Here's a draft. The actual report will be about a day late; I
sincerely apologize for my tardiness, and I hope the extra day won't
cause significant trouble. Given how big this distribution has turned
out to be, I don't feel comfortable sending this out without a draft
to catch errors.
-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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8287 twg 2.0 Blot Stabilisation
8288 omd 1.0 Glitteral
8289 Alexis 1.0 You're Banned from the Theater
8290 G. 3.0 More Headroom
8291 Bernie, [1] 3.0 Interesting Chambers v3.1
8292 Bernie, twg 3.0 Self-Ratification Simplification Act
8293 Bernie, twg 1.0 CFJ Bait
8294 Bernie, twg 3.0 Authorial Intent
8295 Bernie, twg, Alexis 3.0 Rewards Reform Act
8296 Aris, G. 1.0 Divergence
8297 Aris 2.1 Imminent Failure
8298 Aris, [2] 2.0 Administrative Adjudication v3
8299 Aris, G. 3.0 The Reset Button v2
8300 Aris 3.0 Patches
8301 Aris, Jason Cobb 3.0 Consolidated Regulatory Recordkeeping v2
8302 Aris 1.5 Generic Petitions
8303 Aris, [3] 3.0 Contract Patency v3
8304 Bernie, twg, Jason Cobb 3.0 Rewards Reform Act - v1.1 Patch
The proposal pool is currently empty.
[1] Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Jason Cobb, twg
[2] Gaelan, twg, G., Jason Cobb, Alexis
[3] Gaelan, Jason Cobb, Falsifian
The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
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ID: 8287
Title: Blot Stabilisation
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: twg
Co-authors:
/* Now that people can expunge each others' blots when they feel
* an appropriate sentence has been served, blots don't tend to
* stick around for more than a month or two, so there's not much
* value in the quarterly blot decay.
*/
Amend Rule 2555, "Blots", by deleting the following paragraph:
At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each
fugitive's blots are destroyed.
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ID: 8288
Title: Glitteral
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: omd
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2602 (Glitter) to read:
Each time a player earns a type of Ribbon while already owning
that type of Ribbon, e CAN, once within the next 7 days, claim a
consolation prize by announcement. Claiming a consolation prize
causes em to earn N+1 coins, where N is the number of players
that do not own the same type of Ribbon.
[Tried to make it as clear as possible without being excessively
verbose. I split it into two sentences because the change in timing
of the antecedent would otherwise create ambiguity about when "N+1"
should be evaluated.]
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ID: 8289
Title: You're Banned from the Theater
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Alexis
Co-authors:
Repeal Rule 2602 (Glitter).
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ID: 8290
Title: More Headroom
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
[I went and looked - when we inflated base voting power from 1 to 3,
we kept the range 0-5, so we really deflated the range. Going with
14, a little less than before].
Amend Rule 2422 (Voting Strength) by replacing:
The voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is an
integer between 0 and 5 inclusive
with:
The voting strength of an entity on an Agoran decision is an
integer between 0 and 14 inclusive
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ID: 8291
Title: Interesting Chambers v3.1
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: Trigon, Aris, Gaelan, G., Jason Cobb, twg
[Enact a new Rule of Power 2.0, entitled "Ministries", with the following
text:
A Ministry is an entity defined as such by this rule. Each
Ministry has a goal. The Ministries of Agora, and their goals, are
as follows:
A. Ministry of Justice: serve justice to rulebreakers
B. Ministry of Efficiency: see official duties performed swiftly
C. Ministry of Legislation: see votes cast on proposals
D. Ministry of Participation: reward players for achievements
E. Ministry of Economy: encourage economic activity and contracts
Interest is an office switch, tracked by the ADoP, whose possible
values are lists of ministries, defaulting to the empty list. The
ADoP CAN flip an office's interest without objection.
For each item of each office's interest, that office's holder's
voting strength is increased by 2 on proposals whose chamber is
set to that ministry.
Enact a new Rule of Power 2.0, entitled "Proposal Classes", with the
following text:
Proposals created since the enactment of this rule have an
untracked Class switch with possible values ordinary (the default)
and democratic.
When a proposal with an adoption index greater than 2.0 is
created, its class becomes democratic.
Any player CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, flip an ordinary proposal's
class to democratic, provided that it is in the Proposal Pool or
that there is an Agoran decision on its adoption whose voting
period has not yet ended.
Enact a new Rule of Power 2.0, entitled "Proposal Chambers", with the
following text:
Chamber is an untracked ordinary proposal switch whose possible
values include unset (the default) and each of the ministries of
Agora.
A proposal's chamber SHOULD only be decided by which ministry's
goals it effects to the greatest degree.
Any player CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, flip the chamber of an
ordinary proposal to any ministry, provided that it is in the
Proposal Pool or that there is an Agoran decision on its adoption
whose voting period has not yet ended.
Amend Rule 1607, "Distribution", by changing "the text, author, and
coauthors of the proposal" to "the text, author, coauthors, class and
(if applicable) chamber of the proposal".
Amend Rule 2350, "Proposals", by adding the following to the list:
* A chamber to which the proposal shall be assigned upon its
creation.
Amend Rule 2422, "Voting Strength", by changing "between 0 and 5" to
"between 0 and 15".
// Move the PM's casting vote to the Speaker, since the PM already gets
// all ministries:
Amend Rule 2423, "First Among Equals", by removing the second paragraph.
Amend Rule 103, "The Speaker", by changing "For an election of the Prime
Minister, the Speaker" to "The Speaker".
Set the ADoP's Interest to [Efficiency].
Set the Arbitor's Interest to [Justice].
Set the Assessor's Interest to [Efficiency, Legislation].
Set the Herald's Interest to [Participation].
Set the Prime Minister's Interest to [Justice, Efficiency, Legislation,
Participation, Economy].
Set the Promotor's Interest to [Legislation].
Set the Referee's Interest to [Justice].
Set the Registrar's Interest to [Efficiency].
Set the Rulekeepor's Interest to [Legislation, Participation].
Set the Tailor's Interest to [Participation].
Set the Treasuror's Interest to [Economy, Economy].
// Some of the above have been slightly rejigged given the new
// definition of Participation
/* Treasuror is given Economy twice for balance reasons:
* - It is a high-complexity office (was given Complexity=3 under
* Politics), like Assessor and Rulekeepor; this makes the power
* commensurate to the importance, and there is no ministry it really
* fits under besides Economy
* - It bumps up the number of voting increases issued for Economy
* proposals; all other ministries have 2-3 excluding the PM.
* Not just trying to give myself votes, I swear :P
*/
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ID: 8292
Title: Self-Ratification Simplification Act
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: twg
/* I don't recall any instances in modern times where a CFJ has been
* used to explicitly doubt a document, and the behaviour is
* replicable by citations anyway. So let's get rid of it, as it makes
* R2201 significantly longer and also gives it two lists with the
* same numbering scheme (always a headache).
* This also clarifies that non-players are able to issue CoEs - this
* was already possible (and may be useful as a protection against
* accidental deregistrations from incorrect Registrar reports) but
* was a bit non-obvious.
*/
Amend Rule 2201, "Self-Ratification", by replacing its text from
"A doubt is" to "cites the claim of error:" (inclusive) with the
following:
Any person CAN by announcement issue a doubt (syn. claim of
error), identifying a document and explaining the scope and nature
of a perceived error in it (or in a statement it attests to).
When this happens, the publisher of the original document SHALL
(if e was required to publish that document) or SHOULD (otherwise)
do one of the following in a timely fashion, in an announcement
that clearly cites the claim of error:
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ID: 8293
Title: CFJ Bait
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: twg
I register as a player.
I receive a Welcome Package.
I grant myself 9 coins.
I transfer 2 coins to Agora.
I transfer 2 coins to Proposal 8777.
I transfer 2 coins to Trigon.
I transfer 2 coins to the Lost and Found Department.
Notice of Honour:
+1 G. (giving twg the inspiration for my creation)
-1 nch (e's vanished, e doesn't need it)
I vote PRESENT on each Agoran decision whose voting is ongoing.
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ID: 8294
Title: Authorial Intent
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: twg
// Not actually expecting this to pass, at least not on first reading,
// but hopefully it will provoke some discussion.
Amend Rule 217, "Interpreting the Rules", by inserting "authorial
intent," after "past judgements,".
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ID: 8295
Title: Rewards Reform Act
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: twg, Alexis
/* 1. Changes rewards to be issued by relevant officers (mostly ADoP,
* Arbitor) in their weekly reports, instead of calculated and
* claimed by individual players themselves.
* 2. Effectively converts Glitter into a reward issued by the Tailor.
* (Players must still claim their Glitter by announcement, but the
* Tailor calculates the coin amounts and awards them all in
* weekly batches.)
* 3. Makes all Ribbons (except White, Gray, Black) eligible for
* Glitter.
*/
Amend Rule 2496 ("Rewards") as follows:
Replace its first two paragraphs with the following:
Each time a player fulfills a reward condition, the officer
associated with the condition CAN once, and SHALL before the end
of the next Agoran week, grant the associated set of assets to the
player.
Below is a list of reward conditions and their associated assets
and officers.
Append "(Assessor)" to the first list item.
Append "(Arbitor)" to the second list item.
Append "(ADoP)" to the third list item.
Append "(ADoP)" to the fourth list item.
Append "(Herald)" to the fifth list item.
Amend Rule 2438 ("Ribbons") as follows:
Replace the paragraph starting "While a person qualifies..." with
the following:
A person qualifies for a type of Ribbon if e has earned that type
of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days (including earlier in the
same message).
[Removed the Gray and Transparent rephrasings as they were
unnecessarily confusing and had minimal effect.]
Move the list item starting "Emerald" so that it falls between the
list items starting "Green" and "Cyan". [This was bothering me.]
Append the following:
While a person qualifies for a type of Ribbon:
- If e has not owned that type of Ribbon within the preceding 7
days, any player CAN, by announcement, award em that type of
Ribbon.
- Otherwise, if e has not been awarded that type of Ribbon or
the corresponding type of Glitter since e last earned or
came to qualify for that type of Ribbon, e CAN, by
announcement, award emself that type of Glitter.
Amend Rule 2602 ("Glitter") to read:
For each type of Ribbon, there is a type of Glitter with the same
name. An attempt to award Glitter is INEFFECTIVE if the type of
Glitter is not specified.
Each time a player is awarded a type of Glitter, the Tailor CAN
once, and SHALL before the end of the next Agoran week, grant the
player N+1 coins, where N is the number of players who did not
own the corresponding type of Ribbon at the time of the award.
[If the mechanics of the change are approved, R2602 could later be
further simplified by merging the first para into 2438 and the
second into R2496]
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ID: 8296
Title: Divergence
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-author(s): G.
Amend Rule 2143, "Official Reports and Duties", by removing the paragraph:
A convergence is any change to the gamestate that has, in
accordance with the rules, been designated as such. A change to
the gamestate SHOULD NOT be designated as a convergence unless it
is designed to resolve gamestate ambiguity. Designating a change
as a convergence is secured; any player CAN do so with 3 Agoran
Consent. When officeholders provide historical information, they
NEED NOT accurately document the changes made by the convergence
or related ambiguities, provided that they instead note that the
convergence occurred. Information about a convergence (but not the
resulting state) is inherently uncertain and is thus excluded from
self-ratification.
Amend Rule 1681, "The Logical Rulesets", by changing the text
"Whenever a rule is changed in any way, the Rulekeepor SHALL record
a historical annotation to the rule indicating:"
to read
"Whenever a rule is changed in any way, the Rulekeepor SHALL record and
thereafter maintain a reasonably accurate historical annotation to the
rule indicating:"
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ID: 8297
Title: Imminent Failure
Adoption index: 2.1
Author: Aris
Co-author(s):
[This is no longer effective; a replacement would be complex to implement
and probably not worth it.]
Amend Rule 2481, "Festival Restrictions", by removing the list item
"2. Non-Festive players cannot flip the Imminence of any proposal;"
and renumbering the list accordingly.
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ID: 8298
Title: Imminent Failure
Adoption index: 2.1
Author: Aris
Co-author(s):
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
Notary (if passed) - Contracts and pledges
Prime Minister - Anything in the jurisdiction of multiple officers
Promotor - Proposals in the pool, distributions
Referee - Fines and criminal law in general
Registrar - Registration & deregistration, zombie auctions, etc.
Rulekeepor - The state of the rules (e.g. whether proposals worked)
Speaker - Head of State stuff (i.e. nothing)
Tailor - Ribbons
Treasuror - Assets
]
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ID: 8299
Title: The Reset Button v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: G.
If no proposal whose title contains the text "Administrative Adjudication"
has passed within the last 30 days, the remainder of this proposal has no
effect.
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.
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ID: 8300
Title: Patches
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:
If no proposal whose title contains the text "Administrative Adjudication"
has passed within the last 30 days, the remainder of this proposal has no
effect.
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.
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ID: 8301
Title: Consolidated Regulatory Recordkeeping v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Jason Cobb
[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 as part of eir
weekly and monthly reports in a fashion similar to rules."
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ID: 8302
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 and memoranda, for instance.]
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ID: 8303
Title: Contract Patency v3
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Gaelan, Jason Cobb, Falsifian
Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full:
A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if,
at the time the action took place:
1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated that e agrees to the action
and not subsequently publicly withdrawn eir statement;
2. e is party to a contract whose body explicitly and unambiguously
indicates eir consent; or
3. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the
action to take place or assented to it taking place.
Amend Rule 2124, "Agoran Satisfaction", by removing the text '(syn. "consent")'.
Amend Rule 1742, "Contracts", to read in full:
Any group of one or more consenting persons (the parties) may
publicly make an agreement among themselves with the intention that it be
binding upon them and be governed by the rules. Such an agreement
is known as a contract. A contract may be modified, including
by changing the set of parties, with the consent of all
existing parties. A contract may also be terminated with the
consent of all parties. A contract automatically terminates if the number of
parties to it falls below one. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a person to
become a party to a contract without eir consent.
Parties to a contract governed by the rules SHALL act in
accordance with that contract. This obligation is not impaired
by contradiction between the contract and any other contract, or
between the contract and the rules.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any change that would cause the full
provisions or parties of a contract to become publicly unavailable is canceled
and does not take effect.
The portion of a contract's provisions that can be interpreted
with reference only to information that is either publicly or generally
available are known as its body; the remainder of the provisions are known
as the annex.
A party to a contract CAN perform any of the following actions as
explicitly and unambiguously permitted by the contract's body:
* Act on behalf of another party to the contract.
* By announcement, revoke destructible assets from the contract.
* By announcement, transfer liquid assets from the contract to a specified
recipient.
Amend rule 2450, "Pledges", by adding at the end of the first paragraph
"A pledge ceases to exist at the end of its time window."
Destroy every pledge with an expired time window.
Enact a new power 2.0 rule, entitled "The Notary", with the following text:
The Notary is an office.
The Notary's weekly report contains:
1. every pledge, along with its title, creator, time window, time of
creation, and time of expiry; and
2. every contract, with its title, full provisions, and parties.
If the Notary is required to report a title, but none has been otherwise
publicly provided, e CAN select one.
The transitional period lasts for at least 90 days after this rule comes
into force; thereafter, any player CAN end it by announcement.
A pledge or contract is invisible if it was created before this rule came
into force, and has not been publicly posted since this rule came into force;
for a contract, this publication must include its full provisions and list of
parties, along with a certification or adequate proof of their accuracy and
completeness. During the transitional period, the Notary NEED NOT report
any invisible contract or pledge. When the transitional period is ended,
each invisible contract or pledge ceases to exist in the order they were
created, and then this rule amends itself by deleting this paragraph.
Make Gaelan the Notary.
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ID: 8304
Title: Rewards Reform Act - v1.1 Patch
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Bernie
Co-authors: twg, Jason Cobb
If the proposal titled "Rewards Reform Act" has not been adopted, this
proposal has no effect.
Amend Rule 1023, "Agoran Time", by inserting the following top-level
list item before the one starting "2. Agoran epochs:", and renumbering
the rest of the list as appropriate:
2. The phrase "in an officially timely fashion" means "before the
end of the next Agoran week". This time period is set when the
requirement is created (i.e. between 7 and 14 days before the
period ends).
Amend Rule 2496, "Rewards", by replacing "before the end of the next
Agoran week" with "in an officially timely fashion".
Amend Rule 2602, "Glitter", by replacing "before the end of the next
Agoran week" with "in an officially timely fashion".
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