DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-07 Thread nch via agora-discussion
There's a couple jobs that aren't necessary but should probably still have an assigned officer. I tried to write these such that they don't add too much responsibility while still encouraging them to fulfil the goals of the offices. First, the Reportor. We've had it before, it gets sporadic usag

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/7/20 1:44 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > First, the Reportor. We've had it before, it gets sporadic usage, and then it > disappears. I think repealing it is a mistake. There's little-to-no legal > debt > in having such a simple office, and its existence encourages someone to take >

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an official position because it is useless. It is just very bad. Webmaster is good though. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:04 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/7/20 1:44 PM, nch via agora-disc

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an official > position because it is useless. It is just very bad. Could you elaborate on this? nch seems to be proposing a new para

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > because of the last paragraph of R1006. Clarification: this is only an issue if you don't want the offices right now. I wasn't trying to say you shouldn't hold them if you would like t

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:29 AM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > because of the last paragraph of R1006. Clarification: this is only an is

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Friday, May 8, 2020 8:29:25 AM CDT Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > because of the last paragraph of R1006. > > Clarification: this is only an issue if you don't want the

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 9:35 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > If e doesn't want that, e can simply specify that they will start vacant in > the proposal, according to my reading of R1006. Am I correct in this? That's my understanding. -- Jason Cobb

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:40 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/8/2020 6:16 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca wrote: > > > >> Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an offi

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:01 AM Rebecca wrote: > r > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:40 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> >> On 5/8/2020 6:16 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca wrote: >> > >> >> Repo

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Friday, May 8, 2020 11:01:07 AM CDT Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: > > I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well > > except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), > mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch up on the game by

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 12:04 PM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: > The problem with economic rewards of that sort, of course, is that the > economy has NO VALUE WHATSOEVER right now. the time i had the most fun in > this game and it was most active was the broken boom/bust economy when > everyone was filing

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/8/2020 9:13 AM, nch wrote: > On Friday, May 8, 2020 11:01:07 AM CDT Rebecca wrote: >>> I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well >> >> except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), >> mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/8/2020 9:36 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > On 5/8/20 12:04 PM, Rebecca wrote: >> The problem with economic rewards of that sort, of course, is that the >> economy has NO VALUE WHATSOEVER right now. the time i had the most fun in >> this game and it was most active was the broken boom/bust economy w

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 12:51 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > Are the auction rules stable enough to do Stones? That one's pretty ready > to go (except I don't have time to officer that, that's the reason I > haven't done a draft in months). I think the auction rules are fine since P8373 passed,

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 10:01 AM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch up on the game by reading emails than by read

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 13:36, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > On Friday, May 8, 2020 8:29:25 AM CDT Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > > because of the last paragraph of

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion
How would you guys feel about "decentralizing" the Reportor role? Instead of having one person do it, maybe make it so that every month or two or so there is a sort of bounty for publishing a report - with the availability to have multiple different people submit a report for the same period becau

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:35:07 AM CDT Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion wrote: > How would you guys feel about "decentralizing" the Reportor role? > > Instead of having one person do it, maybe make it so that every month or > two or so there is a sort of bounty for publishing a report - with th

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion
I don't think that the tragedy of the commons necessarily applies, although I might be too influenced by Blognomic. Because there is zero mechanical reward for doing the equivalent of the "reportor" job there and people just sort of go at it on their own accord, which inspired my suggestion. I thi

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:07:03 AM CDT you wrote: > I don't think that the tragedy of the commons necessarily applies, although > I might be too influenced by Blognomic. Because there is zero mechanical > reward for doing the equivalent of the "reportor" job there and people just > sort of go at

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion
Ah, it's not responsibility, really? There isn't much sense of responsibility at all concerning it, actually. I haven't seen anyone ever go "oh hey, you should go and record *your* dynasty you know?". People just... do it. Because they want to. There is no view that the Emperor or victor *should* f

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 15:36, Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion wrote: > How would you guys feel about "decentralizing" the Reportor role? Handling Reportor with a publicly funded contract (e.g. with G.'s proposal) would allow this. I'm hoping to start gathering notes this week in order to start

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/12/20 10:12 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > I'm happy to have others do it too, but there should be some > coordination so we don't end up with two people working on summaries > for the same week. (Maybe the Reportor contract could issue a unique > asset for each week that determi

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/12/20 10:21 PM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > Hmm... this brings up an interesting question. If we have publicly > funded contract, we probably don't want a few people being able to > change the contract by unanimous agreement. > Gah, I sent this too early. I thought Falsifian's message brought the q

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-12 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/12/2020 7:21 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/12/20 10:12 PM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: >> I'm happy to have others do it too, but there should be some >> coordination so we don't end up with two people working on summaries >> for the same week. (Maybe the Repor

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-14 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
> I'm hoping to start gathering notes this week in order to start > publishing weekly Reports. I've started a report for this week in the git repo. If anyone else is doing Reportor work please let me know so we can coordinate. I also renamed the repo from Reporter to Reportor (Github will redirec