PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 7, 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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8532* G. 3.0 Turn Undead v2
8533* G., Jason, nix 3.0 de-dictatorship
8534* Aris 3.3 Power Up
8535* Aris, nix, G., Gaelan 3.0 We the People
8536c Aris, G., Jason 1.7 Justice for All
8537c G. 1.7 Unofficial injustice
The proposal pool contains the following proposals:
Author(s) AI Title
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nix, Aris, Jason 3.0 Strengthening Extra Votes v2.0
Legend: <ID>* : Democratic proposal.
<ID># : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
<ID>c : Compliance ministry proposal (ordinary).
<ID>e : Economy ministry proposal (ordinary).
<ID>g : Legacy ministry proposal (ordinary).
<ID>l : Legislation ministry proposal (ordinary).
<ID>p : Participation ministry proposal (ordinary).
<ID>~ : Unsponsored proposal.
The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.
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ID: 8532
Title: Turn Undead v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
[
diffs from proto:
- Made activity switchable in both directions at will.
- Defined two verbs.
- Adjusted time limits as suggested.
- Added inactivity as a cfj recusal reason.
diffs from v1:
- Made emailing a deregistree a SHOULD, but changed the method to
w/o three objections, with the idea that if there's question
about the email headers or whatever, objections can pragmatically
handle the issue.
]
Create the following Rule, Activity:
Activity is a player switch tracked by the Registrar, with values
Active (default) and Inactive. To flip a player's activity to
active (inactive) is to activate (deactivate) em. The date on
which each player's activity was last changed is part of the
Registrar's weekly report.
A player CAN activate or deactivate emself by announcement.
Any player CAN, with notice, make a player who has not made a
public announcement in the past 30 days inactive.
If a player has been inactive continuously for the past 60 days,
then any player CAN deregister em without 3 objections. The
Registrar SHOULD attempt to deregister players who meet this
condition. The publication of intent for such a deregistration
SHOULD be sent to the inactive player's registered email address
at the same time that it is published.
Every player's activity is flipped to active [unneeded I think due
to default behavior, but precautionary?]
Amend Rule 2492 (Recusal) by appending the following text to the
second paragraph:
The Arbitor CAN recuse an inactive or deregistered judge from a
case by announcement.
Repeal Rule 2532 (Zombies).
Repeal Rule 2574 (Zombie Life Cycle).
Repeal Rule 2639 (Zombie Phase-Out).
Repeal Rule 1885 (Zombie Auctions).
Amend Rule 2472 (Office Incompatibilities) by deleting:
A zombie is Overpowered if e holds one or more offices.
Amend Rule 2531 (Defendant's Rights) by deleting:
(10) it attempts to levy a fine on a zombie for an action that
its master performed on its behalf.
Amend Rule 2621 (VP Wins) by replacing "non-zombie" with "active".
Amend Rule 2581 (Official Patent Titles) by deleting:
- Necromancer, awardable by the Registrar to any player who makes
such sufficient persistent legal use of zombies that rules need
to be amended to prevent such practices.
[Checked all the other uses of "active" and "inactive" pertaining to
players, looked like all would work fine under this version]
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ID: 8533
Title: de-dictatorship
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-author(s): Jason, nix
Amend Rule 2614 (Eclipse Light) by appending the following paragraph:
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, Emergency Regulations
CANNOT be enacted, amended, or repealed except as described in
this Rule.
Amend Rule 683 (Voting on Agoran Decisions) by appending the following
sentence to the final paragraph:
Submitting and withdrawing ballots is secured.
Amend Rule 955 (Determining the Will of Agora) by replacing:
The strength of a ballot is the voting strength of the voter who cast
it on that Agoran decision.
with:
The strength of a ballot is the voting strength of the voter who cast
it on that Agoran decision, as calculated at the end of that
decision's voting period.
Change the power of Rule 2168 (Extending the Voting Period) to 2.
[Adding security to R107 makes a jumbled couple of paragraphs
so some logical re-arranging is needed. I think no text was deleted or
modified other than adding the security.]
Amend Rule 107 (Initiating Agoran Decisions) by replacing:
The publication of such a valid notice initiates the voting period
for the decision. The voting period lasts for 7 days. The minimum
voting period for a decision with at least two options is five
days. The vote collector for a decision with less than two options
CAN and SHALL end the voting period by announcement, if it has not
ended already, and provided that e resolves the decision in the
same message.
The voting period for a decision cannot be set or changed to a
duration longer than fourteen days.
with:
The publication of such a valid notice initiates the voting period
for the decision. The voting period lasts for 7 days. The minimum
voting period for a decision with at least two options is five
days. The voting period for a decision cannot be set or changed to
a duration longer than fourteen days. Changing the length of a
decision's voting period is secured at power 2.
The vote collector for a decision with less than two options
CAN and SHALL end the voting period by announcement, if it has not
ended already, and provided that e resolves the decision in the
same message.
Repeal Rule 2633 (Rulebending).
[R2486 openly welcomes additions to the parade when events warrant it]
Amend Rule 2486 (The Royal Parade) by appending the following text:
NEXT UP in the Parade comes the Discordian Court: G. the Grand
Vizier is arguing with Jason the Untitled, while nix, Court
Anarchist, is cramming cancelled ballots into eir pockets.
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ID: 8534
Title: Power Up
Adoption index: 3.3
Author: Aris
Co-authors:
Change the power of Rule 1030, "Precedence between Rules", from 3.2
to 3.3.
Change the power of Rule 2141, "Role and Attributes of Rules",
from 3.1 to 3.2.
Change the power of Rule 1551, "Ratification", from 3.1 to 3.2.
Change the power of Rule 2614, "Eclipse Light", from 3.01 to 3.1.
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ID: 8535
Title: We the People
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Trigon, nix, G., Gaelan
Amend Rule 869, "How to Join and Leave Agora", by replacing:
Any entity that is or ever was an organism generally capable of
freely originating and communicating independent thoughts and
ideas is a person. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other
entities are persons.
with:
Any entity (including a group of confederated entities) that is or
ever was able to willingly communicate original ideas is a person.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, no other entities are persons.
Questions about personhood are to be resolved equitably,
with regard for the good-faith of those involved and the customs of
honorable play.
and then, immediately after:
An Unregistered person CAN (unless explicitly forbidden or
prevented by the rules) register by publishing a message that
indicates reasonably clearly and reasonably unambiguously that e
intends to become a player at that time.
inserting the new text:
No person can be a player if e is part of another player or
another player is part of em.
and inserting a paragraph break immediately thereafter.
Amend Rule 2499, "Welcome Packages", by replacing:
When a player receives a Welcome Package, if e has not received
one in the past 30 days, then e gains 10 boatloads of coins and
one of each type of Card defined in the rules.
with:
When a player receives a Welcome Package, e gains 10 boatloads of coins and
one of each type of Card defined in the rules, unless e, or any person
of whom e was a part or who was a part of em has received a welcome
package in the last 30 days.
# CLEANUP
Ben and Claire of the BC System are hereby declared to be separate persons;
each patent title they collectively bore is revoked and granted to
each of them individually.
[Interpretive notes may be found in the message "BUS: Interpretive Notes
for We the People".]
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ID: 8536
Title: Justice for All
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: Aris
Co-authors: G., Jason
[This is OP and was only used twice in the whole of last year. We could
reform it so that the Referee could only use it for just reasons,
but honestly I don't think that's a priority — this feels like
a waste of space on something that's dangerous and almost unused. If
someone wants to add something like it back later, they can figure out how
to do it in less space.]
Repeal Rule 2479, "Official Injustice".
Amend Rule 2478, "Vigilante Justice", by replacing:
The Referee is by default the investigator for all Finger
Pointing. If the Referee is the perp, then the Arbitor CAN
become the investigator of that Finger Pointing by announcement.
The Referee CANNOT Point eir Finger. The Arbitor CANNOT Point eir
Finger at the Referee. A high crime is any crime specified as
being class 4 or greater. The Referee CANNOT levy the Cold Hand of
Justice to punish a high crime, notwithstanding Rule 2478.
with:
The Referee is by default the investigator for all Finger
Pointing. When the Referee's Finger is Pointed or the Referee
is the perp, the Arbitor is the investigator.
The Referee CANNOT Point eir Finger at the Arbitor, and the Arbitor
CANNOT point eir finger at the Referee.
A high crime is any crime specified as being class 4 or greater.
The Referee CANNOT levy the Cold Hand of Justice to punish a high crime,
the other provisions of this rule notwithstanding.
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ID: 8537
Title: Unofficial injustice
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: G.
Co-authors:
[The only functionality change is to add a method for giving
people blots for a fee. The rule has a typo, and needs a logical
rearrangement, so putting in the whole text.]
Amend Rule 2555 (Blots) to read in full.
Blots are an indestructible fixed currency with ownership
restricted to persons. A person with 1 or more blots is Impure, a
person with 0 blots is Pure. An impure unregistered person is a
Fugitive. The Referee is an office, and the recordkeepor for
blots.
To levy a fine of N on a person, where N is a positive integer or
zero, is to grant em N blots. To expunge a blot is to destroy it.
Levying fines and destroying blots are each secured with a Power
Threshold of 1.7.
A person CAN, by announcement, create a specified number of blots
in eir possession.
Any player CAN expunge a blot from a specified person (or emself
if no one is specified) by paying a fee of one Blot-B-Gone.
Any player CAN levy a fine of one blot on a specified person by
paying a fee of two Blot-B-Gones, provided the specified person
has not already gained two blots or more in the current week.
At the beginning of each quarter, half (rounded down) of each
fugitive's blots are destroyed.
Repeal Rule 2479 (Official Injustice).
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Title: Strengthening Extra Votes v2.0
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: nix
Co-authors: Aris, Jason
[
This proposal does three things:
* Removes all passive Voting Strength bonuses. They rarely make a
difference, which makes them uninteresting complexity. That also means
I'm removing chambers, since they no longer do anything.
* Strengthens Extra Votes. Now they apply to all decisions within a
voting period. This just makes them feel nicer to use. Also the Buying
Strength cap is gone.
* Adds a weekly reward for having the highest strength. So there's
incentive to consider using them even when you're not trying to force
through/sink a proposal.
* Removes the Economy focus. Since EVs will give a cash reward, they
fill the same niche as this focus but in a more interesting way.
Additionally, removing one focus makes the others more competitive.
]
Amend R2422, "Voting Strength", by replacing:
A player CAN Buy Strength by paying 1 Extra Vote and specifying a
current Agoran decision on which e is a voter. For each time a
player has Bought Strength on a decision, eir voting strength is
1 greater on that decision. If the decision is on a proposal, and
the proposal's chamber and the player's focus are the same value,
then eir voting strength is instead 2 greater on that decision.
A player CANNOT Buy Strength for the same decision more than 3
times.
with:
A player CAN Buy Strength by paying a fee of 1 Extra Vote. A
player's Voting Strength on an ordinary referendum is 1 greater
for every time e Bought Strength during that decision's voting
period.
Amend R2645, "The Stones", by replacing:
- Power Stone (weekly, 40%): A specified player hereby buys
strength 3 times on a specified unresolved Agoran decision.
with:
- Power Stone (weekly, 40%): A specified player hereby Buys
Strength 3 times.
Repeal R2637, "Office Interests".
Repeal R2607, "Proposal Chambers".
Amend R103, "The Speaker", by removing the following:
The Speaker has voting strength one greater than e would have if e
did not hold the office.
Amend R2624, "Card Administration, by removing the following:
Ministry of Economy: 50 boatloads of coins divided by X, rounded
up; where X is the number of players with their Ministry Focus set
to Economy. The Ministor SHALL report this value in a timely
manner after the beginning of the month.
Enact a new Power 1 rule titled "Vocal Voter Verification Award" with
the following text:
The sole player, if any, who had the highest voting strength
among all votes cast on all decisions resolved in the last 7 days
CAN once grant emself 7 boatloads of coins by announcement,
provided that no referenda initiated in the same message as it
remain unresolved.
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