I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran
Decision of whether to adopt it. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, and the valid options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is
also a valid vote).
[You know what? I'm SO glad I'm not the Assessor anymore.]
ID Author(s) AI Title
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7763* scshunt 1.0 Official References
7764* scshunt 1.0 Prime Ministerial Perks
7765* scshunt 2.0 Centralization
7766* scshunt 1.0 Timelines
7767+ the Warrigal 1.5 The Resistance
7768+ ais523 1.0 Full House Of Trust
7769+ G. 2.0 You propose it you run it
7770+ omd 3.0 Patent Titles Are Forever
7771+ omd 3.0 Instant Runoff Silver Quill [..]
Full Title of 7771: Instant Runoff Silver Quill (Elections Too, Just
In Case We Ever Have An Election Again With Three Competitive
Candidates)
The proposal pool currently contains the following proposals:
ID Author(s) AI Title
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pp1 scshunt 3.0 Tie-Breaking Votes
pp2 scshunt 1.0 IADoP Salary Control
pp3 scshunt 1.0 Blocking Power
pp4 scshunt 3.0 High-Power Centralization
Legend: <ID>* : Proposal is pending
<ID>+ : By publishing this report, I pend the marked proposal
The full text of the aforementioned proposals is included below.
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ID: 7763
Title: Official References
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Enact a new power-1 Rule entitled "Official References" reading:
Where a rule refers to an office in a way such that, by
necessary implication, it refers to the holder of that office
(including to authorize or forbid an action), it implicitly
refers to the player holding that office. Where there are
references to the past or future, then absent indication to the
contrary, the rule shall be interpreted as referring to the
holder of the office at the time in question. If a rule refers
to the "current <office>" or uses similar language, then it
refers to the office's present holder, regardless of its holder
at the time in question.
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ID: 7764
Title: Prime Ministerial Perks
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Enact a new power-1 Rule entitled "Executive Orders" reading:
Once per week and except as otherwise forbidden by this
rule, the current Prime Minister CAN issue a Cabinet Order
and perform the action(s) authorized by that Order.
Each Cabinet Order is associated with an office. The current
Prime Minister CANNOT issue more than one Cabinet Order
associated with the same office more than once in the same
month, nor can e issue a Cabinet Order associated with a
vacant office.
The available Cabinet Orders are:
- Certiorari (CotC): The Prime Minister assigns emself as
judge of a specified open case.
- Dive (Referee): The Prime Minister issues a specified Card
to a specified player. In doing so, the Prime Minister
SHOULD cite a specific grievance against that player, not
necessarily a violation of a rule.
- Manifesto (Promotor): The Prime Minister distributes a
specified proposal in the Proposal Pool.
If the proposal "Blocking Power" passed, then append to that rule the
following:
- Hoist (Promotor): The Prime Minister flips a specified
proposal's imminence to "delayed".
- Bonus (IADoP): Three times during the current week, a
specified other player CAN by announcement pend an idle
proposal.
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ID: 7765
Title: Centralization
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by replacing:
An imposed office is an office described as such by the rule
defining it. All others are elected. A person CANNOT be made
the holder of an elected office without eir explicit or
reasonably implied consent.
The holder of an elected office CAN resign it by announcement,
causing it to become vacant. Any player CAN cause an office to
become vacant without 2 objections.
with
An imposed office is an office described as such by the rule
defining it. All others are voluntary. A person CANNOT
be made the holder of a voluntary office without eir explicit
or reasonably implied consent. The holder of a voluntary
office CAN resign it by announcement, causing it to become
vacant.
Amend Rule 2423 (First Among Equals) to read:
The Prime Minister is an office. The Prime Minister is elected
by the players of Agora primarily on account of not being the
other guy. The Prime Minister is responsible for the well-being
of Agora.
The holder of the office of Prime Minister has voting strength
one greater than e would have if e did not hold the office. This
does not apply in respect of an election of the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister CAN, by announcement, appoint a player to be
the holder of any other voluntary office. Such an office is
called a Ministry, and its holder is called a Minister. E SHALL
NOT appoint a player to a Ministry if the current holder has
been in office for less than fourteen days, unless e is required
to do so by another rule. The Prime Minister SHALL appoint an
individual to fill a vacant Ministry in a timely fashion.
If a Minister fails to perform an official duty within a time
limit specified by rule, the Prime Minister SHALL, in a timely
fashion, deputise for that Minister to perform that action. This
requirement is vacated by any player performing the action.
When the office of Prime Minister becomes vacant, a General
Election is initiated.
Enact a new power-1 rule entitled "Censure", reading:
A player CAN, with N Agoran Consent, Censure a player who
holds a voluntary office. If that player has been issued a Black
Card within the last seven days, N is 1, otherwise, N is 2.
When a player is Censured, the Prime Minister SHALL, in a
timely fashion, appoint another player to each Ministry that
player holds. When the Prime Minister is Censured, a General
Election is initiated.
Retitle Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) to "General Elections" and
amend it to read
When a General Election is initiated, the Speaker CAN once
and SHALL, in a timely fashion, initiate an Agoran Decision
to select the new holder of the office of Prime Minister.
For this decision, the valid options are the players, and the
vote collector is the Speaker. Once a General Election is
resolved, if its outcome is a player, then that player becomes
Prime Minister. If the outcome is not a player, then the player
resolving the decision becomes Prime Minister. In either case,
the office of Speaker then becomes vacant.
Amend Rule 2426 (Cards) by replacing:
- Black Card, naming an office held by the player, intended for
severe abuses of power (the perceived rule violation must
involve use or non-use of that office's powers). Within seven
days after a Black Card is issued, any player CAN become the
holder of the target office with two support; the issuer of
that Card CANNOT initiate or support this.
with
- Black Card, intended for severe abuses of official power. The
effects of a Black Card are described elsewhere.
Amend Rule 103 (The Speaker) by replacing:
The player or players who have most recently won the game are
called Laureled. If at any time the office of Speaker is vacant,
or when one or more players win Agora, then the Prime Minister
CAN and SHALL, once and in a timely fashion, appoint a Laureled
player to the office of Speaker.
If the office of Speaker has been held continuously by the same
person for 90+ days, then any player CAN appoint another player
to the office with Support.
The offices of the Speaker and the Prime Minister are
incompatible. If at any point in time one player holds both of
these offices, e ceases to hold the position of Prime Minister.
with:
If the office of Speaker is vacant, the Prime Minister CAN and
SHALL, in a timely fashion, appoint another player to be Speaker
by announcement. A player CANNOT do so by deputisation.
The offices of the Speaker and the Prime Minister are
incompatible. If at any point in time one player holds both of
these offices, e ceases to hold the position of Speaker.
[The Prime Minister becomes the sole player responsible for offices,
in a major departure from current practice. No idea how this will play
out!]
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ID: 7766
Title: Timelines
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2446 (The Agoran Newspaper) by replacing
past 7 days.
with
prior Agoran Week.
and by appending the following to the first paragraph:
When the Herald publishes the Newspaper for a given Agoran
week, any obligation e has to publish the Newspaper for a
prior week is discharged.
[This prevents deputizing for Herald to publish an older newspaper.]
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ID: 7767
Title: The Resistance
Adoption index: 1.5
Author: the Warrigal
Co-author(s):
Create a rule with power 1.5, titled "Gothur and Yufel":
The Weird is an office.
Brutality is a singleton switch, tracked by the Weird, with
values Peace (default) and War. The phrases "there is Peace" and
"there is War" refer to the value of this switch.
Enlistment is a player switch, tracked by the Weird, with values
Unenlisted (default), Enlisted, and Ineligible. While there is
Peace, any player (except the Weird) CAN flip eir Enlistment to
Unenlisted or Enlisted by announcement; and if a player besides
the Weird is Ineligible, e automatically becomes Unenlisted.
While there is War, any player CAN flip eir Enlistment from
Unenlisted to Enlisted, or from Enlisted to Ineligible, by
announcement. If the Weird is ever not Ineligible, e becomes
Ineligible.
Faction is an untracked player switch, with values Unaffiliated
(default), Gothur, and Yufel. The Weird SHALL privately keep
track of Faction values. When a new person comes to hold the
office of Weird, if there is War, then the previous holder of
the office SHALL, in a timely fashion, privately inform the
Weird of the Faction values. If, on the other hand, there is
Peace, then all players become Unaffiliated. The Weird SHOULD
NOT disclose Faction switches except as required by the rules.
Whenever there is at least one Unaffiliated Enlisted player, the
Weird SHALL, in a timely fashion, randomly select a Faction,
either Gothur or Yufel, for each such player. The Factions shall
be selected so as to bring the ratio of Gothur Enlisted players
to Yufel Enlisted players as close to 2:1 as possible. When the
Weird does so, the players' Factions are flipped to the
appropriate values. The Weird SHALL immediately privately inform
each of the players what eir Faction was flipped to, and also
privately provide every Yufel Enlisted player with a list of all
Yufel players.
The Rotation is a singleton switch, tracked by the Weird, whose
values are all lists of persons without duplicates. Whenever a
person in the Rotation is not a player, e is deleted from the
Rotation.
The Leader is the first person in the Rotation. Whenever the
Leader is not Enlisted, but someone in the Rotation is Enlisted,
the Leader is moved to the end of the Rotation.
Whenever there is a player not in the Rotation, the Weird CAN by
announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, add em to the end
of the Rotation. If there are multiple players to be added, the
Weird SHALL do so in random order.
When there is War, the Current Mission Number is a singleton
switch, tracked by the Weird, whose values are the integers
greater than or equal to 1, and whose default is 1. (When there
is Peace, this switch does not exist.)
Gothur Score and Yufel Score are natural switches, tracked by
the Weird.
Whenever there is Peace, there are at least five Enlisted
players, and no Enlisted player is Unaffiliated, the Weird CAN
by announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, flip the
Brutality to War.
Whenever there is War, the Weird CAN Stop the Fighting by
announcement, but SHALL NOT do so unless the War process cannot
reasonably continue. When e does so, the Brutality becomes Peace
and all Faction switches become Unaffiliated.
Whenever there is War, the following process occurs:
1. The Leader SHOULD, within 3 days, announce eir choice of N
players as the Proposed Mission, where N is the number of
Enlisted players, plus the Current Mission Number, all
divided by 3, rounded down. (If e fails to do so, at the
end of the 3 days, e becomes Ineligible, then skip to step
4a. If the identity of the Leader changes, the deadline
resets to 3 days hence.)
2. When the Leader announces eir choice, if this Proposed
Mission is the fifth (or beyond) Proposed Mission since a
Proposed Mission was accepted, skip to step 5.
3. In the following 3 days, each Enlisted player SHOULD
announce whether e accepts or rejects the Proposed Mission.
Each player's announcements beyond eir first are
ineffective.
4. At the end of the 3 days, if more Enlisted players accepted
than rejected the Proposed Mission, continue to step 5;
otherwise, continue to step 4a.
4a. The Leader is moved to the end of the rotation. The
Weird SHALL, in a timely fashion, announce who the new
Leader is. When e does so, return to step 1.
5. The Proposed Mission is accepted and becomes the Current
Mission. In the following 2 days, any Yufel player in the
mission CAN sabotage the Current Mission by privately
informing the Weird that e does so.
6. At the end of the 2 days, the Weird SHALL, in a timely
fashion, accurately announce the number of players who
sabotaged the Current Mission.
7. If the number of saboteurs announced by the Weird is
greater than one fifth of the number of players in the
mission, the Yufel Score increases by 1; otherwise, the
Gothur Score increases by 1.
8. If both the Gothur Score and the Yufel Score are less than
3, then the Current Mission Number increases by 1, then
return to step 1. Otherwise, continue to step 9.
9. If the Gothur Score is 3, then Gothur is the winning
faction, and all Enlisted Gothur players are awarded the
Patent Title "Gothur". If the Yufel Score is 3, then Yufel
is the winning faction, and all Enlisted Yufel players are
awarded the Patent Title "Yufel".
10. The Gothur Score and Yufel Score are reset to 0, then all
players' Factions become Unaffiliated, then the Brutality
becomes Peace.
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ID: 7768
Title: Full House Of Trust
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: ais523
Co-author(s):
Create a new Power 1 rule, "Trust Tokens", with the following text:
Any player can issue a Trust Token to another person by
announcement.
A player can win the game by announcement if e has been issued a
Trust Token by each other player; if no player has won via this
mechanism in the past; and if in the same message, e quotes, for
each player, a public message in which that player issued em a
Trust Token.
If possible at the Power of this proposal, set the Power of that rule
to 0.5.
If the ruleset contains the word "Erratic", amend that rule by
appending the paragraph:
This rule is Erratic.
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ID: 7769
Title: You propose it you run it
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 1006 (Offices) by replacing:
The holder of an elected office CAN resign it by announcement,
causing it to become vacant.
with:
The holder of an elected office CAN resign it by announcement,
causing it to become vacant, unless the holder was installed
to the office by proposal less than 90 days prior.
[Simple: If a new office proposal doesn't include installing a
willing candidate into the office, don't vote for it. Note that
by-proposal installation used to be practically *required* (before
deputization)]
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ID: 7770
Title: Patent Titles Are Forever
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: omd
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 1551 (Ratification) by replacing:
Such a modification
cannot add inconsistencies between the gamestate and the rules,
and it cannot include rule changes unless the ratified document
explicitly and unambiguously recites either the changes or the
resulting properties of the rule(s).
with:
Such a modification
cannot add inconsistencies between the gamestate and the rules,
it cannot include rule changes unless the ratified document
explicitly and unambiguously recites either the changes or the
resulting properties of the rule(s), and it cannot revoke Patent
Titles.
[If the AI bug caused proposals without an explicit AI to take effect
with power 4 (under the theory that the minimum of 4 and undefined is
best considered 4), then Proposal 7448, such a proposal which was
thought to have failed due to insufficient power, actually
successfully awarded scshunt the Patent Title "Head of the Agoran
Ceremonial Mint". (No AI-fixed proposal was submitted.) Just thought
adding this little special exception would be fun - would also apply
to Champion patent titles awarded for wins that are later ratified
into nonexistence.]
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ID: 7771
Title: Instant Runoff Silver Quill (Elections Too, Just In Case We
Ever Have An Election Again With Three Competitive Candidates)
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: omd
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2444 (Silver Quill) by replacing "the valid options are all
eligible proposals and" with "the valid preferences are all eligible
proposals, the valid options are ordered lists of one or more valid
preference, and".
Amend Rule 2154 (Election Procedure) by replacing "the valid options
are the players and" with "the valid preferences are the players, the
valid options are ordered lists of one or more valid preference, and".
Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) to read:
After an Agoran decision is resolved, it has an outcome,
determined by the first applicable case as follows:
(a) If there are no options, the outcome is null.
(b) If the number of distinct voters who submitted valid ballots
is less than quorum, then the outcome is FAILED QUORUM.
(c) If the decision has an adoption index, then if the strength
of FOR is greater than the strength of AGAINST, and the
ratio of the strength of FOR to the strength of AGAINST is
greater than or equal to the decision's adoption index (or
the strength of AGAINST is zero), then the outcome is
ADOPTED; otherwise, the outcome is REJECTED.
(d) If the valid options are ordered lists of preferences, the
outcome is decided using instant-runoff voting. In case
multiple valid preferences tie for the lowest number of
votes at any stage, the vote collector CAN and must, in the
announcement of the decision's resolution, select one such
preference to eliminate; if, for N > 1, all eir possible
choices in the next N stages would result in the same set of
preferences being eliminated, e need not specify the order
of elimination.
(e) Otherwise, the outcome is the option with the most votes.
In case of a tie, the vote collector CAN and must, in the
announcement of the decision's resolution, select one of the
leaders as the outcome.
[Also fixes tie outcomes, where there is currently a contradiction
between the first paragraph and the tie clause (the former says
decisions have outcomes after their voting periods end, but what's the
outcome before the vote collector chooses one?), the possibility for
the vote collector to mess with decisions by not choosing an outcome
until after resolution, and arguably outright brokenness, since
nothing says the vote collector CAN select an outcome.]
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ID: pp1
Title: Tie-Breaking Votes
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) by replacing
(b) If the decision has an adoption index, then if the strength
of FOR is greater than the strength of AGAINST, and the
ratio of the strength of FOR to the strength of AGAINST is
greater than or equal to the decision's adoption index (or
the strength of AGAINST is zero), then the outcome is
ADOPTED; otherwise, the outcome is REJECTED.
with
(b) If the decision has an adoption index, then if the strength
of FOR is greater than the strength of AGAINST, and the
ratio of the strength of FOR to the strength of AGAINST is
greater than the decision's adoption index (or
the strength of AGAINST is zero), then the outcome is
ADOPTED; otherwise if the strength of FOR is equal to or
greater than the decisions adoption index and the ration of
the strength of FOR to the strength of AGAINST is equal to
the decision's adoption index, then the vote collector shall
select either ADOPTED or REJECTED as the outcome;
otherwise, the outcome is REJECTED.
[Give the Assessor the power to break ties, including to get a
majority on a vote or when the voting ratio exactly matches the AI].
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ID: pp2
Title: IADoP Salary Control
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2455 (How to Pend a Proposal) by replacing
Each office has a spending power, which is a natural number.
The spending power of each office is 1, except as otherwise
defined by rule. The spending power of Rulekeepor, of Speaker,
and of Prime Minister is 2. The spending power of Promotor is 4.
with
Spending power is an office switch, whose values range over the
positive integers between 1 and 10 inclusive, with a default of
1. Spending power is tracked by the IADoP. The IADoP CAN flip
the spending power of an office by announcement, provided that
the Promotor always has spending power no less than 1 less than
the greatest spending power among offices, and further provided
that the current IADoP has not already flipped that office's
spending power in the current month.
Set the spending power of Promotor to 4, of Rulekeepor, Prime
Minister, and Speaker to 2, and of all other offices to 1.
[Give the IADoP the authority to set salaries for officers. Promotor
gets, as a perk, right to never be that far behind the office with the
most.]
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ID: pp3
Title: Blocking Power
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
Amend Rule 2455 (How to Pend a Proposal) by replacing
whose value is either "pending" or "not pending" (default).
with
whose value is either "pending", "delayed", or "idle"
(default).
and by replacing
A player can flip a proposal's imminence to "pending" by
announcement, unless e has already done so a number of
times that week that equals or exceeds the total spending
power of the offices e holds.
with
To pend a proposal is to flip its imminence to "pending". To
delay a proposal is to flip its imminence to "delayed". To idle
a proposal is to flip its imminence to "idle." At the beginning
of each week, each delayed proposal is idled.
A player CAN pend an idle proposal by announcement, unless
e has already done so a number of times this week that equals
or exceeds the total spending power of the offices e holds, not
counting actions authorized by another rule.
The current Promotor CAN, by announcement, delay a proposal,
unless e has already done so a number of times this month
which equals or exceeds the Promotor's spending power, not
counting actions authorized by another rule.
[Give the Promotor the ability to delay proposals; possibly
indefinitely if e is careful.]
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ID: pp4
Title: High-Power Centralization
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: scshunt
Co-author(s):
If the proposal "Centralization" has not been adopted, this proposal
has no effect. Otherwise, amend Rule 2160 (Deputisation) by replacing
When a player deputises for an elected office, e becomes the
holder of that office.
with
(f) No rule explicitly forbids performance of that action by
deputisation.
and amend Rule 2483 (Ribbons) by replacing the word "elected" by
"voluntary".
[This is power-3 amendments to rules which are not critical to
Centralization working correctly, but are ideal. Yes, this is a way to
reduce the AI of Centralization, because it doesn't touch on the core
of any power-3 rules.]
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