DIS: Vacation upcoming

2017-06-24 Thread Gaelan Steele
I will be in the Northern California mountains with no network access from 7/3 to 7/26; we'll need to think of some plan for Rulekeeping during those 3 weeks. If somebody was willing to take over for that period, I could set up an Agency to allow them to publish the ruleset while I was gone; I

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Proposal Pool

2017-06-24 Thread Aris Merchant
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but aside from tournaments, does this proposal > affect gameplay in any real way or just set the groundwork for future > mechanics? You're correct, it's mostly an infrastructure proposal. In

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: More Betterer Pledges

2017-06-24 Thread Aris Merchant
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > A pledge MAY be considered broken if the pledgor does > > > Using MAY here is grammatically odd to

Re: DIS: Proto: Track it on the wiki

2017-06-24 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jun 24, 2017, at 4:44 PM, omd wrote: > > Proto: Track it on the wiki (AI=2) Not directly feedback, but this finally got me off my duff. The three offices I handle are now on Github: * https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Referee *

Re: DIS: Proto: Track it on the wiki

2017-06-24 Thread Aris Merchant
I don't particularly like specifying a particular location, and would likely vote PRESENT. I do see the advantages, I just like keeping the rules medium agnostic. -Aris On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > I like the idea of having separate repositories per

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread Aris Merchant
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:17 PM, omd wrote: > Proto: Buy low, sell high (AI=2) > > Create a Power-1 Rule titled "Stocks": > > The following Stocks exist: > > Abbr. Name > - > CFJCollaborative Finance Journal > PDFPower Dance &

Re: DIS: Proto: Track it on the wiki

2017-06-24 Thread Gaelan Steele
I like the idea of having separate repositories per report (like we have now), which also allows recordkeepors to manage their tooling (under this rule, I couldn't keep the rules in YAML, for example). I think we should keep anything on GitHub as unofficial, which allows record keepers to do

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread Gaelan Steele
Organization balances (or whatever they're called) are defined as a switch for each (org, player) pair, which has the advantage of creating fewer switch types; I think that's a good thing. Gaelan > On Jun 24, 2017, at 1:17 PM, omd wrote: > > For each Stock, Holdings of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: More Betterer Pledges

2017-06-24 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> A pledge MAY be considered broken if the pledgor does > > Using MAY here is grammatically odd to me. Do you mean "might"? > Or do you mean (using the definition of MAY) that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: 3527 judgement

2017-06-24 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 10:41 PM, Edward Murphy wrote: > > o wrote: > >>> On Jun 22, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: I issue Gaelan a Green Card by summary judgement. I award

Fwd: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
For the aid of the list and general Agoran players, I reproduce and forward the below quoted message. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > >

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread omd
[replied to list, since I don't see a reason not to talk in public..] On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > For each Stock, Holdings of that Stock is a player switch whose > value is a nonnegative integer,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: More Betterer Pledges

2017-06-24 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 6:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> A pledge MAY be considered broken if the pledgor does > > Using MAY here is grammatically odd to me. Do you mean "might"? > Or do you mean (using the definition of MAY)

DIS: Re: BUS: More Betterer Pledges

2017-06-24 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > A pledge MAY be considered broken if the pledgor does Using MAY here is grammatically odd to me. Do you mean "might"? Or do you mean (using the definition of MAY) that it is not against the rules to "perform the action" of considering the pledge

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > Dividends should probably be paid out of some fund or out of Agora’s balance, > or come with an automatic Shiny Relevelling Event, or something. This would > also mean that there would be a limit on how many Shinies can

Re: DIS: Proto: Track it on the wiki

2017-06-24 Thread omd
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I don’t like the idea of tracking it in a markdown environment. What about > have a special repository for tracking such things. Meh, I think Markdown is fine - in fact,

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jun 24, 2017, at 4:17 PM, omd wrote: > > Proto: Buy low, sell high (AI=2) > > Create a Power-1 Rule titled "Stocks": > > The following Stocks exist: > > Abbr. Name > - > CFJCollaborative Finance Journal > PDFPower Dance &

DIS: Proto: Track it on the wiki

2017-06-24 Thread omd
Proto: Track it on the wiki (AI=2) Create Power-1 Rule titled "Wiki": The Wiki is located at https://agoranomic.org/wiki/. For any state the rules define to be "tracked by all players on the Wiki": - When any player performs an action via public message that

Re: DIS: wiki permissions

2017-06-24 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I don’t think we are using those wikis currently, but I can add you to the organization. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 24, 2017, at 1:10 PM, omd wrote: > > Do we really need to restrict wiki edits to authorized users?

Re: DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I like this, but this still has the possibility for having to pay dividends to Agora. It does not specify that turning the Crank decreases Cranks Needed. It also doesn’t cap the number of holdings a stock can have. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On

DIS: Proto: Buy low, sell high

2017-06-24 Thread omd
Proto: Buy low, sell high (AI=2) Create a Power-1 Rule titled "Stocks": The following Stocks exist: Abbr. Name - CFJCollaborative Finance Journal PDFPower Dance & Fitness PGPPineapple Growers' Partnership RR Renascent Ribbons

DIS: wiki permissions

2017-06-24 Thread omd
Do we really need to restrict wiki edits to authorized users? That creates a less friendly experience for new players who would have to ask for permission. The alternative[1] would be allowing edits from anyone with a GitHub account; there's still an account name associated, so I don't think