Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Quick proposals

2018-10-31 Thread Gaelan Steele
Pending’s gone, so can you retract? Gaelan > On Oct 31, 2018, at 10:41 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > > Right you are, Ørjan. I retract the two proposals I have most recently > submitted and instead submit the following two: > > - > Title: Only proposals should be distributed > AI: 1 > Author

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Quick proposals

2018-10-31 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: Repeal Rule 2505 "Distributing Assets". That should be 2515. Amend Rule 1728 "Dependent Actions" by: replacing the following: 2. If the action is to be performed Without N Objections, With N Agoran Consent, or With Notice, if the in

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] let's do some space

2018-10-31 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, ATMunn wrote: Imminent Sector is an singleton switch, tracked by the Spacekeepor, defaulting to 1. Every time a player receives a Welcome Package, the Imminent Sector is increased by one. If the Imminent Sector ever is greater than the cur

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] let's do some space

2018-10-31 Thread ATMunn
Comments on comments below. On 10/31/2018 5:50 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote: Comments inline Gaelan On Oct 31, 2018, at 2:19 PM, ATMunn wrote: So I've been working on the space proposal some more. It's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I've made a ton of progress. I still have

Re: DIS: [Proto-proposal] let's do some space

2018-10-31 Thread Gaelan Steele
Comments inline Gaelan > On Oct 31, 2018, at 2:19 PM, ATMunn wrote: > > So I've been working on the space proposal some more. It's taken me a lot > longer than I thought it would, but I've made a ton of progress. I still have > that feeling that there's something super important I've missed,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I register.

2018-10-31 Thread Rebecca
also your messages are all getting marked as spam by me dude. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:47 AM Rebecca wrote: > holy shit dude it's taredas. i don't think you remember me but i was > Burning_Earth on MTGS lol. > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:04 AM Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> >> >> Welcome, Tarhalindur!

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I register.

2018-10-31 Thread Rebecca
holy shit dude it's taredas. i don't think you remember me but i was Burning_Earth on MTGS lol. On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 8:04 AM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Welcome, Tarhalindur! (you may want to sign your nickname in your messages > since it's not in your email address, until we get used to who you

DIS: [Proto-proposal] let's do some space

2018-10-31 Thread ATMunn
So I've been working on the space proposal some more. It's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would, but I've made a ton of progress. I still have that feeling that there's something super important I've missed, but I can't think of it. Of course, this "update" doesn't really include any m

DIS: Re: OFF: BOOOO! (zombie auction - Halloween edition)

2018-10-31 Thread ATMunn
It's been a year? Oh, wow. On 10/31/2018 5:02 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: [Marking the 1-year anniversary of zombies, that debuted last Halloween!] I initiate a zombie auction, with the following lots (each zombie a separate lot) ordered as follows (highest-bid first): 1. pokes 2. 天火狐 Agora is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I register.

2018-10-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
Welcome, Tarhalindur! (you may want to sign your nickname in your messages since it's not in your email address, until we get used to who you are). The current "status" of subject-line stuff is it can work IF something in the body of the message (like: "See the subject.") draws attention to it

DIS: Re: BUS: I register.

2018-10-31 Thread ATMunn
There have been some recent-ish debates on whether or not subject line actions actually work - I don't remember the exact state of that. So there's a chance this was ineffective. Either way, welcome! On 10/31/2018 3:54 PM, Aharon Zingman wrote: See the subject.

Re: DIS: Because I'm new like that

2018-10-31 Thread ATMunn
Idea that I might be up for doing: an unofficial "officer" that makes a "report" every month with a summary of the current rules state, and major changes since the last one. Basically a lower-effort, unofficial version of Rulekeepor. On 10/31/2018 1:27 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: About once ever

Re: DIS: Internal Affairs?

2018-10-31 Thread Gaelan Steele
G did try to start a festival once (in response to my April Fools proposal overwriting the ruleset with BlogNomic’s). It didn’t actually happen, however. Gaelan > On Oct 31, 2018, at 11:37 AM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 11:54 -0500, Aharon Zingman wrote: >> Intern

Re: DIS: Internal Affairs?

2018-10-31 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 11:54 -0500, Aharon Zingman wrote: > Internal Affairs is a hypothetical proposal. Essentially, this puts a > person in charge of keeping shitters, griefers, and people who wish > to disrupt Agora out. I might elaborate if this would be a good idea. Our current anti-disruption

Re: DIS: Because I'm new like that

2018-10-31 Thread Reuben Staley
Hi, I'm the Rulekeepor. I organized the Rulesets. I will admit that the textual Rulesets are not the very convenient. That's why I didn't join Agora earlier, in fact. Eventually, I'm going to attempt to make an interactive Ruleset, but I haven't even started working on the code to generate that. F

Re: DIS: Because I'm new like that

2018-10-31 Thread Kerim Aydin
About once every 5 years someone has written a FAQ, which is useful for about a year until the rules change enough or we forget about it - we've been terrible about actually maintaining such things. It's been that long or more since the last one I think (maybe I'm wrong there). On Wed, 31 Oc

DIS: Internal Affairs?

2018-10-31 Thread Aharon Zingman
Internal Affairs is a hypothetical proposal. Essentially, this puts a person in charge of keeping shitters, griefers, and people who wish to disrupt Agora out. I might elaborate if this would be a good idea. -- This is a student email account managed by the Iowa City Community School District.

Re: DIS: Because I'm new like that

2018-10-31 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
No, not that I know of. As I recall, there was some discussion about making one a while ago (for precisely this reason - it's intimidating to new players). But it never came to anything. In my opinion, these are the most important things to know (other people feel free to disagree / chip in):

DIS: Contract

2018-10-31 Thread Gaelan Steele
I consent to be bound by the contract below with any 1 or more other players who at any time similarly express their consent to be bound by the contract. [Thanks to D. Margaux for the wording] { Any party to this contract may act on Gaelan’s behalf to transfer one coin to emselves. Once this i

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: SPOOKY - Living Zombie

2018-10-31 Thread D. Margaux
(Needs to go to the public forum) > On Oct 31, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > > I do. > > Gaelan > >> On Oct 31, 2018, at 7:41 AM, D. Margaux wrote: >> >> Gaelan: >> >> To fix a mistake I made in drafting, I propose to modify the contract by >> adding to the end of it the follow

DIS: Because I'm new like that

2018-10-31 Thread Aharon Zingman
Is there a summary of the rules? I'm trying to read the whole SLR but it's about as concise as the US tax code. -- This is a student email account managed by the Iowa City Community School District.

DIS: Re: BUS: SPOOKY - Living Zombie

2018-10-31 Thread Gaelan Steele
I do. Gaelan > On Oct 31, 2018, at 7:41 AM, D. Margaux wrote: > > Gaelan: > > To fix a mistake I made in drafting, I propose to modify the contract by > adding to the end of it the following sentence: “Any player CAN become a > party to this contract by announcement.” > > Do you agree? >

DIS: Re: BUS: Cleaning CFJ spellings

2018-10-31 Thread Reuben Staley
Having recieved no objection, I do so. Also, I intend to clean Rule 2350 "Proposals" by replacing all instances of "nether" with "neither" On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:35 PM Reuben Staley wrote: > > I intend, without objection, to clean Rule 991 by replacing all instances > of the word "Judgment" wi

DIS: Welcome.

2018-10-31 Thread Aharon Zingman
This is Tarhalindur! I'm considering signing up for Agora Nomic. This is just my, how do we call it...? *Debut.* -- This is a student email account managed by the Iowa City Community School District.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Stop Speaking

2018-10-31 Thread D. Margaux
Sorry, wasn't sure if you can resign an imposed office On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:57 AM Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Although I guess whether or not you are the Speaker is still subject to CFJ? > I'm not sure, I don't really have a firm grasp of what's going on. Either > way, this is unnecessaril

DIS: Re: BUS: Stop Speaking

2018-10-31 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
Although I guess whether or not you are the Speaker is still subject to CFJ? I'm not sure, I don't really have a firm grasp of what's going on. Either way, this is unnecessarily confusing at best and might actively cause havoc at worst. -twg ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, Octob