THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 4 Friday, April 25, 2003 IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT --------------------------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Eris - Web Judiciary cotc.taral.net/ Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "Clarify Contest Entry Fees" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4478 failed quorum 4/14 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4484 adopted 4/22 Rule 1539 (Regulations and Membership of Contests) no longer requires payment of the Entry Fee if the Contest does not have one. "Default Budgets and Election Errors" by Steve - Proposal 4474 failed quorum 4/7 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4480 adopted 4/22 Nominations without a Proto-Budget are automatically associated with one identical to the current Budget. (If that is invalid, then the nomination is automatically withdrawn.) Election results are valid unless challenged within seven days. "Of what worth honor?" by Michael, Goethe, Murphy, et al. - adopted 4/23 Rubberstamping, absolution, and debate (changing the chamber of a proposal) are generalized into energetic actions, and made 1 support/Currency more expensive. Each Player has a number of Kudos. Fees are in kudos. Once a week, a Player may transfer a kudo from one Player to another (e cannot be the recipient), with reasons, provided e emself has at least one kudo. Patent Titles may be Ephemeral. Boons and Albatrosses are Ephemeral Patent Titles. Daffodills are generic Boons. Carcasses are generic Albatrosses. The Herald's Budget includes the Tabla Rasa, an integer between 5 and 25. Each quarter, each Player's kudos are set equal to the Tabla Rasa, plus the number of eir boons, minus the number of eir albatrosses; Agora's kudos are set equal to the Tabla Rasa times the number of players; and all Ephemeral Patent Titles are revoked. The Tabla Rasa is initially 5. Stems, Indulgences, VEs, Papyri, and Land are redeemed in Daffodils. Fees are in kudos. Agora's kudos are increased by the fee. If an action is attempted with insufficient kudos, and a Player's announcement of it is confirmed, then the recordkeepor must either (with support) announce that it did not occur, or (without 3 objections) announce that it did occur. In the latter case, the Player pays what kudos e can, and receives albatrosses for the difference. New Players receive twice the Tabla Rasa. Mentors receive the Boon of Mentorship; the Protege receives the Boon of Politeness. Salaries, the Speaker's Gratuity, and the Distributor's Gratuity are replaced with Daffodils. Judicial Salaries are replaced with the Boon of Wisdom, and their revocation with the Albatross of Foolishness. Birthday gifts are replaced with the Boon of Celebration, and birthday contest awards with the Patent Title of Nth Anniversary Ribbon. Changing role early costs 2 or 6 kudos. Monks are repealed. Successful Rebels receive the Ephemeral Patent Title of Rebel Hero. The Indulgence tax for successful Rebellion is repealed. The GWotO's Budget contains the Oligarchy Charge Requirement (a positive integer less than 10, initially 6) and the Oligarchic Term (a number of days between 30 and 90, initially 60). Any Player may join the Oligarchy by paying the Charge Requirement (halved for Politicians), and buy additional terms for the same price. E is removed after the end of eir term(s). Appointed Oligarchs get half a term. The Treasuror is merged into the Notary. Papyri are repealed. On Democratic Proposals, non-Oligarchs have a Voting Power of two plus eir Voting Potential; Oligarchs, one plus eir Voting Potential. Voting Potentials are zeroed monthly. A Player may buy a Voting Potential of N (positive integer) by paying the Oligarchy Charge Requirement times N. Simplifying the Rules via repeal gains the Ephemeral Patent Title of Tapecutter. Proposal adoption during Grace Period gains the Ephemeral Patent Title of Prodigy. Embezzlement is repealed. Looting Auctions are repealed. Levying Taxes is repealed. Speaker's Patronage is replaced with the Ephemeral Patent Title of Gold Star. Non-standard Auction procedures are repealed. Indulgences are repealed. Expunging Blots costs 1 kudo per Blot. Being Pardoned for Lawlessness restricts energetic actions. Team Wins are rewarded with the Ephemeral Patent Title of Team Ribbon. Land is repealed. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Fix PWIN" by Peekee - Proposal 4473 failed quorum 4/7 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4479 rejected 4/22 PWIN is set to 100. This repairs part of Rule 1990 (Points Contests) that was accidentally broken when Teams were introduced. PPP is repealed. (This would break a different part of Rule 1990.) PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "First ANF Fix" by Steve Change "energetic" (obsolete term) to "progressive" in Rule 1986. "Fix Dereliction of Duty" by root - Proposal 4481 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy Officers cited for Dereliction of Duty are removed, not retired. Blob is mauve. "Fix PWIN V2" by Peekee - Proposal 4485 failed quorum 4/23 - Complacent Oligarchy PWIN is set to 100. This repairs part of Rule 1990 (Points Contests) that was accidentally broken when Teams were introduced. "More Useful Stem Weather" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4482 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy The destruction phase of Weather remains limited to the Bank's holdings, but the creation phase is no longer proportionally limited. "Streamline complacency" by root - Proposal 4487 If there are too few Oligarchs to meet quorum, then the Assessor may publish a Notice of Complacency before the end of the Voting Period. "Team Shuffling" by Peekee - Proposal 4483 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy Upon a Team Win, the highest-Scoring Player in the highest-Scoring Team is assigned to the lowest-Scoring Team, and the lowest-Scoring Player in the lowest-Scoring Team is assigned to even out Team sizes. Ties are broken by the Scorekeepor's choice. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "ANF bugs and consequences" by Steve Significance (Historical, Hysterical, Ephemeral) is a Patent Title switch. Only Historical Patent Titles can gain points. Property of dissolute entities may be transferred to its Mintor or Recordkeepor, rather than to the Bank. If a type of Property ceases to exist, then debts in it cease to exist, and the former recordkeepor shall publish a closing report. Destroying a type of Property that you owe is the Crime of Writing Bad Checks. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** CFJ 1446 "The Proposal 'Try Again, Part 1 of 3' is distributable." Linked to CFJ 1447 3/2 Called by Murphy 3/9-23 Assigned to Cecilius, who is recused 3/31 Assigned to Blob Caller's argument (summary): Murphy claimed to rubberstamp, without specifying a method. Later, e claimed that e had done it by paying a Fee of 0 Papyri. During the week in which e claimed to rubberstamp, e had not previously rubberstamped anything. CFJ 1447 "The Proposal 'Try Again, Part 2 of 3' is distributable." Linked to CFJ 1446 3/2 Called by Murphy 3/9-23 Assigned to Cecilius, who is recused 3/31-4/14 Assigned to Blob, who is recused Caller's argument (summary): Murphy claimed to rubberstamp by paying a Fee of 0 Papyri. During the week in which e made this claim, e had not previously rubberstamped anything. CFJ 1449 "The Proposal entitled 'Full Discretion Fix' would have been [TRUE] Rubberstamped by the message sent by Cecilius today under the Appealed subject line 'Rubberstamping, Take Two,' if that Proposal had not already been Rubberstamped." Linked to CFJ 1448 3/3 Called by Cecilius 3/9-17 Assigned to Goethe, who Judges TRUE 3/20 Appealed by Steve, Sir Toby, and Pakaran 3/20 Appeal assigned to Steve, Eris, and Pakaran 3/24 Steve moves to overturn and reverse 3/31 Eris moves to overturn and remand Judge Steve's refutation (summary): Transfers (even of 0) require a valid Notice of Transfer, and a Notice of Transfer for 0 cannot be valid. Commentary: A Rubberstamped Proposal may be Rubberstamped again. CFJ 1460 "The public message sent by Goethe on April 1st created a requirement for at least one Officer to act as soon as possible [after the message]." 4/4 Called by Goethe 4/24 Assigned to Maud Commentary: The message in question was written in Turkish. OFFICES ------- 4/23 Adoption of Proposal 4486 repeals the Offices of Treasuror, Payroll Clerk, and Mapkeepor. OLIGARCHS --------- 4/24 Sherlock resigns from the Oligarchy. PROPERTY AUCTIONS ----------------- 4/20 Papyrus Auction ends. Steve wins with a bid of 3 Stems. 4/21 Indulgence Auction ends. Sir Toby wins 4 (5?), root wins 9 (8?), and Cecilius wins 7. 4/23 Adoption of Proposal 4486 repeals VEs, Papyri, and Indulgences. Auction for 1 Papyrus beginning 4/15 ---------- 3 Steve 1 Sir Toby Raffle for 20 Indulgences beginning 4/9 ---------- 40 Sir Toby 30 root 25 Cecilius 14 Murphy 11 RedKnight TECTONIC ACTIVITY ----------------- Movement: 4/20 Q*Bert - ( 0, +1), turning it Purple (orthogonal after running into Peekee) 4/23 Adoption of Proposal 4486 repeals Land. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 4/25 Peekee resigns from Peekee's Grubbing Contest, causing it to dissolve. TRADE OFFERS ------------ Player Date Will sell In return for ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OscarMeyr 09/22/02 Oligarch Votes Rubberstamp eir Proposals Peekee 11/28/02 Game help Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Rubberstamping Currency / Game help Peekee 11/28/02 Votes Currency / Game help root 04/23/03 Vote for S-Elect Kudos / Bouncy Balls * Peekee's offers are non-binding