Hello! I have proposals for y'all. (G. pardon for borrowing your proposal as part of this; if you want it back, it's yours, I just wanted to show how it might fit into the overall scheme.)
I did a rethink on my goals for introducing administrative law to Agora. My big motivation was not so much to expand the policy powers of officers (though of course there's some of that too) as to allow them to use their discretion to quickly fix urgent problems. I've revamped my plan to make it more narrowly tailored for this end. First off, there's "Administrative Adjudication v3". Per the comments on previous rounds, I've made it so that memoranda are essentially judicial opinions. This is the lightest weight solution an officer has for resolving a problem. They can expedite the judicial process by issuing a judicial opinion out of their own official power. Since this intended to be a minimalist and fast approach, they can do this instantly by announcement; if they think discussion is necessary, they're welcome to do that first. Secondly, there's the "The Reset Button v2". This has been changed from ratification (which has been pointed out to have problems for this application) to giving officers a freestanding power to issue a document called an "adjustment" which can essentially perform arbitrary gamestate changes. This is designed to deal with the situation where the outcome of the situation is uncertain or inequitable, giving the officer the powers of a gamestate fix proposal. This still happens without three objections, to allow for the people to block the measures without making it so easy that one scammer could do so on their own. Thirdly, and I'm worried this will be too controversial, there's a proposal called "Patches". This allows an officer to issue temporary amendments to rules. Now, I know that sounds dangerous as all hell, but it serves a valuable purpose. When a new game system is introduced, it's always buggy. Often those bugs are big enough to paralyze the game. Giving officers the power to issue a temporary replacement to the rule without three objections keeps disruption to a minimum. An alternative to this would be expediting proposals, and I'll propose a way to do that if this flops. Reducing it from without three objections to without objection is a terrible idea, because someone always ends up objecting for some reason or another, regardless of the merits of the issue. "Consolidated Regulatory Recordkeeping" passes regkeeping tasks to the Rulekeepor, as previously discussed. "Generic Petitions" allows people to petition for administrative remedies. -Aris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Administrative Adjudication v3 Adoption index: 2.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Gaelan, twg, G., Jason Cobb, Alexis Enact a new rule, with power 2.0, entitled "Memoranda", with the following text: Each officer CAN, by announcement, issue a memorandum, consisting of a specified public document. The memorandum is binding as precedent within the officer's official domain, broadly construed, and SHOULD be tracked along with judicial cases. An officer SHALL only issue a memorandum to clear up a matter of urgent concern creating confusion in eir domain; officers are ENCOURAGED to exercise discretion in issuing memoranda. [Suggested domains of current offices: ADoP - Officer elections, whether reports were published, who holds what office Arbitor - The existence and assignment of CFJs, but not their resolution Assessor - Votes, resolutions Comptrollor - Vetos Distributor - The operation of the lists Herald - Patent titles, honour, the birthday tournament Prime Minister - Anything in the jurisdiction of multiple officers Promotor - Proposals in the pool, distributions Referee - Fines, but e can't make an invalid fine valid Registrar - Registration & deregistration, zombie auctions, Rulekeepor - The state of the rules (e.g. whether proposals worked) Speaker - Head of State stuff (i.e. nothing) Tailor - Ribbons Treasuror - Assets ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: The Reset Button v2 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: G. Create the following power 3.0 rule entitled "The Reset Button": An officer CAN, without 3 objections, pursuant to a memorandum finding it in the best interests of the game, issue an adjustment, which shall be a public document. When the adjustment is issued, all changes that are included in the adjustment take effect. This is a RECOMMENDED method for resetting aspects of the game in a fair and equitable manner following the discovery and/or exploitation of unintended loopholes within the Rules, whether the exploitation was accidental or purposeful. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Patches Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Create the following power 3.0 rule entitled "Patches": An officer CAN, without 3 objections, pursuant to a memorandum finding it in the best interests of the game, issue a regulation known as a patch. To the extent the patch is not manifestly abusive, disproportionate, or unreasonable, the rules are to be interpreted as if they were modified in the manner stipulated by the patch. Enacting and modifying patches are secured. A patch's promulgator CAN amend it without 3 objections. Any person CAN repeal the patch by announcement once it has been rendered obsolete. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Consolidated Regulatory Recordkeeping Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: [The Rulekeepor is willing to take on this responsibility, and it makes considerably more sense than making the officer include a random section in their report; instead, it keeps all of the rules and regulations together in one easily accessible place.] Amend Rule 2493, Regulations, by changing the text "Regulations are tracked in their Promulgator's weekly report." to read "Regulations are tracked by the Rulekeepor in a fashion similar to rules." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Generic Petitions Adoption index: 1.5 Author: Aris Co-author(s): Amend Rule 649, "Patent Titles", by removing the paragraph: If a player publicly petitions that the Herald award a patent title to another player for a specified reason, the Herald SHALL respond in a timely fashion by either attempting to grant an appropriate patent title or explaining publicly why no patent title is warranted. Amend Rule 2143, "Official Reports and Duties", by appending as a new paragraph at the end: If an office has a discretionary power, and a player publicly petitions the officer to apply that power in a specific case or manner, the officer SHALL publicly respond in a timely fashion. [No reason this should be specific to Herald (yes, I know I added it in the first place), and it seems like a good convention to have. It could be applied to regulations, for instance. I can propose to repeal this if it's preferred.]
