On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 03:58, James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 02:39, Aris Merchant > <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We need to decide who will take which offices. Currently we need a new > > ADoP, Arbitor, Assessor, Astronomor, Clork, Herald, Referee, Registrar, > > Tailor, and Treasuror. That's 10 vacant or essentially vacant offices. Of > > those, I would consider Arbitor and Assessor to be most urgent, as they are > > needed to maintain essential functions. I would consider Referee, > > Treasuror, and ADoP to be important, as they are needed to maintain > > non-essential functions that are nevertheless necessary for the game to > > remain healthy. I would consider Herald and Tailor to be relatively > > unimportant, given the current state of crisis. Finally, I would consider > > Astronomor and Clork to be candidates for deletion; in other words, I will > > propose to remove their respective systems if they go unfilled for much > > longer. There's no point in keeping a mini-game no one is playing, and an > > unmaintained mini-game is a dead mini-game. > > > > I'll take Arbitor, although I'm unsure if I'll want to hold on to it in the > > long run. I cannot take Assessor, since I already hold the incompatible > > office of Promotor, and anyway I'm not sure I'd want it. I'd take Referee, > > but it and Arbitor are incompatible. I want to run the next birthday > > tournament, so I was going to ask whoever the Herald turned out to be to > > appoint me as eir delegate. If there are no interested takers, I can hold > > down Herald temporarily too, although if I do I may propose the repeal of > > Karma to cut down on the workload. Normally, I wouldn't consider taking an > > office if I thought I might not have time for all of its present > > responsibilities, but as I said, I consider this a crisis. Who else is > > interested in holding an office, either permanently or temporarily (please > > state which like I did)? > > > > -Aris > > I'm happy to try out one office --- I'll hold it for a month, and then > resign if I decide I can't reliably fulfill the duty. I don't have a > strong preference among the urgent and important offices you listed. > > I also might fill in other offices on a more temporary basis, probably > by deputising and later resigning. I like the Karma mechanic, so if > nobody wants to be Herald I might deputise just to keep that going.
I'm currently studying the Registrar's duties.