Re: DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-29 Thread Zefram
Ben Caplan wrote: >I personally find it helpful to have a printout for this reading, Waste of paper. You're better off reading it in softcopy, so that you can search around for key words. -zefram

Re: DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-28 Thread comex
On Jan 28, 2008 8:35 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Generally, the best way is probably to take a careful read through the > ruleset, which is available in the Rulekeepor's report (to agora-official, > with the subject line "Short Logical Ruleset" or "Full Logical Ruleset" (you > proba

Re: DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-28 Thread Ben Caplan
On Monday 28 January 2008 6:48 Jeremy Koo wrote: > So I get how nomics work, and I kind of see how the rules here are set up, > but then I look in the thread archives and I become utterly lost. Folks > with multiple votes, the difference between democratic and ordinary > proposals, the senate, it'

Re: DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-28 Thread Kerim Aydin
1. It's almost always safe to just cast one vote for something. Eventually you'll figure out you have a few more votes than that on Ordinary proposals, but you can almost always just cast one vote. So just vote how you like on any proposals that are distributed from here on out. 2. Don't worry

Re: DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-28 Thread Ed Murphy
Jeremy wrote: Folks with multiple votes, the difference between democratic and ordinary proposals, the senate, it's sort of a lot to handle. Does anybody have some sage advice for a complete newbie such as myself? Rules have a Power (R1688), generally from 1 to 3; higher-Power rules have hi

DIS: Quick start guide

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Koo
So I get how nomics work, and I kind of see how the rules here are set up, but then I look in the thread archives and I become utterly lost. Folks with multiple votes, the difference between democratic and ordinary proposals, the senate, it's sort of a lot to handle. Does anybody have some sage a