OFF: @Treasuror [Agoran Press Editor] Payroll and Salary Claim
I take 5 Coins from the Agoran Press contract. The below is my weekly report as Editor of the Agoran Press contract. No Credits exist. History (not self-ratifying): 2020-08-23: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-08-10..16. 2020-08-30: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-08-17..23. 2020-09-06: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-08-24..30. 2020-09-13: Falsifian takes 15 Coins, destroying eir 3 Credits. 2020-09-15: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-09-07..13. 2020-09-16: Falsifian takes 5 Coins, destroying eir 1 Credit. 2020-10-02: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-09-21..27. 2020-10-02: Falsifian takes 5 Coins, destroying eir 1 Credit. 2020-10-18: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-10-05..11. 2020-10-18: Falsifian takes 5 Coins, destroying eir 1 Credit. 2020-10-26: Falsifian earns one Credit for summarizing 2020-10-19..25. 2020-10-26: Falsifian takes 5 Coins, destroying eir 1 Credit. -- Falsifian ___ Agora mailing list ag...@listserver.tue.nl https://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/agora -- Falsifian
OFF: [Reportor] Brief summary for 2020-10-12..18
No Reportor was assigned to the week of 2020-10-12..18, but here's a brief summary just to fill the gap. As usual, archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/tree/master/weekly_summaries * Cuddlebeam is awarded the Associate of Nomic Artistry degree. * The Herald intends to award Jason the title Roboticist General. * Jason (Rulekeepor) pledges to reward players for submitting CFJ annotations. * G. proposes to re-enact Rule 1664, Rebellion. * Cuddlebeam starts AGORA QUEST, an interactive story. * Our economy: * nix publishes "The State of the Agoran Economy", containing some ideas (at least some from IRC/Discord) about our economy. * Aris publishes a detailed argument for adding inflation. * Proposals 8504-8506 are resolved. Adopted: "easier bargains" (barrel-related) and "card clarifications" (Ministry-related wording fix). * Mailing lists: * All mailing lists go down for a little while. * Aris drafts a proposal to award the Distributor (omd) Hero of Agora Nomic. * G. wins the Coopor election. -- Falsifian
OFF: [Reportor] Last Week in Agora
Archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reportor/tree/master/weekly_summaries Below is the report for the week of 2020-10-19..25: Note: Many of this week's messages were sent to the backup list. # Summary This week, we made an unplanned field trip to Tue, Agora's backup list, due to an outage. It worked well enough, but we decided to set up a new backup list, since we're not sure we can contact Tue's admin. Ironically, the list outage reminded us what a great and consistent job omd's been doing as Distributor. Aris proposes to grant em the title of Hero of Agora Nomic. This week we also saw appreciation for Jason's technical work and Cuddlebeam's artistic endeavours. Voting opened for two significant proposals this week: Aris adds inflation to the economy, and nix lets players choose Ministries to Focus on. The contract-based economy also continues to transform: Cuddlebeam proposes a currency backed by obligations to help someone win; and also creates a new currency, Potatoes backed by nothing (buy up while the price is still low!). Cuddlebeam's AGORA QUEST, an interactive story started last week, continues: a fictional version of the totally real universe of Agora. Some draft proposals to look out for: Jason revives G.'s proto for "stones" that grant special powers, and Aris proposes some replacements for our definition of "person". The usual variety of rule questions were raised this week, and Aris submitted some nice CFJ annotations for the ruleset to help keep it all organized. # Voting * Voting begins on Proposals 8507-8515. * Jason had eir zombie submit many of them, listing Jason as co-author, in an attempt to get a Lime ribbon. G. reacts by voting AGAINST those, and then Jason responds by pledging not to go for a lime ribbon. * The proposals: * Make omd a Hero of Agora Nomic. (8513) * Add inflation to the economy. (8514) * An ambiguity was brought up during voting in how some numbers are computed, but it doesn't seem likely to sink the proposal. Aris (the author) proposes a fix (thread: "[Proposal] Asset Rounding"). * Redo the Ministry system. Each player chooses eir ministry and gets an associated benefit. (8515) * A missing definition was identified during voting, but it doesn't seem like a deal-breaker. * Allow late birthday gifts (revised). (8507) * Make it harder to get Lime Ribbons. (8512) * Fixes and other minor changes: * A technicality around zombie auctions. (8508) * Increase R2124's power to prevent an escalation scam. (8509) * Re-introduce a restriction on pending during festivals. (8510) * Make VP wins "indirect". (8511) # Mailing lists See also: Appreciation * There was some trouble with the mailing lists this week. Starting partway through Monday, the main lists hosted at agoranomic.org stopped working, and we switched to the backup list. Our Distributor, omd, got it working again on Sunday. * omd posted an explanation with subject "[Distributor] List postmortem". * Gaelan, nix, Aris and Trigon set up a new mailing list and the Registrar announces intent to make it public. Thread: "[Registrar] New public forum (contains intent to flip Publicity)" * (For different technical reasons, the announcement of intent does not appear in any of the four prior mailing lists' archives: OFF, BUS, DIS, BAK. But it was sent directly to all players, and also appears in the new list's archive.) * There was some discussion leading up to it in the thread "BAK's SPF settings are incorrect". The list administrator doesn't seem to be involved in Agora and we're not sure if we can contact em if needed. On IRC/Discord, it was suggested that we find something managed by a dedicated company. * There's discussion on the thread about ways to make sure it really becomes Public, in case some technicality arises, including ratification and rulebending. * ais523 identifies a problem with the backup list's SPF settings. Thread: "BAK's SPF settings are incorrect" # Appreciation * Aris pays Cuddlebeam a grant of 50 Coins in appreciation of Agora Quest. Thread: "I Appreciate Our Humble Agoran Farmer [attn. Herald, Treasuror]" * Aris proposes to grant our Distributor omd the title of Hero of Agora Nomic. Thread: "[Proposal] Our Heroic Distributor" * The Herald, with players' support, awards Jason the title of Roboticist General "in recognition of eir technical services to Agora". # Contracts and other agreements * Cuddlebeam drafts a contract that would create a currency, "Victorias", backed by obligations to vote for someone to win. Thread: "humble agoran farmer makes money, literally (Proto Contract)" * There's some discussion in the thread about promises vs. contracts. * Falsifian proposes some changes to the Dragon QuickExchange contract, but Gaelan points out a problem.
OFF: [Dragon] QuickExchange report and ratification intent
I intend without objection to ratify the following document:
{
Ownership of Credits backed by Dragon QuickExchange is as follows:
Victory Credits: Falsifian owns 88.
Justice Credits: Falsifian owns 94.
Legislative Credits: Falsifian owns 82; R. Lee owns 88; Gaelan owns 12.
Voting Credits: Falsifian owns 44.
}
I believe Dragon QuickExchange currently owns:
Cards:
* One Justice Card
* Two Legislative Cards
Products:
* Two Victory Points
* One Extra Vote
Recent history (all times UTC)
(<- means to the player; -> means to the contract):
Date Player TypeCredits Cards Products
- --- --- -
2020-10-18 20:08 Falsifian Legislative -> 47 <- 1
2020-10-21 03:18 Falsifian Justice <- 100 -> 1
2020-10-21 03:18 Falsifian Justice -> 94 <- 2
--
Falsifian
OFF: [Farmers] Potato report
Farming Report PSS: Publius Scribonius Scholasticus OwnerPotato --- Cuddlebeam 0 Gaelan 4 Aris1 Falsifan1 PSS 1 History of Potato (not self-ratifying): 10,000 BC: Potatoes were first planted in South America 1840: Blight decimate potato crops across Europe Oct 21 2020: Cuddlebeam +1 Potato Nov 32 2020: Gaelan + 10 Potato Last week: Aris, PSS + 1 Potato Also last week: Falsifan spawns Spudders Oct 26 2020: CB + 1 Potato
OFF: [Notary] The Notes (pledges & promises)
This is a continuation of the Notary's weekly report. Information about contracts can be found in a separate message. === PLEDGES If any pledge(s) has/have no name currently, I assign it/them the name(s) displayed in this report. The following 5 pledges exist: "You can make it happen, R. Lee!" created by Gaelan Time of creation: 11 Mar 04:16 2020 Time window: 1 year Time of expiry: 11 Mar 04:16 2021 Text: I pledge to transfer 100 coins to R. Lee by the end of this pledge’s time window if Peter Suber registers as a player. The time window for this pledge is one year. "Honest officiating" created by ATMunn Time of creation: 06 Jul 20:12 2020 Time window: 6 months Time of expiry: 06 Jan 20:12 2021 Text: I pledge not to include anything other than official duties in the same message any official duties. This pledge shall be called "Honest officiating" and shall have a time window of 6 months. "Seriously, y'all?" created by Gaelan Time of creation: 07 Sep 21:57 2020 Time window: 20 weeks Time of expiry: 25 Jan 21:57 2021 Text: I pledge to dedicate my weekly notices of honor to subtracting honour from those who, despite not being in on the scam, unconditionally voted for G's rule bending proposal (until I've gotten through everyone). The time window for this pledge is 20 weeks. "CFJ annotations please" created by Jason Time of creation: 12 Oct 03:44 2020 Time window: 20 weeks Time of expiry: 01 Mar 15:44 2021 Text: I pledge to transfer 5 coins to players every time they publicly submit a good-faith (as determined by me) attempt at a Rulekeepor CFJ annotation, specifying the CFJ it came from, unless I have previously "nullified" this pledge. The CFJ must have been first judged not more than one year before the creation of this pledge. This pledge expires in 20 weeks or when it is nullified, whichever comes earlier. "Legislative Card Buying Pledge" created by nix Time of creation: 13 Oct 16:56 2020 Time window: 14 days Time of expiry: 27 Oct 16:56 2020 Text: I pledge to, in the next 14 days, match (via transferring a matching pledge to the offerer) the best 2 offers to sell me legislative card sent in reply to this email in the next 7 days; if the offer is something other than coins, I will use my own discretion to determine "best" offer. === PROMISES === If any promise(s) has/have no name currently, I assign it/them the name(s) displayed in this report. The following 11 promises exist: "Treasure" created by omd Bearer: the Lost and Found Department Text: I pay 200 coins to the bearer "Legislative for Justice v2" created by Murphy Bearer: the Library Text: Cashing conditions: The bearer has transferred or granted Murphy one Legislative Card in the same message as which e cashes this promise, and has not cashed any other promise between doing so and cashing this promise, and Murphy has at least one Justice Card. I transfer one Justice Card to the bearer. "Legislative for Voting v2" created by Murphy Bearer: the Library Text: Cashing conditions: The bearer has transferred or granted Murphy one Legislative Card in the same message as which e cashes this promise, and has not cashed any other promise between doing so and cashing this promise, and Murphy has at least one Voting Card. I transfer one Voting Card to the bearer. 6 instances of
OFF: [Notary] The Notes (contracts)
I publish the following report: ██ ██ ███ ███ ██ █ ███ ██ ████ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ██ █████ █ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █ █████ ██ -~= Notary's weekly report =~- ~~ Weekly means "every two weeks", right? ~~ All times and dates in this report are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Date of last report: 12 Oct 2020 Date of this report: 26 Oct 2020 Abbreviations used in this report: --- P.S.S. | Publius Scribonius Scholasticus CB | Cuddlebeam con. | contract --- If any contract(s) have no name currently, I assign it/them the name(s) displayed in this report. === SHORT LIST OF CONTRACTS Contracts marked with an asterisk (*) are charities. Title Parties "The Dragon Corporation" Aris, Jason, Falsifian, P.S.S. "GRBaSTttPF"[1] Gaelan, twg, Warrigal, Falsifian "TPP"[2] CB, R. Lee, P.S.S., G., Bögtil, Jason ... [3] "AAA"[4] Jason, P.S.S., R. Lee, nix "LoAFER"[5]Trigon, Jason, R. Lee, ATMunn, P.S.S. "Co Dependents" R. Lee "Cuddlebeam's Locker" Cuddlebeam "Contract No. 1: GIFT"Trigon, R. Lee "Contract No. 2: POEM"Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn "Contract No. 3: CARD"R. Lee "Contract No. 5: DECK"Trigon, R. Lee, ATMunn "Contract No. 6: BOON"Trigon "SEAMSTRESS"[6] Trigon, nix, Jason "Dragon QuickExchange" Falsifian "Obstruction"omd "Obstruction 2: Electric Boogaloo"R. Lee "SNOCS"[7] omd, ATMunn, R. Lee "Dragon Political Outreach" Falsifian, Jason "Amusing Test Case" Aris "The Bank"ATMunn "The Platonic Parrot" P.S.S., ATMunn, omd, ... [8] "I bet that was written by G." omd, ATMunn "The Contract Awards: The Contract" ATMunn "The Agoran Underground Betting Ring" Gaelan "Somewhat Annoying Experiment"Gaelan * "Agoran Press" Falsifian "Team Margaux" Gaelan, Nathan, R. Lee, shelvacu, Cuddlebeam "The Splat Market"Gaelan, ATMunn "The Supertask Experiment"Nathan "The Supertask Experiment Redux" Nathan "Can Zombies Read?" Gaelan "Humble Agoran Farming" Cuddlebeam, PSS, Trigon, Falsifian, Gaelan, Aris [1] Gaelan's Really Bad At Sending Things To The Public Forum [2] The Plunder Partnership [3] also Falsifian, Aris [4] The Agoran Arbitration Association [5] League of Agorans Facilitating Effective Recordkeeping [6] Signature Enthusiast Allows Modification of Signature Through Rigorous Exchanging of Signature Suggestions [7] Simple, No-Opportunity-Cost Sets [8] also R. Lee, Cuddlebeam == FULL TEXT AND HISTORY OF CONTRACTS == All contracts which do not have a Donation Level stated currently have a Donation Level of 0. The following 32 contracts exist: "The Dragon Corporation" (revision 4) Parties: Aris, Jason, Falsifian, P.S.S. -- ## Bylaw 1: Definition This contract is named "the Dragon Corporation". The purpose of the Dragon Corporation is to earn as much money as possible for its shareholders. All other provisions of this contract notwithstanding, this contract does not permit any entity to act on behalf of any other entity. Shares of Dragon stock (also known as "shares of
