Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-12 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 03:19, Edward Murphy via agora-discussion wrote: > If the number of players participating at a comparable level kept > increasing, then at some point we might look at splitting off some of > the discussion to a forum system (even if it was all cc'd to an > Everything List).

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-09 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 2/9/2020 7:18 PM, Edward Murphy via agora-discussion wrote: > Falsifian wrote: > >> 1b. Agora's nature as a broadcast email list seems to put limits on >> how many active players it can practically sustain. If 100 >> players were all sending interesting proposals and

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-09 Thread Edward Murphy via agora-discussion
Falsifian wrote: 1b. Agora's nature as a broadcast email list seems to put limits on how many active players it can practically sustain. If 100 players were all sending interesting proposals and arguments and so on, it would be impractical for anyone to keep up. I'm

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-08 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> > Alternatively, it could be interesting to add a general mechanism for > > public funding of private projects. E.g. have a singleton Budget > > switch which lists contracts that get weekly payments. An example > > might be [{my press contract, 5 Coins}, {Society for the Advancement > > of

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-07 Thread Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 14:31, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > I'll try to start by covering the period I've summarized, but consider > going to monthly-ish after that. -ish because it would be nice to line > it up with weeks. > > Payment would be nice. > > We could add an office. I think

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-07 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 05:17, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > I had been imagining the more substantial newsletter being close to > > quarterly. Looking at that blog, it looks like at least some of them > > had shorter periods in mind. Any opinions on the relative benefits of > >

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-06 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM James Cook wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 02:42, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:25 PM James Cook via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > > > > Questions for anyone interested in Agora: > > > > > > 1. Would you be

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-06 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 02:42, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:25 PM James Cook via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > Questions for anyone interested in Agora: > > > > 1. Would you be interested in seeing an Agoran newsletter? Not like > >"Last week in

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-06 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 13:34, Tanner Swett via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 21:25 James Cook via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > 2. Do you think my "Last Week in Agora" summaries are useful? Any other > >comments? So far I've acted

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-02 Thread Tanner Swett via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020, 21:25 James Cook via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > 2. Do you think my "Last Week in Agora" summaries are useful? Any other >comments? So far I've acted unilaterally in writing them, just to >get something started, but I'm open to doing

Re: DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:25 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > Questions for anyone interested in Agora: > > 1. Would you be interested in seeing an Agoran newsletter? Not like >"Last week in Agora"; I mean something more carefully written and >covering a longer span of time.

DIS: [Reporter] Some questions, some thoughts, and a proposed newsletter

2020-02-01 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
Questions for anyone interested in Agora: 1. Would you be interested in seeing an Agoran newsletter? Not like "Last week in Agora"; I mean something more carefully written and covering a longer span of time. 2. Do you think my "Last Week in Agora" summaries are useful? Any other