Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:58:26 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 49, BACK ISSUE 23 Saturday, April 30, 2005 IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE --------------------------- Andre - Old CFJs http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/stare.txt Elysion - Thesis archive http://www.msu.edu/~boehmejo/agora.html Goethe - Claustronomic http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/ Michael - First Speaker http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~michaeln/agora/ RCS SLR ~michaeln/yoyo/RCS/short-ruleset,v RCS FLR ~michaeln/yoyo/RCS/full-ruleset,v Murphy - CotC Web http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/ Riail - AgoraMOO telnet://mail.feoh.org:4781 root - Proposal Pool http://www.periware.org/agora/ ERRATA ------ ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "absolve-o-mo-matic" by Goethe - Proposal 4682 adopted 4/17 Immaculate players may play Absolv-o-Matic to expunge any number of blots from an entity, for a fee of 1 kudo per blot beyond the first. "A Few Small Steps" by Maud - Proposal 4693 adopted 4/17 Coin flips are no longer explicitly accepted for making random choices with reasonably-close-to-uniform probability. Grace Period holiday extensions are simplified to "sixty days, not including Holidays". A Hive of at least two players may jointly register as a single player. "A More Sanitary Pool" by root - Proposal 4725 adopted 4/25 The effects of Sanitization are separated from its triggers (Untainted Speaker with 2 support; Policy card). Only an instrument with Power >= 2 may trigger it. "April Fool's Takeover" by root - Proposal 4677 adopted 4/17 Takeover Proposal. Corporate Raiders are Eris, Goethe, Kolja, Manu, OscarMeyr, Quazie, and Riail. Append this text to Rule 1787 (April Fool's Day): And should it one day be observed by any wag who breaks a Rule, the Speaker will one Boon award to em who was the biggest Fool. "At least once a month" by Quazie - Proposal 4695 adopted 4/17 Weekly reports must be published at least monthly, even if their content does not significantly change. "browsing shelf" by Goethe - Proposal 4715 adopted 4/25 Cards that have been in the Library for less than 24 hours may not be checked out. "Cabinet? But why?" by Quazie - Proposal 4713 adopted 4/17 Repeal Rule 1905 (The Cabinet). "Card-Carrying Contests" by Goethe - Proposal 4700 adopted 4/17 Each player may be Contestmaster of up to one Card-Carrying Contest at a time. It is a gambler, and e is its limited executor. It may (as explicitly permitted by its regulations) draw up to N/3 cards per month (N = number of members at beginning of month), transfer, and discard, but not play. Existing contests may be converted with 2 support and without 2 objections. "Card Counting" by Goethe - Proposal 4694 adopted 4/17 The Discard Pile is a gambler. Cards played or discarded go to it, unless transferred as part of the Deckmastor's duties. Whenever total pending draws exceed the size of the Deck, the Deckmastor shall Reshuffle (transfer all cards in the Discard Pile to the Deck) before dealing. Discard Picking takes cards from the Discard Pile. New card Reshuffle (Quota 3, Asleep[15]; Deckmastor must Reshuffle now). "Change of Heart" by Sherlock - Proposal 4699 adopted 4/17 Votes can be changed or cancelled. "Extraordinary Proposals" by Murphy - Proposal 4717 adopted 4/25 Extraordinary proposals are aborted and changed from Ordinary to Democratic. Complacent Corporation and the Speaker's Veto trigger this. "Fix the Choas" by Quazie - Proposal 4703 adopted 4/17 Spelling fix in Rule 2079 (Deckmaster -> Deckmastor). "Honorary Degrees" by root - Proposal 4688 adopted 4/17 An adopted Proposal with Power >= 2 may award an honorary degree to a non-player, who need not complete a thesis. Such degrees are recorded as honorary, and are replaced if the person later earns the same degree by other means. "Inside Agent" by Manu - Proposal 4709 adopted 4/17 New card Police State (Budgeted, Restricted [Abiding]; for a fee equal to the number of Rebels, decrease the effective number of Rebels by one for seven days). "Instant Library" by Quazie - Proposal 4706 adopted 4/17 Cards checked out from the Library are automatically transferred to the Borrower. "Library cards" by Quazie - Proposal 4712 adopted 4/17 New card Library Renewal (Budgeted 2; announce a number from 1 to 5, force Library to discard that many non-reserved cards). New card Library Card (Budgeted 2, Limited [Faculty] [1]; check out a card from the Library with no fee). "Library Collection Maintenance" by root - Proposal 4726 adopted 4/25 The President of the University may, without 2 objections, discard the Library's cards. "Limited Faculties" by Murphy - Proposal 4728 adopted 4/25 The Speaker is Limited Executor of the University, rather than Executor with a one-off limitation. The Deckmastor is Limited Executor of the Deck, rather than Executor with a one-off limitation. "Magical Mute Refinement" by Quazie - Proposal 4704 adopted 4/17 The adoption of a Mute Exemption Proposal expunges a maximum of five Blots. "More Chaos part 1" by Quazie - Proposal 4729 adopted 4/25 New card Chaos Reborn (Quota 1, Handed 2, Kallisti!; playing this card gives you five minutes to play Chaos Apple, even if Chaos Apple has been played this quarter). "More Kudo Cards" by Quazie - Proposal 4711 adopted 4/17 New card Instant Gratification (Limited [players with at least one boon], Budgeted 5; convert one of your boons to a kudo). New card Instant Punishment (Limited [players with at least one albatross], Budgeted; get rid of one of your Albatrosses and lose a kudo). New card Instant Millionaire (Quota 1; convert all of your boons to 2 kudos each). "Non transitory rebellion" by Quazie - Proposal 4686 adopted 4/17 A successful Rebellion does not triggers a Speaker Transition if the Speaker is Rebellious. "Office Condensation" by Goethe - Proposal 4698 adopted 4/17 Award a boon to the Notary, then repeal it and give its duties to the Justiciar, then retire the Justiciar (forcing an election). "One Revolution per Quarter" by Goethe - Proposal 4701 adopted 4/17 On May 1, any non-officer may remove an officer by announcement; the non-officer becomes holder but not electee. For CFJs called on March 21, the caller is eligible to judge, and the Clerk of the Courts must assign em as Trial Judge. "Plant Killer" by Quazie - Proposal 4683 adopted 4/17 Repeal Rule 2050 (The Garden). "Promotor's Ex-Lax" by Quazie - Proposal 4710 adopted 4/17 The Promotor may, without 4 objections, pay 3 kudos to make all proposals in the pool distributable. "Protect the Native Fora" by root - Proposal 4690 adopted 4/17 Rule 478 (Fora) is increased from Power=1 to Power=3, and prohibits changing a forum's Publicity by any but the standard means. "Quack Quack" by OscarMeyr - Proposal 4708 adopted 4/17 Repeal the Patent Title Quack. "Raffles, Again" by root - Proposal 4692 adopted 4/17 New card Raffle Ticket (Grafty; each quarter, a random Raffle Ticket holder gains three Boons, and all Player-held Raffle Tickets are discarded). "Rogue's Gallery" by Sherlock - Proposal 4705 adopted 4/17 The less-than-half provision of Thieves in the Night ignores all non-player gamblers. Previously, it ignored the Deck but included the University. "Sherlock smells, but at least he fixed my errors" by Quazie - Proposal 4696 adopted 4/17 Merge Rules 1678 (Encourage Proposals by New Players), 2061 (Boon of Zeitgeist), and the Boon clause of 2060 (Guy Fawkes Day) into one rule. Ephemeral Patent Titles earned between one week before the end of the last quarter and one week before the end of the current quarter must be awarded before the end of the quarter. Denying the Boon of Tapecutter is subject to the same timing requirement. "Simple free distribution" by Goethe - Proposal 4702 adopted 4/17 Players may flip others' proposals to distributable by paying the distribution cost minus one, minimum zero. "Slight addenda to two rules" by Quazie - Proposal 4685 adopted 4/17 When a state ceases to be a state of a switch, all entities in the class that were in that state are flipped to the default state. Rule 1950 (Voting Power) explicitly permits other rules with Power >= 2 to modify a player's Voting Power. "Switch Reform" by root - Proposal 4691 adopted 4/17 Switches may be set or changed by any instrument, unless prohibited. Instances of "flip" or "switch" are changed to "set". "Flipping" is used only to refer to changing a switch by player announcement. Ephemeral Patent Titles explicitly defined as Boons or Albatrosses are Static. Those not so defined are Dynamic, and are set to their original state during each Turning of a New Parchment. "Taking over Takeovers" by Goethe - Proposal 4678 adopted 4/17 New Card element Asleep (same as Delayed, except you are limited by anyone playing the card recently, not just yourself). Mainsail (Tyrannical, Piratical) is a stuck proposal switch. Proposals that become Piratical become democratic and sane. If a proposal is Piratical at the end of its voting period, and specifies a set of Raiders at least a Minimal Crew (one-third the number of active noisy players) but no more than twice a Minimal Crew, then the Raiders gain Sente and everyone else gains Gote (if it is adopted), or vice versa (if it is rejected). New card Hoist the Flag (Quota 5, Asleep[30]; make a proposal Piratical). New card Royal Navy (Quota 2; make a proposal Tyrannical). New card Cannon Fire (Quota 3; abort a Piratical proposal and send it back to the pool). New card Dread Pirate Roberts (Quota 3; make a Piratical proposal Tyrannical and make a different Tyrannical proposal Piratical). New card Not Your Turn (Budgeted[3], Delayed[2]; retroactively undo a card play within the past 48 hours, and prevent the gambler from re-playing it for 72 hours). "The following classes of cards are defined" by Quazie - Proposal 4714 adopted 4/17 Prepend this phrase to Rules 2076 (Card cards), 2084 (Cash Cards), and "Library Cards" (if it exists), which lack it. "True Pay Raise" by Goethe - Proposal 4697 adopted 4/17 Paperwork (Low, High) is a stuck office/Speaker/Distributor switch, tracked by the Assistant Director of Personnel. E and the Speaker may flip an office with 2 support and without 2 objections. Once a month, each holder of a High Paperwork office gets an extra boon, and may invoke eir Civil Service Exemption to make one proposal distributable for free. The Herald, Deckmastor, Clerk of the Courts, Promotor, and Assessor are initially High Paperwork. "Two for the price of one" by Quazie - Proposal 4687 adopted 4/17 New card Two for One (Budgeted 8; make two undistributable proposals with a Distribution Cost of 1 distributable for a fee of 1 kudo). REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Arch Nemesis" by Quazie - Proposal 4679 rejected 4/17 Arch Nemesis is a stuck player switch with values null, (all active non-silent players). A player may flip eir Arch Nemesis switch to another player if e has voted against at least two of eir proposals within the last 30 days. If e votes for one of eir Arch Nemesis's proposals, then any player may flip eir Arch Nemesis to null. If Alice's Arch Nemesis is Bob, then Alice is Bob's Harasser. A player's Voting Power on eir Arch Nemesis's non-sane proposals is doubled. A player's Voting Power on eir own non-sane proposals is multiplied by (1 + number of eir Harassers). "Blocked Proposals" by Murphy - Proposal 4716 rejected 4/25 Proposals meeting the condition in Rule 1561 (Illegality of Bonus Clauses) are retroactively neutralized, in case Rule 1561 was broken. Blocked proposals are without effect. Coercive or bribing proposals are blocked. "Bye Bye Michael Norrish" by Quazie - Proposal 4680 rejected 4/17 Repeal Rule 104 (First Speaker). "Death to the Plebeians" by Quazie - Proposal 4724 rejected 4/25 Repeal the definition of Plebeian (possibly ineffective - specifies text but not rule/rules). "Greed Works" by Murphy - Proposal 4718 rejected 4/25 A player with Sente has minimum Voting Power on Democratic Proposals of one, and has eir Voting Potential increased to four (if needed) when e gains Sente. When a Takeover Proposal fails quorum, the non-Raiders gain Sente. "Hanging Chad" by Murphy - Proposal 4719 rejected 4/25 Attempts to cast multiple votes simultaneously (e.g. 2F+A) are considered equivalent to casting them one at a time. "lets try that again" by Quazie - Proposal 4720 rejected 4/25 New card Fish your Wish (Quota 5, Handed[2]; pay 1 kudo, specify a gambler not already targeted by this card, and a card [your Wish]; if eir next draw is the Wish, you get it and a free draw; if not, you may pay a kudo to draw a card, and get a free draw if it is the Wish). "Looting the dead" by Quazie - Proposal 4722 adopted 4/25 New card Loot the Dead (Quota 1; discard a silent player's entire hand). "More Chaos part 2" by Quazie - Proposal 4727 rejected 4/25 Chaos Apple: Shuffle the deck and transfer a random half (rounded down) to the discard pile. "More corporate cards" by root - Proposal 4684 rejected 4/17 New card Share Split (Quota 1; double quota of all Budgeted Stock Cards). New card Merger (Quota 1; halve quota of all Budgeted Stock Cards). "POWER TO THE PLEBS!" by Quazie - Proposal 4723 rejected 4/25 New Proposal Chamber, Plebeian, similar to Ordinary except that each Pleb (non-Shareholder) has a Voting Power of one, everyone else has zero. The Deckmastor may not vote on Plebeian Proposals. The Speaker-Elect may veto Plebeian Proposals with support of 1/3 of Plebs (rounded down). "Root is still mean but now it works with the discard pile" aka "Quazie sure discards a lot of proposals" by Quazie - Proposal 4721 rejected 4/25 Re-create Divide or Conquer Your Stock, which was overwritten by Proposal 4684. The replacement cards come from the discard pile first, then the deck if needed. (Proposal 4684 was actually rejected.) "Takeover Takeover" by root - Proposal 4676 rejected 4/17 Takeover Proposal. Corporate Raiders are Eris, Goethe, Kolja, Manu, OscarMeyr, Quazie, and Riail. Repeal Rule 2078 (Takeover Proposals). All players have Voting Power on Democratic Proposals equal to their Voting Potential. "The President's Marks" by Sherlock - Proposal 4689 rejected 4/17 The President of the University shall publish a Grade of each proposal, with explanation, after its voting period. A/B/C/D/F are worth +2/+1/0/-1/-2 Credits, respectively, to the author. After each Turning of a New Parchment, all Credits are reset to zero, and the President shall award the Boon of Teacher's Pet to the player who had the highest Credit before the reset. If a player receives this boon thrice in a year, e receives the Patent Title Head of the Class. "Tiny addition to Illegality" by Quazie - Proposal 4681 rejected 4/17 Bribes nullify only the text of a proposal, not any rule-based side effects triggered by its adoption. PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "1 lower quota, 2 more wins" by Quazie - Proposal 4740 Divide or Conquer Your Stock is changed from Quota 8 to Budgeted (initial budget 3). The maximum number of winning hands is increased from 3 to 5. "Agoran Contracts" by Manu - Proposal 4749 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4755 An Agoran Contract is a Contract between any two entities. It may only be created/amended by proposal, and take effect when the proposal does. Their jurisdiction is all players, unless otherwise specified. The Assistant Director of Personnel must track them. "Card Experiments" by Sherlock - Proposal 4734 A player may create a new Card type by publishing a Card Blueprint. It is in its Trial Run. It has Quota 1, and a copy is created in the Library's possession, but it cannot be checked out for seven days. It is returned to the Library after it is played. Any player may destroy it by announcement. "Clarify Card Plays" by root - Proposal 4733 Playing a card requires clearly indicating the card being played. "Clarify Rule 2023" by Murphy - Proposal 4746 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4752 CFJs submitted to the Justiciar must be explicitly marked as such, and the Justiciar performs duties and fills roles instead of (not in addition to) the Clerk of the Courts. "Cleaning up the Draw rules" by Quazie - Proposal 4737 vetoed 4/28 Define draws, fee-based draws, and Full Hands / Individual Maximum Hand Size separately, then re-use the latter definition for draws due to one's proposals being adopted. "Contracts" by Manu - Proposal 4743 Subordinate Legal Contracts, Organizations, and Contests are collapsed into Contracts (a few longer rules instead of many short rules; create/join by announcement, amend by unanimous agreement, no precedence, no changing properties, no Administrator or Executor, no Officers involved). Repeal Monasteries. "Deckmastor's Ephemera" by Quazie The Deckmastor may award these ephemeral Patent Titles at the end of each month: * BestPlay (top contributor to Card play) * IgnorantGamer (dynamic/albatross; player whose draws/plays failed the most; in case of ties, they all get it) "Disinterested in Disinteresting" by Sherlock - Proposal 4747 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4753 Repeal Disinterested Proposals. All card draws due to proposals are immune to Hand Size. (Before the repeal, only card draws due to Disinterested Proposals were immune.) "Easier Card Fees" by Manu - Proposal 4738 Card fees shall be paid as soon as possible. For each kudo not paid on time, the Gambler commits the Class 1 Infraction of Debt Overdue. "Ephemera from the Promotor" by Quazie - Proposal 4741 The Promotor may award these ephemeral Patent Titles at the end of each month: * UberProposor (boon; player who e feels submitted the best proposal) * PromotorsBane (dynamic/albatross; player who removed the most proposals from the pool) "First Honorary Degrees" by root - Proposal 4748 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4754 Peter Suber receives an honorary D.N.Phil for creating Nomic. Swann receives an honorary D.N.Phil for eir fiction work. "Fool me thrice" by Goethe - Proposal 4707 aborted 4/12 Amend Rule 1726 (The Guillotine) to require the ratio of signing to non-signing Active Senators to *not* exceed the proposal's Adoption Index. This is buried in the middle of trivial whitespace amendments to several other rules. "Free Sea" by Murphy - Proposals 4730, 4731, 4732 (identical text) aborted 4/24 Town Fountain type rule for Murphy, Quazie, and root. Players with Sente have minimum Voting Power on Democratic Proposals of one. (This rule would have been adopted due to everyone but the Scamsters having Sente and thus VPDP = 0, but was found ineffective by CFJs.) "Herald's Ephemera" by Quazie - Proposal 4742 The Herald may award these ephemeral Patent Titles before each Turning of a New Parchment: * UnLuck (player[s] with most albatrosses) * Luck (dynamic/albatross; player[s] with most boons) "Inactive rights part 1" Only active players may make other players inactive. "Is it legal for root to keep changing all my proposal names?" aka "Yes." by Quazie - Proposal 4736 New Patent Title Hyperactive (more than ten proposals adopted in one week), awarded to Quazie for the April 11 distribution. "Limit Proposal Rewards" by root Each player may gain at most five Boons of Prodigy. All card draws due to proposals are subject to Hand Size. (Before this proposal, only card draws due to Interested Proposals were subject.) "Looting the comatose" by Quazie Loot the Dead may target inactive players. "Make Those Cards Work" by Quazie - Proposal 4744 Change the Exploits of Reshuffle and Chaos Apple from "the Deckmastor must X" to "you may X". Change the Exploit of Library Renewal from "upon playing this card you may X" to "you may X". "Olive Repeals" by Manu Repeal the following rules: Rule 651 (Heroes) Rule 1064 (Freedom of Information Act) Rule 1550 (Ratification by Proposal) Rule 1630 (Impersonation) Rule 1717 (The Senate) Rule 1726 (The Guillotine) Rule 1926 (The Official Secrets Act), but Unlawful Vote Disclosure remains a Crime Rule 2056 (Invisibilitating) "Pragmatic Reshuffles" by root - Proposal 4739 The Deckmastor is required to Reshuffle only when a prerequisite condition is correctly announced. "Power Adjustments" by root - Proposal 4750 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4756 Increase the Power of these rules to 2: Rule 1478 (Executors and Limited Executors) Rule 459 (Agoran Epochs) Rule 869 (Registered Players) Rule 1755 (No Non-Player Responsibilities) Rule 1842 (Power of Attorney) Rule 1726 (The Guillotine) Rule 1434 (Default Procedure for Referendum Voting) Rule 1626 (Applications) Rule 1450 (Judicial Separation) Rule 591 (Legal Judgements) Rule 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules) Rule 1830 (No Compulsion of Judges) Rule 1941 (Fees) Rule 2069 (Card Definitions) Rule 1591 (Jurisdiction of SLCs) Rule 1592 (Authority of SLCs to Change Properties) Increase the Power of these rules to 3: Rule 1079 (Definition of "Random") Rule 1513 (Authority of Non-Rule Entities) Rule 1483 (Definition of Proposals) "Quiet means Quiet" by Quazie A player's noisiness may not be changed if e has posted to a Public Forum in the past 120 hours. "SotU's Ephemera" by Quazie The Secretary of the University may award this ephemeral Patent Title at the end of each month: * Studious (two copies to the player who checked out the most Cards from the Library) "Switch Cards" by root New card Peaceful Demonstration (Budgeted, Restricted [Rebels]; pay 2 kudos to make a player Rebellious). New card Government Propaganda (Budgeted, Restricted [Abiding]; pay 1 kudo to make a player Abiding). New card Reverse Polarity (Budgeted; flip Karma of an ephemeral Patent Title). New card Cutting in Line (Budgeted; flip a player's Orientation). "Takeover fix?" by Eris - Proposal 4745 sanitized 4/24 - Proposal 4751 Submitting a Takeover Proposal makes all other Takeover Proposals undistributable and removes them from the pool. "The Map of Agora" by Maud (condensed form below) - Proposal 4735 ,-_|\ / \ \_,-._* <- Port Macquarie v PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Begone, Speaker-elect" by Goethe Replace Speaker-Elect with Pope. A player who Wins becomes a pope. While a pope exists, no other player can become a pope. A Speaker Transition occurs when a player becomes a pope, or when a player correctly announces that no player has become a pope for over six months. If a Speaker Transition occurs and there is no pope, then a conclave commences; cardinals are all ready players except the Speaker and Assistant Director of Personnel. The ADoP shall open the conclave by announcing the name of one cardinal; one week later, the cardinal with the most un-withdrawn support (ties go to the ADoP's pick) becomes a pope. If two or more players Win simultaneously, then a conclave occurs, and all cardinals who Won are deemed to have initial support equal to a democratic quorum of players. "Cleaning up the cards" by Quazie Repeal the following rules and move their Cards/Elements to the Deckmastor's Card Book: 2070 (Card Powerz) 2059 (Legality of Bonus Clauses) 2067 (Cards in Play) 2071 (Wacky Cards) 2076 (Card cards) 2077 (Democratic cards) 2079 (Discord) 2084 (Cash Cards) ???? (Library Cards) 1932 (Shareholders and the Corporation) (card definitions only) 2078 (Takeover Proposals) (card definitions only) "Feexins" by Maud Players performing an action with a fee of zero need not announce the fee. Fees are normalized by rounding up to a natural number (which may break fees of zero, depending on which definition of "natural number" is used). "Fix Mute Grammar" by Maud Amend Rule 2085 (Mute Exemption) by replacing "Boons that may have awarded" with "Boons that may have been awarded". "make Lawlessness more affirmative" by OscarMeyr Notice of Lawlessness begins Lynching. Herald shall confirm accuracy, remove Lawless player from all offices (a Speaker Transition occurs if e is the Speaker), and publish a Notice of Intent to Deregister. If the Notice of Lawlessness remains valid for a week, then the Herald shall deregister the Lawless player. "The Agoran Motto" by root "Our rules may be completely broken, but we're just too darn stubborn to stop playing!" CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- Requests for ineligibility: 4/17 Quazie (Linked CFJs) 4/25 Sherlock (all) CFJ 1533 "Rule 1561 cannot prevent an adopted Rule Change from taking effect." [FALSE] 3/6 Called by Goethe 3/13-20 Assigned to Sir Toby, who is recused 3/20-27 Assigned to Murphy, who judges FALSE 3/27-31 Appealed by Goethe, Sherlock, root, and Maud 4/3-6 Appeal assigned to root, Eris, and OscarMeyr, who move to REMAND 4/15 Murphy judges TRUE (unintentionally) 4/15 Appealed by Murphy, Quazie, root, and Goethe 4/15 Appeal assigned to root, Eris, and Manu 4/15 root and Manu move to REMAND 4/17 Eris moves to REVERSE 4/18 Murphy judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 107 (Rule Changes Must Be Written Down) takes precedence over it, and says that adopted proposals guide play. Judge's refutation (summary): Guiding play is not the same as determining play; "guiding play" is satisfied by triggering the evaluation of the rules determining the effects of adopted proposals, with the specified proposal text as input. Judge's second refutation (summary): Adopted proposals guide play by activating Rules 107 and 594 (Power and Proposals), but are blocked from further effect by Rule 1561. CFJ 1538 "A successful play of the Corporate Bankruptcy card causes any [TRUE] shares cards not in the Deck to be discarded." 4/7 Called by Goethe 4/9-17 Assigned to Riail, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Corporate Bankruptcy causes them to be "returned" to the Deck, but not explicitly discarded (i.e. transferred to the Deck). CFJ 1539 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a [FALSE] Call for Judgement." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15-18 Assigned to Goethe, who judges FALSE Commentary: root announced that e sued Quazie for attempting to declare Presence on Ordinary Proposals, and claimed that it was equivalent to a CFJ with the statement "[Quazie] attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals" and a Motion to Order em not to do it again. Judge's refutation (summary): "lawsuit" is an ambiguous synonym for "CFJ", and the statement is ambiguous. CFJ 1540 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a [FALSE] Call for Judgement with the statement 'e attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals'." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15-18 Assigned to Goethe, who judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): Trivial given CFJ 1539. CFJ 1541 "On or about Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:46:45 -0400, root submitted a [FALSE] Call for Judgement with the statement 'Quazie attempted to declare Presence on several Ordinary proposals'." 4/15 Called by Murphy; part of Linked CFJs 1539-41 4/15-18 Assigned to Goethe, who judges FALSE Judge's refutation (summary): Trivial given CFJ 1539. CFJ 1542 "The rules currently define no card with the caption 'Your Turn'." [FALSE] 4/12 Called by Kolja 4/15-19 Assigned to Sherlock, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 2076 (Card cards) does not explicitly say that the text defines a card. Judge's refutation (summary): Rule 2069 (Card Definitions) says that a rule specifying a Caption and Quota is sufficient to define a card. Rule 2076 meets both requirements (Caption directly, Quota by defining Your Turn as Budgeted). CFJ 1543 "Quazie's order to Goethe, ordering Goethe to dance, was a valid [TRUE] order" 4/14 Called by Quazie 4/19-24 Assigned to Maud, who judges TRUE Judge's argument (summary): Rule 1796 (Validity of Orders) says that all private orders are valid, and no rule says otherwise (until/unless proven otherwise by CFJ, which has not happened). CFJ 1544 "Quazie's order to Goethe, ordering Goethe to publicly announce [TRUE] that e is a Ninny, was a valid order" 4/14 Called by Quazie 4/19-21 Assigned to Kolja, who judges TRUE CFJ 1545 "Goethe's order to Quazie, ordering Quazie to withdraw eir orders DISMISS because they were invalid, was a valid order" 4/14 Called by Quazie 4/19-25 Assigned to Sherlock, who makes emself ineligible 4/26 Assigned to Murphy, who DISMISSes it Judge's argument (summary): The CFJ fails to correctly describe any of Goethe's orders. It could only have reasonably intended to describe one order, but that order ordered Quazie to withdraw eir orders because they were improper (not invalid). CFJ 1546 "In reports and distributions, the Promotor is permitted to add [TRUE] or delete whitespace or other formatting text to or from a proposal, provided that the substance of the proposal is not altered." 4/14 Called by root 4/15-20 Assigned to Kolja, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): May follow from the same line of reasoning as a similar judgement regarding the Rulekeepor. CFJ 1547 "Multiple CFJs are not linked unless they are clearly labelled as [TRUE] Linked CFJs within the message in which they are submitted." 4/15 Called by Murphy 4/15-20 Assigned to Michael, who judges TRUE Commentary: Quazie submitted three CFJs in one message, then attempted to link them in another message. CFJ 1548 "root successfully played 'drop your weapon' on saturday april 16th" 4/17 Called by Quazie 4/18-27 Assigned to Riail, who is recused 4/27 Assigned to root Caller's argument (summary): root named a player and card, but did not explicitly use any form of the word "choose". CFJ 1549 "When a proposal is aborted, its voting period immediately ends, [TRUE] if it has not ended already." 4/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1549-53 4/18-21 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 693 (Prescribed Voting Period) allows other rules to change the length of the voting period for classes of proposals, but Rule 2033 (Aborting a Proposal) does not directly change the length (it changes the end time). Also, Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) may somehow require uniform length within a class. Judge's argument (summary): Rule 2033 changes the length by changing the end time, which Rule 106 does not prohibit. CFJ 1550 "When a proposal is aborted, all votes cast on it are canceled." [FALSE] 4/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1549-53 Appealed 4/18-21 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges FALSE 4/24-26 Appealed by Maud, Eris, Sherlock, and Goethe 4/26 Appeal assigned to Murphy, Kolja, and Michael Caller's argument (summary): Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) requires proper proposals to be voted upon, which may prevent the cancellation of all votes. CFJ 1551 "An aborted proposal necessarily fails." [FALSE] 4/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1549-53 4/18-21 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): If votes are not cancelled (see CFJ 1550), then Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) conditions adoption on votes, and takes precedence over Rule 2033 (Aborting a Proposal) attempting to mandate the proposal's failure. CFJ 1552 "The Assessor may refuse to publish the votes cast on an aborted [FALSE] proposal." 4/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1549-53 4/18-21 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 208 (End of the Voting Period) requires publication. Rule 1064 (Freedom of Information Act) requires publication on request, if the Assessor is required to record the votes. CFJ 1553 "The Assessor may refuse to assign a voting index to an aborted [FALSE] proposal." 4/18 Called by root; part of Linked CFJs 1549-53 4/18-21 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 955 (Votes Required to Adopt a Proposal) requires the Assessor to count votes and assign a voting index, even if e is not required to publish the votes (see CFJ 1552). CFJ 1554 "At least one proposal containing a rule change, that was [TRUE] submitted after Rule 1561 was created, has taken effect." 4/18 Called by Quazie 4/18-25 Assigned to root, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): All proposals bribe at least one player by offering something the player considers beneficial. Judge's argument (summary): The rule definition of "bribe" is unclear, so game custom, common sense, and the best interests of the game all support the rejection of the caller's argument. CFJ 1555 "Quazie's private Orders to Goethe on or about Sat, 9 Apr 2005 [TRUE] 04:28:32 were improperly executed." 4/18 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1555-7 4/18-19 Assigned to Manu, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): A judgement of TRUE would extend the precedent of CFJ 1295 (orders to perform discretionary acts are improper) and indicate that such orders conflict with Rule 101 (Obey the Rules). CFJ 1556 "Goethe's private Orders to Quazie on or about Mon, 11 Apr 2005 [FALSE] 19:27:50 were improperly executed." 4/18 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1555-7 4/18-20 Assigned to Manu, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): If Quazie's orders are improper (see CFJ 1555), then e is required to vacate them, and Goethe's orders to perform that required task are proper. Judge's argument (summary): Orders are regulated, thus a proper subject for a Private Order. CFJ 1557 "Quazie's private Orders to Goethe on or about Mon, 11 Apr 2005 [FALSE] 22:41:06 were improperly executed." 4/18 Called by Goethe; part of Linked CFJs 1555-7 4/18-20 Assigned to Manu, who judges FALSE 4/20 Appealed by root Caller's argument (summary): If Goethe's orders are proper (see CFJ 1556), then Quazie's orders to vacate them are improper. Judge's argument (summary): Orders are regulated, thus a proper subject for a Private Order. CFJ 1558 "When gazebo_dude deregistered, Thieves in the Night was returned [TRUE] to the deck" 4/18 Called by Quazie 4/18-24 Assigned to Maud, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): gazebo_dude's copy of Thieves in the Night was created in eir possession (it was Grafty) and stayed there until e deregistered. Can it "return" somewhere it had never been? Judge's argument (summary): "Return" is a gloss for "transfer"; "the card was previously possessed by the deck" is an implicit assumption, not a requirement. Copies of the same card type are fungible, so it is impossible that some copies of Thieves in the Night are returnable while others are not. CFJ 1559 "Quazie successfully played Library Renewal on April 21st" [FALSE] 4/23 Called by Quazie 4/23-27 Assigned to Manu, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Library Renewal's Exploit is of the form "Upon playing this card you may do ", as opposed to the more straightforward "Do ". Judge's refutation (summary): Library Renewal's Exploit fails to specify an action that is performed to play the card - it only specifies an action that may be performed after playing the card - so it is unplayable. CFJ 1560 "The Justiciar's report was not ratified in 2003." 4/27 Called by Sherlock 4/27 Assigned to OscarMeyr Caller's argument (summary): The Justiciar's report did not exist in 2003. Some of its information was part of the Notary's report in 2003, and the weekly Notary's report was ratified then, but the monthly Notary's report was not; the Justiciar's report is closer to the latter. OFFICES ------- 4/17 Nominations open for Herald. Mode is Selfish. Nominations open for Justiciar. Mode is Open. root nominates Eris for Justiciar. 4/18 Deckmastor Goethe goes on hold. Speaker root becomes Deckmastor. Justiciar Eris goes on hold. Speaker root becomes Justiciar. Nominations open for Deckmastor. Mode is Open. OscarMeyr nominates Quazie for Deckmastor. Manu nominates emself for Deckmastor. root nominates Maud for Justiciar. 4/19 Manu submits a proto-budget for Deckmastor, replacing the winning hand Three Trios with Corporate Shark (One Share x3, Two Shares x2, Three Shares, Corporate Bankruptcy, Thieves in the Night, Hoist the Flag). Manu retracts eir nominations for Deckmastor. Quazie submits a proto-budget for Deckmastor, replacing the winning hands with: Money Money Money Money Instant Millionaire, Instant Gratification x2, Charity Brings Happiness x2, Greedy Bastard x2, Thieves in the Night x2, Two for One Total Control (Your Turn, Discard Picking, Enforced Charity, Drop your Weapon, Presto!) x2 Rares and a Dud Instant Millionaire, Chaos Apple, Discard and Draw, Albatross Flies Away, Player Stasis, Hot Potato, It's a Surprise, Corporate Bankruptcy, Three Shares, Dud 4/20 Deckmastor root delegates to Quazie for three weeks. 4/21 Quazie accepts delegation of Deckmastor. 4/25 Goethe nominates emself for Deckmastor and submits a proto-budget, replacing winning hands with: Three Threes (Three Trios renamed) Total Control (Dead Man's Hand renamed) Money Money Money Money Instant Millionaire, Instant Gratification x2, Charity Brings Happiness x2, Greedy Bastard x2, Thieves in the Night x2, Two for One 4/26 Nominations open for Herald. Mode is Selfish. Maud is elected Justiciar. Voting opens for Deckmastor. Candidates are Quazie and Goethe. Manu nominates emself for Herald. 4/29 Quazie stands down for Deckmastor. Goethe is elected Deckmastor. Deckmastor Quazie (still holding the office due to the delegation of April 20) retires, naming Goethe as eir successor. Deckmastor proto-budgets Current Manu Quazie Goethe Distrib-u-Matic 20 10 10 12 Absolv-o-Matic 15 same 10 10 Debate-o-Matic 6 same 7 12 Dud 15 same 12 10 One Share 5 7 7 9 Two Shares 3 4 4 4 Three Shares 1 same same same Rebel Rabble 4 6 3 2 Your Turn 6 same same same Discard Picking 5 same 6 same Enforced Charity 4 5 6 same Drop your Weapon 3 4 6 same Presto! 1 3 6 same Coalition 5 8 10 8 Patronage 5 6 10 8 Policy 6 8 same same Procedure 6 8 same same Greedy Bastard 3 5 5 4 Charity Brings Happiness 6 5 same 4 Thieves in the Night 10 same 15 8 Not Your Turn 3 same same 2 Two for One 8 same 5 3 Police State 3 same same 2 Instant Gratification 5 same same 4 Instant Punishment 3 5 same 2 Raffle Ticket 8 10 12 10 Maximum Hand Size 7 same 8 same Minimum Hand Size 3 same 4 2 SHAREHOLDERS ------------ 4/17 Goethe transfers One Share to Quazie. Goethe transfers Two Shares to Sherlock. 4/19 Quazie transfers two One Shares to Maud. Maud transfers One Share to Quazie. 4/21 Sherlock receives One Share. 4/24 Sherlock transfers One Share to Manu. Sherlock transfers Two Shares to Manu. 4/27 Manu transfers One Share to Sherlock. Manu transfers Two Shares to Sherlock. CARDS ----- 4/16 root plays Drop Your Weapon (for Quazie's Chaos Apple). 4/17 Quazie plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). 4/21 root transfers Hot Potato to Quazie. root plays Your Turn (for Quazie). Quazie plays Library Renewal (for five cards). OscarMeyr plays Enforced Charity (for Riail). OscarMeyr plays Player Stasis (for Quazie). 4/24 root plays Coalition (to increase eir Voting Potential by 4). Murphy plays Coalition (to increase eir Voting Potential by 1). Murphy plays Distrib-u-Matic (for Free Sea). 4/25 root plays Thieves in the Night (for Eris). 4/29 Sherlock plays Presto! (for Eris and Coalition). Sherlock announces that the Library has a winning hand. IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 4/17 Goethe supports making Sherlock a Bard (in case eir attempt on April 13 was ineffective). root agrees to log-roll making proposals distributable on a 1:1 basis until e announces otherwise. 4/18 Maud makes Sherlock a Bard. Goethe goes on hold. Eris goes on hold. 4/22 Goethe orders Assessor Murphy to publish the voting results of Proposal 4707 within 73 hours. 4/24 Quazie makes Riail Quiet. Quazie increases eir Voting Potential by 1 for a fee. Murphy makes Michael Quiet. 4/25 Goethe comes off hold. 4/26 Riail goes on hold.