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Report for the week of 2020-05-18..24: # Summary Welcome, Bögtil, and welcome back, grok! Well, it turns out auctions are still broken. Will we ever get them right? G. proposes to just let the auctioneer figure out how to auction things (with some help from regulations). Some interesting proposals this week.Aris proposes a system of budgets and taxation, and nch continues work on eir Sets economy, with much feedback. G. submits a proposal that would attempt to create a contract. A pair of proposals ask you to consider the words "Registror" and "Notory". Aris and P.S.S. submit eir Dark Arts and Treason proposals. There are also many proposals that are fix-ups or repeal some minor, possibly obsolete, rule text. Aris proposes a reform of Agora's degree system, and officer name are gathered for Long Service Awards. CFJ 3831 enters "the mootiest moot ever", and justice is served for a million-year pledge. Four proposals were adopted this week. If you're reading this during the following week, you can find a summary of proposals up for voting in next week's draft at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/blob/master/weekly_summaries/2020-05-25..31 # Special preview: next week's voting * Early next week (2020-05-25), voting began on proposals 8388-8404, including: * The office of the Webmastor (8388) * Stripping old rule text including the Editor and Line-item Veto (8389, 8395, 8399, 8400) * Office renames: Registror and Notory (8390, 8391) * Make crimes are punishable according to the rules at the time of the event (8392) * Election nomination timing fix (8393) * Ban zombies from office (8394; originally attempted in 8228) * Fix auctions (8396) * Define "to refer" (8397) * Make "by announcement" the default mechanism where the rules say "CAN and SHALL" (8398) * Outlaw doing things that would harm Agora if it were not for R1698, and introduce a new process for "high crimes" (8401, 8404) * Bring back Promises (8402) * Shorten Rule 1698 (the ossification protection rule) (8403) # Player registrations * grok, who last played in 2017, re-registers and expresses interest in judging cases. G. refers to em as the judge of the excellent CFJ 3514. * New player Bögtil registers. # Voting * Proposals 8377-8387 are resolved. Adopted proposals: * 8377: Adjustments to the justice system: change the burden of proof, and rename a couple of rules. * 8379: Expand the conditions for winning by paradox. * 8381: Award R. Lee the Patent Title of Money Launderer. * 8386: Close a loophole for judges. * The Promotor points out the distribution of Proposal 8387 got somewhat close to being self-ratified. # Culture * The Herald announces intent to award "Long Service Award" patent titles, after receiving a list of long-term office holders from the ADoP. Threads: "[Herald] Petition of the Associate Director of Personnel", "[Herald, attn: PM, Speaker] Long Service Awards" * There's discussion of awarding titles missing from the past. * Aris proposes a reform of Agora's degree system, adding arts degrees, adding more detail, and renaming "Doctor" to "Doctorate". Thread: "College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences" # Auctions and zombies * G. notices that auctions are broken because all auctions end immediately. Thread: "Do all auctions end immediately?" * Aris says it has been noticed before. * grok proposes an interim fix while G. works on a larger auction overhaul. Thread: "[Proposal] Auction End Clarification" * Falsifian announces intent to ratify without objection that the May zombie auction didn't end before the first bid. Thread: "May Auction Ratification" * G. circulates some draft text for overhauling how auctions work, since there have been many problems with them. Partial credit to earlier language by Alexis. Thread: "Auction overhaul first cut" * There's a side discussion about auctioning off switch states, since zombie ownership is currently represented by switches. ais523 suggests allowing Agora to create Promises. * G. drafts a proposal for relating assets to switches. Thread: "keys". * Jason circulates draft text for handling zombie ownership with assets instead of switches, which could simplify zombie auctions. The assets are called talismans, after a contract Warrigal created earlier. Thread: "[proto] Talismans" # Rules questions * Jason judges CFJ 3833, on attempting to submit a proposal with an incorrect attribute. E circulated a draft last week. * Can Aris refer a proposal to a chamber using those words? P.S.S. proposes to just add the definition to the rules. * G. submits a proposal that attempts to create a contract. Thread: "Protos: Referral and High Crimes" * Murphy judges CFJ 3836 true: a CFJ R. Lee called would make em eligible to win by paradox if it had a judgement of PARADOXICAL assigned to it for seven days. # Other Proposals * Aris proposes an improvement to the definition of uncontested elections. Thread: "[Proposal] Elections Aren't Over Till They End" * Jason resubmits a proposal that failed on a technicality, that would ban zombies from holding office. Thread: "[proposal] 8228 retry" * Falsifian drafts a couple of possible changes to address the bug with pledges in the thread "Pledge Bug". * Aris circulates a draft of a proposal for budgets and taxation, which could be combined with making rewards and paydays come out of budgets instead of being created on demand. There is some discussion of possibilities for Agoran economics. * nch proposes to make "by announcement" implicit, so rules don't need to say it. Past conversations and Proposal 7928 ("no we can't", G., adopted in October 2017) are mentioned. Thread: "[Proposal] No More 'By Announcement'" * Discussion of the relative desirability of the names "Registror" and "Notory", and an old meaning of the latter. Thread: "Renaming Sillyness (At AI 3, of course)" * G. proposes a simplified replacement to the Moot process for CFJs. Thread: "[Proposal] Mooting moots" * nch circulates more versions of eir proposal "Sets" for an economy with different kinds of cards that can be converted to corresponding useful assets. Threads have "Sets" in the subject line. * One concern is to make sure it doesn't accidentally become impossible to submit proposals (but for R1698). * nch's proposal includes auctions of the Lost and Found Department's possessions. There's concern this could lead to problems. * nch withdraws their latest version of the proposal for now while discussion continues. A tricky part to fix is the VP auction. * Treason: * P.S.S. circulates a draft proposal based on eir "Treason" idea from last week. Lots of discussion. Thread: "Protos: Referral and High Crimes" * Aris submits eir "Defense Against the Dark Arts" proposal from last week. * Note: P.S.S. removed the language about harm to agora from eir Treason draft, so the two proposals could complement each other. * grok proposes to close a loophole where a Writ of FAGE can allow a player to skip the 30-day window between deregistering and reregistering. ais523 is quoted appealing to keep the loophole open after last year's scam. Thread: "[Proposal] Cantus Counterscam" * G. proposes to define WILL as a shorthand combining "CAN once by announcement" with "SHALL", leading to much debate. Thread: "Agora willing" * G. funds a contest for finding a concise definition of WILL. Thread: "[Contest: Rule Golf] Re: Agora willing" * As an alternative, Murphy proposes that "CAN and SHALL" implicitly include "by announcement" as a default method. Aris submits eir own shorter proposal (subject: "Backup Conservatism") but withdraws it (technically next week). * Jason proposes to repeal Rule 2599, which defined Editorial Guidelines, and which e wrote. Thread: "[proposal] RIP the editor" * R. Lee proposes to repeal twg's "Temporary CFJ Setup", Rule 2609, twg having had two months and not used it, and also G.'s Rule 2597, "Line-item Veto", which has been around for over a year without doing much, though G. has called in the past for it to be kept. Thread: "Short Proposal" * Trigon proposes a way to shorten the text of Rule 1698 (ossification protection), and Aris gives a justification for the current, longer, text. Thread: "1698 shortening". # The Dragon Corporation (contract) Threads have "Dragon" in the subject line. * Falsifian finds a bug in the Presedential Elections proposal for the Dragon Corporation. Jason asks whether the proposal would allow deputisation as President. * Aris applies a shareholder-approved amendment to shorten voting periods. # Miscellaneous * CFJ 3831 is entered into Moot (with 5 support, after time ran out for doing it with 4 support), and the decision to determine public confidence in the decision begins. Threads: "Moot Attempt", "[Arbitor] CFJ 3831 enters the mootiest moot ever" * There's some fuss about karma, and Trigon is no longer interetsed in judging, in thread "[Proposal] Elections Aren't Over Till They End". * Discussion continues on using Agora's rules or judicial system for things not directly relevant to Agora. Thread: "coherent vision for Agora Nomic as an independent policing/judiciary force" * R. Lee is punished for violating eir pledge to top-post at most five times over a million-year period. Thread: "It hasn't been 1 million years yet" # History * G. recalls that a coin-destroying proposal was associated with the scam that created the Town Fountain. Thread: "Protos: Referral and High Crimes" - Falsifian
