I vote FOR on all. On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 7:15 PM Aris Merchant via agora-official < agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> PROMOTOR'S REPORT; BACKDATED IN PART TO 03:00 UTC June 6, 2021. > > 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) AI Title > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 8561& G., nix 2.0 Election Cycle > 8562* ATMunn, Aris 3.0 Officializing Discord > 8563& Aris 1.7 Determinacy is a Good Thing > 8564& Aris 1.0 Sponsorship is not Co-authorship > 8565& Aris 1.0 Popularity Contest > 8566* Jason 3.0 Anti-AI escalation > 8567* Jason 3.0 AI voting method clarification > 8568* Jason 3.0 Supporter/Objector clarification > 8569* Jason, Aris, Murphy 3.0 Fixing Festivals > 8570* Jason 3.1 Emergency Regulation Clarification > 8571& Jason 2.0 Gauntlet announcement patch > 8572& Jason, Trigon 2.0 Thou shalt not disobey Trigon > > Pool report: At 03:00 UTC on June 6, 2021, the proposal pool > contained (only) the above proposals. > > Legend: <ID>* : Democratic proposal. > <ID>& : Ordinary proposal. > <ID>~ : 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 > declare the election ended with no winner by announcement. > > When a player wins an election, e is installed into the associated > office and the election ends. > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8562 > Title: Officializing Discord > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: ATMunn > Co-author(s): Aris > > > The Publicity switch of the Discord server having the ID of > 724077429412331560 and being accessible from the permanent invite link > of https://discord.gg/tz2u6m7 is hereby flipped to Discussion. > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8563 > Title: Determinacy is a Good Thing > Adoption index: 1.7 > Author: Aris > Co-author(s): > > > [Note that Gaelan's win should have been processed by the time > this is adopted, unless there's an appeal.] > > Amend Rule 591, "Delivering Judgements", by removing the text: > > * PARADOXICAL, appropriate if the statement is logically > undecidable as a result of a paradox or or other irresovable > logical situation. PARADOXICAL is not appropriate if IRRELEVANT > is appropriate, nor is it appropriate if the undecidability > arises from the case itself or in reference to it. > > and: > > DISMISS is not appropriate if PARADOXICAL is appropriate. > > Repeal Rule 2553, "Win by Paradox". > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8564 > Title: Sponsorship is not Co-authorship > Adoption index: 1.0 > Author: Aris > Co-author(s): > > > [It's always felt weird to me that pending a proposal now > makes you a co-author. That's not what co-authorship > means, IMO. Also, it goes against my mental invariant > that proposals are immutable after creation.] > > Amend rule 2622, "Pending Proposals", by deleting the text: > > If the player did not create the proposal and is not > listed in the list of co-authors of the proposal, > e is added to the list of co-authors. > > [For context, here's the current text of the paragraph: > > Any player CAN pay 1 Pendant to flip the Pended switch of a > specified proposal to True. If the player did not create the > proposal and is not listed in the list of co-authors of the > proposal, e is added to the list of co-authors. When e does so, > the proposal becomes sponsored.] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8565 > Title: Popularity Contest > Adoption index: 1.0 > Author: Aris > Co-author(s): > > > Enact a new power 1.0 Rule entitled "Popularity Contest", > with the following text: > > Immediately after the adoption of this rule, Aris wins the > game. Then, for each person who voted unconditionally FOR the > referendum on the proposal that enacted this rule, this > rule causes that person to earn a Black Ribbon. > > Aris CAN cause this rule to make a specified player > earn a Black Ribbon by announcement. Aris can > cause this rule to award a specified player > a specified patent title containing the > string "Popular" by announcement. > > If it has been at least one month since this rule > was adopted, any person CAN End the Contest > by announcement, causing this rule to repeal itself. > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8566 > Title: Anti-AI escalation > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): > > > Amend rule 1950 by appending the following to the first paragraph: " If > a referendum has an adoption index less than the adoption index of its > associated proposal, the referendum's adoption index is immediately set > to that of the associated proposal". > > [Prevents a potential 2->3 power escalation where a Power 2 dictatorship > can set the AI of the referendum on an AI 3 proposal to 1, then force it > through at AI 1.] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8567 > Title: AI voting method clarification > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): > > > Amend Rule 1950 by replacing "For any Agoran decision with an adoption > index" with "For any Agoran decision with a non-"none" adoption index". > > [Legislates the decision in CFJ 3746. All Agoran decisions possess an > adoption index switch, but some of them have the value "none".] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8568 > Title: Supporter/Objector clarification > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): > > > Amend Rule 2124 by replacing the following: > > { > > The above notwithstanding, if an action is to be performed without > N objections or with N Agoran consent, and an objection to an > intent to perform it has been withdrawn within the past 24 hours, > then Agora is not Satisfied with that intent. > > The above notwithstanding, Agora is not satisfied with an intent > if the Speaker has objected to it in the last 48 hours. > > 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. > > } > > with the following: > > { > > The above notwithstanding, if an action is to be performed without N > objections or with N Agoran consent, and an entity has ceased to be an > Objector to that intent within the past 24 hours, then Agora is not > Satisfied with that intent. > > The above notwithstanding, Agora is not Satisfied with an intent if the > Speaker has become an Objector to it in the last 48 hours. > > An entity is not considered a Supporter or Objector to an intent solely > due to a purported support or objection made before the intent was > announced. An entity is not considered a Supporter to an intent if e has > previously ceased to be a Supporter, and e is not considered an Objector > to an intent if e has previously ceased to be an Objector. > > } > > [In each paragraph, use Objector/Supportor status instead of evaluating > whether objections were withdrawn. For instance, it has been previously > pointed out (in private conversation) that the Speaker could potentially > completely block an intent by objecting multiple times. Additionally, in > the third paragraph, extend the restrictions to entities instead of just > persons (since the definition of Supporter/Objector applies to entities, > rather than persons).] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8569 > Title: Fixing Festivals > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): Aris, Murphy > > > Amend Rule 2124 by replacing the following text: > > { > > 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. > > } > > with the following text: > > { > > A document that authorizes a dependent action, by default, implicitly > asserts that all players are eligible to support or object to an intent > to perform that action; if the document is a rule, conflicts about > eligibility (including conflicts with such an implicit assertion) are > resolved using the normal procedures. > > } > > > Set the power of Rule 2480 (Festivals) to 3.1. > > Set the power of Rule 2481 (Festival Restrictions) to 3.1. > > > Amend Rule 2481 (Festival Restrictions) by replacing "Non-Festive > players are never considered Supporters of a dependent action" with > "Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, non-Festive players are not > eligible to support a dependent action". > > > [Currently, eligibility to object/support to a dependent action is > defined wholly by the rule defining the action. This breaks the festival > rule that non-festive players are not considered supporters. This > proposal changes the definition of eligibility so that it uses the > normal precedence rules, then raises the power of Festivals so that it > applies to the highest-power dependent action (emergency regulation > changes).] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8570 > Title: Emergency Regulation Clarification > Adoption index: 3.1 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): > > > Amend Rule 2614 by replacing "Award Patent Titles not mentioned in any > Rule and Badges" with "Award Patent Titles that are either Badges or are > not mentioned in any Rule". > > [Just a minor wording tweak, this has always looked weird to me.] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8571 > Title: Gauntlet announcement patch > Adoption index: 2.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): > > > Amend Rule 2644 (The Gauntlet) to read, in whole: > > { > > A player CAN, by announcement, Notice the Gauntlet, specifying a single > player that owns 5 or more stones. When e does, the specified player > Wields the Gauntlet. > > When a player Wields the Gauntlet, e wins the game, then all existing > stones are transferred to Agora. > > } > > [This removes the possibility of accidentally causing someone to Wield > the Gauntlet by changing the "correct announcement" to a specific > action. For instance, I am concerned that a Stonemason's weekly report > might be considered such an announcement.] > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > ID: 8572 > Title: Thou shalt not disobey Trigon > Adoption index: 2.0 > Author: Jason > Co-author(s): Trigon > > > Amend Rule 2545 by appending the following to the paragraph beginning > "When the rules authorize": "Persons who voluntarily participate in an > auction (including the auctioneer) SHALL NOT violate requirements that > auction's method that are clearly intended to be punishable as rules > violations; doing so is the Class N Crime of Auction > Manipulation, where N is the class specified in the auction method (or 2 > otherwise)." > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >
