On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:39 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > > I haven't been paying attention to Agora at all lately. > > > > If I'm still Scorekeepor or Herald, I resign those offices. > > > > I deregister. > > I become the holder of the office of Herald. (By R2019.) > > I resolve the Agoran Decision to select a degree for my thesis: > > The options were A.N., B.N., M.N., D.N.Hist., D.N.Sci., D.N.Phil., and > FAILING GRADE. > > The valid ballots were as follows: > > A.N. B.N. M.N. D.N.Hist. D.N.Sci. D.N.Phil. FAILING GRADE > coppro: 5 10 > BobTHJ: 1 2 > G.: 3 > OscarMeyr: 6 > Murphy: 20 > Tiger: 9 (endorsed Murphy * 9) > Wooble: 3 (endorsed Murphy * 3) > Quazie: 3 (endorsed Murphy * 3) > Pavitra: 1 4 1 > ais523: 6 > Taral: 15 > ====================================================================== > Total 1 6 71 11 > > There's an interesting platonic hiccup at this point. Rules 208 and 693 > both specify that there is a rule stating a method to determine which > option Agora selected. However, I've looked over the ruleset and can't > find a rule that obviously does (the likely candidates are 955 and 1367, > and neither does). Therefore, I conclude that the rule in question is > 217, and common sense implies that the option with the most votes is the > one selected. The decision selected via Agora is therefore M.N.. (Rule > 955 /does/ indicate that the decision needs to meet quorum; but there > are 27 people with a positive voting limit on the decision by my quick > and possible accurate count (including the non-player root), and 11 > people voted, so even if my count is slightly inaccurate, the decision > still met quorum.) > > I award the Patent Title of Master of Nomic to ais523. > > I create an Indigo Ribbon in my own possession. > > I resign the office of Herald. > > -- > ais523 > who, for a brief period of time, was the Herald > This fails. The office of Herald is currently held by G.
