Immune
8525#^  Aris  1.7   Expungement for R. Lee


The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8524
Title: Agora's Stones Are Immune
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: nix
Co-authors:


[Currently, you can steal from Agora with the soul stone, which seems a
bit goofy and also creates problems with auctions. Also, I cleaned up
the verbiage just a bit.]

Amend "Collecting Stones" by replacing

  A stone is immune if there has been no collection notice after it was
  most recently granted immunity (if ever), as defined by other rules.

with:

  A stone is immune if it has been granted immunity, as defined by other
  rules, since the last collection notice or if it is currently owned by
  Agora.

and by replacing:

  A collection notice includes, for every non-immune stone not belonging
  to Agora,

with:

  A collection notice includes, for every non-immune stone,

//
ID: 8525
Title: Expungement for R. Lee
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


[As of right now, this would lower eir blots to 9, just enough to set eir
vote to 0 in the absence of other factors. I phrased it like this
both so e can begin paying it down and so that any blots e earns now
still count against em.]

Expunge 72 of R. Lee's blots.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-10-31 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 9, 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) AITitle
---
8516#^  nix   2.0   adJustments
8517*^  Telnaior, Jason, Trigon   3.0   Phasing Out Zombies
8518*^  Aris, Falsifian, nix  3.0   Asset Rounding
8519#^  ATMunn, Jason 2.0   I definitely authored this
8520*^  P.S.S., Jason 3.0   (untitled)
8521#^  Jason, G., [1]2.0   Stones

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

[1] Aris, nix, Trigon, Gaelan, Falsifian

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8516
Title: adJustments
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: nix
Co-authors:


Amend "Office Interests" by replacing "Ministry Impact" with "Chamber".

(Current text does nothing because 'Ministry Impact' means nothing.)

Amend R2624, "Focus Grants", by replacing "50 coins" with "50 boatloads
of coins".

(To match with the upcoming boatloads economy.)

//
ID: 8517
Title: Phasing Out Zombies
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Telnaior
Co-authors: Jason, Trigon


Enact a new power 3.0 rule entitled "Zombie Phase-Out" with the the following
text:

  While a zombie's talisman is owned by Agora, that zombie's resale
  value is continuously set to 0.

//
ID: 8518
Title: Asset Rounding
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Falsifian, nix


Amend Rule 2577, "Asset Actions", by replacing:

  When a rule indicates transferring an amount that is not a natural
  number, the specified amount is rounded up to the nearest natural
  number.

with:

  When a rule indicates creating, destroying, or transferring an amount of
  assets that is not a natural number, the specified amount is rounded up
  to the nearest natural number after all other calculations.


Amend the Rule titled "Floating Rate Fleet" by deleting the text
"When a quantity of assets is expressed in boatloads, it is rounded up
to the next whole asset."

//
ID: 8519
Title: I definitely authored this
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-authors: Jason


Amend Rule 2531 by replacing the first paragraph with the following:
{
  Any attempt to levy a fine is INEFFECTIVE if it does not include value
  of the fine in blots, the name of the person being fined (the perp), and
  the specific reason for the fine.
}

Amend Rule 2531 by renumbering the list so that the numbers start at 1
and end at 10, with each number other than the fist one higher than the
previous.

//
ID: 8520
Title: (untitled)
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Co-authors: Jason


Amend the final item in Rule 2438, "Ribbons" to read as follows: {
  - Otherwise, if e has not been awarded that type of Ribbon or
the corresponding type of Glitter since e last earned or came
to qualify for that type of Ribbon, and has not been so
awarded five or more times within the past 24 hours, any
player CAN, by announcement, award em that type of Glitter.
}

//
ID: 8521
Title: Stones
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: G., Aris, nix, Trigon, Gaelan, Falsifian


Enact a new rule, power 2, title "Stones", with the following text:
{
  A stone is a unique indestructable liquid asset defined by the rules. To
  define a stone, the definition must include:
  (i)   A name unique among stones;
  (ii)  The escape risk of the stone, which must be a percentage between
  0% and 100% inclusive;
  (iii) A scroll, which is a document specifying the effects of the stone
  (iv)  Optionally, a frequency, which must be one of daily, weekly,
  monthly, or quarterly.

  Ownership of stones is entirely restricted to Agora and active players.
  If a stone is owned by the Lost and Found Department or in abeyance, it
  is immediately transferred to Agora.

  The Stonem

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-10-03 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report. I'm sorry this is so late -- I'm just starting
college, and things are chaotic right now.

-Aris

---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)AITitle
---
8504#^   G.   1.0   easier bargains
8505#^   Jason1.0   Card clarifications


The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
ATMunn, G.   1.0   Happy Belated Birthday v2
Falsifian2.0   No Zombie Races


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
f : Efficiency ministry proposal (ordinary).
j : Justice ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8504
Title: easier bargains
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2627 (The General Store) by replacing:
  a list of 6 or more rules-defined card types
with:
  a list of 4 or more rules-defined card types with at least
  two of the types being different

[Commentary: make bargains easier, but ensure they're not identical
(double-rewards) for base trades.]

//
ID: 8505
Title: Card clarifications
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2624 as follows:

  - Replace "The type of card with the fewest existing instances" with
"The single type of card with the fewest existing instances (if any)"

  - Replace all instances of "the card's associated ministry" with "a
ministry associated with the card".

[Right now the text assumes that each type of card has only a single
associated ministry, but this is not true because of the recent change
for the Ministry of Economy. There's also ambiguity with what happens if
multiple types of card are tied for fewest instances.]

//
Title: Happy Belated Birthday v2
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-authors: G.


Amend Rule 2585, "Birthday Gifts", by adding the following paragraph
before the sentence "Players are ENCOURAGED to announce their Agoran
Birthdays.":

   During the 7 days following the end of a player's Agoran Birthday, if
   nobody granted em any coins via this rule, any player CAN once grant
   em 2 coins by announcement, wishing em a Happy Belated Birthday.

If this proposal was resolved later than September 28, 2020, then ATMunn
is granted 2 coins for every vote on this proposal that evaluated to
FOR.

//
Title: No Zombie Races
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 1885 by replacing "existed at the beginning of the month" with
"exist".

[Comment: With the current text, the Registrar is in an awkward position
if at least one eligible talisman existed at the start of the month, but
none exist by the time e gets around to starting an auction.]

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-09-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's the ordinary draft.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 5, 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)AITitle
---
8500*Murphy, G.   3.0   Clarify asset ownership some more
8501*Jason, Gaelan3.0   Statutes are Instruments
8502l^   Jason, Aris  1.0   Timely reminders


The proposal pool is currently empty.


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
f : Efficiency ministry proposal (ordinary).
j : Justice ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8500
Title: Clarify asset ownership some more
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: G.


Amend Rule 2576 (Ownership) by replacing this text:

  If an asset's owner would otherwise be nonexistent, indeterminate,
  or invalid, then it is owned by the Lost and Found Department (if
  possible) or destroyed (otherwise), subject to modification by its
  backing document.

with this text:

  An asset "in abeyance" is one whose owner is nonexistent,
  indeterminate, or invalid. If an asset would otherwise be in
  abeyance, then it is owned by the Lost and Found Department (if
  possible) or destroyed (otherwise), subject to modification by its
  backing document (provided that the modification either destroys
  it or prevents it from being in abeyance).

//
ID: 8501
Title: Statutes are Instruments
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Gaelan


Amend Rule 2612 by replacing the sentence beginning "The statutes of
Agora form a body of law" with the following: "The statutes of Agora
form a body of law with unlimited scope, where each statute is a single
instrument in that body of law."

//
ID: 8502
Title: Timely reminders
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Aris


Amend Rule 2168 by replacing  the text "Upon such an occurrence" with
the text "Within four days of such an occurrence"

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft Renumbering

2020-09-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft to fix some numbering problems; more details within.

-Aris

---
It has come to my attention that there are two Proposal 8495s. I will correct
this by assigning each a new ID number that unambiguously refers to only it
It is not my intent to invalidate the old ID numbers where they do not
create ambiguity, merely to provide new ones for ease of reference.

"nopenopenope" by Gaelan is now Proposal 8498.
"Please stand by" by G. is now Proposal 8499.

An index of the renumbered proposals follows.

ID   Author(s)AITitle
---
8498*^   Gaelan   3.0   nopenopenope
8499p^   G.   1.0   Please stand by

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
f : Efficiency ministry proposal (ordinary).
j : Justice ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8498
Title: nopenopenope
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Gaelan
Co-authors:


Repeal rule 2633.

//
ID: 8499
Title: Please stand by
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Create a rule, "Please Stand By", with the following text:

  Normal service will resume shortly.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-30 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my mostly weekly draft.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 3, 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)AITitle
---
8488A*^  Falsifian, Jason, omd3.0   Empty the escalator v1
8489Ae^  Jason, Trigon1.0   Interesting economics
8495#^   G.   1.0   Please stand by
8496#^   Jason, Aris  1.0   Timely reminders
8497*^   nix  3.0   Withdrawal Quick-Fix

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Proposals distributed since the last proposal pool report (before the one
above):

ID  Author(s)AITitle
---
8493#   G.   1.0   Minor Adjustments
8494l^  Gaelan   1.0   nope
8495*^  Gaelan   3.0   nopenopenope


Legend: A : Distribution identifier for a second distribution.
* : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
f : Efficiency ministry proposal (ordinary).
j : Justice ministry proposal (ordinary).
l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8488
Title: Empty the escalator v1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors: Jason, omd


Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to destroy no assets
are successful." before the sentence that begins "An indestructible asset".

Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to transfer no assets
are successful." before the sentence that begins "A fixed asset".

Amend Rule 2579 by deleting the paragraph that ends with "0 or empty fee".

//
ID: 8489
Title: Interesting economics
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2624 by appending the following sentence to the first
paragraph: "The type of card with the fewest existing instances is
associated with the Ministry of Economy."

//
ID: 8495
Title: Please stand by
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Create a rule, "Please Stand By", with the following text:

  Normal service will resume shortly.

//
ID: 8496
Title: Timely reminders
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Aris


Amend Rule 2168 by replacing  the text "Upon such an occurrence" with
the text "Within two days of such an occurrence"

//
ID: 8497
Title: Withdrawal Quick-Fix
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: nix
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2168 by replacing  the text "Upon such an occurrence" with
the text "Within two days of such an occurrence"

//
ID: 8493
Title: Minor Adjustments
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Increase the power of Rule 2633 (Rulebending) to 3.

//
ID: 8494
Title: nope
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Gaelan
Co-authors:


Repeal rule 2633.

//
ID: 8495
Title: nopenopenope
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Gaelan
Co-authors:


Repeal rule 2633.

//


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-22 Thread Falsifian via agora-discussion
> //
> ID: 8491

Wrong ID

> Title: Unscoped RWO
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:

-- 
Falsifian


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft. I was going to try to send it in earlier, but the
week was a bit of a mess (a lot of them seem to be lately) and it
didn't happen.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 7, 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)AITitle
---
8490*   Jason3.0   Functional Emergency Regulations
8491#^  ATMunn   2.0   Minor Speaker fix
8492*^  Jason3.0   Unscoped RWO

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
R. Lee   1.0   why are we passing these


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8490
Title: Functional Emergency Regulations
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2614 by appending the following sentence to the paragraph
beginning "The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3
Agoran consent": "To the extent explicitly permitted by this rule,
Emergency Regulations are always taking effect."

[Right now, Emergency Regulations CAN do some stuff, but they never
actually take effect to do it.]

//
ID: 8491
Title: Minor Speaker fix
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 103 "The Speaker" by appending the following sentence to
the paragraph beginning "If the office of Speaker has been held
continuously":
  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Speaker CANNOT object to
  an intent by any player to do so.

  [Explanation: Currently, if the Speaker has been Speaker for at least
  90 days, e can be replaced with support. However, the Speaker has
  the power to stop any intent, even one that is with support, by
  objecting to it. This would mean that the Speaker cannot be removed by
  this method. The office can still be reappointed by the Prime Minister
  if another player wins the game, but as is, the 90+ days method is
  relatively obsolete. The fix is to either remove the feature
  altogether or fix it, and I think it's a nice feature, so I proposed
  this fix. I've also just managed to make an explanation about 3 times
  as long as the actual proposal. Oops.]


//
ID: 8491
Title: Unscoped RWO
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2202 by replacing the paragraph beginning "A player CAN" with
the following: "A player CAN, without objection, ratify a specified
public document."

//
Title: why are we passing these
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors:


If R. Lee has published a doument to the public forum labelled DOING STUFF
before the end of the voting period of this proposal, make the changes
specified in that document.

//


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-10 Thread N. S. via agora-discussion
Im sorry, the title is  why are we passing these

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:55 PM N. S.  wrote:

> COE (unofficial of course): The proposal pool is missing my proposal
> entitled something like "can you do this every week" (the scam one)
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 8:16 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
>> Here's my weekly draft.
>>
>> -Aris
>> ---
>> PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW
>>
>> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
>> and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote
>> collector
>> is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)AITitle
>>
>> ---
>> 8488*^  Falsifian, Jason, omd3.0   Empty the escalator v1
>>
>> Interesting economics
>>
>> Author(s)AITitle
>>
>> ---
>> Jason, Trigon1.0   Interesting economics
>> Jason3.0   Unscoped RWO
>> Jason3.0   Functional Emergency Regulations
>>
>>
>> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
>> # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
>> e : Economy ministry proposal.
>> f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
>> j : Justice ministry proposal.
>> l : Legislation ministry proposal.
>> p : Participation ministry proposal.
>> ^ : Sponsored proposal.
>>
>> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
>> the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
>> the information shown above shall control.
>>
>> //
>> ID: 8488
>> Title: Empty the escalator v1
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>> Author: Falsifian
>> Co-authors: Jason, omd
>>
>>
>> Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to destroy no assets
>> are successful." before the sentence that begins "An indestructible
>> asset".
>>
>> Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to transfer no assets
>> are successful." before the sentence that begins "A fixed asset".
>>
>> Amend Rule 2579 by deleting the paragraph that ends with "0 or empty fee".
>>
>> //
>> Title: Interesting economics
>> Adoption index: 1.0
>> Author: Jason
>> Co-authors:
>>
>>
>> Amend Rule 2624 by appending the following sentence to the first
>> paragraph: "The type of card with the fewest existing instances is
>> associated with the Ministry of Economy."
>>
>> //
>> Title: Unscoped RWO
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>> Author: Jason
>> Co-authors:
>>
>>
>> Amend Rule 2202 by replacing the paragraph beginning "A player CAN" with
>> the following: "A player CAN, without objection, ratify a specified
>> public document."
>>
>> //
>> Title: Functional Emergency Regulations
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>> Author: Jason
>> Co-authors:
>>
>>
>> Amend Rule 2614 by appending the following sentence to the paragraph
>> beginning "The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3
>> Agoran consent": "To the extent explicitly permitted by this rule,
>> Emergency Regulations are always taking effect."
>>
>> [Right now, Emergency Regulations CAN do some stuff, but they never
>> actually take effect to do it.]
>>
>> //
>>
>
>
> --
> From R. Lee
>


-- 
>From R. Lee


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-10 Thread N. S. via agora-discussion
COE (unofficial of course): The proposal pool is missing my proposal
entitled something like "can you do this every week" (the scam one)

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 8:16 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> Here's my weekly draft.
>
> -Aris
> ---
> PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW
>
> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
> and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote
> collector
> is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8488*^  Falsifian, Jason, omd3.0   Empty the escalator v1
>
> Interesting economics
>
> Author(s)AITitle
> ---
> Jason, Trigon1.0   Interesting economics
> Jason3.0   Unscoped RWO
> Jason3.0   Functional Emergency Regulations
>
>
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> e : Economy ministry proposal.
> f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> j : Justice ministry proposal.
> l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> p : Participation ministry proposal.
> ^ : Sponsored proposal.
>
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
> the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
> the information shown above shall control.
>
> //
> ID: 8488
> Title: Empty the escalator v1
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Falsifian
> Co-authors: Jason, omd
>
>
> Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to destroy no assets
> are successful." before the sentence that begins "An indestructible asset".
>
> Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to transfer no assets
> are successful." before the sentence that begins "A fixed asset".
>
> Amend Rule 2579 by deleting the paragraph that ends with "0 or empty fee".
>
> //
> Title: Interesting economics
> Adoption index: 1.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Amend Rule 2624 by appending the following sentence to the first
> paragraph: "The type of card with the fewest existing instances is
> associated with the Ministry of Economy."
>
> //
> Title: Unscoped RWO
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Amend Rule 2202 by replacing the paragraph beginning "A player CAN" with
> the following: "A player CAN, without objection, ratify a specified
> public document."
>
> //
> Title: Functional Emergency Regulations
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Amend Rule 2614 by appending the following sentence to the paragraph
> beginning "The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3
> Agoran consent": "To the extent explicitly permitted by this rule,
> Emergency Regulations are always taking effect."
>
> [Right now, Emergency Regulations CAN do some stuff, but they never
> actually take effect to do it.]
>
> //
>


-- 
>From R. Lee


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-08-09 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly draft.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)AITitle
---
8488*^  Falsifian, Jason, omd3.0   Empty the escalator v1

Interesting economics

Author(s)AITitle
---
Jason, Trigon1.0   Interesting economics
Jason3.0   Unscoped RWO
Jason3.0   Functional Emergency Regulations


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8488
Title: Empty the escalator v1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors: Jason, omd


Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to destroy no assets
are successful." before the sentence that begins "An indestructible asset".

Amend Rule 2577 by adding the sentence "Attempts to transfer no assets
are successful." before the sentence that begins "A fixed asset".

Amend Rule 2579 by deleting the paragraph that ends with "0 or empty fee".

//
Title: Interesting economics
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2624 by appending the following sentence to the first
paragraph: "The type of card with the fewest existing instances is
associated with the Ministry of Economy."

//
Title: Unscoped RWO
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2202 by replacing the paragraph beginning "A player CAN" with
the following: "A player CAN, without objection, ratify a specified
public document."

//
Title: Functional Emergency Regulations
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2614 by appending the following sentence to the paragraph
beginning "The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3
Agoran consent": "To the extent explicitly permitted by this rule,
Emergency Regulations are always taking effect."

[Right now, Emergency Regulations CAN do some stuff, but they never
actually take effect to do it.]

//


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft and Commentary

2020-08-01 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion


> On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:58 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion 
>  wrote:
> 
> 8485*^  Gaelan   3.0   Eternal Personhood

Unless someone else did when I wasn’t looking, this isn’t pending. 


DIS: [Promotor] Draft and Commentary

2020-08-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
My draft report is below. Comments are, as always, welcome.

For the purposes of this report, I'm assuming that:
- "Minion Plan" isn't a proposal because it failed to specify text
- "Agoran Bit-streaming" is a proposal because it was submitted properly
- "Simpler ribbon switches" was never pended for the reasons stated by
the Treasuror

Oh, and, in the interests of communication: I'm not going to remove
any proposals this week, so everyone will have till I'm preparing my
next report to pend things in the pool.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 6, 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)AITitle
---
8478*^  Jason, nix, G.   3.0   another talismans fix
8479#^  nix, Aris, PSS, ATMunn   1.7   Competitive Finger Pointing v2
8480#^  Jason1.0   Generic welcome package fix
8481*^  Trigon, Aris 3.0   If it's not pending we don't care v2
8482#^  Trigon, ATMunn   1.0   Offices are complex v2
8483l^  G.   1.0   a minor adjustment
8484*^  Murphy, CB, Aris 3.0   Clarify asset ownership
8485*^  Gaelan   3.0   Eternal Personhood
8486*   Jason, omd   3.0   Fee-based de-escalation

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
Murphy, R. Lee   3.0   Simpler ribbon switches
Gaelan   2.0   Agoran Bit-streaming


Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8478
Title: another talismans fix
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: nix, G.


Amend Rule 2574 by replacing the list item beginning "If a player
possesses more than one" with the following:

{
  - If a player possesses more than one talisman for persons other than
  emself, specify and transfer one of those talismans to Agora;

}

//
ID: 8479
Title: Competitive Finger Pointing v2
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: nix
Co-authors: Aris, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, ATMunn


Amend R2478, "Vigilante Justice" by adding to the beginning of the
list:

  - Issuing a Warning to the perp, as described elsewhere;

and by adding after the list items:

  Initiating a Finger Pointing found to be Shenanigans is ILLEGAL
  and the Class 0+N Crime of Unjustified Gesticulation, where N is
  the number of times e has previously committed the crime in the
  current Agoran Week.

and by adding, to the very end of the rule:

  The player who initiated the most Finger Pointings that resulted
  in a Warning, Indictment, or Cold Hand of Justice in the previous
  Agoran Week CAN once grant emself a Justice Card by announcement.

Amend R2557 "Sentencing Guidelines" by adding to the end:

  When the rules authorize an investigator to issue a Warning for a
  violation, e CAN do so by announcement if the violation is
  described by the rules as a "Class N Crime" where N is 0 or an
  expression that evaluates to 0.

[There is no ruleset support for class 0 crimes right now. So this
version adds support by introducing a new thing the investigator can do
called a Warning.]

//
ID: 8480
Title: Generic welcome package fix
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2499 by deleting the sentence beginning "A player CANNOT" and
by replacing the final paragraph with the following:

{

  When a player receives a Welcome Package, if e has not received one in
  the past 30 days, then e earns 10 coins and one of each type of Card
  defined in the rules.

}


[This makes protects against all possible infinite welcome package scams
that involve one person receiving infinite welcome packages. With this
change, a person can get infinite welcome packages, but only the first
one in each 30 day period will actually grant any rewards (which likely
makes most scams not worth the hassle).]

//
ID: 8481
Title: If it's not pending we don't care 

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-07-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft report.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
Jason1.0   More officer cards
Murphy, R. Lee   3.0   Simpler ribbon switches
Murphy, CB   3.0   Clarify asset ownership

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.
^ : Sponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
Title: More officer cards
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2624 (Card Administration) by replacing the final paragraph
(including the list) with the following:

{

  The officeholder of an office CAN by announcement grant another player a
  specified type of card, specifying that office, under the following
  conditions:

  * e has not done so in reference to that office in the current Agoran month,

  * that office's interests includes the card's associated ministry,

  * the player receiving the card does not hold an office with the card's
  associated ministry in its interests, and

  * the player receiving the card is not a zombie.

}

//
Title: Simpler ribbon switches
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: R. Lee


Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing this text:

  Ribbon Ownership is a secured person switch, tracked by the
  Tailor in eir monthly report, whose values are the subsets of
  the set of types of Ribbon, defaulting to the empty set. If the
  rules are amended to change the types of Ribbon, if a player's
  Ribbon Ownership is subsequently illegal, then it is updated by
  removing all nonexistent types rather than resetting the entire
  value to default.

  To "award a person a " is to add that type of Ribbon
  to that person's Ribbon Ownership. A person "owns a "
  if that type of Ribbon is an element of eir Ribbon Ownership.

with this text:

  For each type of Ribbon,  Ribbon Ownership is a secured
  negative boolean person switch, tracked by the Tailor in eir
  monthly report.

  To "award a person a " is to flip that person's
   Ribbon Ownership to True. A person "owns a " if eir  Ribbon Ownership is True.

and by replacing this text:

  While a person owns all types of Ribbon, that person can Raise a
  Banner by announcement. This causes that person to win the game.
  That person's Ribbon Ownership becomes the empty set.

with this text:

  While a person owns all types of Ribbon, that person can Raise a
  Banner by announcement. This causes that person to win the game.
  When a person wins this way, for each type of Ribbon, that
  person's  Ribbon Ownership is flipped to False.

For each type of Ribbon, for each person whose Ribbon Ownership prior to
the adoption of this proposal included that type, flip eir 
Ribbon Ownership to True.

//
Title: Clarify asset ownership
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: CuddleBeam


Amend Rule 2576 (Ownership) to read:

  Each asset has exactly one owner.

  If ownership of an asset is restricted to a class of entities,
  then that asset CANNOT be gained by or transferred to an entity
  outside that class. By default, ownership of an asset is
  restricted to Agora, players, and contracts, but an asset's
  backing document may modify this.

  If an asset's owner would otherwise be nonexistent, indeterminate,
  or invalid, then it is owned by the Lost and Found Department (if
  possible) or destroyed (otherwise), subject to modification by its
  backing document. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lost
  and Found Department can own assets of every type. Assets owned by
  the Lost and Found Department can be transferred or destroyed by
  any player without objection.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-07-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft. Comments on my notation for sponsored and unsponsored
proposals are welcome in addition to pointing out the usual errors.

-Aris
---
PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW

I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 9, 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)AITitle
---
8473#~  Jason, G.1.0   Plain Old Bribery
8474#~  G., omd  1.0   Agora the karma bank
8475#~  Aris 1.0   Saving Sponsorship
8476#^  ATMunn, [1]  1.0   Contract charities

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
R. Lee   1.0   Inverted Bribery
ATMunn, nch  1.0   Warmer Welcomes [2]
P.S.S., nch  1.0   Warmer Welcomes [2]

[1] G., Falsifian, P.S.S.
[2] Both the same; the titles are provisional because they may include
double quotes on either side

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.
^ : Sponsored proposal.
~ : Unsponsored proposal.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8473
Title: Plain Old Bribery
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: G.


Every player who cast a valid non-withdrawn unconditional ballot FOR
this proposal earns a Black Ribbon.

[Note to the Tailor: the definition of Black Ribbons in R2438 means
that, immediately after this proposal is adopted, people will have the
Black Ribbons without needing to separately claim them.]

//
ID: 8474
Title: Agora the karma bank
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors: omd


[First, a partial reset.  People with negative karma are mostly zombies
or people with fairly old sins; worth a full forgiveness/reset. People
with positive karma have generally done good things more recently - a
partial reset for them, akin to the just-passed July releveling.  Agora
is balanced one last time so we can start counting total positivity or
negativity from here on out.]

Each person with positive karma has eir karma set to half its current
value, rounded up.

Each person with negative karma has eir karma set to 0.

Agora's karma is then set such that the sum of all Karma values in the
game equals 0.


Amend Rule 2510 (Such is Karma) by deleting:

  4. Not result in Agora's karma moving farther away from 0.

and by replacing its last paragraph with:

  At the beginning of each quarter, the Karma of every person is
  halved (rounding towards 0).

[It's still an exchange of karma, but you can take freely from Agora.
Everybody's karma decays every quarter, but Agora's karma isn't reset
to zero-sum, therefore Agoran's karma is an inverse measure of our
overall positivity/negativity over time.]

//
ID: 8475
Title: Saving Sponsorship
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


Each of the following proposals is hereby rendered sponsored:
- "Plain Old Bribery", by Jason
- "Agora the karma bank", by G.

//
ID: 8476
Title: Contract charities
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-authors: G., Falsifian, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus


[Comment: The original version was by G., then resubmitted by Falsifian,
then again by me. :) P.S.S. also suggested a minor change, so I included
em as a coauthor as well.]

Enact the following rule, Charities:

  Donation Level is a natural switch for contracts, tracked by the
  Notary, with a default of 0 and a maximum of 25.  A contract with
  nonzero donation level is called a Charity.

  The Notary CAN flip a contract's donation level to a non-default
  value with 3 Agoran consent.  This SHOULD only be done if the
  contract's provisions ensure that its funds received from Agora
  will be used solely for the betterment of Agora.  Any player CAN
  flip a contract's donation level to 0 with Agoran consent.

  Whenever a payday occurs, half of each charity's coin holdings
  (rounded down) are destroyed, and then each charity earns a
  number of coins equal to its donation level.

//

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion


Yeah, I mean we all CoE things that don't turn out to be errors, on all
the reports.  But when a particular type of report is causing persistent
errors you need to look at your UI to see if it's a little too confusing.
:)  I've noticed a lot of comments/questions on proposal status, maybe
it's confirmation bias or the high traffic, but this goes back to Alexis's
concerns in CFJ 3792.

On 6/29/2020 8:05 AM, Ed Strange via agora-discussion wrote:
> Oh this is my fault, I thought I'd pended that proposal before the
> beginning of the GMT week but that was not so.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:05 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 6/29/2020 6:55 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:> On 6/29/2020 2:09 AM, Ed Strange
>> via agora-discussion wrote:>> the pool also contains my most recent
>> proposal, the one about repealing>> summary judgement> > Aris,> > You just
>> asked why we should change the rule to actually state that> proposal pool
>> report is accurate to the beginning of the week instead of> being truly
>> current.> > This is why - your policies, while legal, are causing a wee
>> bit of> confusion around here.  Whether it's people asking "what happened
>> to that> proposal from 13 days ago" or not noticing the date on the pool
>> report> each time, it just doesn't feel quite right to have constantly
>> backdated> reports with missing transactions.
>> Oh, and I don't have any issues with the policies themselves!  A
>> reasonable solution to a hard job.  Just the clarity bit.
>>
>>
> 


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Ed Strange via agora-discussion
Oh this is my fault, I thought I'd pended that proposal before the
beginning of the GMT week but that was not so.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:05 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:

>
> On 6/29/2020 6:55 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:> On 6/29/2020 2:09 AM, Ed Strange
> via agora-discussion wrote:>> the pool also contains my most recent
> proposal, the one about repealing>> summary judgement> > Aris,> > You just
> asked why we should change the rule to actually state that> proposal pool
> report is accurate to the beginning of the week instead of> being truly
> current.> > This is why - your policies, while legal, are causing a wee
> bit of> confusion around here.  Whether it's people asking "what happened
> to that> proposal from 13 days ago" or not noticing the date on the pool
> report> each time, it just doesn't feel quite right to have constantly
> backdated> reports with missing transactions.
> Oh, and I don't have any issues with the policies themselves!  A
> reasonable solution to a hard job.  Just the clarity bit.
>
>

-- 
>From R. Lee


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion


On 6/29/2020 6:55 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote:> On 6/29/2020 2:09 AM, Ed Strange
via agora-discussion wrote:>> the pool also contains my most recent
proposal, the one about repealing>> summary judgement> > Aris,> > You just
asked why we should change the rule to actually state that> proposal pool
report is accurate to the beginning of the week instead of> being truly
current.> > This is why - your policies, while legal, are causing a wee
bit of> confusion around here.  Whether it's people asking "what happened
to that> proposal from 13 days ago" or not noticing the date on the pool
report> each time, it just doesn't feel quite right to have constantly
backdated> reports with missing transactions.
Oh, and I don't have any issues with the policies themselves!  A
reasonable solution to a hard job.  Just the clarity bit.



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion


On 6/29/2020 2:09 AM, Ed Strange via agora-discussion wrote:
> the pool also contains my most recent proposal, the one about repealing
> summary judgement

Aris,

You just asked why we should change the rule to actually state that
proposal pool report is accurate to the beginning of the week instead of
being truly current.

This is why - your policies, while legal, are causing a wee bit of
confusion around here.  Whether it's people asking "what happened to that
proposal from 13 days ago" or not noticing the date on the pool report
each time, it just doesn't feel quite right to have constantly backdated
reports with missing transactions.

-G.


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Ed Strange via agora-discussion
the pool also contains my most recent proposal, the one about repealing
summary judgement

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 6:02 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> Here's that draft I promised. Time for bed.
>
> -Aris
> ---
> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8459*  Jason, [1]   3.0   Talismans
> 8460*  G., ais523   3.0   UV-G Sunblock
> 8461#  R. Lee, Aris 2.0   Redoing Adopted Proposals
> 8462*  Jason, Falsifian 3.0   Fee-based methods
> 8463*  Jason3.0   Future-proofing black ribbons
> 8464#  R. Lee   1.0   You can certify, but you can't win
> ever!
> 8465#  Jason, P.S.S.1.0   Public defense
> 8466#  ATMunn   1.0   the simple option
> 8467#  Jason, Trigon2.0   Talismans auction patch
> 8468*  Jason, nch, G.   3.0   Decision resolution patch
> 8469#  Aris, [1]2.0   Bureaucratic Reengineering
>
> The proposal pool contains the following proposals:
>
> Author(s)AITitle
> ---
> G.   3.0   no backdating needed
> omd, nch 1.0   Reset deadlines when resetting the economy
> nch, G., Trigon  1.0   Sponsored Proposals
> Falsifian, G.1.0   Contract charities
> Murphy   1.7   Decriminalization
> Murphy, G.   1.0   Generalized card auctions
> omd  1.0   Stop disincentivizing bugfixes
>
> [1] nch, Falsifian
> [2] Alexis, Falsifian, nch, G.
>
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> e : Economy ministry proposal.
> f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> j : Justice ministry proposal.
> l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> p : Participation ministry proposal.
>
>
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
> the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
> the information shown above shall control.
>
> //
> ID: 8459
> Title: Talismans
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Aris
> Co-authors: nch, Falsifian, G.
>
>
> For the purposes of this proposal, a player's prior master is eir master
> before this proposal applies any effects.
>
> Amend Rule 2532 to read, in whole:
> {
>
>   A talisman is an indestructible asset, tracked by the Registrar, and
>   with ownership wholly restricted to players and Agora. There exists
>   exactly one talisman for each player, and no other talismans; if one
>   does not exist for a certain player, it is created in eir posession.
>   Talismans CAN only be transferred as explicitly specified by the rules.
>   The creation, destruction, and transfer of talismans is secured.
>
>   Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a player CAN, by announcement,
>   transfer the talisman for em to emself. The master of a player is the
>   entity that possesses the talisman for em. A player who is eir own
>   master is active; any other player is a zombie (syn. inactive).
>
>   The master of a zombie CAN act on behalf of em, except a master CANNOT
>   act on behalf of a zombie to:
>   - initiate, support, object to, or perform a dependent action;
>   - act on behalf of that zombie's zombies;
>   - bid in a zombie auction;
>   - enter a contract, pledge, or other type of agreement;
>   - initiate a Call for Judgement;
>   - create blots;
>   - deregister.
>
>   If a master causes a zombie to perform an ILLEGAL action, the master
>   commits the Class 4+N Crime of Masterminding (where N is the class of
>   the illegal action).
>
>   If an active player who was a zombie has not received a Welcome Package
>   since e most recently ceased being a zombie, and if eir resale value was
>   less than 2 at any point during eir most recent time as a zombie, then
>   any player CAN cause em to receive a Welcome Package by announcement.
>
> }
>
> Amend Rule 2574 to read, in whole:
> {
>
>   Any player CAN, with notice, transfer the talisman for an active player
>   who has not made a public announcement in the past 60 days to Agora.
>
>   Resale value is a secured natural switch for zombies, tracked by the
>   Registrar, with a default value of 2. Whenever the talisman for a zombie
>   is transferred to a player, that zombie's resale value is decreased by
>   1. At the end of a zombie auction, the resale value of

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's that draft I promised. Time for bed.

-Aris
---
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on 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)AITitle
---
8459*  Jason, [1]   3.0   Talismans
8460*  G., ais523   3.0   UV-G Sunblock
8461#  R. Lee, Aris 2.0   Redoing Adopted Proposals
8462*  Jason, Falsifian 3.0   Fee-based methods
8463*  Jason3.0   Future-proofing black ribbons
8464#  R. Lee   1.0   You can certify, but you can't win ever!
8465#  Jason, P.S.S.1.0   Public defense
8466#  ATMunn   1.0   the simple option
8467#  Jason, Trigon2.0   Talismans auction patch
8468*  Jason, nch, G.   3.0   Decision resolution patch
8469#  Aris, [1]2.0   Bureaucratic Reengineering

The proposal pool contains the following proposals:

Author(s)AITitle
---
G.   3.0   no backdating needed
omd, nch 1.0   Reset deadlines when resetting the economy
nch, G., Trigon  1.0   Sponsored Proposals
Falsifian, G.1.0   Contract charities
Murphy   1.7   Decriminalization
Murphy, G.   1.0   Generalized card auctions
omd  1.0   Stop disincentivizing bugfixes

[1] nch, Falsifian
[2] Alexis, Falsifian, nch, G.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8459
Title: Talismans
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: nch, Falsifian, G.


For the purposes of this proposal, a player's prior master is eir master
before this proposal applies any effects.

Amend Rule 2532 to read, in whole:
{

  A talisman is an indestructible asset, tracked by the Registrar, and
  with ownership wholly restricted to players and Agora. There exists
  exactly one talisman for each player, and no other talismans; if one
  does not exist for a certain player, it is created in eir posession.
  Talismans CAN only be transferred as explicitly specified by the rules.
  The creation, destruction, and transfer of talismans is secured.

  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a player CAN, by announcement,
  transfer the talisman for em to emself. The master of a player is the
  entity that possesses the talisman for em. A player who is eir own
  master is active; any other player is a zombie (syn. inactive).

  The master of a zombie CAN act on behalf of em, except a master CANNOT
  act on behalf of a zombie to:
  - initiate, support, object to, or perform a dependent action;
  - act on behalf of that zombie's zombies;
  - bid in a zombie auction;
  - enter a contract, pledge, or other type of agreement;
  - initiate a Call for Judgement;
  - create blots;
  - deregister.

  If a master causes a zombie to perform an ILLEGAL action, the master
  commits the Class 4+N Crime of Masterminding (where N is the class of
  the illegal action).

  If an active player who was a zombie has not received a Welcome Package
  since e most recently ceased being a zombie, and if eir resale value was
  less than 2 at any point during eir most recent time as a zombie, then
  any player CAN cause em to receive a Welcome Package by announcement.

}

Amend Rule 2574 to read, in whole:
{

  Any player CAN, with notice, transfer the talisman for an active player
  who has not made a public announcement in the past 60 days to Agora.

  Resale value is a secured natural switch for zombies, tracked by the
  Registrar, with a default value of 2. Whenever the talisman for a zombie
  is transferred to a player, that zombie's resale value is decreased by
  1. At the end of a zombie auction, the resale value of every zombie that
  is an excess lot in that auction decreases by 1.

  The talisman for a zombie with zero resale value CANNOT be transferred
  to any player other than that zombie.

  Any player CAN, with notice:
  - If a zombie has been a zombie for the past 90 days and not had
Agora for a master during any of that time, transfer the talisman for
em to Agora;
  - If a pla

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-21 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 6/21/20 11:46 AM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote:
>
> On 6/21/2020 8:33 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote:
>> On 6/21/20 2:16 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
>>> Here's my draft report. It's been a completely exhausting day in a
>>> busy week, so the chance of errors here are higher than normal.
>> That's alright! You certainly have one of the hardest jobs available here.
>>
>>
>>> -Aris
>>> ---
>>> 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).
>>
>> This is missing talismans ([0], pended at [1]), fee-based methods ([1],
>> certified by R. Lee), and the black ribbon patch ([2], certified by me).
> I'm assuming e's still cutting off the report at the beginning of the
> current week (beginning of June 15).  Backdating is a minor annoyance at
> the beginning of the week, a bit bigger of one at the end
>

Oh, you're right : thonk:.

-- 
Jason Cobb



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-21 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion



On 6/21/2020 8:33 AM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote:
> On 6/21/20 2:16 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
>> Here's my draft report. It's been a completely exhausting day in a
>> busy week, so the chance of errors here are higher than normal.
> 
> That's alright! You certainly have one of the hardest jobs available here.
> 
> 
>>
>> -Aris
>> ---
>> 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).
> 
> 
> This is missing talismans ([0], pended at [1]), fee-based methods ([1],
> certified by R. Lee), and the black ribbon patch ([2], certified by me).

I'm assuming e's still cutting off the report at the beginning of the
current week (beginning of June 15).  Backdating is a minor annoyance at
the beginning of the week, a bit bigger of one at the end



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-21 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 6/21/20 2:16 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> Here's my draft report. It's been a completely exhausting day in a
> busy week, so the chance of errors here are higher than normal.

That's alright! You certainly have one of the hardest jobs available here.


>
> -Aris
> ---
> 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).


This is missing talismans ([0], pended at [1]), fee-based methods ([1],
certified by R. Lee), and the black ribbon patch ([2], certified by me).


[0]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-June/043422.html

[1]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-June/043441.html

[2]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-June/043456.html

[3]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-June/043457.html

-- 
Jason Cobb



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-20 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft report. It's been a completely exhausting day in a
busy week, so the chance of errors here are higher than normal.

-Aris
---
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)AITitle
---
8442#  G.   1.0   Barrel Barrel Badger Barrel
8443#  G.   2.0   Term Limit
8444#  Aris 2.0   Sedate Officiation
8445*  Aris 3.0   Easier Retitling
8446#  G., nch  1.0   Victory Auctions
8447#  CB   1.0   Rule Infancy
8448*  Aris, Alexis, Falsifian  3.0   Populist Administration
8449#  Aris, [1]1.5   Simpler Heraldry
8450#  G.   1.7   CFJ extensions
8451#  CB   1.0   HUMBLE AGORAN FARMER WINS THE GAME
8452#  P.S.S., Jason, Trigon1.0   Indictment Fixes
8453#  G.   1.0   win indirection
8454#  G., Jason, P.S.S.2.0   Judicial non-person fixes
8455#  G., Jason2.0   old judgements are good judgements
8456#  G.   1.0   namings
8457f  R. Lee, P.S.S.   2.0   CHILL BRO

[1] Alexis, Jason, P.S.S.

Proposal pool report: At the beginning of this Agoran week, the proposal pool
contained the proposals listed above.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8442
Title: Barrel Barrel Badger Barrel
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Create a power-1 rule, "The General Store", with the following text:

  Barrels are a currency tracked by the Coopor (an office) in eir
  monthly report. A player CAN Corner the Market by paying a fee of
  100 barrels.  When a player corners the market, e wins the game.

  A bargain is a specification consisting of a title, a payout (a
  number of barrels between 1 and 10), and a tender (a list of 6 or
  more rules-defined card types; a type may be repeated, with each
  repeat being a separate element on the list).

  A player CAN cash out a specified bargain that's "on the barrel",
  by announcement, provided that, in the same message, e paid cards
  (possibly spread over multiple sets) to successfully earn rules-
  defined products, and those cards match all of the cards types in
  that bargain's tender.  The payment of a particular card instance
  can only match a single tender element for the single cashing out
  of a bargain.

  When a player cashes out a bargain on the barrel, e earns the
  payout for that bargain.

  The Coopor CANNOT cash out a specific bargain in the 14 days
  after putting that bargain on the barrel.


Create a power-1 rule, "Bargains on the Barrel", with the
following text:

  If there are fewer than four bargains on the barrel, the Coopor
  CAN put a bargain on the barrel with notice.  If there are fewer
  than eight bargains on the barrel, the Coopor CAN put a bargain on
  the barrel with 3 support.

  The Coopor CAN take a bargain off the barrel without N objections,
  where N is the number of months, rounded up, since that bargain
  was last placed on the barrel.  Within 14 days after winning an
  election for Coopor, the Coopor CAN take any bargain off the
  barrel with notice.

  The Coopor's monthly report includes a list of all bargains on the
  barrel.  E SHOULD publish such a list whenever e adds or removes a
  bargain from the barrel.


There are no bargains on the barrel.

G. is hereby made Coopor.

An election for Coopor is hereby initiated.

//
ID: 8443
Title: Term Limit
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2423 (First Among Equals) by appending the following
paragraph:

Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a player CANNOT become a
candidate in an election for Prime Minister if e has held the office
for 60 or more of the 90 days prior to the election's initiation.

//
ID: 8444
Title: Sedate Officiation
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


[In case the public wants a change but prefers more conventional
vocabulary.]

Amend each of Rule 1023 ("A

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-09 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
The below AIs are inconsistent:

> 8437l  R. Lee, G.   1.0   Guilderoy Lockhart

> //
> ID: 8437
> Title: Guilderoy Lockhart
> Adoption index: 2.0
> Author: R. Lee
> Co-authors: G.

- Falsifian


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-08 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:46 PM nch via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
>
> On 6/8/20 7:38 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
> >  wrote:
> >> Here's my draft.
> > Darn, I forgot to add in transmutation.
> >
> >
> > -Aris
> Transmutation was already distributed, 8421.
>

Due to an inconsistency in the distribution, the H. Promotor
determined that the distribution wasn't effective.


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-08 Thread nch via agora-discussion


On 6/8/20 7:38 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
>  wrote:
>> Here's my draft.
> Darn, I forgot to add in transmutation.
>
>
> -Aris
Transmutation was already distributed, 8421.



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 5:23 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> Here's my draft.

Darn, I forgot to add in transmutation.


-Aris


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my draft.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8431#  Aris, ais523 1.0   Proposal Reward Trimming
8432*  Aris, Alexis, Falsifian  3.0   The Administrative State
8433#  Aris, [1]1.5   Simpler Heraldry
8434#  Aris 1.0   Majoritarian Confidence
8435#  Aris, nch, Trigon1.0   No Confidence Isn't Personal
8436#  Aris 2.0   Stately Officiation
8437l  R. Lee, G.   1.0   Guilderoy Lockhart
8438e  R. Lee   1.0   Tailor Pay
8439#  P.S.S.   2.0   Termination of Candidacy
8440#  R. Lee, P.S.S.   1.7   0 blots patch

[1] Alexis, Jason, P.S.S.

Proposal pool report: At 05:00 UTC, Monday, June 8, the proposal pool
contained the proposals listed above.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.

//
ID: 8431
Title: Proposal Reward Trimming
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: ais523


[This reduces proposal rewards by removing AI from the calculation.
As it is, an extremely detailed and well developed AI 1.0 proposal
that is adopted unanimously gets fewer coins than an AI 3.0 bug fix.

Note for the Assessor: Since this proposal is AI 1.0, its
reward is the same in both the old and the new systems. Please adjust
your algorithms for future proposals if this passes.]

Amend Rule 2496, "Rewards", by replacing:

  Being the author of an adopted proposal: a number of coins equal to
  ((the total number of valid ballots cast FOR the decision - the total
  number of valid ballots cast AGAINST) times the adoption index of the
  result) rounded up

with:

  Being the author of an adopted proposal: a number of coins equal to
  (the total number of valid ballots cast FOR the decision - the total
  number of valid ballots cast AGAINST)

//
ID: 8432
Title: The Administrative State
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Alexis, Falsifian


Amend Rule 1728, "Dependent Action Methods", by adding as new list item
after the third list item:

  3. with N official consent, where N is an integer multiple of 0.1
 with a minimum of 1 ("With official consent" is shorthand for this
 method with N = 1);
and renumbering the list accordingly.

Amend Rule 2595, "Performing a Dependent Action" by changing the text
"without N objections, with N Agoran consent," to read
"without N objections, with N Agoran consent, with N official consent,"

Amend Rule 2124, "Agoran Satisfaction", by adding as a new item at the end
of the list:

  4. The action is to be performed with N official consent, and the
 number of offices held by Supporters of the intent is less than or equal
 to N times the number of offices held by Objectors to the intent.
  5. The action is to be performed with N official consent, the Prime
 Minister is an Objector, and the Speaker is not a Supporter.

Enact a new power 2.0 rule entitled "The Administrative State", with the
following text:

  Each officer CAN, with 2 official consent, enact, amend, or repeal
  eir's own office's Administrative Regulations. Administrative Regulations
  have the following properties:

  1. An officer SHALL abide by eir office's administrative regulations in
 the discharge of eir office.
  2. Any player CAN act on behalf of an officer to exercise eir official
 powers as authorized by eir office's administrative regulations.
  3. All players SHOULD abide by an officer's administrative regulations
 in matters relating to eir area of responsibility.

//
ID: 8433
Title: Simpler Heraldry
Adoption index: 1.5
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Alexis, Jason, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus


Amend Rule 649, "Patent Titles", by appending to the last paragraph:

  Any player CAN award a specified Patent Title to a specified player,
  as authorized by the Herald's Administrative Regulations.

//
ID: 8434
Title: Majoritarian Confidence

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-06 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 7:03 AM Rebecca via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> You said you caught a bug with "slap on the wrist" but you didn't say the
> issue?
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:31 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via
> agora-discussion  wrote:
>
> > This draft looks good to me! I have some questions or thoughts about
> > or related to the proposals contained (and unfortunately, I caught one
> > issue with "Slap on the wrist"):
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:31 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
> >  wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a draft for this midweek distribution.
> > >
> > > -Aris
> > > ---
> > > 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 7, 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)AITitle
> > >
> > ---
> > > 8409*  Aris 3.0   College of Letters, Arts, and
> > Sciences
> > > 8410#  Aris 2.2   Promise Powers Patch
> > > 8411p  R. Lee   1.0   Contract Lawyers
> > > 8412#  R. Lee   1.7   Small Pledge Amendments
> > > 8413#  Aris 1.0   Why Track Pendency?
> > > 8414#  Aris 2.0   Ministerial Reshuffling
> > > 8415*  Aris 3.0   Proposal Recycling Initiative
> > > 8416*  Falsifian, G., P.S.S.3.1   Identity theft protection act v1.1
> > > 8417#  Aris, G. 1.0   PP [1]
> > > 8418*  Aris 3.0   Referenda
> > > 8419#  Aris 2.0   Executive Expansion
> > > 8420#  G.   2.0   Checks and balances
> > > 8421#  nch, Trigon  1.0   Transmutation
> > > 8422*  P.S.S., [2]  3.0   No More Numbers!
> > > 8423#  P.S.S., G.   2.0   Removing Repetition
> > > 8424#  Aris, nch, P.S.S.1.0   Certifiable Patches
> > > 8425#  Aris 2.0   Impossibility Defense
> > > 8426#  Aris 2.0   Impracticability Defense
> > > 8427j  R. Lee   2.0   Slap on the wrist
> > > 8428*  Aris 3.0   Pending Pends
> > > 8429#  Aris 1.7   Why Limit Clemency?
> > >
> > >
> > > [1] Properly Prioritized Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege
> > > [2] G., Trigon, Aris, nch
> > >
> > > Proposal pool report: At 02:00 UTC, Friday, June 5, the proposal pool
> > > contained the proposals listed above.
> > >
> > > Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> > > # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> > > e : Economy ministry proposal.
> > > f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> > > j : Justice ministry proposal.
> > > l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> > > p : Participation ministry proposal.
> > >
> > >
> > > The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> > >
> > > //
> > > ID: 8409
> > > Title: College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
> > > Adoption index: 3.0
> > > Author: Aris
> > > Co-authors:
> > >
> > >
> > > [I fixed the problems pointed out with the last version. I also added an
> > > A.N.A. degree (I hadn't done so previously, because I thought it was
> > > unnecessary, but exceptions are messy). I rephrased and reordered some
> > things
> > > too.]
> > >
> > > Amend Rule 1367, "Degrees", by changing it to read as follows:
> > >
> > > Certain patent titles are known as degrees. The degrees are
> > >
> > >   - Associate of Nomic Artistry(A.N.A.)
> > >   - Associate of Nomic (A.N.)
> > >   - Juris Doctorate of Nomic   (J.N.)
> > >   - Baccalaureate of Nomic Artistry(B.N.A.)
> > >   - Baccalaureate of Nomic (B.N.)
> > >   - Magisteriate of Nomic Artistry (M.N.A)
> > >   - Magisteriate of Nomic  (M.N.)
> > >   - Doctorate of Nomic Artistry(D.N.Art.)
> > >   - Doctorate of Nomic History (D.N.Hist.)
> > >   - Doctorate of Nomic Law (D.N.Law.)
> > >   - Doctorate of Nomic Science (D.N.Sci.)
> > >   - Doctorate of Nomic Philosophy  (D.N.Phil.)
> > >
> > >   There are four classes of degrees, ranked in ascending order of merit:
> > >   Associate degrees (A.N.A. and A.N.), Baccalaureate degrees
> > >   (J.N through B.N.), Magisteriate degrees (M.N.A and M.N), and
> > >   Doctorate degrees (D.N.Art. through D.N.Phil.).
> > >
> > >   A specified degree CAN be awarded by any player other than the
> > >   awardee, with 2 Agoran consent. It SHOULD only be awarded for the
> > >   publication of an original thesis of scholarly worth (including
> > >   responses to peer-review), published with explic

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-06 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
You said you caught a bug with "slap on the wrist" but you didn't say the
issue?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:31 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via
agora-discussion  wrote:

> This draft looks good to me! I have some questions or thoughts about
> or related to the proposals contained (and unfortunately, I caught one
> issue with "Slap on the wrist"):
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:31 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
>  wrote:
> >
> > Here's a draft for this midweek distribution.
> >
> > -Aris
> > ---
> > 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 7, 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)AITitle
> >
> ---
> > 8409*  Aris 3.0   College of Letters, Arts, and
> Sciences
> > 8410#  Aris 2.2   Promise Powers Patch
> > 8411p  R. Lee   1.0   Contract Lawyers
> > 8412#  R. Lee   1.7   Small Pledge Amendments
> > 8413#  Aris 1.0   Why Track Pendency?
> > 8414#  Aris 2.0   Ministerial Reshuffling
> > 8415*  Aris 3.0   Proposal Recycling Initiative
> > 8416*  Falsifian, G., P.S.S.3.1   Identity theft protection act v1.1
> > 8417#  Aris, G. 1.0   PP [1]
> > 8418*  Aris 3.0   Referenda
> > 8419#  Aris 2.0   Executive Expansion
> > 8420#  G.   2.0   Checks and balances
> > 8421#  nch, Trigon  1.0   Transmutation
> > 8422*  P.S.S., [2]  3.0   No More Numbers!
> > 8423#  P.S.S., G.   2.0   Removing Repetition
> > 8424#  Aris, nch, P.S.S.1.0   Certifiable Patches
> > 8425#  Aris 2.0   Impossibility Defense
> > 8426#  Aris 2.0   Impracticability Defense
> > 8427j  R. Lee   2.0   Slap on the wrist
> > 8428*  Aris 3.0   Pending Pends
> > 8429#  Aris 1.7   Why Limit Clemency?
> >
> >
> > [1] Properly Prioritized Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege
> > [2] G., Trigon, Aris, nch
> >
> > Proposal pool report: At 02:00 UTC, Friday, June 5, the proposal pool
> > contained the proposals listed above.
> >
> > Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> > # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> > e : Economy ministry proposal.
> > f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> > j : Justice ministry proposal.
> > l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> > p : Participation ministry proposal.
> >
> >
> > The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> >
> > //
> > ID: 8409
> > Title: College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
> > Adoption index: 3.0
> > Author: Aris
> > Co-authors:
> >
> >
> > [I fixed the problems pointed out with the last version. I also added an
> > A.N.A. degree (I hadn't done so previously, because I thought it was
> > unnecessary, but exceptions are messy). I rephrased and reordered some
> things
> > too.]
> >
> > Amend Rule 1367, "Degrees", by changing it to read as follows:
> >
> > Certain patent titles are known as degrees. The degrees are
> >
> >   - Associate of Nomic Artistry(A.N.A.)
> >   - Associate of Nomic (A.N.)
> >   - Juris Doctorate of Nomic   (J.N.)
> >   - Baccalaureate of Nomic Artistry(B.N.A.)
> >   - Baccalaureate of Nomic (B.N.)
> >   - Magisteriate of Nomic Artistry (M.N.A)
> >   - Magisteriate of Nomic  (M.N.)
> >   - Doctorate of Nomic Artistry(D.N.Art.)
> >   - Doctorate of Nomic History (D.N.Hist.)
> >   - Doctorate of Nomic Law (D.N.Law.)
> >   - Doctorate of Nomic Science (D.N.Sci.)
> >   - Doctorate of Nomic Philosophy  (D.N.Phil.)
> >
> >   There are four classes of degrees, ranked in ascending order of merit:
> >   Associate degrees (A.N.A. and A.N.), Baccalaureate degrees
> >   (J.N through B.N.), Magisteriate degrees (M.N.A and M.N), and
> >   Doctorate degrees (D.N.Art. through D.N.Phil.).
> >
> >   A specified degree CAN be awarded by any player other than the
> >   awardee, with 2 Agoran consent. It SHOULD only be awarded for the
> >   publication of an original thesis of scholarly worth (including
> >   responses to peer-review), published with explicit intent to
> >   qualify for a degree. The Herald SHOULD coordinate the peer-review
> >   process and the awarding of degrees.
>
> What has the precedent been for when the Herald wishes to submit a
> thesis for a degree?
>
> >   Degrees SHOULD be awarded according to the extent to 

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-06 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
This draft looks good to me! I have some questions or thoughts about
or related to the proposals contained (and unfortunately, I caught one
issue with "Slap on the wrist"):

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:31 AM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> Here's a draft for this midweek distribution.
>
> -Aris
> ---
> 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 7, 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8409*  Aris 3.0   College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
> 8410#  Aris 2.2   Promise Powers Patch
> 8411p  R. Lee   1.0   Contract Lawyers
> 8412#  R. Lee   1.7   Small Pledge Amendments
> 8413#  Aris 1.0   Why Track Pendency?
> 8414#  Aris 2.0   Ministerial Reshuffling
> 8415*  Aris 3.0   Proposal Recycling Initiative
> 8416*  Falsifian, G., P.S.S.3.1   Identity theft protection act v1.1
> 8417#  Aris, G. 1.0   PP [1]
> 8418*  Aris 3.0   Referenda
> 8419#  Aris 2.0   Executive Expansion
> 8420#  G.   2.0   Checks and balances
> 8421#  nch, Trigon  1.0   Transmutation
> 8422*  P.S.S., [2]  3.0   No More Numbers!
> 8423#  P.S.S., G.   2.0   Removing Repetition
> 8424#  Aris, nch, P.S.S.1.0   Certifiable Patches
> 8425#  Aris 2.0   Impossibility Defense
> 8426#  Aris 2.0   Impracticability Defense
> 8427j  R. Lee   2.0   Slap on the wrist
> 8428*  Aris 3.0   Pending Pends
> 8429#  Aris 1.7   Why Limit Clemency?
>
>
> [1] Properly Prioritized Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege
> [2] G., Trigon, Aris, nch
>
> Proposal pool report: At 02:00 UTC, Friday, June 5, the proposal pool
> contained the proposals listed above.
>
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> e : Economy ministry proposal.
> f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> j : Justice ministry proposal.
> l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> p : Participation ministry proposal.
>
>
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
>
> //
> ID: 8409
> Title: College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Aris
> Co-authors:
>
>
> [I fixed the problems pointed out with the last version. I also added an
> A.N.A. degree (I hadn't done so previously, because I thought it was
> unnecessary, but exceptions are messy). I rephrased and reordered some things
> too.]
>
> Amend Rule 1367, "Degrees", by changing it to read as follows:
>
> Certain patent titles are known as degrees. The degrees are
>
>   - Associate of Nomic Artistry(A.N.A.)
>   - Associate of Nomic (A.N.)
>   - Juris Doctorate of Nomic   (J.N.)
>   - Baccalaureate of Nomic Artistry(B.N.A.)
>   - Baccalaureate of Nomic (B.N.)
>   - Magisteriate of Nomic Artistry (M.N.A)
>   - Magisteriate of Nomic  (M.N.)
>   - Doctorate of Nomic Artistry(D.N.Art.)
>   - Doctorate of Nomic History (D.N.Hist.)
>   - Doctorate of Nomic Law (D.N.Law.)
>   - Doctorate of Nomic Science (D.N.Sci.)
>   - Doctorate of Nomic Philosophy  (D.N.Phil.)
>
>   There are four classes of degrees, ranked in ascending order of merit:
>   Associate degrees (A.N.A. and A.N.), Baccalaureate degrees
>   (J.N through B.N.), Magisteriate degrees (M.N.A and M.N), and
>   Doctorate degrees (D.N.Art. through D.N.Phil.).
>
>   A specified degree CAN be awarded by any player other than the
>   awardee, with 2 Agoran consent. It SHOULD only be awarded for the
>   publication of an original thesis of scholarly worth (including
>   responses to peer-review), published with explicit intent to
>   qualify for a degree. The Herald SHOULD coordinate the peer-review
>   process and the awarding of degrees.

What has the precedent been for when the Herald wishes to submit a
thesis for a degree?

>   Degrees SHOULD be awarded according to the extent to which the thesis
>   contributes to Nomic culture or thought: Associate degrees for an
>   appreciable contribution, Baccalaureate degrees for a substantial
>   contribution, Magisteriate degrees for a remarkable contribution, and
>   Doctorate degrees for an exceptional contribution. Any degree at the
>   Doctorate level SHOULD take into account the awardee's academic history
>   and pa

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-05 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft for this midweek distribution.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8409*  Aris 3.0   College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
8410#  Aris 2.2   Promise Powers Patch
8411p  R. Lee   1.0   Contract Lawyers
8412#  R. Lee   1.7   Small Pledge Amendments
8413#  Aris 1.0   Why Track Pendency?
8414#  Aris 2.0   Ministerial Reshuffling
8415*  Aris 3.0   Proposal Recycling Initiative
8416*  Falsifian, G., P.S.S.3.1   Identity theft protection act v1.1
8417#  Aris, G. 1.0   PP [1]
8418*  Aris 3.0   Referenda
8419#  Aris 2.0   Executive Expansion
8420#  G.   2.0   Checks and balances
8421#  nch, Trigon  1.0   Transmutation
8422*  P.S.S., [2]  3.0   No More Numbers!
8423#  P.S.S., G.   2.0   Removing Repetition
8424#  Aris, nch, P.S.S.1.0   Certifiable Patches
8425#  Aris 2.0   Impossibility Defense
8426#  Aris 2.0   Impracticability Defense
8427j  R. Lee   2.0   Slap on the wrist
8428*  Aris 3.0   Pending Pends
8429#  Aris 1.7   Why Limit Clemency?


[1] Properly Prioritized Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege
[2] G., Trigon, Aris, nch

Proposal pool report: At 02:00 UTC, Friday, June 5, the proposal pool
contained the proposals listed above.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8409
Title: College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


[I fixed the problems pointed out with the last version. I also added an
A.N.A. degree (I hadn't done so previously, because I thought it was
unnecessary, but exceptions are messy). I rephrased and reordered some things
too.]

Amend Rule 1367, "Degrees", by changing it to read as follows:

Certain patent titles are known as degrees. The degrees are

  - Associate of Nomic Artistry(A.N.A.)
  - Associate of Nomic (A.N.)
  - Juris Doctorate of Nomic   (J.N.)
  - Baccalaureate of Nomic Artistry(B.N.A.)
  - Baccalaureate of Nomic (B.N.)
  - Magisteriate of Nomic Artistry (M.N.A)
  - Magisteriate of Nomic  (M.N.)
  - Doctorate of Nomic Artistry(D.N.Art.)
  - Doctorate of Nomic History (D.N.Hist.)
  - Doctorate of Nomic Law (D.N.Law.)
  - Doctorate of Nomic Science (D.N.Sci.)
  - Doctorate of Nomic Philosophy  (D.N.Phil.)

  There are four classes of degrees, ranked in ascending order of merit:
  Associate degrees (A.N.A. and A.N.), Baccalaureate degrees
  (J.N through B.N.), Magisteriate degrees (M.N.A and M.N), and
  Doctorate degrees (D.N.Art. through D.N.Phil.).

  A specified degree CAN be awarded by any player other than the
  awardee, with 2 Agoran consent. It SHOULD only be awarded for the
  publication of an original thesis of scholarly worth (including
  responses to peer-review), published with explicit intent to
  qualify for a degree. The Herald SHOULD coordinate the peer-review
  process and the awarding of degrees.

  Degrees SHOULD be awarded according to the extent to which the thesis
  contributes to Nomic culture or thought: Associate degrees for an
  appreciable contribution, Baccalaureate degrees for a substantial
  contribution, Magisteriate degrees for a remarkable contribution, and
  Doctorate degrees for an exceptional contribution. Any degree at the
  Doctorate level SHOULD take into account the awardee's academic history
  and participation in Agora over time.

  Theses for Artistry degrees SHOULD demonstrate substantial creativity
  and need not be in written form. Theses for all other degrees SHOULD
  demonstrate substantial research or analysis. J.N. and D.N.Law are
  appropriate for high-quality legal analysis, of the sort typical to CFJs,
  but exceeding an ordinary CFJ in depth. The D.N.Hist. degree is
  appropriate for historical research, especially when it presents a
  narrative that educates Agorans about the events of the past. The D

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-06-01 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 06:15, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
 wrote:
> How does this look?

All the AIs in the full text section are listed as 3.0; that's
probably not right.

- Falsifian


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
How does this look?

-Aris
---
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)AITitle
---
8405*  Jason3.0   Generic private assets
8406#  R. Lee   1.0   Voltaire, Lottery Scammer
8407#  G.   2.0   no stinking auction definitions
8408*  nch, [1] 3.0   Sets v1.4


[1] Trigon, Falsifian, PSS, Jason, Aris, G., ais523

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8405
Title: Generic private assets
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2166 by replacing the text "one defined by a contract is
private" with the text "any other asset is private".

[This removes an underpowered dependency of Rule 2166 and makes sure
that if we (for some reason) expand Mint Authority we don't forget to
change this.]

//
ID: 8406
Title: Voltaire, Lottery Scammer
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors:


Create a power 1 rule named "Bribery Rewards" with the text "Any player who
unconditionally voted FOR the proposal named "Voltaire, Lottery Scammer"
qualifies for a black ribbon"
R. Lee wins the game, then another randomly selected player who
unconditionally voted FOR this proposal wins the game. This random
selection is to be administered by the first voter who unconditionally
voted FOR this proposal. It must look random. [non-binding comment: this
ensures that a voter other than me gets the speakership)

//
ID: 8407
Title: no stinking auction definitions
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Repeal Rule 2584 (Free Auctions)
Repeal Rule 2552 (Auction Termination)
Repeal Rule 2551 (Auction End)
Repeal Rule 2550 (Bidding)
Repeal Rule 2549 (Auction Initiation)

Amend Rule 2545 (Auctions) to read in full:

  An auction is a way for entities to give away specified assets
  (items), grouped into lots, in exchange for a currency. A lot is a
  non-empty list of items to be transferred to a single recipient
  (an auction winner).

  When the rules authorize a person (the auctioneer) to conduct an
  auction, e CAN do so by any wholly public method that would be
  generally recognizable, as specified by the auctioneer at the
  start of the auction, and under common definitions and terms used
  in auctions, as a fair, equitable, and timely means of determining
  the auction winners from among the current players, and enabling
  the appropriate exchange of goods.

  The rule that authorizes the auction further authorizes the
  auctioneer or auction winners to transfer said items as necessary
  to conduct the auction in a manner consistent with the auction
  method. If the authorization is to auction "new" items, it further
  authorizes the creation of said items as per the chosen method.

  The Treasuror is the promulgator for regulations that define
  specific auction methods (i.e. "the default auction method") and
  SHOULD do in order to aid trade and commerce.  For the purposes of
  interpreting auction definitions, such methods are treated as if
  they are defined in this rule. To further aid trade and commerce,
  auction methods should be interpreted in the name of fairness with
  deference to the method's clear intent, if intent can be
  reasonably inferred.

//
ID: 8408
Title: Sets v1.4
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: nch
Co-authors: Trigon, Falsifian, PSS, Jason, Aris, G., ais523


Enact a new Power=1 rule titled "Cards & Sets" with the text:

  Cards are a type of currency with a corresponding Product.
  Products are also currencies. The types of Cards and their
  corresponding Products are:

  * Victory Cards and Victory Points.

  * Justice Cards and Blot-B-Gones

  * Legislative Cards and Pendants

  * Voting Cards and Extra Votes

  A player CAN pay a 'set' of X Cards of the same type to earn Y
  corresponding Products. The value of X determines the value of Y
  in the following ways:

  * 1 Card = 1 Product

  * 2 Cards = 3 Products

  * 3 Cards = 6 Products

  * 4 Cards = 10 Products

  A player CANNOT pay more than 

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Sunday, May 24, 2020 3:58:05 PM CDT you wrote:
> > Grok's "Cantus Counterscam" (which has the author and co-author values
> > that
> > are incorrectly listed for "a Proposed Contract") is missing.
> 
> I believe that e retracted it.

Oh, looks like you're correct.

-- 
nch





Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 4:57 PM nchagora--- via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> On Sunday, May 24, 2020 3:42:06 PM CDT Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
> wrote:
> > ID Author(s)AITitle
> > ---
> > 8388f  nch  1.0   The Webmastor
> > 8389#  G.   2.0   Just Impeach instead
> > 8390*  R. Lee   3.0   Registror
> > 8391*  R. Lee   3.0   Notory (Vote Labour)
> > 8392#  Jason2.0   Prior violations
> > 8393#  Aris 2.0   Elections Aren't Over Till They End
> > 8394#  Jason2.0   8228 retry
> > 8395#  G., R. Lee   1.7   Mooting moots
> > 8396*  grok, nch3.0   a Proposed Contract
> > 8397#  Jason1.1   Editorial what?
> > 8398#  grok, G. 1.0   Auction End Clarification
> > 8399#  P.S.S.   2.0   Referral
> > 8400*  Murphy, nch, G.  3.0   More conservative implicit
> > announcements 8401#  R. Lee   1.0   E had two months!
> > 8402#  R. Lee   1.0   Clinton v City of New York
> >
> >
> > The proposal pool is currently empty.
>
> Grok's "Cantus Counterscam" (which has the author and co-author values that
> are incorrectly listed for "a Proposed Contract") is missing.
>
>

I believe that e retracted it.


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread nchagora--- via agora-discussion
On Sunday, May 24, 2020 3:42:06 PM CDT Aris Merchant via agora-discussion 
wrote:
> ID Author(s)AITitle
> ---
> 8388f  nch  1.0   The Webmastor
> 8389#  G.   2.0   Just Impeach instead
> 8390*  R. Lee   3.0   Registror
> 8391*  R. Lee   3.0   Notory (Vote Labour)
> 8392#  Jason2.0   Prior violations
> 8393#  Aris 2.0   Elections Aren't Over Till They End
> 8394#  Jason2.0   8228 retry
> 8395#  G., R. Lee   1.7   Mooting moots
> 8396*  grok, nch3.0   a Proposed Contract
> 8397#  Jason1.1   Editorial what?
> 8398#  grok, G. 1.0   Auction End Clarification
> 8399#  P.S.S.   2.0   Referral
> 8400*  Murphy, nch, G.  3.0   More conservative implicit
> announcements 8401#  R. Lee   1.0   E had two months!
> 8402#  R. Lee   1.0   Clinton v City of New York
> 
> 
> The proposal pool is currently empty.

Grok's "Cantus Counterscam" (which has the author and co-author values that 
are incorrectly listed for "a Proposed Contract") is missing.






Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:43 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> Here's my weekly draft.
>
> -Aris
>
> ---
> 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8396*  grok, nch3.0   a Proposed Contract

The author, chamber, and AI are all inconsistent with the title.


-Aris


DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly draft.

-Aris

---
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)AITitle
---
8388f  nch  1.0   The Webmastor
8389#  G.   2.0   Just Impeach instead
8390*  R. Lee   3.0   Registror
8391*  R. Lee   3.0   Notory (Vote Labour)
8392#  Jason2.0   Prior violations
8393#  Aris 2.0   Elections Aren't Over Till They End
8394#  Jason2.0   8228 retry
8395#  G., R. Lee   1.7   Mooting moots
8396*  grok, nch3.0   a Proposed Contract
8397#  Jason1.1   Editorial what?
8398#  grok, G. 1.0   Auction End Clarification
8399#  P.S.S.   2.0   Referral
8400*  Murphy, nch, G.  3.0   More conservative implicit announcements
8401#  R. Lee   1.0   E had two months!
8402#  R. Lee   1.0   Clinton v City of New York


The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
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.]

///

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-14 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:47:14 AM CDT Aris Merchant via agora-discussion 
wrote:
> 8380#  Muprhy   1.0   Justice for R. Lee

Author appears to be typo'd here.

-- 
nch





Re: BUS: Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-14 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/14/20 3:15 AM, Reuben Staley via agora-business wrote:
> This is a Notice of Honour:
> +1 Aris (continuous dedication to an office held for a long time as well 
> as true intent to make the best reports possible)
> -1 Alexis (can't really think of anyone to punish, and e is not active 
> at the moment)


Alexis is not a player, and Rule 2510 item 3 requires the person losing
Karma to be a player.

-- 
Jason Cobb



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-14 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion



On 5/13/2020 10:47 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> Okay, I've been working at this in whatever time I could steal for the
> last few days, and it's finally here! Behold my draft report!

Thanks!  Missing "Restraining Motions":
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2020-May/042686.html



DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Okay, I've been working at this in whatever time I could steal for the
last few days, and it's finally here! Behold my draft report!

-Aris
---
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 5, 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)AITitle
---
8377#  R. Lee   2.0   Burden + Accurate Naming
8378#  R. Lee   2.0   Bug Fixing IAR Writ
8379#  Murphy   1.0   Expand wins by paradox
8380#  Muprhy   1.0   Justice for R. Lee
8381#  Murphy   1.0   You Tried
8382#  nch  1.0   The Webmastor
8383#  Trigon   1.0   Agora plays table tennis
8384#  P.S.S.   1.0   Bones of Criminals
8385#  Jason1.0   Slaying the dragon

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8377
Title: Burden + Accurate Naming
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors:


WHEREAS an elementary aspect of legal traditions that we all share is that
no criminal defendant should bear the burden of proof, and that the Agoran
system of criminal justice fails in other basic respects the people of
Agora HEREBY RESOLVE the following
  Retitle rule 2531 to "Defendant's Rights"
  Retitle rule 2479 to "Official Injustice"
  Amend the following text in rule 2531 "(1) it attempts to levy a fine on a
  person for an action or inaction which e (more likely than not) did not
  commit" to state "(1) it attempts to levy a fine on a person when that
  person can't be established by a preponderance of the evidence to have
  committed the action or inaction for which the fine was levied"

//
ID: 8378
Title: Bug Fixing IAR Writ
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors:


Amend the following paragraph in rule 2531 "

  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.

"

so that it states

  If the Referee attempts to levy three or more INEFFECTIVE fines in a week,
  any player CAN, within two Agoran weeks of that week, issue a writ of
  Impartial Arbitration Restoration with two support, immediately making the
  position of Referee vacant. When a writ of Impartial Arbitration
  Restoration is issued, an election SHOULD be initiated in a timely fashion.

//
ID: 8379
Title: Expand wins by paradox
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2553 (Win by Paradox) by replacing this text:

  If a CFJ about the legality or possibility of a game action,

with this text:

  If a CFJ about the effectiveness, possibility, or legality of a
  change in the gamestate

//
ID: 8380
Title: Justice for R. Lee
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors:


Award R. Lee the Patent Title of Champion, unless e has already been
awarded it in connection with CFJ 3828.

//
ID: 8381
Title: You Tried
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors:


Award R. Lee the Patent Title of Money Launderer.

//
ID: 8382
Title: You Tried
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

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-04-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8368#  G.   1.7   Explicit Accusations
8369*  Aris 3.0   Emergency Termination Notice
8370#  Aris 2.0   Announced Petitions
8371#  Aris 2.0   Petitio Exitus


The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8368
Title: Explicit Accusations
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Rule 2478 (Vigilante Justice) by replacing:

  A player CAN by announcement, but subject to the provisions of
  this rule, Point eir Finger at a person (the perp) who plays the
  game, citing an alleged violation of the rules by that person.

with:

  A player CAN by announcement, but subject to the provisions of
  this rule, Point eir Finger at a person (the perp) who plays the
  game; the announcement has to explicitly name the perp and cite a
  specific rule and an alleged violation of that rule by that person.

and by replacing:

  - Imposing the Cold Hand of Justice on the perp, as described
elsewhere; or

with:

  - Imposing the Cold Hand of Justice on the perp for the cited rule
violation, as described elsewhere; or

//
ID: 8369
Title: Emergency Termination Notice
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


[This gives everyone a bit of warning before someone goes and repeals the
Emergency Regulations, and gives the PM time to potentially extend
the emergency. Note that explicitly specifying the deadline in this rule
means that it can't be extended further.]

Amend the rule entitled "Eclipse Light" by changing the text
  "by announcement"
to read
  "with 7 days notice".

//
ID: 8370
Title: Announced Petitions
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2143, "Official Reports and Duties", by changing the final
paragraph to read:

A player CAN, by announcement, petition a specified officer to take
a specified action; the officer SHALL publicly respond to the petition
in a timely fashion.

//
ID: 8371
Title: Petitio Exitus
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2143, "Official Reports and Duties", by deleting the final
paragraph.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-04-06 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly-ish draft!

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8366*  Aris, twg3.0   Asset Determinacy
8367*  Murphy, Falsifian3.0   Slow burn



The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8366
Title: Asset Determinacy
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: twg


Amend Rule 2576, "Ownership", by changing the text
  "If an asset would otherwise lack an owner, it is owned by the Lost
   and Found Department"
to read
   "If an asset would otherwise lack an owner, or if its ownership
would otherwise be indeterminate, it is owned by the Lost and Found
Department.

If there is a rule titled "A Coin Award", repeal it.

//
ID: 8367
Title: Slow burn
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: Falsifian


Amend Rule 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) by replacing "Registrar's Report" with
"Registrar's monthly report".

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-03-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8357#  G.   1.0   Homework extension fail
8358#  Jason, Alexis2.0   No zombie blot creation v2
8359#  Alexis   1.0   Karmic Linkage
8360*  Alexis   3.0   Social Distancing
8361*  Aris 3.0   Fix Emergencies
8362*  Aris 3.0   Recurring Emergencies
8363#  Warrigal 1.0   Somebody gets a coin

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8357
Title: Homework extension fail
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2327 (Read the Ruleset Week) by deleting the second paragraph.

[For reference, it's the "... in the year 2020, Read the Ruleset Week is,
instead, the week of February 24 - March 1" paragraph].

//
ID: 8358
Title: No zombie blot creation v2
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Alexis


Amend Rule 2532 (Zombies) by inserting the following list item before
the item that says "deregister.":

- create blots;

Expunge each blot that a zombie's master caused that zombie to create.

[First attempt was ineffective due to typo in "self-punishment"
proposal. Masters should not be able to hurt their zombies in this way.]

//
ID: 8359
Title: Karmic Linkage
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


Amend rule 2510 (Such is Karma) by inserting the following as a new
paragraph after the first list:

"The reasons for provided for the gain and loss of karma SHOULD, but
NEED NOT, be related to one another."

//
ID: 8360
Title: Social Distancing
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


Enact a new power-3.01 rule entitled "Eclipse Light", reading as follows:
{{
  An emergency message is one whose subject line contains the text
"[Emergency]".

  The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 3 Agoran
  consent, enact, amend, or repeal Emergency Regulations, provided that
  the intent to do so was also contained in an emergency message.

  Emergency Regulations CAN:
- Extend any deadline provided for by any instrument other than this
  rule, including a deadline for an obligation to be met, or deadline
  prior to which an action must be performed in order to be valid, such
  as the end of voting period. Such an extension CANNOT cause the total
  time period, such as the time from when an obligation was created to
  the deadline or the whole of a voting period, to be more than double
  its original length.
- Create, destroy, or transfer assets, or require or forbid their
  creation, destruction, or transfer.
- Cause one or more players to win Agora.
- Appoint or remove officeholders.
- Modify the Festivity.
- Award Patent Titles not mentioned in any Rule and Badges.
- Modify the Publicity of Fora.

  The Prime Minister CAN, in an emergency message and with 4 Agoran
  Consent, provided that the intent to do so was also contained in an
  emergency message, Extend the Emergency.

  If the Prime Minister has not Extended the Emergency in the past
  month, any player CAN cause this rule to repeal all Emergency
  Regulations and then itself.

  If the Prime Minister has not sent a message to a public forum in the
  preceding four days, the Speaker CAN exercise eir powers under this
  rule as if e were the Prime Minister, and notwithstanding any rule
  that would prohibit a single player from holding both offices.
}}

[I don't think we actually need an emergency rule. But deadline
extensions might be nice, and I figure a little bit of levity might
help us all.]

[Knowing us, we will manage to not only pass it too late, but also too soon.]

//
ID: 8361
Title: Fix Emergencies
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:

Amend the rule entitled "Eclipse Light" by changing the text
  "If the Prime Minister has not Extended the Emergency in the past
  month"
to rea

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-03-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly draft.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8349j  twg  1.0   Temporary CFJ Setup
8350j  Alexis   2.0   Apologies Don't Interfere
8351*  Jason3.0   Double proposal application fix
8352#  G.   2.0   zombie auction fix 1.1
8353*  Murphy   3.0   All that glisters
8354*  Alexis   3.0   Statutory Instrumentation
8355*  Alexis   3.0   Temporary Suspension of Rules

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8349
Title: Temporary CFJ Setup
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: twg
Co-authors:


Enact a new Rule of Power 1.0 entitled "Temporary CFJ Setup" with the
following text:

  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, twg CANNOT publish a Notice
  of Honour.

  twg CAN, by announcement, cause this Rule to repeal itself.

//
ID: 8350
Title: Apologies Don't Interfere
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


Amend rule 2555 by replacing "who has not expunged any blots in the
current Agoran week" with "who has not, by this mechanism, expunged
any blots in the current Agoran week".

//
ID: 8351
Title: Double proposal application fix
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2034 by replacing the text "such a proposal existed, was
adopted, and took effect." with the text "such a proposal existed, was
adopted, and, if it had not previously taken effect, took effect.".

[Intended to make the consequences of Assessorial mishaps significantly
easier to deal with - this will insure that a proposal does not take
effect twice if an assessment is posted twice (the first time because it
succeeded platonically, the second time because of self-ratification).]

//
ID: 8352
Title: zombie auction fix 1.1
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 1885 (Zombie Auctions) by replacing:
  For the purpose of such a auction, to transfer a zombie to a player
  is to set that zombie's master switch to that player.
with:
  For the purpose of such a auction, to transfer a zombie to a player
  is to set that zombie's master switch to that player, and Agora CAN
  perform such transfers of the appropriate lots to auction winners.

and by inserting a line break immediately before the resulting text so
that it is a new paragraph.

Amend Rule 2551 (Auction End) by deleting "at will".

//
ID: 8353
Title: All that glisters
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors:


Enact a new Rule of Power 1.0 entitled "Temporary CFJ Setup" with the
following text:

  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, twg CANNOT publish a Notice
  of Honour.

  twg CAN, by announcement, cause this Rule to repeal itself.

//
ID: 8354
Title: Statutory Instrumentation
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


=Administrative Law Reform. I. Statutory Instrumentation.=

[This first proposal is a reform to the core rules defining what rules
are, with an aim to better supporting subordinate legal documents. The
intent is to enact very little change to the game as it is actually
played, and to operate mostly in the realm of supporting definitions.]

If this proposal has had any provision vetoed, then the entire
proposal has no effect. If this proposal has already taken effect,
then it has no effect.

In this proposal, "I->S" is to amend a rule within the scope specified
by replacing each instance of "an Instrument" with "a statute", and
each other instance of "Instrument" with "statute". This is not a
case-sensitive match, however, if the text being replaced has a
leading capital, then so does the replacement.

Enact a new power-3.9 rule entitled "Statutory Instrumentation
Simultaneity", reading:
{{
  Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the proposal which enacted this
  rule CAN effect multiple rule changes, which it co

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-02-23 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
This is missing my proposal, “summaries matter,” submitted about an hour ago. 

Gaelan

> On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:02 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion 
>  wrote:
> 
> Here's a draft report.
> 
> -Aris
> ---
> 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 7, 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8342#  Gaelan, [1]  2.0   Calls with Memoranda
> 8343j  twg  1.7   Judicial Jocularity Act
> 8344*  Alexis   3.0   Unsubstantive interpretation
> 8345#  Jason2.0   Self-punishment
> 8346*  Jason, ais5233.0   De-secure Black Ribbons v2
> 8347*  Jason3.0   R2141 power increase v2
> 
> The proposal pool is currently empty.
> 
> [1] Aris, G., Alexis
> 
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
># : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
>e : Economy ministry proposal.
>f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
>j : Justice ministry proposal.
>l : Legislation ministry proposal.
>p : Participation ministry proposal.
> 
> 
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> 
> 
> //
> ID: 8342
> Title: Calls with Memoranda
> Adoption index: 2.0
> Author: Gaelan
> Co-authors: Aris, G., Alexis
> 
> 
> Create a new Power-2 rule titled “Administrative Opinions”: {
>  An officer may publish an Administrative Opinion for a judicial case,
>  specifying a valid judgement for that case. Officers SHOULD only assign
>  Administrative Opinions to cases with which eir office is primarily 
> concerned.
>  The Arbitor SHOULD record Administrative Opinions along with case judgements.
>  An officer who has published an Administrative Opinion for an unassigned case
>  may, without objection, Administratively Close a case, causing em to become
>  the judge for the case and eir Administrative Opinion to become the judgment
>  for the case. The Arbitor SHOULD NOT assign a judge to a case while
>  proceedings to Administratively Close it are ongoing.
> }
> 
> //
> ID: 8343
> Title: Judicial Jocularity Act
> Adoption index: 1.7
> Author: twg
> Co-authors:
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 591, "Delivering Judgement", by replacing each occurrence of
> "DISMISS" with "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".
> 
> [Very few CFJs get judged DISMISS at the moment; I figure the generation
> of mirth outweighs the slight inconvenience of having to copy-and-paste
> it from the ruleset occasionally.]
> 
> //
> ID: 8344
> Title: Unsubstantive interpretation
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Alexis
> Co-authors:
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 2140 (Power Controls Mutability) by replacing
>  'A "substantive" aspect of an instrument is any aspect that affects the
>  instrument's operation.'
> 
> with
> 
>  'A "substantive" aspect of an instrument is any aspect that affects the
>  instrument's operation, but does not include its interpretation."
> }
> [Interpretations between entities of different power are controlled by R217.]
> 
> //
> ID: 8345
> Title: Self-punishment
> Adoption index: 2.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 2555 (Blots) by inserting the following paragraph after the
> paragraph beginning "Levying fines and destroying blots":
> 
>  A person CAN, by announcement, create a specified number of blots in
>  eir possession.
> 
> Amend Rule 2535 (Zombies) by inserting the following list item before
> the item that says "deregister.":
> 
>  - create blots;
> 
> [This is intended to allow contracts to provide enforcement mechanisms
> other than R1742's general "SHALL act in accordance with that contract".
> For example, a contract could grant an Enforcer the ability to act on
> behalf of other parties to create blots in the possession of the other
> party. This could also, potentially, reduce work on the Referee.
> 
> The zombie provision is intended to prevent zombie owners from screwing
> over their zombies.]
> 
> //
> ID: 8346
> Title: De-secure Black Ribbons v2
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors: ais523
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "This rule does not
> specify any methods of obtaining Black Ribbons." with the text "An
> Instrument CAN, as part of its effect, cause a person to earn a Black
> Ribbon. When this occurs, this Rule awards that person a Black Ribbon.".
> 
> /

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-02-23 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8342#  Gaelan, [1]  2.0   Calls with Memoranda
8343j  twg  1.7   Judicial Jocularity Act
8344*  Alexis   3.0   Unsubstantive interpretation
8345#  Jason2.0   Self-punishment
8346*  Jason, ais5233.0   De-secure Black Ribbons v2
8347*  Jason3.0   R2141 power increase v2

The proposal pool is currently empty.

[1] Aris, G., Alexis

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.


//
ID: 8342
Title: Calls with Memoranda
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Gaelan
Co-authors: Aris, G., Alexis


Create a new Power-2 rule titled “Administrative Opinions”: {
  An officer may publish an Administrative Opinion for a judicial case,
  specifying a valid judgement for that case. Officers SHOULD only assign
  Administrative Opinions to cases with which eir office is primarily concerned.
  The Arbitor SHOULD record Administrative Opinions along with case judgements.
  An officer who has published an Administrative Opinion for an unassigned case
  may, without objection, Administratively Close a case, causing em to become
  the judge for the case and eir Administrative Opinion to become the judgment
  for the case. The Arbitor SHOULD NOT assign a judge to a case while
  proceedings to Administratively Close it are ongoing.
}

//
ID: 8343
Title: Judicial Jocularity Act
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: twg
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 591, "Delivering Judgement", by replacing each occurrence of
"DISMISS" with "¯\_(ツ)_/¯".

[Very few CFJs get judged DISMISS at the moment; I figure the generation
 of mirth outweighs the slight inconvenience of having to copy-and-paste
 it from the ruleset occasionally.]

//
ID: 8344
Title: Unsubstantive interpretation
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2140 (Power Controls Mutability) by replacing
  'A "substantive" aspect of an instrument is any aspect that affects the
  instrument's operation.'

with

  'A "substantive" aspect of an instrument is any aspect that affects the
  instrument's operation, but does not include its interpretation."
}
[Interpretations between entities of different power are controlled by R217.]

//
ID: 8345
Title: Self-punishment
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2555 (Blots) by inserting the following paragraph after the
paragraph beginning "Levying fines and destroying blots":

  A person CAN, by announcement, create a specified number of blots in
  eir possession.

Amend Rule 2535 (Zombies) by inserting the following list item before
the item that says "deregister.":

  - create blots;

[This is intended to allow contracts to provide enforcement mechanisms
other than R1742's general "SHALL act in accordance with that contract".
For example, a contract could grant an Enforcer the ability to act on
behalf of other parties to create blots in the possession of the other
party. This could also, potentially, reduce work on the Referee.

The zombie provision is intended to prevent zombie owners from screwing
over their zombies.]

//
ID: 8346
Title: De-secure Black Ribbons v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: ais523


Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "This rule does not
specify any methods of obtaining Black Ribbons." with the text "An
Instrument CAN, as part of its effect, cause a person to earn a Black
Ribbon. When this occurs, this Rule awards that person a Black Ribbon.".

//
ID: 8347
Title: R2141 power increase v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Set Rule 2141's power to 3.1

[Rationale: Rule 2141 (Role and Attributes of Rules) defines
(unsurprisingly) what rules are and what they can do. This is
sufficiently important that it should take precedence over other power-3
rules. This doesn't protect it from 

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Rerenumbered Index

2020-02-12 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
This is missing two of my proposals, which I admittedly submitted rather 
late—maybe you intended to distribute them next week? Here they are, in case 
you missed them:

{
Title: Calls with Memoranda
AI: 2
Co-authors: Aris, G, Alexis

Create a new Power-2 rule titled “Administrative Opinions”: {
An officer may publish an Administrative Opinion for a judicial case, 
specifying a valid judgement for that case. Officers SHOULD only assign 
Administrative Opinions to cases with which eir office is primarily concerned. 
The Arbitor SHOULD record Administrative Opinions along with case judgements. 
An officer who has published an Administrative Opinion for an unassigned case 
may, without objection, Administratively Close a case, causing em to become the 
judge for the case and eir Administrative Opinion to become the judgment for 
the case. The Arbitor SHOULD NOT assign a judge to a case while proceedings to 
Administratively Close it are ongoing.
}
}

{
Title: Calls for Memoranda
AI: 2
Co-authors: Aris, G

Amend rule 991 by appending “All other things being equal, the Arbitor SHOULD 
assign Calls for Judgement to the officer most concerned with its content.” 
after the sentence "The Arbitor SHALL assign judges over time such that all 
interested players have reasonably equal opportunities to judge.”
}

Gaelan

> On Feb 12, 2020, at 9:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion 
>  wrote:
> 
> Would someone please check me on this? I don't trust myself anymore.
> 
> -Aris
> ---
> It has come to the attention of the Promotorial Proposal Office that certain
> proposals were incorrectly numbered. Twice. I sincerely apologize for this 
> grave
> lapse.
> 
> All proposals numbered 33## or 35## and distributed within the last week
> are hereby renumbered 83##, where the final two digits remain the same. Here 
> is
> a revised index of proposals up for vote (each of the decisions on whether to
> adopt them has a quorum of 6). All players are hereby advised to treat these
> numbers as canonical from the present moment forward, and to vote in reply
> to this index as if it were an original distribution.
> 
> ID Author(s)AITitle
> ---
> 8322*  Falsifian, Alexis, twg   3.0   Unrepetition v1.1
> 8323*  Jason3.0   Secure Ribbons
> 8324l  Falsifian2.0   Democratic unassignment
> 8325e  Falsifian2.0   Inflation Vote
> 8326*  Falsifian3.0   Attempted cleanup
> 8327l  Falsifian1.0   Blink test v1.2
> 8328*  Falsifian3.0   The Eternal Sprit
> 8329p  Alexis   1.0   RtRW Reschedule
> 8330*  G.   3.0   No looting white ribbons
> 8331j  Warrigal 1.7   Promissory cleanliness
> 8332f  Murphy, Alexis   1.0   Switch Responsibility Responsibility
> 8333l  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningful extra votes
> 8334e  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningless extra coins
> 8335f  Murphy   2.0   Consistent ADoP duties
> 8336*  Jason3.0   Define "publicly"
> 8337e  Murphy   1.0   Fix Auctions
> 8338l  Murphy   2.0   Clarify quorum (option 1)
> 8339l  Murphy   2.0   Clarify quorum (option 2)
> 8340p  Alexis   1.0   The Paradox of Self-Appointment
> 8341*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person
> 
> The proposal pool is currently empty.
> 
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
># : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
>e : Economy ministry proposal.
>f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
>j : Justice ministry proposal.
>l : Legislation ministry proposal.
>p : Participation ministry proposal.
> 
> 
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> 
> 
> //
> ID: 8322
> Title: Unrepetition v1.1
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Falsifian
> Co-authors: Alexis, twg
> 
> 
> For each of Proposals 8287-8307, if the proposal took effect more than
> once, then any changes to rule text caused by the second and later
> times the proposal took effect are considered "extra" for the purposes
> of this proposal.
> 
> Reverse all such "extra" changes, in the reverse of the order in which
> they occurred.
> 
> [Comment: See 
> https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2020-February/056587.html
> for context. I think the changes this undoes are relatively benign,
> but it's nice to have certainty about the state of the ruleset.]
> 
> //
> ID: 8323
> Title: Secure Ribbons
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors:
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "Ribbon Ownership is a
> person switch" with the text "Ribbon Ownership is a secured person switch".
> 

DIS: [Promotor] Draft Rerenumbered Index

2020-02-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Would someone please check me on this? I don't trust myself anymore.

-Aris
---
It has come to the attention of the Promotorial Proposal Office that certain
proposals were incorrectly numbered. Twice. I sincerely apologize for this grave
lapse.

All proposals numbered 33## or 35## and distributed within the last week
are hereby renumbered 83##, where the final two digits remain the same. Here is
a revised index of proposals up for vote (each of the decisions on whether to
adopt them has a quorum of 6). All players are hereby advised to treat these
numbers as canonical from the present moment forward, and to vote in reply
to this index as if it were an original distribution.

ID Author(s)AITitle
---
8322*  Falsifian, Alexis, twg   3.0   Unrepetition v1.1
8323*  Jason3.0   Secure Ribbons
8324l  Falsifian2.0   Democratic unassignment
8325e  Falsifian2.0   Inflation Vote
8326*  Falsifian3.0   Attempted cleanup
8327l  Falsifian1.0   Blink test v1.2
8328*  Falsifian3.0   The Eternal Sprit
8329p  Alexis   1.0   RtRW Reschedule
8330*  G.   3.0   No looting white ribbons
8331j  Warrigal 1.7   Promissory cleanliness
8332f  Murphy, Alexis   1.0   Switch Responsibility Responsibility
8333l  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningful extra votes
8334e  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningless extra coins
8335f  Murphy   2.0   Consistent ADoP duties
8336*  Jason3.0   Define "publicly"
8337e  Murphy   1.0   Fix Auctions
8338l  Murphy   2.0   Clarify quorum (option 1)
8339l  Murphy   2.0   Clarify quorum (option 2)
8340p  Alexis   1.0   The Paradox of Self-Appointment
8341*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.


//
ID: 8322
Title: Unrepetition v1.1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors: Alexis, twg


For each of Proposals 8287-8307, if the proposal took effect more than
once, then any changes to rule text caused by the second and later
times the proposal took effect are considered "extra" for the purposes
of this proposal.

Reverse all such "extra" changes, in the reverse of the order in which
they occurred.

[Comment: See 
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2020-February/056587.html
for context. I think the changes this undoes are relatively benign,
but it's nice to have certainty about the state of the ruleset.]

//
ID: 8323
Title: Secure Ribbons
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "Ribbon Ownership is a
person switch" with the text "Ribbon Ownership is a secured person switch".

//
ID: 8324
Title: Democratic unassignment
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


If Proposal 8320 (Promotorial Assignment) has been adopted, then amend
the rule entitled "Proposal Chambers" by replacing "If a proposal in
the Proposal Pool has its chamber unset" with "If the chamber of an
ordinary proposal in the Proposal Pool is unset".

//
ID: 8325
Title: Inflation Vote
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


[Comments:

Are we just going to let a steady stream of sufficiently dedicated
players claim their standard victories? I say we raise the bar a
little.

There's been some talk of a larger re-working of the economy. In the
meantime, this proposal calls for players to vote on a new number to
replace the 1,000 coin victory fee. The median vote wins, favouring the
higher vote if there are two middle votes.

]

For the purpose of this proposal:

* An Inflation Ballot is a body of text published during the voting
  period of this proposal that clearly, directly and without
  obfuscation specifies a single non-negative integer and that it is an
  Inflation Ballot.

* Each player's Inflation Vote is the integer specified in the last
  Inflation Ballot they published, or "none" if they never published
  one.

* P is the number of players with Inflation Votes other than "none".

* Median is the (unique) integer such that that at least P/2 Inflation
  Votes are integers greater than or equal to M

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-02-09 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here is a draft report.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8322*  Falsifian, Alexis, twg   3.0   Unrepetition v1.1
8323*  Jason3.0   Secure Ribbons
8324l  Falsifian2.0   Democratic unassignment
8325e  Falsifian2.0   Inflation Vote
3526*  Falsifian3.0   Attempted cleanup
3527l  Falsifian1.0   Blink test v1.2
3528*  Falsifian3.0   The Eternal Sprit
3529#  Alexis   1.0   RtRW Reschedule
3530*  G.   3.0   No looting white ribbons
3531#  Warrigal 1.7   Promissory cleanliness
3532f  Murphy, Alexis   1.0   Switch Responsibility Responsibility
3533#  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningful extra votes
3534#  Murphy, Alexis   2.0   Meaningless extra coins
3535#  Murphy   2.0   Consistent ADoP duties
3536*  Jason3.0   Define "publicly"
3537#  Murphy   1.0   Fix Auctions

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.


//
ID: 8322
Title: Unrepetition v1.1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors: Alexis, twg


For each of Proposals 8287-8307, if the proposal took effect more than
once, then any changes to rule text caused by the second and later
times the proposal took effect are considered "extra" for the purposes
of this proposal.

Reverse all such "extra" changes, in the reverse of the order in which
they occurred.

[Comment: See 
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2020-February/056587.html
for context. I think the changes this undoes are relatively benign,
but it's nice to have certainty about the state of the ruleset.]

//
ID: 8323
Title: Secure Ribbons
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "Ribbon Ownership is a
person switch" with the text "Ribbon Ownership is a secured person switch".

//
ID: 8324
Title: Democratic unassignment
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


If Proposal 8320 (Promotorial Assignment) has been adopted, then amend
the rule entitled "Proposal Chambers" by replacing "If a proposal in
the Proposal Pool has its chamber unset" with "If the chamber of an
ordinary proposal in the Proposal Pool is unset".

//
ID: 8325
Title: Inflation Vote
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


[Comments:

Are we just going to let a steady stream of sufficiently dedicated
players claim their standard victories? I say we raise the bar a
little.

There's been some talk of a larger re-working of the economy. In the
meantime, this proposal calls for players to vote on a new number to
replace the 1,000 coin victory fee. The median vote wins, favouring the
higher vote if there are two middle votes.

]

For the purpose of this proposal:

* An Inflation Ballot is a body of text published during the voting
  period of this proposal that clearly, directly and without
  obfuscation specifies a single non-negative integer and that it is an
  Inflation Ballot.

* Each player's Inflation Vote is the integer specified in the last
  Inflation Ballot they published, or "none" if they never published
  one.

* P is the number of players with Inflation Votes other than "none".

* Median is the (unique) integer such that that at least P/2 Inflation
  Votes are integers greater than or equal to Median, and at least
  (P/2+0.5) Inflation votes are integers less than or equal to Median.

Amend Rule 2483 (Economics) by replacing "1,000" with Median, written
in decimal with commas separating groups of three digits, as in
"12,345,678".

//
ID: 8326
Title: Attempted cleanup
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


Repeal Rule 2604 ("Nothing to see here, Rule 1030,") and Rule 2600 ("Boo!!").

//
ID: 3527
Title:

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-30 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 7:53 AM Alexis Hunt via agora-business <
agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> On Wed., Jan. 29, 2020, 23:29 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion, <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
> > > > 8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
> > > >
> > > I intend, with 2 Agoran consent, to flip the chamber of this proposal
> to
> > > Efficiency.
> > >
> > > > 8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
> > > >
> > > I intend, with 2 Agoran consent, to flip the chamber of this proposal
> to
> > > Economy.
> > >
> > > -Alexis
> >
> >
> >
> > > You can do it by announcement by retracting and resubmitting the
> > proposal.
> > I won’t mind (especially given that we’re all just getting used to the
> new
> > order).
> >
> > -Aris
> >
>
> Arright, I retract the above proposals and resubmit ones that are identical
> but have the chambers indicated in the quoted message.
>
> Also, one other correction; I resubmit the proposal "Clearer Resolutions"
> and submit one that's identical except with the following added at the end:
> {{
> Amend Rule 2034 (Vote Protection and Cutoff for Challenges) to read:
> {
> A public message purporting to resolve an Agoran decision is a
> self-ratifying attestation that:
>
> 1. such a decision existed;
> 2. it had the outcome indicated;
> 3. if the indicated outcome was to adopt a proposal, that such a decision
> existed, was adopted, and took effect by virtue of the resolution;
> 4. if the indicated outcome was to elect a person to an office and if the
> person was eligible for that office, that that person won the election and
> took office.
> }
> }}
>
> (In the future, would you prefer that those sort of corrections be done by
> repasting the text? I've assumed not but I'm happy to continue them
> particularly for when I left a rule out like this. Whichever's easier for
> you.)


In general, if the text is changed, I’d strongly prefer to have the full
proposal reposted. That’s less important if it’s just one of the properties
that’s getting changed like this, though it’s still nice because it
increases the chances I’ll notice.

So I guess the rule of thumb is that a full resubmission is preferred in
general, except when the changes are made in response to a draft like your
chamber switchings were, and strongly requested for text changes regardless
of the circumstances.


-Aris


Re: BUS: Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:27 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-business <
agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 23:08, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
> > Here's a draft report. Comments are, as always, highly appreciated.
> >
> > -Aris
> > ---
> > 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 7, 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)AITitle
> >
> ---
> > 8308*  Falsifian3.0   Imposing order on the order
> >
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, this proposal (and possibly others as well) has no
> class, as it was submitted prior to the creation of class.


Oh, yeah, I’ll go back and check that.

>
>
> > 8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
> >
> I intend, with 2 Agoran consent, to flip the chamber of this proposal to
> Efficiency.
>
> > 8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
> >
> I intend, with 2 Agoran consent, to flip the chamber of this proposal to
> Economy.
>
> -Alexis



> You can do it by announcement by retracting and resubmitting the proposal.
I won’t mind (especially given that we’re all just getting used to the new
order).

-Aris


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Yet another error: "Clearer Resolutions" is democratic. Gosh that's a
lot for the first 10 minutes.

-Aris

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:16 PM Aris Merchant
 wrote:
>
> Another error: The title of the proposal "Sergeant-at-Arms" was not in
> the full text section.
>
> -Aris
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:13 PM Aris Merchant
>  wrote:
> >
> > I caught an error: Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy is AI 1.0.
> >
> > -Aris
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:08 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
> >  wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a draft report. Comments are, as always, highly appreciated.
> > >
> > > -Aris
> > > ---
> > > 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 7, 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)AITitle
> > > ---
> > > 8308*  Falsifian3.0   Imposing order on the order
> > > 8309*  Alexis   3.0   A Degree of Inefficiency
> > > 8310*  Jason, Alexis3.0   Deputisation timeliness
> > > 8311e  twg, omd 3.0   Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
> > > 8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
> > > 8313*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person
> > > 8314e  Aris 1.0   Finite Gifting
> > > 8315#  Alexis   3.0   Clearer Resolutions
> > > 8316*  Alexis   3.0   Zombie voting package
> > > 8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
> > > 8318f  Aris 1.0   Notorial Economy
> > > 8319l  Aris 2.0   Sergeant-at-Arms
> > > 8320l  Aris 2.0   Promotorial Assignment
> > > 8321l  Aris 2.0   Untying Quorum
> > >
> > > The proposal pool is currently empty.
> > >
> > > Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> > > # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> > > e : Economy ministry proposal.
> > > f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> > > j : Justice ministry proposal.
> > > l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> > > p : Participation ministry proposal.
> > >
> > >
> > > The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> > >
> > >
> > > //
> > > ID: 8308
> > > Title: Imposing order on the order
> > > Adoption index: 3.0
> > > Author: Falsifian
> > > Co-authors:
> > >
> > >
> > > If Proposal 8291 has been passed, and Rule 2350 does not have the list
> > > item "* A chamber to which the proposal shall be assigned upon it
> > > creation.", add that list item to the end of the list. If the list
> > > item is present, but it is not at the end of the list, or it is
> > > unclear or otherwise difficult or impossible to determine where in the
> > > list it is, put it at the end of the list.
> > >
> > > //
> > > ID: 8309
> > > Title: A Degree of Inefficiency
> > > Adoption index: 3.0
> > > Author: Alexis
> > > Co-authors:
> > >
> > >
> > > Amend Rule 2595 (Performing a Dependent Action) by inserting ", and did 
> > > not
> > > subsequently withdraw, " immediately after "published" in the first
> > > paragraph.
> > >
> > > //
> > > ID: 8310
> > > Title: Deputisation timeliness
> > > Adoption index: 3.0
> > > Author: Jason
> > > Co-authors: Alexis
> > >
> > >
> > > Amend Rule 2160 to read, in whole:
> > >
> > > {
> > >
> > >   A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action ordinarily
> > >   reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office if
> > >
> > >   1. the player does not hold that office;
> > >
> > >   2. it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than
> > >   by deputisation, if e held the office;
> > >
> > >   3. either (i) there exists an obligation on the holder of that office,
> > >   by virtue of holding that office, to perform the action, or (ii) the
> > >   office is vacant;
> > >
> > >   4. either (i) a time limit applicable to that obligation has been
> > >   violated, and the end of that time limit was fewer than 90 days ago, or
> > >   (ii) the office is vacant;
> > >
> > >   5. if the office is not interim, the deputy announced between two and
> > >   fourteen days earlier that e intended to deputise for that office for
> > >   the purposes of the particular action; and
> > >
> > >   6. the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing so
> > >   by deputisation or by temporary deputisation.
> > >
> > >
> > >   When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the holder of
> > >   that office

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Another error: The title of the proposal "Sergeant-at-Arms" was not in
the full text section.

-Aris

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:13 PM Aris Merchant
 wrote:
>
> I caught an error: Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy is AI 1.0.
>
> -Aris
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:08 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
>  wrote:
> >
> > Here's a draft report. Comments are, as always, highly appreciated.
> >
> > -Aris
> > ---
> > 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 7, 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)AITitle
> > ---
> > 8308*  Falsifian3.0   Imposing order on the order
> > 8309*  Alexis   3.0   A Degree of Inefficiency
> > 8310*  Jason, Alexis3.0   Deputisation timeliness
> > 8311e  twg, omd 3.0   Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
> > 8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
> > 8313*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person
> > 8314e  Aris 1.0   Finite Gifting
> > 8315#  Alexis   3.0   Clearer Resolutions
> > 8316*  Alexis   3.0   Zombie voting package
> > 8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
> > 8318f  Aris 1.0   Notorial Economy
> > 8319l  Aris 2.0   Sergeant-at-Arms
> > 8320l  Aris 2.0   Promotorial Assignment
> > 8321l  Aris 2.0   Untying Quorum
> >
> > The proposal pool is currently empty.
> >
> > Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> > # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> > e : Economy ministry proposal.
> > f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> > j : Justice ministry proposal.
> > l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> > p : Participation ministry proposal.
> >
> >
> > The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
> >
> >
> > //
> > ID: 8308
> > Title: Imposing order on the order
> > Adoption index: 3.0
> > Author: Falsifian
> > Co-authors:
> >
> >
> > If Proposal 8291 has been passed, and Rule 2350 does not have the list
> > item "* A chamber to which the proposal shall be assigned upon it
> > creation.", add that list item to the end of the list. If the list
> > item is present, but it is not at the end of the list, or it is
> > unclear or otherwise difficult or impossible to determine where in the
> > list it is, put it at the end of the list.
> >
> > //
> > ID: 8309
> > Title: A Degree of Inefficiency
> > Adoption index: 3.0
> > Author: Alexis
> > Co-authors:
> >
> >
> > Amend Rule 2595 (Performing a Dependent Action) by inserting ", and did not
> > subsequently withdraw, " immediately after "published" in the first
> > paragraph.
> >
> > //
> > ID: 8310
> > Title: Deputisation timeliness
> > Adoption index: 3.0
> > Author: Jason
> > Co-authors: Alexis
> >
> >
> > Amend Rule 2160 to read, in whole:
> >
> > {
> >
> >   A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action ordinarily
> >   reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office if
> >
> >   1. the player does not hold that office;
> >
> >   2. it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than
> >   by deputisation, if e held the office;
> >
> >   3. either (i) there exists an obligation on the holder of that office,
> >   by virtue of holding that office, to perform the action, or (ii) the
> >   office is vacant;
> >
> >   4. either (i) a time limit applicable to that obligation has been
> >   violated, and the end of that time limit was fewer than 90 days ago, or
> >   (ii) the office is vacant;
> >
> >   5. if the office is not interim, the deputy announced between two and
> >   fourteen days earlier that e intended to deputise for that office for
> >   the purposes of the particular action; and
> >
> >   6. the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing so
> >   by deputisation or by temporary deputisation.
> >
> >
> >   When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the holder of
> >   that office, unless the action being performed would already install
> >   someone into that office, and/or unless the deputisation is temporary.
> >
> > }
> >
> > [
> >
> > Added a prohibition on someone for deputising for an office that e
> > already holds (this was something I thought of, but then I realized it
> > violate all of the exacerbating factors in R2557.
> >
> > Rephrased the time limit checks based on Alexi

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I caught an error: Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy is AI 1.0.

-Aris

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 8:08 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
 wrote:
>
> Here's a draft report. Comments are, as always, highly appreciated.
>
> -Aris
> ---
> 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 7, 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)AITitle
> ---
> 8308*  Falsifian3.0   Imposing order on the order
> 8309*  Alexis   3.0   A Degree of Inefficiency
> 8310*  Jason, Alexis3.0   Deputisation timeliness
> 8311e  twg, omd 3.0   Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
> 8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
> 8313*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person
> 8314e  Aris 1.0   Finite Gifting
> 8315#  Alexis   3.0   Clearer Resolutions
> 8316*  Alexis   3.0   Zombie voting package
> 8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
> 8318f  Aris 1.0   Notorial Economy
> 8319l  Aris 2.0   Sergeant-at-Arms
> 8320l  Aris 2.0   Promotorial Assignment
> 8321l  Aris 2.0   Untying Quorum
>
> The proposal pool is currently empty.
>
> Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
> # : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
> e : Economy ministry proposal.
> f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
> j : Justice ministry proposal.
> l : Legislation ministry proposal.
> p : Participation ministry proposal.
>
>
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
>
>
> //
> ID: 8308
> Title: Imposing order on the order
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Falsifian
> Co-authors:
>
>
> If Proposal 8291 has been passed, and Rule 2350 does not have the list
> item "* A chamber to which the proposal shall be assigned upon it
> creation.", add that list item to the end of the list. If the list
> item is present, but it is not at the end of the list, or it is
> unclear or otherwise difficult or impossible to determine where in the
> list it is, put it at the end of the list.
>
> //
> ID: 8309
> Title: A Degree of Inefficiency
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Alexis
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Amend Rule 2595 (Performing a Dependent Action) by inserting ", and did not
> subsequently withdraw, " immediately after "published" in the first
> paragraph.
>
> //
> ID: 8310
> Title: Deputisation timeliness
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason
> Co-authors: Alexis
>
>
> Amend Rule 2160 to read, in whole:
>
> {
>
>   A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action ordinarily
>   reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office if
>
>   1. the player does not hold that office;
>
>   2. it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than
>   by deputisation, if e held the office;
>
>   3. either (i) there exists an obligation on the holder of that office,
>   by virtue of holding that office, to perform the action, or (ii) the
>   office is vacant;
>
>   4. either (i) a time limit applicable to that obligation has been
>   violated, and the end of that time limit was fewer than 90 days ago, or
>   (ii) the office is vacant;
>
>   5. if the office is not interim, the deputy announced between two and
>   fourteen days earlier that e intended to deputise for that office for
>   the purposes of the particular action; and
>
>   6. the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing so
>   by deputisation or by temporary deputisation.
>
>
>   When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the holder of
>   that office, unless the action being performed would already install
>   someone into that office, and/or unless the deputisation is temporary.
>
> }
>
> [
>
> Added a prohibition on someone for deputising for an office that e
> already holds (this was something I thought of, but then I realized it
> violate all of the exacerbating factors in R2557.
>
> Rephrased the time limit checks based on Alexis's suggested wording,
> also adding a 90-day statute of limitations.
>
> Removed the requirement for prior announcement for most deputisations,
> only kept it for non-interim holders (also per Alexis's suggestion).
>
> ]
>
> //
> ID: 8311
> Title: Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
> Adoption index: 1.0
> Author: twg
> Co-authors:
>
>
> 

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-29 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report. Comments are, as always, highly appreciated.

-Aris
---
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 7, 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)AITitle
---
8308*  Falsifian3.0   Imposing order on the order
8309*  Alexis   3.0   A Degree of Inefficiency
8310*  Jason, Alexis3.0   Deputisation timeliness
8311e  twg, omd 3.0   Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
8312#  Alexis   1.0   On Possibility
8313*  Alexis, G.   3.0   Support of the Person
8314e  Aris 1.0   Finite Gifting
8315#  Alexis   3.0   Clearer Resolutions
8316*  Alexis   3.0   Zombie voting package
8317#  Alexis   2.0   Zombie trade
8318f  Aris 1.0   Notorial Economy
8319l  Aris 2.0   Sergeant-at-Arms
8320l  Aris 2.0   Promotorial Assignment
8321l  Aris 2.0   Untying Quorum

The proposal pool is currently empty.

Legend: * : Democratic proposal.
# : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
e : Economy ministry proposal.
f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
j : Justice ministry proposal.
l : Legislation ministry proposal.
p : Participation ministry proposal.


The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.


//
ID: 8308
Title: Imposing order on the order
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors:


If Proposal 8291 has been passed, and Rule 2350 does not have the list
item "* A chamber to which the proposal shall be assigned upon it
creation.", add that list item to the end of the list. If the list
item is present, but it is not at the end of the list, or it is
unclear or otherwise difficult or impossible to determine where in the
list it is, put it at the end of the list.

//
ID: 8309
Title: A Degree of Inefficiency
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2595 (Performing a Dependent Action) by inserting ", and did not
subsequently withdraw, " immediately after "published" in the first
paragraph.

//
ID: 8310
Title: Deputisation timeliness
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Alexis


Amend Rule 2160 to read, in whole:

{

  A player acting as emself (the deputy) CAN perform an action ordinarily
  reserved for an office-holder as if e held the office if

  1. the player does not hold that office;

  2. it would be POSSIBLE for the deputy to perform the action, other than
  by deputisation, if e held the office;

  3. either (i) there exists an obligation on the holder of that office,
  by virtue of holding that office, to perform the action, or (ii) the
  office is vacant;

  4. either (i) a time limit applicable to that obligation has been
  violated, and the end of that time limit was fewer than 90 days ago, or
  (ii) the office is vacant;

  5. if the office is not interim, the deputy announced between two and
  fourteen days earlier that e intended to deputise for that office for
  the purposes of the particular action; and

  6. the deputy, when performing the action, announces that e is doing so
  by deputisation or by temporary deputisation.


  When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the holder of
  that office, unless the action being performed would already install
  someone into that office, and/or unless the deputisation is temporary.

}

[

Added a prohibition on someone for deputising for an office that e
already holds (this was something I thought of, but then I realized it
violate all of the exacerbating factors in R2557.

Rephrased the time limit checks based on Alexis's suggested wording,
also adding a 90-day statute of limitations.

Removed the requirement for prior announcement for most deputisations,
only kept it for non-interim holders (also per Alexis's suggestion).

]

//
ID: 8311
Title: Rewards Patch & Equitable Remedy
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: twg
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2496, "Rewards", by replacing "CAN once" with "CAN once by
announcement".

Amend Rule 2602, "Glitter", by replacing "CAN once" with "CAN once by
announcement".

For the purposes of this proposal, the "recession" is defined as the
period of time starting at 03:00 am UTC on 29th January 2020 and ending
the instant before the adoption of this proposal.

For each time a p

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-20 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion
Aris wrote:
> Here's a draft. The actual report will be about a day late; I
> sincerely apologize for my tardiness, and I hope the extra day won't
> cause significant trouble. Given how big this distribution has turned
> out to be, I don't feel comfortable sending this out without a draft
> to catch errors.

The indentation has gone slightly askew in 8292 and 8295. In 8295 this
actually changes the meaning of the first part of the proposal! This is
at least partially my fault for using multiple levels of indentation in
the first place - I shall add more punctuation in the future, instead.

The attributes for 8297 have been repeated in 8298.

I don't see any other errors.

-twg


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft. The actual report will be about a day late; I
sincerely apologize for my tardiness, and I hope the extra day won't
cause significant trouble. Given how big this distribution has turned
out to be, I don't feel comfortable sending this out without a draft
to catch errors.

-Aris
---
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 5, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid
options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote, as are
conditional votes).

IDAuthor(s)AITitle
---
8287  twg  2.0   Blot Stabilisation
8288  omd  1.0   Glitteral
8289  Alexis   1.0   You're Banned from the Theater
8290  G.   3.0   More Headroom
8291  Bernie, [1]  3.0   Interesting Chambers v3.1
8292  Bernie, twg  3.0   Self-Ratification Simplification Act
8293  Bernie, twg  1.0   CFJ Bait
8294  Bernie, twg  3.0   Authorial Intent
8295  Bernie, twg, Alexis  3.0   Rewards Reform Act
8296  Aris, G. 1.0   Divergence
8297  Aris 2.1   Imminent Failure
8298  Aris, [2]2.0   Administrative Adjudication v3
8299  Aris, G. 3.0   The Reset Button v2
8300  Aris 3.0   Patches
8301  Aris, Jason Cobb 3.0   Consolidated Regulatory Recordkeeping v2
8302  Aris 1.5   Generic Petitions
8303  Aris, [3]3.0   Contract Patency v3
8304  Bernie, twg, Jason Cobb  3.0   Rewards Reform Act - v1.1 Patch

The proposal pool is currently empty.

[1] Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Jason Cobb, twg
[2] Gaelan, twg, G., Jason Cobb, Alexis
[3] Gaelan, Jason Cobb, Falsifian

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.


//
ID: 8287
Title: Blot Stabilisation
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: twg
Co-authors:


/* Now that people can expunge each others' blots when they feel
 * an appropriate sentence has been served, blots don't tend to
 * stick around for more than a month or two, so there's not much
 * value in the quarterly blot decay.
 */

Amend Rule 2555, "Blots", by deleting the following paragraph:

  At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each
  fugitive's blots are destroyed.

//
ID: 8288
Title: Glitteral
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: omd
Co-authors:

Amend Rule 2602 (Glitter) to read:

  Each time a player earns a type of Ribbon while already owning
  that type of Ribbon, e CAN, once within the next 7 days, claim a
  consolation prize by announcement.  Claiming a consolation prize
  causes em to earn N+1 coins, where N is the number of players
  that do not own the same type of Ribbon.

[Tried to make it as clear as possible without being excessively
verbose.  I split it into two sentences because the change in timing
of the antecedent would otherwise create ambiguity about when "N+1"
should be evaluated.]

//
ID: 8289
Title: You're Banned from the Theater
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:

Repeal Rule 2602 (Glitter).

//
ID: 8290
Title: More Headroom
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:

[I went and looked - when we inflated base voting power from 1 to 3,
we kept the range 0-5, so we really deflated the range.  Going with
14, a little less than before].

Amend Rule 2422 (Voting Strength) by replacing:
  The voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is an
  integer between 0 and 5 inclusive
with:
  The voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is an
  integer between 0 and 14 inclusive

//
ID: 8291
Title: Interesting Chambers v3.1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Jason Cobb, twg

[Enact a new Rule of Power 2.0, entitled "Ministries", with the following
text:

  A Ministry is an entity defined as such by this rule. Each
  Ministry has a goal. The Ministries of Agora, and their goals, are
  as follows:

   A. Ministry of Justice: serve justice to rulebreakers
   B. Ministry of Efficiency: see official duties performed swiftly
   C. Ministry of Legislation: see votes cast on proposals
   D. Ministry of Participation: reward players for achievements
   E. Ministry of Economy: encourage economic activity and contracts

  Interest is an office switch, tracked by the ADoP, whose possible
  values are lists of ministries, defaulting to the empty list. The
  ADoP CAN flip an office's interest without object

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-10 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 03:32, James Cook  wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 04:34, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
>  wrote:
> > A draft report follows.
> >
> > -Aris
> > ---
> > 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 4, 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)AITitle
> > ---
> > 8280   Murphy, Jason Cobb   3.0   Resolve the troubles v1.1
> > 8281   Gaelan   1.0   Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2
> > 8282   Falsifian1.0   Let's do this the hard way v1.1
> > 8283   Alexis   3.0   Ex Post Ribbon
> > 8284   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Power
> > 8285   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Roulette
> > 8286   Aris 1.0   I Forbid Vetos!
>
> I withdraw my proposal "Let's do this the hard way v1.1", since it's
> out of touch with the latest work and suggestions for resolving
> things.

Ah, sorry, right after sending that I realized doing that at the last
minute probably makes the Promotor's job harder rather than easier.

- Falsifian


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:07, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> Neither your votes, nor the promotor report, were to the public forum.
>
> Additionally, I ask that you reconsider your vote on 8281. I don’t have a
> force-through scam up my sleeve, and I would like to find out if my scam
> works. As far as I know, the rule should be fairly harmless.
>
> Gaelan
>

I'm not voting for an obvious scam if I don't get something from it!


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion
Neither your votes, nor the promotor report, were to the public forum. 

Additionally, I ask that you reconsider your vote on 8281. I don’t have a 
force-through scam up my sleeve, and I would like to find out if my scam works. 
As far as I know, the rule should be fairly harmless. 

Gaelan 

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 11:50 AM, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion 
>  wrote:
> 
> On Tue., Jan. 7, 2020, 23:34 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion, <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 
>> 8280   Murphy, Jason Cobb   3.0   Resolve the troubles v1.1
>> 
> AGAINST
> 
>> 8281   Gaelan   1.0   Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2
>> 
> AGAINST
> 
>> 8282   Falsifian1.0   Let's do this the hard way v1.1
>> 
> AGAINST
> 
>> 8283   Alexis   3.0   Ex Post Ribbon
>> 
> FOR
> 
>> 8284   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Power
>> 
> PRESENT
> 
>> 8285   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Roulette
>> 
> FOR
> 
>> 8286   Aris 1.0   I Forbid Vetos!
>> 
> PRESENT



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-08 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Tue., Jan. 7, 2020, 23:34 Aris Merchant via agora-discussion, <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:

> 8280   Murphy, Jason Cobb   3.0   Resolve the troubles v1.1
>
AGAINST

> 8281   Gaelan   1.0   Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2
>
AGAINST

> 8282   Falsifian1.0   Let's do this the hard way v1.1
>
AGAINST

> 8283   Alexis   3.0   Ex Post Ribbon
>
FOR

> 8284   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Power
>
PRESENT

> 8285   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Roulette
>
FOR

> 8286   Aris 1.0   I Forbid Vetos!
>
PRESENT


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
A draft report follows.

-Aris
---
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 4, 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)AITitle
---
8280   Murphy, Jason Cobb   3.0   Resolve the troubles v1.1
8281   Gaelan   1.0   Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2
8282   Falsifian1.0   Let's do this the hard way v1.1
8283   Alexis   3.0   Ex Post Ribbon
8284   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Power
8285   Alexis   3.0   Line-Item Roulette
8286   Aris 1.0   I Forbid Vetos!

The proposal pool is currently empty.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8280
Title: Resolve the troubles v1.1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: Jason Cobb


If Proposal 8279 (Equitable Detroubling) has been adopted, then do
nothing. Otherwise, ratify the following ~~~-delimited document:

~~~
Each of the following messages was effectively sent via the Public Forum
on or about the Date: stamp shown in the archives. Claims within these
messages (in particular, claims to perform actions) may still be
ineffective for other reasons.

Relevant messages from
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2019-December/date.html

BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
OFF: [Rulekeepor] Short Logical Ruleset   Jason Cobb
BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposal 8277   Aris Merchant
OFF: [Registrar] Agoran Directory   James Cook
OFF: [Registrar] Forbes 500   James Cook
OFF: [Rulekeepor] Full Logical Ruleset: October 2019   James Cook
OFF: Round 2, fight!   Edward Murphy
OFF: Fwd: [dicelog] Selection of Comptrollor   Edward Murphy
OFF: [ADoP] Metareport   Edward Murphy
OFF: [Distributor] list status   omd
OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3783 Assigned to omd   Kerim Aydin
OFF: [Registrar] Agoran Directory   James Cook
OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
OFF: [Distributor] list status   omd
Fwd: OFF: [Distributor] list status   omd
OFF: [ADoP] Metareport   Edward Murphy

Relevant messages from
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-December/date.html

BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Short Logical Ruleset   Jason Cobb
BUS: Judgement of CFJs 3780 and 3782   James Cook
BUS: Judgement of CFJs 3780 and 3782   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3779 Assigned to Jason Cobb   James Cook
DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3779 Assigned to Jason Cobb   James
Cook
BUS: End of Zombie lease   James Cook
BUS: Re: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposal 8277   Aris Merchant
BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Forbes 500   James Cook
BUS: Income   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Short Logical Ruleset   James Cook
BUS: Notice of Honour   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposal 8277   Edward Murphy
BUS: Resolution of Prime Minister election   Edward Murphy
BUS: Vote on Proposal 8277   James Cook
BUS: PM Candidacy   James Cook
BUS: Might as well try   James Cook
BUS: Might as well try   Jason Cobb
BUS: Might as well try   omd
BUS: CoE on ADoP report   James Cook
BUS: Notice of Honour   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Distributor] list status   Aris Merchant
BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposal 8277   Jason Cobb
BUS: Favoring   Aris Merchant
BUS: CoE on ADoP report   Edward Murphy
BUS: Re: OFF: [ADoP] Metareport   Edward Murphy
BUS: Income   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Full Logical Ruleset: October 2019   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Short Logical Ruleset   James Cook
BUS: PM Candidacy   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Agoran Directory   James Cook
BUS: End of Zombie lease   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Agoran Directory   James Cook
BUS: Re: DIS: [MUD] New Agoran MUD   Aris Merchant
BUS: Income   James Cook
BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500   James Cook
BUS: I like money too   Edward Murphy
BUS: PM Candidacy   Edward Murphy
BUS: PM Candidacy   Edward Murphy
BUS: PM Candidacy   Edward Murphy
BUS: I still like money   Edward Murphy
BUS: PM Candidacy   Jason Cobb
~~~

//
ID: 8281
Title: Nothing to see here, Rule 1030 v2
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Gaelan
Co-authors:


Create a power-0.1 rule titled "Nothing to see here, Rule 1030,” with the
following text: {
  This rule takes precedence over That One Rule, provisions of That One Rule
  notwithstanding. That One Rule is defined as the r

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2019-12-17 Thread Aris Merchant
Hello all! I regret that my activity level in Agora has been reduced
of late. There are several projects I've promised to work on, both
publicly and privately, and I am aware that I haven't really been
doing so. I've been extremely busy IRL, but expect to be less busy in
a week or two. Anyhow, my Promotorial draft is affixed.

-Aris
---
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 3, 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)AITitle
---
8277   G.   1.0   Minor Giveaway


The proposal pool is currently empty.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8277
Title: Minor Giveaway
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:


I transfer 5 coins to each active player, in the order that they
are listed in the most recent Registrar's Weekly Report.

//


DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2019-11-17 Thread Aris Merchant
Here's a draft.

-Aris
---
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 6, 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)AITitle
---
8275   Jason Cobb   3.0   "By announcement" clarification
8276   Jason Cobb   2.0   Various Election Fixes v2


The proposal pool is currently empty.

The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.

//
ID: 8275
Title: "By announcement" clarification
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 478 ("Fora") by replacing the text

  Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by
  announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously and
  clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs it.

with the text

  Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by
  announcement", that person performs that action by unambiguously and
  clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs it.

//
ID: 8276
Title: Various Election Fixes v2
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:


Amend Rule 2154 ("Election Procedure") by replacing the text "declare em
the winner of the election by announcement" with the text "by
announcement declare em the winner of the election, thereby causing em
to win the election".

[This clarifies that this actually causes the person to win the
election, which could be construed as a distinct action from "declaring
em the winner". The replaced text differs from the one in the most
recent SLR because Falsifian cleaned the text by replacing "them" with
"em" since then.]

Amend Rule 2154 ("Election Procedure") by replacing the text "In a
timely fashion after the nomination period ends, the ADoP CAN and SHALL"
with the text "After the nomination period ends, the ADoP CAN and, in a
timely fashion, SHALL".

[Ensures that the ADoP doesn't lose the ability to initiate an Agoran
Decision for an election after a week passes.]

//


Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2019-11-03 Thread Jason Cobb

On 11/3/19 2:18 AM, Aris Merchant wrote:

ID Author(s)AITitle
---
8266   nch  1.0   Glitter
8267   Jason Cobb   3.0   Emerald Ribbons
8268   Jason Cobb   3.0   Deputisation fix
8269   omd  3.0   Clean up distribution mechanisms
8270   omd  3.0   Self-ratifying statements
8271   G.   3.0   Doctorate expectations



I believe that proposals 8257 and 8259 may still both be in the proposal 
pool. 8257 because its text was mislabeled in the full section, and 8259 
because it apparently included the wrong text.


--
Jason Cobb



Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2019-11-03 Thread Kerim Aydin





8271   G.   3.0   Doctorate expectations


I withdrew 8271 and submitted a new version - the text of this one is the
old text.

https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2019-November/041621.html





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