Here's another draft. Again, my apologies for the delay. Any further
proposals will not be included in this week's report. Additionally,
remember my note that P8265 is deliberately hard to find in the full
list, but is in there.
-Aris
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I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran
Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal
pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the
quorum is 5, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid
options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote, as are
conditional votes).
ID Author(s) AI Title
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8253 Murphy, G., Jason Cobb 2.0 Clarify salary
8254 Jason Cobb 3.0 Anything is POSSIBLE
8255 Jason Cobb 3.0 Possibly-Indeterminate Switches
8256 Murphy, Gaelan 2.0 Yes, Prime Minister
8257 Murphy, Gaelan, G. 2.0 The Fat Director
8258 Jason Cobb 2.0 Elections Fix
8259 Gaelan, Jason Cobb 1.0 [1]
8260 G. 1.0 The Low Zombie
8261 G. 3.0 The High Zombie
8262 G. 1.0 trick candles
8263 nch 3.0 Persistent
8654 nch 1.0 [2]
8265 twg, Murphy, Aris 3.0 [3]
[1] "Clean up your own mess, without making a bigger one"
[2] Encouraging Democracy Through Capitalism or Who Pays Subs Full Wages Anyway
[3] The empty string, aka ""
The proposal pool is currently empty.
The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
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ID: 8253
Title: Clarify salary
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: G., Jason Cobb
Amend Rule 2559 (Paydays) by replacing this text:
2. For each office, if a single player held that office for 16 or
more days in the previous month and no unforgivable fines were
levied on em for eir conduct in that office during that time,
that player earns 5 coins.
with this text:
2. For each office, if a single player held that office for 16 or
more days in the previous month and no unforgivable fines were
levied on em during that month for eir conduct in that office,
that player earns 5 coins.
[Legislates based on the judgement of CFJ 3774, but also covers edge
cases like "do something in late September, get dinged for it in early
October": you still earn your salary for September, but forfeit it for
October. Covering corner cases like "exit office in early October,
no October salary to forfeit, impose fine/debt against September salary"
is left as an exercise for future proposal authors.]
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ID: 8254
Title: Anything is POSSIBLE
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2152 ("Mother, May I?") by replacing the text "CAN:" with the
text "CAN, POSSIBLE:".
["POSSIBLE" is used in the Rules right now, but is never defined; this
defines it.]
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ID: 8255
Title: Possibly-Indeterminate Switches
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2162 ("Switches") by replacing the paragraph beginning "If an
action or set of actions" with the following:
If a type of switch is not explicitly designated as
possibly-indeterminate by the rule that defines it, and if an action
or set of actions would cause the value of an instance of that type
of switch to become indeterminate, that instance instead takes on
its last determinate and possible value, if any, otherwise it takes
on its default value.
[Provides an escape hatch so that rules can allow their switches to have
indeterminate values. This has come up in protos by both me and
Falsifian. It is useful to have these possibly-indeterminate properties
be switches, since switches have useful properties and precedent, so the
always-determinate system cuts off some use-cases.]
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ID: 8256
Title: Yes, Prime Minister
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: Gaelan
Amend Rule 2193 (The Registrar) by removing this text:
The Registrar is also responsible for tracking any switches,
defined in a rule, that would otherwise lack an officer to track
them, unless the switch is defined as untracked.
Amend Rule 2423 (First Among Equals) by appending this text:
The Prime Minister is responsible for tracking any switches
defined by the rules, not defined as untracked, and not defined
as tracked by another officer.
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ID: 8256
Title: The Fat Director
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: Gaelan, G.
Amend Rule 2193 (The Registrar) by removing this text:
The Registrar is also responsible for tracking any switches,
defined in a rule, that would otherwise lack an officer to track
them, unless the switch is defined as untracked.
Amend Rule 2423 (First Among Equals) by removing this text:
The Prime Minister is responsible for tracking any switches
defined by the rules, not defined as untracked, and not defined
as tracked by another officer.
Create a rule titled "The Fat Director" with Power 2 and this text:
The Fat Director is an imposed office.
A loose switch is a switch defined by the rules, not defined as
untracked, and not defined as tracked by an officer other than the
Fat Director. The Fat Director is responsible for tracking any
loose switches.
When a proposal creates a loose switch or causes a switch to
become loose, the Fat Director is set to the author of that
proposal. If the Fat Director is vacant and any loose switches
exist, then the Registrar CAN set the Fat Director to any player
by announcement. Any player CAN become the Fat Director by
announcement.
[Would have called it "Fat Controllor", but that would be too close
to "Comptrollor", and I didn't want to merge it with that either.]
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ID: 8_2_6_5 (without the underscores)
Title: [3]
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: twg
Co-authors: Murphy, Aris
Enact a new Rule of Power 3.0 with the text:
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding:
* the Rulekeepor's reports NEED NOT include this rule or any
information about it;
* the Rulekeepor NEED NOT assign this rule a title;
* players SHALL NOT clearly identify this rule - doing so is the
Class 1 Crime of Uttering the Forbidden Name.
Any player CAN, without objection, exorcise this rule (cause it to
repeal itself).
/* Changes from Murphy's version: added "any information about it" (like
* annotations, etc) to the list of things the Rulekeepor doesn't have to
* publish; added an extra safety so that we can get rid of it quickly if
* necessary.
*/
/* Changes from my first version: increased to Power 3 to overrule reporting
* requirements; removed the Rulekeepor's requirement to assign a title without
* identifying it; added an explicit SHALL NOT to Uttering the Forbidden Name;
* moved the SHALL NOT to within the RttCN clause to overrule the requirement
* for freedom of speech.
*/
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ID: 8258
Title: Elections Fix
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2154 ("Election Procedure") by replacing the text "election
for a specified office" with the text "election for a specified elected
office".
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ID: 8259
Title: Clean up your own mess, without making a bigger one
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason Cobb
Co-authors:
Remove the following paragraph from Rule 2139 “The Registrar”: {
The Registrar is also responsible for tracking any switches,
defined in a rule, that would otherwise lack an officer to track
them, unless the switch is defined as untracked.
}
Create a power-1 rule titled “Switch Responsibility” with the following text: {
For each switch which would otherwise lack an officer to track it, and is
not defined as untracked, there exists an imposed office named
“Tracker of [switch name]” that is responsible for tracking that switch.
}
[1006/44 states:
When a proposal takes effect and creates a new office, if the
proposal does not specify otherwise, the author of that proposal
becomes the holder of the office.
I think this works, but we might need to clarify the meaning of
“creates a new office” to be sure.]
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ID: 8260
Title: The Low Zombie
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
Create a Rule titled "Boo!" with the following text:
One week after this rule is repealed, it is reenacted.
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ID: 8261
Title: The High Zombie
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
Create a Power=3 Rule titled "Boo!!" with the following text:
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, one week after this rule is
repealed, it is reenacted.
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ID: 8262
Title: trick candles
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
Create a Rule entitled "Blink" with the following text:
One week after this sentence is modified in any way, this rule
is amended by inserting this sentence as the first paragraph of
this rule.
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ID: 8263
Title: Persistent
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Nch.
Co-authors:
I submit the following proposal, "Persistent", AI=3 {
When this rule is amended, also amend it by appending this sentence to the
end of the rule.
}
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ID: 8264
Title: Encouraging Democracy Through Capitalism or Who Pays Subs Full
Wages Anyway
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Nch
Co-authors:
Amend rule 2496 by replacing the current text {
* Publishing an office's weekly or monthly report, provided that
publication was the first report published for that office in
the relevant time period (week or month respectively) to fulfill
an official weekly or monthly duty: 5 coins.
} with the text {
* Publishing an office's weekly or monthly report, provided that
publication was the first report published for that office in
the relevant time period (week or month respectively) to fulfill
an official weekly or monthly duty: 3 coins for an interim office
or 5 coins for any other office.
}
Reasoning: This should encourage elections for offices. Elections are Fun
and Cool and help spread the workload and reduce consolidation.
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