RESOLUTION OF PROPOSALS 9168-9178
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ID Title Result
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9168 Erosion in Geological Rhyme ADOPTED
9169 Not all the way up REJECTED
9170 Not all the way up REJECTED
9171 Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2 ADOPTED
9172 Veblen Defense ADOPTED
9173 Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act ADOPTED
9174 Various sortition fixes v2 ADOPTED
9175 Crystal liquidation REJECTED
9176 Adjusting the Money Supply ADOPTED
9177 Prevent cheap Stone wins ADOPTED
9178 Takes Two to Tango in this Town ADOPTED
I hereby resolve the Agoran decisions to adopt the below proposals.
The quorum for all below decisions was 8.
VOTING STRENGTHS
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Strength is 3 unless otherwise noted.
#: player has voting strength 3
$: player has voting strength 4
%: player has voting strength 5
^: player has voting strength 6
PROPOSALS
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PROPOSAL 9168 (Erosion in Geological Rhyme)
AUTHOR: Kate
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (8): Janet^, Kate%, Lily, Mischief^, juan%, kiako, lare290, snail^
AGAINST (1): ais523%
PRESENT (1): Murphy%
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 37/5 (AI=2.0)
POPULARITY: 0.700
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
Murphy: Stonemason is vacant: Inextricable
]
PROPOSAL 9169 (Not all the way up)
AUTHOR: Yachay Wayllukuq
CLASS: DEMOCRATIC
FOR (4): Mischief, Murphy, ais523, lare290
AGAINST (5): Janet, Kate, Lily, kiako, snail
PRESENT (1): juan
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 12/15 (AI=3.1)
POPULARITY: -0.100
OUTCOME: REJECTED
[
juan: Endorsement of non-voter Yachay Wayllukuq: Inextricable
]
PROPOSAL 9170 (Not all the way up)
AUTHOR: Yachay Wayllukuq
CLASS: DEMOCRATIC
FOR (3): Murphy, ais523, lare290
AGAINST (6): Janet, Kate, Lily, Mischief, kiako, snail
PRESENT (1): juan
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 9/18 (AI=3.1)
POPULARITY: -0.300
OUTCOME: REJECTED
[
ais523: Conditional resolved: P9169 does not have sufficient votes to be adopted
juan: Endorsement of non-voter Yachay Wayllukuq: Inextricable
]
PROPOSAL 9171 (Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2)
AUTHOR: Kate
CLASS: DEMOCRATIC
FOR (9): Janet, Kate, Lily, Mischief, Murphy, juan, kiako, lare290, snail
AGAINST (1): ais523
PRESENT (0):
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 27/3 (AI=3.0)
POPULARITY: 0.800
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
kiako: Conditional resolved: Either Kate or Janet voted FOR
]
PROPOSAL 9172 (Veblen Defense)
AUTHOR: Mischief
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (8): Janet^, Kate%, Lily, Mischief^, ais523%, kiako, lare290, snail^
AGAINST (0):
PRESENT (2): Murphy%, juan%
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 37/0 (AI=1.0)
POPULARITY: 0.800
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
PROPOSAL 9173 (Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act)
AUTHOR: Mischief
CLASS: DEMOCRATIC
FOR (7): Lily, Mischief, Murphy, ais523, juan, lare290, snail
AGAINST (0):
PRESENT (3): Janet, Kate, kiako
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 21/0 (AI=3.0)
POPULARITY: 0.700
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
Kate: Endorsement of Janet
kiako: Endorsement of Janet
]
PROPOSAL 9174 (Various sortition fixes v2)
AUTHOR: Janet
CLASS: DEMOCRATIC
FOR (10): Janet, Kate, Lily, Mischief, Murphy, ais523, juan, kiako, lare290,
snail
AGAINST (0):
PRESENT (0):
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 30/0 (AI=2.0)
POPULARITY: 1.000
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
kiako: Endorsement of Janet
]
PROPOSAL 9175 (Crystal liquidation)
AUTHOR: oliver.n
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (2): Mischief^, snail^
AGAINST (5): Janet^, Kate%, Lily, ais523%, kiako
PRESENT (3): Murphy%, juan%, lare290
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 12/22 (AI=1.0)
POPULARITY: -0.300
OUTCOME: REJECTED
[
Murphy: 4st is the Geologist: Endorsement of non-voter 4st: Inextricable
]
PROPOSAL 9176 (Adjusting the Money Supply)
AUTHOR: Mischief
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (4): Janet^, Kate%, Mischief^, kiako
AGAINST (4): Lily, ais523%, lare290, snail^
PRESENT (2): Murphy%, juan%
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 20/17 (AI=1.0)
POPULARITY: 0.000
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
Kate: Endorsement of kiako
kiako: Conditional resolved: P9175 does not have sufficient votes to be
adopted: Endorsement of Janet
snail: Conditional resolved: P9175 does not have sufficient votes to be adopted
]
PROPOSAL 9177 (Prevent cheap Stone wins)
AUTHOR: ais523
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (7): Janet^, Kate%, Lily, Mischief^, ais523%, kiako, snail^
AGAINST (0):
PRESENT (3): Murphy%, juan%, lare290
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 34/0 (AI=2.0)
POPULARITY: 0.700
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
[
Murphy: Stonemason is vacant: Inextricable
kiako: Endorsement of Janet
]
PROPOSAL 9178 (Takes Two to Tango in this Town)
AUTHOR: snail
CLASS: ORDINARY
FOR (6): Lily, Mischief^, ais523%, kiako, lare290, snail^
AGAINST (0):
PRESENT (4): Janet^, Kate%, Murphy%, juan%
BALLOTS: 10
AI (F/A): 26/0 (AI=1.0)
POPULARITY: 0.600
OUTCOME: ADOPTED
The full text of each ADOPTED proposal is included below:
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ID: 9168
Title: Erosion in Geological Rhyme
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Kate
Co-authors:
Consider each player with one or more stones;
Take the sum of the Costs of the stones that e owns.
And then, to compense for lost ius utendi,
That number of times, grant that player a Spendie.
Now, for each person who, from 2020,
Has owned any stones (even one would be plenty),
In light of the long tradition Stones had
Grant em this Patent Title: "Stone Badge".
And whereas this Proposal seeks to insist
On the notion that stones will no longer exist,
Repeal (in order) the following list.
That's Rules 2640 and 2641,
2642, 2644 (43's already gone),
And then 2645, the last to be done.
COMMENTS:
I doubt this proposal will pass now and here,
But I hope to rhetorically make my point clear.
The stone rules' complexity's always been high;
Few players to learn have been willing to try.
The most obvious problem's the tracking vocation:
We simply can't seem to retain a Stonemason.
Janet once held it, for quite a long time,
But felt that the load was too high and resigned.
Relying on em was unfair, e expressed.
'Twas frustrating that others showed no interest.
(E already does too much work, I suggest.)
E doubted another'd take over, and lo!
Another report did not therefrom follow.
And in the months since, not a one did up-show.
Without a Stonemason, complexity's worse.
Work multiplies like a terrible curse.
Now, as well as the rules, we must also know what
The Stonemason should track, but right now does not.
We selected a victim by random sortition,
But e failed to manage, despite a petition.
To be clear, e tried! I don't allocate blame.
But now e's resigned too, the position's the same.
If none of us can the records sustain,
Then I think it would be a mistake to retain
A system that's such a great chore to maintain.
So unless the subgame can be fixed at its bones
I plead with you all to take heed of my moans
And bring to a close the Era of Stones.
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ID: 9171
Title: Rationalizing Recordkeepors v1.2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Kate
Co-authors: Murphy, Janet, 4st
[The purpose of this proposal is to unify the language around "tracking"
and "recordkeepors", which is currently subtly different for assets and
switches and has caused a lot of confusion in the past. In particular,
the word "recordkeepor" is currently not defined with respect to
switches, only to assets; this is causing bizarre behaviour around
Hats, the intention of which is to be tracked, but not by an officer.]
Create a new Rule of Power 3.0, entitled "Recordkeepors", and reading
as follows:
For some entity or class of entities to be "tracked by" another
entity is for the latter entity to be its recordkeepor.
For an entity to be a recordkeepor for a type of switch is for
that entity to be the recordkeepor for all instances of that
switch.
Where the rules specify a recordkeepor for some set of instances
of a switch, that recordkeepor's (weekly, if not specified
otherwise) report includes the value of each instance in that set
whose value is not its default value; a public document purporting
to be this portion of that recordkeepor's report is
self-ratifying, and implies that other instances in that set are
at their default value.
The recordkeepor of a class of assets is the entity (if any)
defined as such by, and bound by, its backing document. That
recordkeepor's report includes a list of all instances of that
class and their owners. A public document purporting to be this
portion of that recordkeepor's report is self-ratifying.
Amend Rule 2166 (Assets) by removing the following:
The recordkeepor of a class of assets is the entity (if any)
defined as such by, and bound by, its backing document. That
entity's report includes a list of all instances of that class and
their owners. A public document purporting to be this portion of
that entity's report is self-ratifying.
For a class of assets to be "tracked by" an entity is for that
entity to be its recordkeepor.
Amend Rule 2162 (Switches) by removing the following:
3. Optionally, exactly one office whose holder tracks instances of
that switch. That officer's (weekly, if not specified
otherwise) report includes the value of each instance of that
switch whose value is not its default value; a public document
purporting to be this portion of that officer's report is
self-ratifying, and implies that other instances are at their
default value.
Amend Rule 2603 (Switch Responsibility) to read in full:
For each type of switch that is not defined as untracked and that
has at least one instance that would otherwise lack a
recordkeepor, there exists an imposed office named "Tracker of
[type name]" whose holder tracks those instances.
Rename Rule 2143 (Official Reports and Duties) to "Reports and Duties",
and amend it by replacing this text:
An officer SHALL publish eir report in plain text, with tabular
data lining up properly when viewed in a monospaced font.
Publishing a report that deviates from these restrictions is the
Class 2 infraction of Making My Eyes Bleed.
A player CAN, by announcement, petition a specified non-vacant
office to take a specific action. The holder of that office SHALL
publicly respond to that petition in a timely fashion.
with this text:
A person publishing a report SHALL do so in plain text, with
tabular data lining up properly when viewed in a monospaced font.
Publishing a report that deviates from these restrictions is the
Class 2 infraction of Making My Eyes Bleed.
A player CAN, by announcement, petition a specified person with a
specified duty to take a specific action related to that duty.
That person SHOULD publicly respond to that petition in a timely
fashion. A player CAN petition a specified non-vacant office in
the same fashion; its holder SHALL respond in the same fashion.
Amend Rule 2694 (Hats) by replacing:
Unless otherwise specified by the rules: 1) the recordkeepor for
a player's hat is the player emself, and 2) reporting on hats is
OPTIONAL.
with:
The recordkeepor for a player's hat is the player emself. Rules
to the contrary notwithstanding, reporting on one's own hat is
OPTIONAL.
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ID: 9172
Title: Veblen Defense
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Mischief
Co-authors:
[Allows the current owner to bid up the cost.]
Amend rule 2695 (The Veblen) by replacing the paragraph reading:
A player who does not own the Veblen CAN pay a fee of X spendies
to purchase the Veblen, where X is an integer not less than the
current Veblen cost. When e does so, the Veblen is transferred to
em, then the Veblen cost is set to X+1.
with:
A player CAN pay a fee of X spendies, where X is an integer not
less than the current Veblen cost, to set the Veblen cost to X+1.
When e does so, if e does not own the Veblen, the Veblen is
transferred to em.
and by replacing "Abusrdor" with "Absurdor"
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ID: 9173
Title: Mid-2024 Omnibus Cleanup Act
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Mischief
Co-authors: Murphy, ais523, Janet, 4st
Amend rule 2528 (Voting Methods) by replacing "thereof." with
"thereof)." and inserting a paragraph break immediately after the
replaced string.
[Suggested clarifications from Murphy and ais523]
Amend rule 1023 (Agoran Time) by making the following replacements in
the final top-level list item: 1) "that would otherwise occur" with
"that would otherwise attempt to occur" and 2) "instead occurs on the
following day" with "instead occurs on the first day of the following month"
[Typos identified by Janet]
Amend rules 2160 (Deputisation) and 2438 (Ribbons) -- in that order --
by, in each, replacing "an voluntary office" with "a voluntary office".
[Typo identified by 4st]
Amend rule 2606 (Proposal Classes) by replacing "an referendum" with "a
referendum"
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ID: 9174
Title: Various sortition fixes v2
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Janet
Co-authors: Kate
Amend Rule 2691 ("Sortition Procedure") by, as a single amendment:
* Replacing "CAN become an option for that office" with "CAN by
announcement become an option for that office".
* Replacing "that player becomes the officeholder for that office" with
"that player becomes the officeholder for that office, then the
sortition ends"
* Inserting the following paragraph after the paragraph beginning "Seven
days after":
{
If a sortition's lots period has ended, and the sortition has no valid
options, then it immediately ends with no selection, and any duty to
select an option with respect to it is discharged.
}
Each ongoing sortition that is not in its lots period and that has no
valid options or has previously had an option selected hereby ends.
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ID: 9176
Title: Adjusting the Money Supply
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Mischief
Co-authors:
[Giving folks the option to also adjust the base monthly income in light
of the crystals-for-spendies proposal.]
Amend Rule 2690 (Spendies) by replacing "20 Spendies" with "15 Spendies"
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ID: 9177
Title: Prevent cheap Stone wins
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: ais523
Co-authors:
In rule 2642, amend:
{{{
Stone Cost is a Stone switch with values of non-negative integers
and a default of 10.
}}}
to
{{{
Stone Cost is a Stone switch with values of non-negative integers
and a default of 20.
}}}
Then increase the Stone Cost of every Stone by 10.
[At present, Stones are sufficiently cheap that the defensive measures
necessary to prevent easy Stone wins by other players are too expensive
for players to take them in practice – and the Stones system was
designed assuming that they would be harder to obtain than that.
Starting a descending-price auction from a price of 10 doesn't function
because Stones are frequently more valuable than that. Doubling the
starting cost should make the Stone gameplay work better.]
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ID: 9178
Title: Takes Two to Tango in this Town
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: snail
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2692 (Bang!) by replacing "after which each alive player gains a
bang." with "after which each alive player is granted 2 bangs."
[Makes the bang subgame playable.]
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