Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal From: Ed Murphy Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:57:18 -0700 To: Agora Business THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 50, BACK ISSUE 1 Tuesday, May 31, 2005 IF, ON YOUR TAX FORM, IT SAYS $50,000 FOR SNACKS... --------------------------------------------------- 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/ Maud - Proto archive http://cokernel.org/agora/proto/ 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 ------ Incorrect assignment of CFJ 1550's appeal is corrected. ADOPTED PROPOSALS ----------------- "1 lower quota, 2 more wins" by Quazie - Proposal 4740 adopted 5/5 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 adopted 5/5 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. "Bi-Weekly Reports" by Sherlock - Proposal 4769 adopted 5/24 Bi-Weekly Reports need only be published every two weeks. The Weekly Reports of the Assistant Director of Personnel, Clerk of the Courts, and Registrar become Bi-Weekly. "Card Experiments" by Sherlock - Proposal 4734 adopted 5/5 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 adopted 5/5 Playing a card requires clearly indicating the card being played. "Clarify Rule 2023" by Murphy - Proposal 4746 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4752 failed quorum 5/5 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. "Contracts" by Manu - Proposal 4743 adopted 5/5 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. "Disinterested in Disinteresting" by Sherlock - Proposal 4747 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4753 adopted 5/5 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 adopted 5/5 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. "Inactive rights part 1" - Proposal 4758 adopted 5/15 Only active players may make other players inactive. "Limit Proposal Rewards" by root - Proposal 4757 sanitised 5/2 - Proposal 4761 adopted 5/15 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.) "Make Those Cards Work" by Quazie - Proposal 4744 adopted 5/5 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 - Proposal 4759 adopted 5/15 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 adopted 5/5 The Deckmastor is required to Reshuffle only when a prerequisite condition is correctly announced. "Skunks smell, but at least the odor goes away after a week" by root - Proposal 4764 adopted 5/24 The six-month delay on Skunks is tied, not to wins, but to true announcements of a win or Skunk. "Takeover fix?" by Eris - Proposal 4745 sanitized 4/24 - Proposal 4751 adopted 5/5 Submitting a Takeover Proposal makes all other Takeover Proposals undistributable and removes them from the pool. "Tenure Time" by root - Proposal 4768 adopted 5/24 Rename "Assistant Director of Personnel" to "Associate Director of Personnel". As opposed to "International Assistant Director of Personnel", which would have been truer to the TV series, but apparently the University is angling to take control of all Offices. "The Map of Agora" by Maud (condensed form below) - Proposal 4735 adopted 5/5 ,-_|\ / \ \_,-._* <- Port Macquarie v REJECTED PROPOSALS ------------------ "Competition Breeds Excellence" by Sherlock - Proposal 4767 rejected 5/24 Repeal Perpetuity. Give current Perpetual Officers a Boon, then retire them (forcing elections). "Ephemera from the Promotor" by Quazie - Proposal 4741 rejected 5/5 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 rejected 5/5 Peter Suber receives an honorary D.N.Phil for creating Nomic. Swann receives an honorary D.N.Phil for eir fiction work. "First Honorary Degree" by root - Proposal 4765 failed quorum 5/24 Swann receives an honorary M.N. for eir fiction work. "Herald's Ephemera" by Quazie - Proposal 4742 rejected 5/5 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) "Is it legal for root to keep changing all my proposal names?" aka "Yes." by Quazie - Proposal 4736 rejected 5/5 New Patent Title Hyperactive (more than ten proposals adopted in one week), awarded to Quazie for the April 11 distribution. "Power Adjustments" by root - Proposal 4750 sanitised 4/24 - Proposal 4756 rejected 5/5 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) "Sente isn't Sane" by root - Proposal 4762 failed quorum 5/15 Takeover Proposal. Corporate Raiders are Manu, Maud, Michael, and Murphy. "Switch Cards" by root - Proposal 4763 rejected 5/24 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). PENDING PROPOSALS ----------------- "Agoran Contracts Fix I" by Manu - Proposal 4776 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4793 Agoran Contracts are tracked by the Registrar, not the Assistant Director of Personnel. Agoran Contracts may exist between * two or more entities (part of the Justiciar's Report) * an Office and Agora (part of the Assistant Director of Personnel's Report) * an entity and Agora (part of the Registrar's Report; all players are members) Agoran Contracts may only be created or amended by Sane Proposals, and may also be repealed by them. "A Little Bit of Cleaning" by Sherlock - Proposal 4770 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4787 Remove a leftover reference to Interested Proposals from Rule 2095 (The Assessor's Boon Duties). "Cleaning up the draw rules" by Quazie - Proposal 4737 failed quorum 5/5 - Complacent Corporation - resubmitted - Proposal 4760 failed quorum 5/15 - Complacent Corporation - Proposal 4766 failed quorum 5/24 - resubmitted - Proposal 4782 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. "Deckmastor's Ephemera" by Quazie - Proposal 4772 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4789 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) "Feexins" by Maud - Proposal 4783 A feection is a notice of intent to perform a fee-based action. Players performing an action with a fee of zero need not announce the fee. Fees are natural numbers (which may or may not include zero, but a CFJ would probably find that it does in this case). Challenging a feection due to insufficient kudos is Throwing the Gauntlet. "Fix Mute Grammar" by Maud - Proposal 4780 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4797 Amend Rule 2085 (Mute Exemption) by replacing "Boons that may have awarded" with "Boons that may have been awarded". "Fix Takeover Fix?" by root Reverse the effect of Proposal 4751 (Takeover fix?), which was obsolete since Proposal 4678 (Taking over Takeovers) was adopted. "Hard Ruleset Limits" by Sherlock - see also "Soft Ruleset Limits" - Proposal 4778 (option 2) failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4795 If there are >300 rules, adoption of proposals increasing the number of rules (option 1) is ineffective. (option 2) dings the author with the Class 2 Crime of Improper Rules Fattening. "Looting the comatose" by Quazie - Proposal 4773 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4790 Loot the Dead may target inactive players. "Not Your Turn No More" by root - Proposal 4784 Repeal the Card Not Your Turn. All non-Deck gamblers gain a pending draw for each copy that they had. "option 2.1" by Quazie - Proposal 4785 Not Your Turn cannot be played if it would directly lead to a condition that would retroactively nullify its own play. "Quiet means Quiet" by Quazie - Proposal 4774 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4791 A player's noisiness may not be changed if e has posted to a Public Forum in the past 120 hours. "Regulations Precedence" by Manu - Proposal 4775 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4792 A Contract's Regulations must be numbered, starting to (sic) 1, with lower-numbered Regulations taking precedence. "Rule 213, Now and Forever" by Sherlock - Proposal 4781 If the legality of an action is irreparably ambiguous, then the Speaker shall award the Patent Title of Champion to the first player to announce it, and the Herald shall report that it was achieved by paradox. "SLC Leftovers" by Manu - Proposal 4777 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4794 Repeal Rule 1500 (Orders to Annotate SLCs). "Soft Ruleset Limits" by Sherlock - see also "Hard Ruleset Limits" If there are >(Rules Threshold) rules (Rules Threshold may be set by Speaker once per term), adoption of proposals increasing the number of rules (option 1) is ineffective. (option 2) dings the author with the Class 2 Crime of Improper Rules Fattening. "SotU's Ephemera" by Quazie - Proposal 4771 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4788 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) "The Asafoetida Revue" by Maud - Proposal 4779 failed quorum 5/24 - Proposal 4796 Insert a missing apostrophe into Rule 2091 (The Office of Secretary of the University). "The Envoy" by Sherlock - Proposal 4786 This is an Agoran Contract between Agora and the Speaker. The Speaker identifies the Envoy, the person most responsible for advertising Agora and soliciting new players. The Envoy shall regularly advertise Agora in non-Agoran public forums as e sees fit. "The Taupe Pope Repeals" by Maud - Proposal 4798 Streamline wording of papal succession, defining qualified cardinals and the cardinal club. If a conclave is not concluded within 14 days, any player may conclude it inconclusively by announcement. If ADoP is vacant or ambiguous, then the first player correctly fulfilling eir role with respect to convening a conclave is effective and responsible for further actions related to that conclave. A conclave shall be convened when the Speaker deregisters. All conclave triggers are consolidated into one rule. Emergency provisions for judge eligibility: 1) ready, active, non-barred, non-silent players 2) ready, active, barred, non-silent players 3) active, non-silent players 4) wait for some poor sap to register and get stuck with the check Repeal rule 404 (Legality of Proposals). Repeal rule 1439 (Default Penalty for Violating a Rule). Repeal rule 1497 (Truth in Advertising). Repeal rule 1561 (Illegality of Bonus Clauses). Repeal rule 1583 (Proposal Penalties Halved for New Players). Repeal Speaker tainting. Repeal rule 1747 (Pardoning Lawlessness). Repeal rule 1755 (No Non-Player Responsibilities). Repeal Power of Attorney. Repeal rule 1962 (Immaculate Players). Repeal rule 2035 (The Unready and Unnoisy are Ineligible). Repeal rule 2057 (A Duty to Vote). Repeal rule 2066 (The Silent are Ineligible). Repeal rule 2099 (Spring Break). Repeal rule 2100 (Promotor's Ex-Lax). PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- "Begone, Speaker-elect" by Goethe Replace Speaker-Elect with Pope. A cardinal is an active ready player other than the Speaker and Assistant Director of Personnel. There can be at most one pope, who must be a cardinal. The Assistant Director of Personnel shall announce the pope as soon as possible. Upon a correct and still-current announcement, the pope becomes Speaker and ceases to be pope. The Assistant Director of Personnel shall announce a rule-required conclave as soon as possible, thus convening it. The rule may specify a subset of eligible cardinals (default is all). At most one conclave may be in progress at once. During the first 7 days of a conclave, any cardinal may announce eir intent to become pope, and any other player may support em. As soon as possible after the first 7 days, the ADoP shall announce that the eligible cardinal with the most unwithdrawn support becomes pope (the ADoP breaks ties), or if no eligible cardinal has support, that the conclave was inconclusive. This announcement concludes the conclave, and (if it was inconclusive) convenes a new one. A cardinal who Wins may become pope by announcement within 7 days. If two or more cardinals Win simultaneously, then a conclave convenes with only them eligible. If no pope has become Speaker within the past six months, or a pope ceases to be pope without becoming Speaker, then a conclave convenes. Upon a successful Rebellion, a conclave convenes with only rebels eligible. If the Speakership is vacated voluntarily, or due to inactivity or Lawlessness, then a conclave convenes. "Card Contracts" by Goethe Increase the power of Rules 1742 (Agreements), 2107 (Contracts), and 2109 (Agoran Contracts) to 2. All players are members of Agoran Contracts, regardless of consent. Deckmastor requirements are rolled into Rule 2068 (The Deckmastor). The Deckmastor's Budget is split into a separate rule. Maximum Deck Size (initially 100, minimum = number of players times maximum hand size). The Deckmastor may, with 2 support, reduce quotas so that their sum equals the Maximum Deck Size. Maximum Deck Diversity (initially 30, minimum = number of players times two). The Deckmastor may, with 2 support, reduce quotas to zero so that the number of cards with non-zero quota equals the Maximum Deck Diversity. Maximum quota (unique -> 1, rare -> number of players). A player may, with 2 support, reduce a card's quota to its maximum. A Cardbook is a Contract between the Deckmastor and Agora with "Cardbook" in its name. Cardbooks may define Cards and Card Elements. Cards and Card Elements are moved to the Twopower Cardbook or Onepower Cardbook, with power of 2 and 1 respectively. There is also a Nopower Cardbook for Blueprints. A player may (with 1 support) add or remove a Blueprint, or (if the Blueprint is at least a week old, and without 3 objections) increase a Blueprint's quota to the minimum for its frequency. "chaos resolution" by Maud A request to invoke the Agoran Sidestep (arbitrary changes to the gamestate) is valid only if: * the rules cannot be otherwise modified, or it cannot be determined in reasonable time whether the rules can be otherwise modified * all active players support and none object * the resulting rules and gamestate would be agreed upon by all players * 7 to 28 days have elapsed since the request was published at which point the invoker may invoke it by announcement. "Deckmastor Contract" by Manu Move Cards and Card traits into a Contract between the Deckmastor and Agora, and empower it to define those things. "Final Adoption index" by Quazie At the end of a proposal's voting period, its Adoption Index is increased to its Voting Index (if the latter is greater). "Fluid Precedence" by Maud Mwamuzi is an Office. Mchawi is an integral Index, default 10000; the Mwamuzi may (without objection) increase it. Daraja is an integral Index from 0 to Mchawi. A rule's default Daraja is Mchawi - (Power * Rule Number). In rule conflicts, the rule with greater Daraja takes precedence. In cases of equal Daraja, the existing methods of resolution are applied. A player may spend Hila to alter a rule's Daraja by an equal amount. "Have we fixed voting yet?" by Goethe Proposal 1953 (Sane Proposals) has its Power increased to 3. All proposals with AI >= 3 are Sane. Flipping a player's noisiness to quiet has a 7-day delayed effect, cancelled if e posts to a Public Forum first. Repeal Takeover Proposals, Voting Potential, and the Guillotine. Voting Power on Democratic Proposals is same as for Sane Proposals (specified in an easy-to-amend clause). Cancelled votes are explicitly without effect on success/failure or quorum, but must be reported. "How to Join Agora" by Maud Readiness and Grace Periods are rolled into Rule 1677 (Honoring the New). "New Foundations, Part I" by Maud General rewording of Rule 101 (Obey the Rules -> The Golden Rule of Agora). Roll (de)registration into Rule 101. Players are not dinged for following a maximal subset of logically inconsistent requirements. Roll legal properties (formerly Nomic Properties) into Rule 101. Roll action by announcement into Rule 101. The rules may be overridden by unanimous consent of all players. Repeal Rule 1698 (The Proposal System Is Protected). Repeal the ban on Speaker deregistration. Repeal Power of Attorney. Roll definition of Power into Rule 1274 (Definition of Indices). Rule 107 (Rule Changes Must Be Written Down -> The Official Publicity Act) requires communication, without reference to written/electronic media. Repeal Rule 1583 (Proposal Penalties Halved for New Players). "New Foundations, Part II" by Maud Ballots are attempted votes; valid ballots are votes. Only player-submitted ballots are valid, and only one per player per proposal. A proposal achieves quorum if at least one-third of all players who were active and noisy at the start of its voting period submitted ballots that were valid at the end of its voting period. Repeal Modes of Voting, Voting Power and Potential, Sane Proposals, the Guillotine, the Senate, Complacent Corporation, and Democratic Cards. "Omnibus Spelling Fix" by Maud "nonwithstanding" -> "notwithstanding": 2059 (Legality of Bonus Clauses) 2060 (Guy Fawkes Day) 2078 (Takeover Proposals) 2052 (Voting Potential) "Proposor" -> "Proposer": 1678 (Encourage Proposals by New Players) 2061 (Boon of Zeitgeist) "commonsense" -> "common sense": 217 (Judgements Must Accord with the Rules) "Appelate" -> "Appellate": 911 (The Board of Appeals) 1570 (Announcement of Appeal) 1447 (Final Judgement upon Appeal) 2026 (Appelate Determinations; also in title) 1693 (Appeal of a Judgement) "maintainance" -> "maintenance": 1670 (The Distributor) "transfering" -> "transferring": 2069 (Card Definitions) "Deckmaster" -> "Deckmastor": 2079 (Discord) "existant" -> "existent": 1370 (How to Get a Degree) "requesting the be added" -> "requesting to be added": 2038 (Joining a Monastery) "Write" -> "Writ": 1789 (Cantus Cygneus) "losses" -> "loses": 2084 (Cash Cards) "whomever is responsible" -> "whoever is responsible": 2096 (Ephemeral Time Limits) "proposal translocation" by Maud Card-Carrying Contracts are defined, and untangled from Ephemeral Time Limits (due to previous proposal collision). While a CCC has at least three members, it may draw (N/2 rounded up) cards per month, where N is its number of members at the beginning of the month. It may transfer or discard, but may not play. "Recordkeepors and Regulations" by Maud Recordkeepors are formally defined. Multiple players recordkeeping the same information may split up the work as they see fit. Recordkeeping connected to an Office is part of the Weekly Report unless otherwise specified. Regulations are a generalization of rules, official regulations of each regulatory office (currently Deckmastor), and subgame regulations for each subgame. "The Cobalt Repeals" by Maud Issues are refactored into Agoran decisions, replacing many short rules with a few longer ones. Return to one player, one vote. Repeal rule 2085 (Mute Exemption). "The Off-Campus Herald" by Maud Streamline the wording of Rules 649 (Patent Titles), 1377 (The Herald), and various University and Degrees. Degrees are tracked by the Secretary of the University. Degrees require returning all items borrowed from the Library first. "The Viridian Repeals" by Maud Repeal Crimes, Infractions, and specific instances thereof. The only possible penalties that may be applied to a rule violator (Ninny) by another player (Inquisitor) are: Censure (two support, optional Formal Apology) Vilification (N+1 support, N blots) Ejection (Referendum, Adoption Ratio >= 2, passage -> deregistered and cannot re-register for 30 days) Banning (Referendun, Adoption Radio >= 7, passage -> deregistered permanently) CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- Requests for ineligibility: 5/5 Quazie (CFJs 1563 and 1564) 5/20 Quazie (all but CFJ 1565 "for the next 2 weeks") CFJ 1548 "root successfully played 'drop your weapon' on saturday april 16th" [TRUE] 4/17 Called by Quazie 4/18-27 Assigned to Riail, who is recused 4/27-5/5 Assigned to root, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): root named a player and card, but did not explicitly use any form of the word "choose". Judge's argument (summary): "choose", "name", "indicate", "select", "designate", and "determine" are all synonyms. There is no indication that Agora explicitly re-defines any of them, or explicitly requires that "choose" be used. 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, Maud, and Kolja 5/3 Murphy judges SUSTAIN 5/3 Maud judges REMAND 5/5 Michael's attempt to judge REVERSE is ineffective because eir assignment was incorrect 5/20 Kolja recused, Manu assigned Caller's argument (summary): Rule 106 (Adopting Proposals) requires proper proposals to be voted upon, which may prevent the cancellation of all votes. CFJ 1560 "The Justiciar's report was not ratified in 2003." [TRUE] 4/27 Called by Sherlock 4/27-5/4 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who judges TRUE 5/4 Appealed by root 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. Judge's argument (summary): Rule 1791 (Ratification Without Objection) explicitly connects ratification to the Officer. CFJ 1561 "The Library can not receive Boons and/or Patent Titles" [TRUE] 4/29 Called by Manu 5/3-8 Assigned to Goethe, who judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 649 (Patent Titles) defines a Patent Title as "a legal item of recognition of a person's distinction", and explicitly states that only persons may bear them. Boons are a subset of Patent Titles. CFJ 1562 "A cancelled vote on a Proposal does not count towards quorum." [TRUE] 5/3 Called by Goethe 5/3-5 Assigned to Michael, who judges TRUE and grants Goethe's motion to annotate Rule 879 (Quorum) Caller's argument (summary): Based on standard English definitions, cancelling a vote makes it invalid and/or ineffective, or perhaps changes its value to something that is not a vote on a Proposal. CFJ 1563 "Goethe possesses a Discard Picking card." DISMISS 5/5 Called by Sherlock 5/8-14 Assigned to OscarMeyr, who DISMISSes it Commentary: Goethe played Discard Picking to draw Not Your Turn, then played Not Your Turn to retroactively cancel eir play of Discard Picking and eir draw of Not Your Turn. Judge's argument (summary): This is indeed a paradox, thus cannot be found true or false. CFJ 1564 "Goethe possesses a Not Your Turn card." DISMISS 5/5 Called by Sherlock 5/8-15 Assigned to Murphy, who DISMISSes it Commentary: See CFJ 1563. CFJ 1565 "The holder of power of attorney for a player who is not the speaker may deregister that player." 5/12 Called by Maud 5/15 Assigned to Quazie Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1841 (Granting Power of Attorney) attempts to prohibit this, but may be overruled by Rule 101 (Obey the Rules) which permits players other than the Speaker to deregister. CFJ 1566 "Eris is guilty of Delay of Game after Quazie played Your Turn [FALSE] indicating Eris." 5/13 Called by Quazie 5/15-22 Assigned to root, who judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Rule 1016 (Activity Levels) prevents inactive players from being required to act, but Your Turn does not explicitly require action (it merely penalizes inaction). Judge's refutation (summary): Rule 1503 (Crimes and Infractions) says that an action or inaction is a Crime or Infraction only if defined as such by the rules. Your Turn is not worded as "a player commits the Infraction by failing to do X", but rather "a player must either do X or commit the Infraction". It fails to define any action or inaction as being the Infraction, so there is in fact no such Infraction. CFJ 1567 "If Sherlock has a One Share card, then Goethe errored in good faith in determining the cards to deal, and the errors did not greatly change the probability of the cards that were selected." 5/20 Called by Goethe 5/25 Assigned to Manu CFJ 1568 "root is Noisy." 5/22 Called by OscarMeyr 5/25 Assigned to Michael Caller's argument (summary): root claimed to make emself quiet, but simultaneously made emself noisy by posting to a Public Forum. OFFICES ------- 5/3 Manu is elected Herald. 5/16 Nominations open for Assessor, Clerk of the Courts, and Promotor. Mode is Open. Election for Assistant Director of Personnel fails because it must be conducted by the Speaker. Quazie attempts to nominate OscarMeyr for Assistant Director of Personnel. Quazie nominates Murphy for Assessor. Quazie nominates Murphy for Clerk of the Courts. Quazie nominates root for Promotor. Nominations open for Assistant Director of Personnel. Mode is Open. Quazie nominates OscarMeyr for Assistant Director of Personnel. Maud nominates emself for Assessor. 5/19 ADoP OscarMeyr announces eir intent to declare root as Promotor in perpetuity. Goethe objects. Maud nominates Goethe for Promotor. 5/25 Voting begins for Assessor. Candidates are Murphy and Maud. Murphy is elected Clerk of the Courts. Voting begins for Promotor. Candidates are root and Goethe. ADoP OscarMeyr announces eir intent to declare Murphy as Clerk of the Courts in perpetuity. Goethe objects. OscarMeyr is elected Associate Director of Personnel. Goethe stands down from the Promotor election. root is elected Promotor. 5/30 SotU Quazie goes on hold, sending the office to Speaker root. Nominations open for Speaker of the University. Mode is Open. 5/31 Maud is announced as being elected Assessor, but the Voting Period does not end until June 1. SHAREHOLDERS ------------ 5/1 Sherlock transfers One Share and Two Shares to Manu. 5/4 Manu transfers One Share and Two Shares to Sherlock. Manu discards Two Shares. 5/18 Card Tax discards: * Kolja (One Share) * Maud (One Share) * OscarMeyr (Three Shares) * Quazie (One Share) * Sherlock (Two Shares, plus One Share that may or may not succeed due to CFJs 1563 and 1564) Blueprints for three Ten Shares are created in the Library, then destroyed by Deckmastor Goethe as part of a new policy to destroy all Blueprints until the recordkeeping rules are improved to eir satisfaction. CARDS ----- 5/1 Sherlock plays Charity Brings Happiness (for root). 5/3 root plays Distrib-u-Matic (for Switch Cards). root plays two Absolv-o-Matics (for Michael). Quazie plays Instant Gratification (for one of eir Boons of Prodigy). Quazie plays two Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). Quazie plays two Your Turns (for Eris and OscarMeyr). 5/4 Manu plays Absolv-o-Matic (for Sir Toby). root plays two Absolv-o-Matics (for Michael), in case eir attempts on May 3 were ineffective due to not mentioning the fee. OscarMeyr plays Enforced Charity (for Quazie). 5/5 Deckmastor Goethe confirms the Library's win. Goethe plays Discard Picking (for Not Your Turn). Goethe plays Not Your Turn (for the aforementioned play of Discard Picking). See CFJs 1563 and 1564. 5/6 Goethe plays Thieves in the Night (for Sir Toby). Goethe plays Instant Gratification (for one of eir Boons of Service). 5/18 Sherlock publishes Card Blueprints: * Live Long and Prosper (if a majority of players are Stained, expunge all players' Blots) * Highly Illogical (make one Student a Faculty Member for 72 hours) * Hailing... No Response (make a player Noisy) * Caesar, Crassus, Pompey (each Ten Shares) If Goethe still had Not Your Turn after eir actions of May 5, then e later transferred it to Manu, who discarded it. Thus, it is definitely in the Discard Pile now. 5/19 Kolja plays Absolv-o-matic (for emself). 5/20 Quazie attempts some conditional plays: * In the gamestate in which Sherlock has Discard Picking (due to actions shortly following CFJs 1563 and 1564), Distrib-u-Matic (for Cleaning up the draw rules third try) * In the gamestate in which Sherlock has One Share, Absolv-o-Matic (for Murphy) * Discard Picking (for Distrib-u-Matic) * If the previous play failed, Discard Picking (for Absolv-o-Matic) IN OTHER NEWS ------------- 5/2 Speaker root sanitises Proposal 4757, with the support of Sherlock and Manu, because no one but root has a non-zero Voting Power on Democratic Proposals. 5/5 Quazie attempts to flip RedKnight's noisiness to silent, but fails because Rule 1042 (Deregistration Due to Silence) does not allow it. Manu re-creates "Work of Art" and "ChessNut" as Contracts. 5/6 Quazie publishes a Notice of Abandonment for RedKnight. 5/9 Registrar OscarMeyr confirms the Notice of Abandonment for RedKnight and publishes a Notice of Intent to Deregister. 5/11 Sherlock creates a Contract "Legislative Criticism" for grading proto-proposals, and offering a monthly Card bonus for the most useful feedback (to the extent that the Contract is able to draw Cards). 5/19 Sir Toby is deregistered for inactivity. Kolja goes on hold. 5/25 Manu creates Contracts "Cash Cow" and "Kudo Cow" to test whether they have 1 kudo by default, and are empowered to transfer it to em. 5/30 Quazie goes on hold.