THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 6 Friday, May 23, 2003 NEW AWJ ARCHIVE COMING SOON --------------------------- 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 ----------------- "ANF bugfixes" by Steve - Proposal 4497 adopted 5/12 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. "Fix Dereliction of Duty" by root - Proposal 4481 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4489 adopted 5/5 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 - Proposal 4492 adopted 5/5 PWIN is set to 100. This repairs part of Rule 1990 (Points Contests) that was accidentally broken when Teams were introduced. "Scorekeepor's Budget" by Peekee - Proposal 4498 adopted 5/19 The Scorekeepor's Budget includes the Team Points Goal, PLIMIT, PPP, and Scoring Events. Initial Budget matches the current Rule 1930 (Scoring). Includes the effect of "Team Scores". "Sink Arcadia" by Sherlock - Proposal 4496 adopted 5/12 Repeal Rule 1999 (Entity Location), which was mistakenly omitted when "Of what price honor?" repealed all the other Land of Arcadia rules. "Team Scores" by Peekee - Proposal 4494 adopted 5/12 Team Points: +10 all vote on a democratic proposal -20 none vote on a democratic proposal +10 all vote unanimously FOR/AGAINST a democratic proposal +10 all vote in an election -20 none vote in an election +10 all vote for same candidate in an election +30 all rebellious and a revolt succeeds -30 all rebellious and a revolt fails + 5 all immaculate "Team Shuffling" by Peekee - Proposal 4483 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4491 adopted 5/5 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. "Teams clean up" by Peekee - Proposal 4488 adopted 5/5 Repeal Rule 112 (Ways to Win and Preclusions Thereof), since Player Wins have been replaced by Team Wins. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Steve - Proposal 4493 adopted 5/12 Correct an errant reference to "energetic action" in Rule 1986 (Role-Based Powers) to "progressive action". REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Loony Boons" by Murphy - Proposal 4499 failed quorum 5/19 Rename the Boon Rebel Hero to "Revolution". Rename the Boon of Public Service to "Service". Rename the Boon of Tapecutter to "Simplification". Rename the Boon of Prodigy to "Insight". Rename the Boon Gold Star to "Marviness". Rename the Boon Team Ribbon to "Teamwork". "More Useful Stem Weather" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4482 failed quorum 4/22 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4490 rejected 5/5 The destruction phase of Weather remains limited to the Bank's holdings, but the creation phase is no longer proportionally limited. "Mornington Crescent" by Murphy - Proposal 4500 failed quorum 5/19 Each Player may effectively vote separately on each section. Convert Activity, Noisiness, Role, Readiness, Orthodoxy (Abiding/Rebellious), and Orientation (Turning Around and Around) into player switches. Convert Depth (Distributable/Undistributable) and Interest into proposal switches. "Repeal Ohm's Law" by RedKnight - Contested Proposal 4495 rejected 5/12 Ohm's Law is repealed. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Invisibilitating" by Steve Each player is authorized to report the Infraction of Invisibilitating. [Not part of a rule] If an adopted proposal makes changes to the gamestate that no player is required to report in an official report (other than publication of the proposal by the Promotor and Assessor), then the author commits the Class 0 Infraction of Invisibilitating. "Revolution!" by root The Speaker's powers and roles are re-distributed as follows: * GWotO - default holder of offices, default appellate judge * Registrar - declare Senate votes * Notary - default maker of random choices, default recipient of applications, fallback performer of failed duties * ADoP - ratify any report, call for elections * Assessor - default collector of referendum votes * Herald - patronage * Promotor - default auctioneer A player who is electee to more than one of (GWotO, CotC, Justiciar) ceases to be electee of the least-recent. Repeal the following rules: 103 (The Speaker May Not Deregister) 402 (Speaker Transition) 681 (Giving Up Speakership) 1375 (Speaker Going On Hold) 1581 (Quarterly Speaker Change) 1647 (The Speaker-Elect) 1648 (When The Speaker is Tainted) 1658 (Tainting the Speaker) 1829 (Refusal of Duty by the Speaker) Remove Speaker-related clauses from the following rules: 101 (Obey the Rules) 1497 (Truth in Advertising) 1043 (Deregistration) 2036 (The Silent Treatment) 1905 (The Cabinet) 1664 (Rebellion) 1955 (The Grand Warden of the Oligarchy) 1940 (Periodic Compensations) 1975 (The Assistant Director of Personnel) 1963 (Eligible Oligarchs) 1794 (Classes of Orders) 910 (The Justiciar) 1714 (Lawlessness) Repeal mauveness. "Shuffle, Stem, Boon, Fix" by Peekee - Proposal 4501 Correct an errant reference to Stems in Rule 2042 (Team Wins) that was changed to a Boon by "Of what price honor?" and then mistakenly changed back to Stems by "Team Shuffling". PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Spring Cleaning" by Sherlock Includes the effect of "Shuffle, Stem, Boon, Fix". Repeal mauveness. Rename the category "Groups and Contests" to "Contests". Move Rule 2013 (Champion's Contests) from the category "Winning a Game" to "Contests", then remove "Winning a Game". CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 5/8 root makes emself ineligible to judge any CFJs assigned within a week of eir message 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. OFFICES ------- 5/2 Murphy consents to delegation of Herald. 5/19 Murphy is elected Herald. ADoP election fails to start; it must be initiated by the Speaker, not the ADoP. root attempts to nominate (emself) in the invalid ADoP election. OLIGARCHS --------- 5/23 OscarMeyr extends eir term by 60 days. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 5/5 Murphy creates the contest "Tournament of Prediction". The contest then creates the currency of Tea Leaves. 5/5 Steve joins the Tournament of Prediction. 5/6 Peekee and Sherlock join the Tournament of Prediction. 5/13 Maud goes on hold. 5/20 Sherlock makes Pakaran quiet. 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 * Peekee's offers are non-binding