Sorry for the delay. This would be on time if it were an officer's report, but only barely.
Archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reporter/tree/master/weekly_summaries Report for the week of 2020-02-17..23: # Summary The zombie auction mess continues. Discussion of how to fix them continues, and the Registrar calls a new CFJ about what actually happened this month. On a not-unrelated note, the Arbitor calls for judges, and some people sign up. Some CFJs are judged or called, about: using funny unicode letters; whether Agora is a contract; and whether it's possible to perform actions conditionally. Officer elections are under way. This week's proposal discussions: adding an officer in charge of maintining a FAQ and helping new players; de-securing Black Ribbons (once Ribbon Ownership is secured); and increasing the power of a rule about rules. Gaelan suggests using CC/BCC as a way to make sure officers see messages relevant to them. Victory is now apparently a weekly event. This week's victor is Jason, by payment of the 1,000-Coin fee. # Announcements * The Arbitor calls for judges to help with a high caseload, and receives volunteers. Thread: "[Arbitor] State of the Bench" # Victory * Jason joins the club by paying 1,000 Coins to win. Thread: "[DoV] Leaving the bourgeoisie" # Elections * The ADoP finds that quorum is not met in the Referee and Registrar elections, and issues a humiliating reminder to those who have not voted. More people vote. Thread: "[ADoP] Election voting opens" * Voting begins on the elections for Prime Minister and Rulekeepor. Thread: "[ADoP] More elections" * Alexis wins an uncontested Notary election after Gaelan forgots to run. Alexis resigns and starts a new election, because e didn't mean to take it from Gaelan. Thread: "[ADoP] More elections" # Zombie auctions and trade Some context: zombie auctions are broken. See CFJ 3793. * Fixing zombie auctions (thread: "[proto] Fix zombie auctions"): * Falsifian attempts to fix eir zombie auction fix proposal. Thread includes discussion about regulated actions, and about the notion of "at will" in auctions. * Murphy proposes a simple fix. * The Registrar, Falsifian, calls CFJs about the zombie auction relevent to eir report. First, whether the auction was initiated. (Thread: "[CFJ] Did I initiate a zombie auction?") Second, whether Jason's attempt to conditionally flip eir zombie's master to Agora if there was an auction succeeded. (Thread: "[CFJ] Re: BUS: Zombie cleanup (attn. Registrar)") * Warrigal creates a contract allowing the effective trade of zombies. Thread: "Contract: the Zombie Market" # Rules questions * Various CFJs are judged (see Arbitor official reports). * Cuddle Beam finds that using Unicode characters that look like ASCII letters but in a different font is equivalent to just using those ASCII letters in a proposal title. This leads to some discussion. Thread: "CFJ 3815 judged TRUE (πΈππππΎππ½ πΎπ πΆ πΈπππ π»πππ πΎπ πππΎππ πΈππππΎππ½.)" * Gaelan publishes a draft judgement finding that Agora is not a contract, despite an earlier CFJ finding it was. This leads to much discussion. Thread: "CFJ 3813 proto-judged FALSE" * A CFJ is called over the ability to perform by-announcement actions conditionally. Thread: "[Registrar] End of February zombie auction" * G. asks a question about regulated actions, possibly it is relevant to eir job of judging CFJ 3817 (about zombie auctions). Alexis points out eir judgement of CFJ 3793 (also about zombie auctions) has the answer. Warrigal hypothesizes a situation where a rule said "When this rule is enacted, a player is deregistered." without saying whom. # Proposals (See also: attempts to fix zombie auctions in the "Zombie auctions and trade" section in this document.) * Falsifian drafts a proposal describing a new office responsible for maintaining a FAQ and helping new players. Thread: "reply-to headers always pointing to this list" * Falsifian responds to comments on eir "Retroactive Events" proto-proposal. Thread: "[proto] Retroactive Events: a refactor of ratification" * Jason works on a proposal to make the recent securing of Ribbon Ownership not apply to Black Ribbons, since some people commented that Black Ribbons should remain targets of scams of any power. Thread: "[proposal] De-secure Black Ribbons" * Based on a question of whether rules need to explicitly state methods when they perform actions (threads: "[proto] Fix zombie auctions" and "[proposal] De-secure Black Ribbons"), Jason proposes to increase the power of Rule 2141 (thread: "[Proposal] Rules are important"). # Miscellaneous * Gaelan suggests using CC or BCC as a way to notify officers instead of putting [Attn: (office)] in the subject line. Thread: "RFC: Cc/Bcc as a mechanism to notify officers" * Alexis publishes a Rule 2557 apology. Thread: "An apology" * Aris petitions the Herald to conduct peer review on eir thesis, "The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen". Thread: "The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)" - Falsifian
