From ford@jps.net Mon Aug 21 13:29:43 2000 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:44:13 -0700 From: Ed Murphy Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 47, ISSUE 3 August 20, 2000 ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "72 hours for Holidays" by Oerjan - Proposal 4036 adopted 8/6 Players have three days after the end of a Holiday to do things they would otherwise have had to do during the Holiday. "Clarify Rule 1596 (Debt)" by Oerjan - Proposal 4037 adopted 8/6 Final paragraph regarding overpayment of debts is rearranged to clarify that the conditional applies to the entire paragraph. "COE fix" by Taral - Proposal 4047 adopted 8/6 The requirement to respond to a COE is suspended while the COE is disputed via CFJ. "Fix Patronage" by Chuck - Proposal 4033 adopted 8/2 The Speaker pays out Patronage, rather than transferring it directly (which e cannot do). "Fix Rule 1747 (Pardoning Lawlessness)" by Oerjan - Proposal 4038 adopted 8/6 Eliminates mis-use of "Player" to mean "deregistered Player", as well as an inadvertent prohibition against transferring Indulgences to the Bank to expunge Blots. "Minor Speaker Reforms" by Elysion - Proposal 4049 adopted 8/6 A Tainted Speaker cannot change a Proposal from Ordinary to Democratic. Move the Registrar and Rulekeepor up in the Order of Succession. Move the Justiciar and CotC down, since those Offices are lost when one becomes Speaker. "My Votes Are My Own" by Chuck - Proposal 4035 adopted 8/2 If a Nominee Stands Down, anyone who Voted for em may Vote again (but, in case e does not do so, is deemed to have declared Presence). "Papyri" by t - Proposal 4050 adopted 8/6 Papyri are a Bank Currency, tracked by the Promotor, and paid to get Proposals distributed. A Proposal's Distribution Cost is 1; +1 if Urgent, +1 if Sane (each Player may Vote at most once; no non-Player may Vote). While Disinterested, a Proposal is always Distributable. Interested Proposals start as Undistributable. Any Player may pay a Proposal's Distribution Cost in Papyri to make it Distributable, or twice its Distribution Cost in Papyri to make it Undistributable. The Current Batch contains all Distributable Proposals. The Promotor chooses how many Papyri to Auction each month, but must Auction at least one. If there are at least three Winners other than emself, then e may pay out to emself Stems equal to the Winning Bid. New Players get one Papyrus, plus one Papyrus per Interested Proposal adopted during eir Grace Period. Each non-Zombie Player gets one Papyrus when this Proposal is adopted. "Probate Removal" by Peekee - Proposal 4048 adopted 8/6 Two obsolete references to Probate are removed. "Remove Proposal Number Reference from R1770" by Chuck - Proposal 4034 adopted 8/2 An obsolete reference to Proposal numbers (now deregulated) is removed from Rule 1770 (Distributing Proposals). "Satiric Ballads" by Oerjan - Proposal 4039 adopted 8/6 Eliminate the quarterly Immaculate bonus. "Upmutations" by Oerjan - Proposal 4040 adopted 8/6 Rules 693 (Prescribed Voting Period) and 376 (When Proposals Take Effect) are changed to Power=2. This prevents an Ordinary Proposal from amending these Rules to arbitrarily delay the time it takes to make a Democratic Proposal take effect. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Fixed Auction Lengths" by Chuck - Proposal 4041 rejected 8/10 Bids may not be cancelled, but may be replaced with higher bids. Auctions always last 7 days. The Closing Price is the minimum amount that would have been needed to beat the highest losing bid. Private Auctions are repealed. "Simplify Organizations" by Oerjan - Proposal 4052 failed quorum 8/7 Groups and Contests are replaced with Political and non-Political Organizations. Executor and SLC Maintainer may both be different from Administrator (but are the same by default). To become Political, an Organization must have at least three Members, and none of its Members may belong to another Political Organization. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Cleanup of Dismissals" by Murphy DISMISSED is a Judgement. Reasons for dismissal are Pragmatized and made non-redundant. Appeals Board may overturn on the possibility (not certainty) of an incorrect Judgement. "Easier Scoring" by Murphy Remove the requirement from Rule 1929 (Points) that Score reports indicate the Rule allowing the Award or Penalty, since Rule 1930 (Scoring) has been the only such Rule since it and Rule 1929 were adopted. "Fix Rule 559" by harvel Remove a redundant requirement for the Registrar to report Active/ Inactive status. "Fix the Stupid Bug" by t - Proposal 4056 Auctioned Papyri are paid out by the Promotor, not the Accountor. "General budgets" by Oerjan - Proposal 4054 Budgets are defined as a general class, with the Treasuror's Budget as one instance. "Minor fix" by Peekee Correct a doubled "the" in Rule 1946 (Distribution of Voting Entitlements). "More Fully Baked Oligarchy" by Kelly All Oligarchy Auction winners start as Low Oligarchs. If this results in more than three Low Oligarchs, then one or more are shuffled up to the Middle and High levels. "Objection fix" by Taral Objections may be withdrawn. "One Less Rule Take II" by Elysion Simplify the specification of how many Kudos a new Player has. Move the definition of Shogun to the Rule defining Unique Patent Titles. Also prevent multiple Shoguns at once. "Points Adjustments" by Wes Points are clarified as non-Property. Patent Titles are only Score-worthy if not previously gained by the same Player during the previous seven days. Degrees are only Score-worthy if not previously gained by the same Player. Once per month, a Player possessing at least one Blot and at least one Indulgence continuously for seven days may be Penalized 5 Points. Being the only Immaculate Player is a Win Condition. Being non-Immaculate is a Win-Preventing Condition. Distributor is no longer a Patent Title. "Proposal Entitlements" by Peekee Proposal Entitlements are to P-Notes as Voting Entitlements are to VTs. An entity's Proposing Power may be applied toward increasing the Priority of any of eir Proposals in the Queue. When a Proposal leaves the Queue (for any reason), the entity gets eir Proposing Power back, and may apply it elsewhere. "Respect for the dead" by Peekee - Proposal 4055 Wills are re-defined, and the Notary may carry them out as e sees fit when handling Abandoned Property. "Rule cleanup" by Taral Repeal Rule 1927 (Bank Currency Creation). "Scoring II" by Wes Proposal gets exactly 13 FOR Votes: 13 Points to author. Vote on all Democratic Proposals in a month: 4 Points. Rule requires a Player to pay out or bill exactly 27 of a Property: 7 Points to both that Player and the entity paid/billed. Scorekeepor's discretion, once a month: 10 Points to any combination of Players (not including emself). Formal Apology: 2 Points to author per "Hear! Hear!" response within seven days. Proposal repeals Rule with Annotation: 8 Points to author. Class 1+ Infraction: 4 Points to Player who executed it. Infraction found invalid by CFJ: -10 Points to Player who executed it. Six Players Appeal a Judgement: -5 Points to Judge. Seven Players Appeal a Judgement: 5 Points to first three. Motion granted: 3 Points to submitter. Motion denied: -3 Points to submitter. CFJ has only one eligible Judge: 4 Points to submitter. Retired from CotC or Justiciar for become Speaker: 6 Points. Application with at least six Signatures: 1 Point to Player who executes it per Signature. Create Rule with Power=3: 9 Points to author. Zero Kudos, once a month: -10 Points. Fugitive from Justice re-registers: 10 Points. "The Grand Warden of the Oligarchy" by harvel - Proposal 4053 The GWO tracks the status of the Oligarchy, and must also announce vacancies in the Oligarchy. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Executor Tweak" by Murphy Actions performed by an Executor on behalf of another entity are deemed to have been performed by the other entity. "Judicial Cleanup" by Peekee A CFJ may be Disallowed by the CotC (thus ceasing to be a CFJ) if: * It contains no single clearly identifiable Statement. * The Caller requests it, and its outcome would be trivial. * It is an Excess CFJ. Executor-related restrictions are moved to Rule 698 (Always an Eligible Judge). The CotC may recuse a Judge: * If e goes On Hold. * With 2 Supporters. * If it is 7 days past the end of the Deliberation Period and e still has not delivered Judgement. The Board of Appeals is deemed to act once an unchangeable majority is attained. Redundant statements of the revocation of Judicial salaries are repealed. Clarifies that a Call for Appeal must be properly executed before it permits the stay of a Judicial Order. "Kudo Adjustments" by Wes Kudos are clarified as non-Property. "No Bouncing VEs" by Kelly An entity's Voting Power is the lowest value that it would have been at any point from the time the Proposal was (distributed or made Democratic, whichever is later) to the time it attempts to Vote. "What is Public?" by Wes Discussion Fora are defined. Any communication sent to a PF is deemed to have been sent to all Players. Any communication sent to all Players is deemed to have been made Publicly. This collects all PF timing requirements into a single place. Throughout the rest of the Ruleset, requirements to send something to the PF are replaced with requirements to do them Publicly. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1234 "Kudos are Property." [TRUE] 7/19 Called by Murphy 7/20-27 Assigned to Kelly, who Judges TRUE 7/27-28 Appealed by Steve, Palnatoke, and Peekee (Blob attempts to appeal in a-d) 7/29 Appeal assigned to lee (by mistake), Taral, and Wes 7/30 lee, Taral, and Wes all move to sustain 7/30 Speaker Chuck takes eir proper seat on the Board 8/2 Murphy moves that Judge Kelly return half eir Judicial Salary to the Bank 8/3 Chuck moves to sustain 8/7 Kelly alleges that e is no longer Judge of this CFJ, as Rule 408 makes em ineligible after 7 days (even though e delivered Judgement within that time) Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1062 says that Players possess Kudos. Rule 1942 defines any entity possessible by another Player as Property. CFJ 1237 "The Order issued by Chuck on Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:17:02 -0500 [FALSE] was valid." Appealed 7/25 Called by Taral 7/26-27 Assigned to Oerjan, who Judges FALSE 7/30 Taral moves that Chuck be Ordered to pay the Bank 24 P-Notes, the amount that Chuck received as a result of the Order in question. 7/30 Oerjan grants the motion 7/30-8/19 Appealed by Murphy, Chuck, Steve, and Oerjan Caller's argument for FALSE (summary): Chuck transferred some P-Notes for the purpose of paying a Fee. The P-Note payment succeeded, but the Fee payment failed. The Rules do not require that Players be reimbursed for failed Fee payments. Rule 1796 permits the validity of Chuck's Order to be proven by CFJ only if its execution is required by the Rules. Counterargument: Rule 1796 also permits the validity of the Order to be proven by CFJ if its execution is "permitted in" the circumstances existing when it was executed. CFJ 1238 "Rule 1930 'Scoring' is the only Rule allowing a Point Award or Dismissed Penalty for any particular type of event, and has been the only such Rule since it and Rule 1929 'Points' were enacted. Therefore, any notification of the occurrence of such an event implicitly specifies Rule 1930 as the Rule allowing the Award or Penalty." 7/30 Called by Murphy 7/31 Assigned to Blob 8/2 Blob dismisses 8/13 Appealed by Murphy Caller's argument (summary): Hardly anyone seems to be explicitly specifying Rule 1930, yet (per Game Custom) Scores change anyway. Judge's reason for dismissal (summary): The first two parts are true, but the truth of the third part varies depending on whether the current Scorekeepor is implicitly aware that Rule 1930 is the Rule in question. Counterargument: At the time this CFJ was called, the Scorekeepor was thus implicitly aware. CFJ 1239 "Taral objected to both the making of the Proposal 'Secret, Unknown [TRUE] and Hidden Proposals 2.1' disinterested and objected to the making of the Proposal 'Respect for the dead' disinterested in eir message dated 'Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:33:18 -0500 (CDT)', subject 'Re: BUS: disinterested'." 8/1 Called by Peekee 8/1 Mistakenly assigned to Palnatoke, who is On Hold 8/1 Reassigned to Steve 8/1 Steve Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Taral's message said "I object. These are..." after quoting Peekee's announcement of intent to make both Proposals Disinterested. CFJ 1240 "Kelly is not the Judge of CFJ 1234." [FALSE] 8/8 Called by Kelly Appealed 8/9-14 Assigned to t, who Judges FALSE 8/14-17 Appealed by Steve, Palnatoke, Kelly, Taral, Wes, and Peekee 8/15 Appeal assigned to Chuck, Taral, and Wes 8/18 Chuck makes emself ineligible CFJ 1241 "Chuck has committed the Class 4 Crime of Contempt by Inaction by [FALSE] failing to abide by the Order issued by the Judge of CFJ 1237." 8/6 Called by Taral 8/7-11 Assigned to Peekee, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Timing requirement of the Order is implicitly ASAP. Chuck actually did obey the Order in time, but Taral didn't catch it till after calling the CFJ. OFFICES/OLIGARCHS ----------------- 7/31 lee chooses Elysion to become High Oligarch. Blob chooses Michael to become High Oligarch. 8/1 t chooses Michael to become High Oligarch. Michael becomes High Oligarch. Nominations begin for Accountor and Promotor. Taral Nominates for Promotor. 8/3 Chuck delegates Rulekeepor to Oerjan for the Nomic Week starting August 7. Oerjan accepts. 8/18 Speaker Chuck selects lee to become Middle Oligarch. OTHER ----- 7/31 Palnatoke goes On Hold till August 12 at midnight. 8/2 No Indulgence Auction this month: 20 + 10.3 - 40.8 = -10.5 (Number of Players; Number of Blots; Number of Indulgences in circulation) 8/3 Chuck makes emself ineligible to Judge any CFJs called or appealed from now till August 9 at noon. 8/6 loh requests recognition as a Watcher. 8/13 Oerjan joins ProSiRuP. 8/15 Peekee goes On Hold. 8/18 Peekee attempts to come Off Hold, but is unsuccessful because e is still within the 96-hour proscribed period. Andre registers. Auction for 4 Papyri --------- 122 Chuck 122 Chuck 122 Chuck 100 Taral --------- 96 Kelly 91 Chuck 49 t 48 Kelly 30 Wes 24 Kelly 20 Wes 15 Wes 12 Wes 12 Kelly 1 Taral TRADE OFFERS ------------ Ongoing offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Blob 6/19/00 Vote on Ordinary Highest bidder; minimum 10 of any Proposals Basic Currency, or equivalent Elysion 7/23/00 Herald's Privilege Negotiable Carnival 9/16/99 0.01 VT 1 Denaria Carnival 9/16/99 10 Denaria On a Player's birthday, sing "Happy Birthday" to em in a key with at least four sharps OotEE 9/13/99 1 Iris 1 VT; non-members subject to 9% Tariff Peekee 7/25/00 VTs P-Notes Wes 4/5/00 1 Twig Commenting on and changing a proto Wes 4/5/00 ad space 1 Twig per 30 days Recent one-time offers: Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Crito 7/6 Negotiable IATs Kelly 7/1 1 VE Negotiable Murphy 5/6 VTs, P-Notes IATs; one-to-one basis Steve 8/16 26 P-Notes Negotiable Taral 7/1 P-Notes VTs Wes 7/7 IATs VTs (directed to Crito) -- Ed Murphy http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/meridian/309/ "Most of the time, it seemed sublimely unaware of its limbs, though it was beginning to suspect it had hands."