THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, ISSUE 12 Saturday, November 1, 2003 HAPPY ALL SAINTS DAY -------------------- Andre - Stare Decisis www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Michael - First Speaker www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/games/nomic/yoyo/ Murphy - CotC Web zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ root - Proposal Pool www.cs.earlham.edu/~kellyia/agora/pool.php t - AWJ Archive www.iki.fi/scurra/agora.html ERRATA ------ 7/27 Blob was not deregistered because the Notice of Deregistration was not sent to agora-business@agoranomic.org, a Public Forum. (root 8/20) ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "10 GOTO 10" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4530 adopted 10/26 The Scorekeepor's correct announcement of a Team Win resets Team Scores, as well as Player Scores. "Bolshevik Revolution of 2003, with Glasnost" by Murphy - Proposal 4533 adopted 10/26 Property, Currency, Debt, Wills, Taxes, and Auctions are repealed. "Clarify Rule 1458" by Murphy - Proposal 4521 failed quorum 8/12 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4525 adopted 8/28 The Notary's monthly report includes the charter of each organization (in case some of them also have other SLCs). "Clean Up Oligarchy Removal" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4532 adopted 10/26 Requirements to remove Oligarchs are separated from the method of removing Oligarchs. (Partly ineffective due to typos in Rule numbers.) "Fi Fo Fum Fees" by Goethe - Proposal 4528 adopted 10/1 Fee-based actions are performed (even if the actor has insufficient Kudos) unless a correct challenge is made. "Fix Proposal 4514" by root - Proposal 4519 failed quorum 7/29 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4524 adopted 8/28 The Duty to Vote may be satisfied by declaring presence. "Mornington Crescent" by Murphy - Proposal 4518 failed quorum 7/29 - Complacent Oligarchy - Proposal 4523 adopted 8/28 Intentional duplicate of Proposal 4500. See also "Round the Bend". Each Player may effectively vote separately on each section. (All sections were effective.) 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. "Nameless Proposal" by root - Proposal 4531 adopted 10/26 Repeal Rule 2031 (Money Grubbing Contests), which are pointless now that Stems have been repealed. "Round the Bend" by Murphy - Proposal 4527 adopted 9/16 Duplicate of portions of "Mornington Crescent" which were ineffective due to insufficient Adoption Index. Viscosity is no longer a switch. Recordkeeping for a class of entities and a switch for that class may be assigned to different players. Convert Activity and Orthodoxy into switches. "Voting Potential fix" by Steve - Proposal 4526 adopted 9/8 The cost of increasing one's Voting Potential is proportional to the magnitude of the increase, rather than the final value. REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "A Certain Lack" by Goethe - Contested Proposal 4522 failed quorum 8/19 "Four Score" by Goethe - Contested Proposal 4529 rejected 10/16 PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Boon of Zeitgeist" by Murphy The Boon of Zeitgeist is given to the author of an Interested Democratic Proposal that is adopted with no AGAINST votes. "Clean Up Oligarchy Removal, take 2" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4534 Duplicate of portions of "Clean Up Oligarchy Removal" which were ineffective due to typos in Rule numbers. Rule 1936 and 1963 no longer specify how to remove Oligarchs, which is now covered by Rule 2058; they only specify when to do it. "Good Enough for Government Work" by Murphy Fugitive Blots are rounded up to the nearest integer after the monthly halving. PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "A Little Bribe Never Hurt Anyone" by Murphy Advertising is a stuck proposal switch with values none, positive, negative. A player may pay 2 Kudos to flip it from none to another value, or vice versa. If a player votes in line with a proposal's advertising, e gains 5 points. If a team votes unanimously in line with a proposal's advertising, they gain 10 points. (Mixed votes, e.g. F+A from one member, are allowed.) "Correcting Judgements" by root A judge may change eir judgement, once, if: * The original was on time, and has never been under appeal. * The change occurs within 72 hours of the original. Using this just to prolong the effective Deliberation Period (by submitting a random judgement, then correcting it if needed) is the Crime of Postponing Judgement. "Fix Budget Bug" by Murphy Proto-Budget handling is tied to the end of the nominating period and the end of the election, rather than the voting period (since uncontested elections don't have a voting period). "Fix Oligarchy Terms" by Murphy Term expiration is added to the laundry list of reasons to remove an Oligarch. This list also allows other Rules to state their own reasons. The Speaker-Elect may be an Oligarch. "No Corrupt Judges" by root Judicial Orders not directly pertaining to the subject of the CFJ are invalid. "Patch Murphy's Loophole" by OscarMeyr When a player leaves the Oligarchy, e becomes ineligible to rejoin for 30 days. "Pragmatize Scoring" by Murphy Point awards from the Scorekeepor's Budget are pragmatically validated unless correctly challenged within 7 days. "The Omnibus Reform Act of 2003" by Murphy Orders cannot pile onto an already-required (in)action. The Scorekeepor's Budget treats Ephemeral Patent Titles differently. The Gamestate is retroactively fixed with respect to Boons of Teamwork in October. Player and Team Scores reset pragmatically only. One Team Win blocks any other concurrent Team Wins. Proto-Budget handling is tied to the end of the nominating period and the end of the election, rather than the voting period (since uncontested elections don't have a voting period). The Gamestate is retroactively repaired as if this bug never prevented a Proto-Budget from taking effect. The Gamestate is retroactively fixed with respect to Oligarchic Terms of Service. CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- *** Rule 1567 causes ineligibility by request to expire after one month *** 9/30 RedKnight requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs pertaining to Kudos. CFJ 1462 causes all turned players become unturned. Pakaran requests to be ineligible to judge CFJs made while an odd number of the following are true ("I" = Pakaran): I. I have, as of the sending of this message, spent an odd number of cents in my life on coffee. II. There exists a problem solvable in nondeterministic polynomial time but not in deterministic polynomial time. III. My blood type is O negative. IV. I like beer. V. There are fewer people in the world with red hair at the time I send this message than there were 24 hours before. 10/11 Pakaran cancels eir request for ineligibility. 10/12 Blob's recusal from CFJ 1462 makes em ineligible to judge further CFJs. 10/16 CFJ 1479 causes all turned players become unturned. 10/21 Goethe makes emself ineligible to judge all CFJs that e has been assigned to judge, then cancels this request and makes emself ineligible to judge all CFJs. 10/30 RedKnight's request for ineligibility expires. 11/1 Peekee's recusal from Appeal 1474a makes em ineligible to judge further CFJs. CFJ 1322 "The Player, former Player, or Dissolute Blob has at least one [FALSE] Blot." 9/19/01 Called by Goethe 9/20/01 Assigned to Oerjan, who judges FALSE 10/27/03 Appealed by Goethe Commentary: Oerjan judged false because Rule 1435 said that only Players had Blots, and Blob was deregistered. Rule 1437 requires the Herald to continue tracking the Blots of Fugitives. This CFJ was not appealed because the Herald's Report (omitting the claimed Blots) was ratified shortly afterward anyway, and was ratified again in November 2002 and July 2003. However, ratification outside of proposals may have been broken at these times. CFJ 1462 "The Oligarchy Charge Requirement, as defined by the Grand Warden [TRUE] of the Oligarchy's Budget, is 6." 9/29 Called by root 10/3-12 Assigned to Blob, who defaults 10/12-16 Assigned to Sir Toby, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Proto-Budgets take effect at the end of the voting period, but GWotO OscarMeyr was elected without competition and thus without a voting period. CFJ 1463 "Pakaran is presently eligible to judge one or more CFJs." DISMISS 9/30 Called by Pakaran 10/3-9 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who dismisses it 10/3 OscarMeyr orders Pakaran to submit evidence related to I, II, III, and IV in eir request for ineligibility 10/9 OscarMeyr orders Pakaran to clarify eir eligibility such that reasonable effort suffices to resolve it Commentary: This immediately followed Pakaran's request to be ineligible to judge certain CFJs. Judge's argument (summary): III and IV are false. I, II, and V are indeterminate. CFJ 1464 "RedKnight sucessfuly entered the Oligarchy through at least one [TRUE] of the above statements." 9/30 Called by RedKnight 10/5-6 Assigned to Michael, who transfers jurisdiction to Eris 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE Commentary: RedKnight had 9 Kudos and announced "I pay 4 Kudos to enter the Oligarchy", followed by "I pay 6 Kudos to enter the Oligarchy". This was intended to test the Proto-Budget bug addressed by CFJ 1462. Judge's argument (summary): Fee-based actions only require the existence of a Fee, not its correct amount, to be announced. CFJ 1465 "If a player attempts to spend N kudos to pay a fee, but the DISMISS fee-based action fails (e.g. the fee is larger than N), then the kudos are still spent." Linked to CFJs 1466 - 1470 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who dismisses it Judge's argument (summary): Fee-based actions only require the existence of a Fee, not its correct amount, to be announced. CFJ 1466 "If a player attempts to spend N kudos to pay a fee, but the fee [TRUE] is smaller than N, then the fee-based action succeeds (assuming it is not otherwise prohibited)." Linked to CFJs 1465 and 1467 - 1470 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE Judge's argument (summary): See CFJ 1465. CFJ 1467 "If a player attempts to spend N kudos to pay a fee, but the fee [FALSE] is smaller than N, then N kudos are still paid." Linked to CFJs 1465 - 1466 and 1468 - 1470 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges FALSE Judge's argument (summary): See CFJ 1465. The amount paid equals the actual amount, not the announced amount (if any). CFJ 1468 "A player may perform multiple fee-based actions (e.g. extending [FALSE] eir Oligarchic Term of Service by the Oligarchic Term twice) by announcing the net effect of those actions." Linked to CFJs 1465 - 1467 and 1469 - 1470 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges FALSE Judge's argument (summary): Each fee-based action requires a separate announcement of the existence of a fee. CFJ 1469 "A player may perform multiple fee-based actions by paying a [FALSE] single amount of kudos equal to the total fees for those actions." Linked to CFJs 1465 - 1468 and 1470 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges FALSE 10/17 Appealed by Murphy 10/19 Appealed by root Judge's argument (summary): See CFJ 1468. CFJ 1470 "If a player attempts to perform multiple fee-based actions by [TRUE] paying a single amount of kudos, but one of the actions fails, then they all fail." Linked to CFJs 1465 - 1469 10/5 Called by Murphy 10/6-15 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE 10/17 Appealed by Murphy Judge's argument (summary): See CFJ 1468. They all fail because paying a single amount of kudos does not satisfy the requirement of a separate announced fee for each fee-based action. CFJ 1471 "The GWotO is allowed to remove from the Oligarchy an Oligarch [TRUE] whose term of service has expired." 10/5 Called by OscarMeyr 10/6 Assigned to Steve, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1936 (Oligarchic Service) requires the removal and provides a method (announcement). Commentary: Oligarchic removal due to unpaid upkeep was required by Rule 2010 (Oligarchy Upkeep), which lost a precedence conflict to Rule 1963 (Eligible Oligarchs). However, Rule 1963 now explicitly defers to other Rules attempting to remove Oligarchs (and would lose a precedence conflict to Rule 1936 anyway, whenever Rule 1936 explicitly specified an aspect of removal). CFJ 1472 "There is a Points Contest named Eris' Contest." [TRUE] Linked to CFJs 1473 - 1474 10/7 Called by root 10/12-17 Assigned to RedKnight, who judges TRUE CFJ 1473 "There was a Points Contest named Eris' Contest at the beginning [FALSE] of the month of October." Linked to CFJs 1472 and 1474 10/7 Called by root 10/12-17 Assigned to RedKnight, who judges FALSE Judge's argument (summary): The Application to Create an Organization was not published until after the beginning of October. CFJ 1474 "A Points Contest named Eris' Contest has awarded a positive [TRUE] number of points to some player during the month of October." Appealed Linked to CFJs 1472 - 1473 10/7 Called by root 10/12-17 Assigned to RedKnight, who judges TRUE 10/17 Appealed by Murphy, Sir Toby, and root 10/17 Appeal assigned to Eris, Peekee, and Steve 10/19 Steve moves to overturn and remand 10/19 Eris moves to overturn and remand 11/1 Peekee is recused 11/1 Appeal assigned to Sherlock Judge's argument (summary): Eris' Contest did not exist until after the beginning of October, so it cannot award points during October. CFJ 1475 "The above message contains a valid Notice of Award." [TRUE] 10/15 Called by Goethe 10/15 Assigned to Murphy, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): The point awards do not exceed the maximums allowed by the Rules. CFJ 1476 "Oerjan is silent." [TRUE] 10/15 Called by Murphy 10/15 Assigned to Goethe, who judges TRUE CFJ 1477 "Team Dovesdar has achieved a Team Win within the past 24 hours." [FALSE] 10/15 Called by Murphy 10/15-26 Assigned to Pakaran, who judges FALSE CFJ 1478 "A is A." DISMISS 10/17 Called by Murphy 10/17 Assigned to root, who dismisses it 10/17 root makes and grants 100 motions for Judicial Orders for each of the following, and later vacates them all: * Assessor Murphy to publish the Voting Report for Proposal 4529 within 72 hours * Assessor Murphy to publish all valid Point Awards in that message, with Dovesdar and its members first * CotC Murphy not to select any Appellate Judges until after a Team Win has occurred * CotC Murphy not to award any Boons of Wisdom until after a Team Win has occurred * Speaker Goethe not to award any Boons of Gold Star until after a Team Win has occurred * Contestmasters of each Points Contest not to award any Contest Points until after a Team Win has occurred * All other players not to move for any Judicial Orders until after a Team Win has occurred * Rulekeepor Michael to annotate Rule 2029 with the text "Hi, Mom!" Commentary: Judicial Orders do not take effect until published by the Clerk of the Courts. CFJ 1479 "A is not B." [TRUE] 10/17 Called by Murphy 10/17 Assigned to Eris, who judges TRUE OFFICES ------- 8/4 Goethe nominates for Speaker-Elect. 8/11 Goethe is elected Speaker-Elect. 8/17 Nominations open for Assessor, Grand Warden of the Oligarchy, and Justiciar. Mode is Open. root nominates (emself) for Assessor. 8/24 RedKnight attempts to nominate Blob for Assessor, but misses the end of the nomination period. Murphy is elected Assessor. GWotO and Justiciar elections end with no nominees. Nominations open in new elections. Mode is Open. 8/25 Eris nominates for Justiciar. 8/30 Sherlock delegates Notary to root from September 1 to September 16. root accepts. 8/31 Sherlock delegates Registrar to Sir Toby from September 1 to September 16. Sir Toby accepts. Eris is elected Justiciar. GWotO election ends with no nominees. Nominations open in new election. Mode is Open. 9/2 OscarMeyr nominates for Grand Warden of the Oligarchy. 9/5 OscarMeyr submits a Proto-Budget for GWotO, reducing the Oligarchy Charge Requirement from 6 to 4, and keeping the Oligarchic Term at 60 days. 9/11 OscarMeyr is elected Grand Warden of the Oligarch, but eir Proto-Budget does not take effect due to a bug in Rule 1958 (Nominating with Budgets). 9/21 Nominations open for Herald. Mode is Selfish. 9/27 Murphy nominates (emself) for Herald. 9/28 Murphy is elected Herald. Eris attempts to nominate (emself) for Herald, but misses the end of the nomination period. 10/2 Speaker-Elect Goethe becomes Speaker. Promotor root becomes Speaker-Elect. 10/5 Nominations open for Speaker-Elect. Mode is Open. 10/6 Eris nominates (emself) for Speaker-Elect. 10/18 Eris is elected Speaker-Elect. 10/21 Nominations open for Assistant Director of Personnel. Mode is Open. root nominates for Assistant Director of Personnel. OLIGARCHS --------- 9/12 OscarMeyr is removed from the Oligarchy. root extends eir Oligarchic Term by 240 days. (Possibly unsuccessful; see CFJ 1469.) Murphy resigns from the Oligarchy, rejoins it, then extends eir Oligarchic Term by 120 days. 9/14 Steve extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. 9/28 root extends eir Oligarchic Term by 120 days. (Possibly unsuccessful; see CFJ 1469.) 9/30 RedKnight joins the Oligarchy. 10/19 Steve extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. 10/22 root extends eir Oligarchic Term by 60 days. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 8/9 Cecilius deregisters. 8/13 Goethe creates the Contest "Minimus". 8/14 OscarMeyr announces eir intent to amend the Scorekeepor's Budget by decreasing the Team Points Goal from 400 to 200 Points. 8/19 OscarMeyr amends the Scorekeepor's Budget as noted above. 8/20 Manu is deregistered. Blob becomes noisy. 8/24 Pakaran comes off hold. 8/28 root becomes an Acolyte. 9/2 Eris makes Maud quiet. 9/3 Maud becomes noisy. 9/12 Murphy becomes a Politician. 9/14 Maud comes off hold. 9/15 OscarMeyr becomes an Acolyte. 9/27 Murphy attempts to become an Acolyte, but fails because of eir Role change on September 12 and a lack of Fee payment. 9/28 Eris becomes an Acolyte. 9/30 Eris creates the Contest "Eris's Contest". Murphy fails to create the Contest "Murphy's Contest" (e is already Contestmaster of Points Contest "Tournament of Prediction"). Pakaran creates the Contest "Pakaran's Contest". 10/2 Maud goes on hold. 10/10 OscarMeyr attempts to make Oerjan quiet, but fails because Oerjan is on hold. 10/12 Murphy announces the Turning of a New Parchment. 10/16 Kinhatis achieves a Team Win. Murphy moves to Bleethan. Blob moves to Dovesdar. 10/17 root makes Blob quiet. 10/19 OscarMeyr announces eir intent to amend the Scorekeepor's Budget by change the 5-Point award for new Patent Titles to 5 Points for new Historical Patent Titles, 1 Point for Boons (2 if new), and -1 Point for Albatrosses (-2 if new). 10/21 Goethe becomes abiding. 10/25 OscarMeyr amends the Scorekeepor's Budget as noted above.