DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-31 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
How does this look? -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the quorum is 8, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid options

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.4

2020-05-31 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:38 PM nch via agora-business wrote: > Create a new Power=1 rule titled "Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege" > with the following text: > > The player who proposed the proposal with the greatest F/A, as > defined in rule 955, among all proposals assessed in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: a regulatory experiment (auctions)

2020-05-25 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:14 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-25 12:23, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Monday, May 25, 2020 11:40:01 AM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-business > wrote: > >> and under common definitions and terms used

Re: DIS: [Proto] College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 8:26 PM nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 4:44:42 PM CDT Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > This is a reform of the degrees system. It has been bothering me for > > ages that we don't have clear criteria fo

Re: DIS: [Proto] College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:50 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 2020-05-24 15:44, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > >An Associate of Nomic degree SHOULD be awarded for a thesis that adds > >appreciably to Agoran culture, but fails to q

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.3

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:06 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > > > > > On May 24, 2020, at 20:58, nch via agora-business > > wrote: > > > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:50:27 PM CDT you wrote: > >>> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:42 PM nch via agora-business > >>> > >>>

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.3

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 6:04 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:58 PM nch via agora-business > wrote: > > > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:50:27 PM CDT you wrote: > > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:42 PM nch via agora-business > > > > > > wrote: > > > > Ok, here's 1.3. > > > > > >

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.3

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:58 PM nch via agora-business wrote: > > On Sunday, May 24, 2020 7:50:27 PM CDT you wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:42 PM nch via agora-business > > > > wrote: > > > Ok, here's 1.3. > > > > > > I cut out auctions completely because there are two proposals right now

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.3

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:52 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 8:47 PM Rebecca via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > it used to be considered somewhat rude to submit a proposal after the > > promotor had published eir draft but before the

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.3

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 5:42 PM nch via agora-business wrote: > > Ok, here's 1.3. > > I cut out auctions completely because there are two proposals right now to fix > them and I'd rather that dust settled first. I have a separate proposal, based > on Trigon's transmutation idea, coming later

DIS: Re: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:42 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > Here's my weekly draft. > > -Aris I think a revised draft is called for. -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision,

DIS: Re: BUS: [attn Promotor] 1698 shortening

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 3:49 PM Reuben Staley via agora-business wrote: > > I submit the following proposal: > > -- > Title: 1698 shortening > AI: 4 > Author: Trigon > Coauthors: > > [ Comment: I'm not sure if it's intentional for "proposals" and "other >changes to the gamestate" to be

DIS: [Proto] College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
This is a reform of the degrees system. It has been bothering me for ages that we don't have clear criteria for what theses qualify for each degree. For instance, no one seems to be sure whether artistic works can qualify for a degree. This proposal would establish standards (in terms of level of

Re: DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 1:43 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > Here's my weekly draft. > > -Aris > > --- > I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran > Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal > pool.

DIS: [Promotor] Draft Report

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly draft. -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the quorum is 8, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid

Re: DIS: Auction overhaul first cut

2020-05-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:29 AM James Cook via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > TODO: what happens to exess lots? > > > > One option that I can see would be to have it go to Lost and Found or > > have it returned to Agora. In either of these circumstances, there >

Re: BUS: [Proposal] Re: DIS: Protos: Referral and High Crimes

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:24 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > > > On 5/21/2020 9:52 AM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > In retrospect those aren't the best examples, because we do use this pretty > > frequently for scams and releveling economies (there's even such a provision > >

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Assessor] Resolution of Proposals 8377-8387

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:43 PM nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Friday, May 22, 2020 4:08:31 PM CDT Jason Cobb via agora-discussion > wrote: > > On 5/22/20 5:06 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On Friday, May 22, 2020 3:23:59 PM CDT Jason Cobb via

Re: DIS: Do all auctions end immediately?

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:09 PM grok via agora-discussion wrote: > I think what I'm actually suggesting is that there's enough precedent that > a sympathetic judge may stay eir judgment or issue a clarifying judgment in > favor of common practice to give players enough time to patch up the rule.

Re: DIS: Auction overhaul first cut

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: e > > Within a timely fashion after such a publication, an entity with an > > assigned winning lot CAN and SHALL claim eir lot by paying a fee > > equal to eir bid to transfer the items in

Re: DIS: Do all auctions end immediately?

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM grok via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:16 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > On 5/22/2020 12:09 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > >

Re: DIS: Do all auctions end immediately?

2020-05-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > Rule 2551: > An Auction ends 7 days after its initiation, or immediately if no > bid has been placed or withdrawn in the last 96 hours, or > immediately if it is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Contest: Rule Golf] Re: Agora willing

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:11 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/21/2020 5:57 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:45 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > >> WILL: The person CAN by announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, act as > >> described. > >>

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Contest: Rule Golf] Re: Agora willing

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:45 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-business wrote: > WILL: The person CAN by announcement, and SHALL in a timely fashion, act as > described. > > OR > > WILL: The person CAN and SHALL act as described. > > OR EVEN > > WILL: The person CAN and SHALL so act.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.2

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:51 PM nch via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Thursday, May 21, 2020 4:33:12 PM CDT Aris Merchant via > agora-discussion > wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > > > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.2

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:24 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > > On 5/21/2020 1:08 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > > > The Treasuror is the auctioneer for this auction, and may order the > > lots > > as e chooses. The minimum bid for this auction is 1 coin. > > I'm

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.2

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 2:02 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/21/2020 1:08 PM, nch via agora-business wrote: > > * all of any single type of asset currently own by the Lost and Found > > Department, if any. > > I'm concerned about allowing the hijacking and

Re: DIS: Protos: Referral and High Crimes

2020-05-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:33 AM nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:20:21 AM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Also realize, if you're going the Decision route, there's nothing > > currently stopping punishment

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Sets v1.0

2020-05-20 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:05 PM nch via agora-business wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 8:05:26 PM CDT nch via agora-business wrote: > > Title: Sets v1.0 > > Author: nch > > Co-Authors: Trigon, Falsifian, PSS, Jason Cobb > > AI: 3 > > I withdraw Sets v1.0 and submit the following proposal. >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 7:32 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/19/20 10:27 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > >> Replace the first paragraph of Bylaw 6: Recordkeeping with the following: > >> A contract-defined office behaves as closely

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:53 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 05:22, Aris Merchant via agora-business > wrote: > > I submit the following Dragon Corporation Amendment Proposals: > > > > --- > > Presidential Elections > > > > Replace the first paragraph of

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:06 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 5/19/2020 4:45 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > >> 3. This far too much mess to do monthly IMO, you'd barely sort out one > >> before it was time to do the next.

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:26 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/17/2020 10:38 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > The Prime Minister's Budget Regulations may set the tax rate, R, > > a rational percenta

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] No More 'By Announcement'

2020-05-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:14 AM nch via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 11:55:03 AM CDT nch via agora-business wrote: > > By my math this eliminates 108 words from the rules, and more importantly > > makes announcement default so it doesn't need

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-18 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:02 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 05:40, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system. > > This could, in theory, be adopted now and wou

Re: DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-18 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Thank you for your comments! > I wonder if this rule text could be a contract. Anyone can join, and > anyone who's not the creator of a promise can leave. I thought about that. It would definitely need a helper amendment (for the acting on behalf thing, which I'm going to need to add anyway),

Re: DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 10:40 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > In the fourth Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the Treasuror CAN once, > by announcement, Appropriate Lost Property, transferring a specified number > of coins no greater than the Lost and Found

DIS: [Proto] Budgets

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system. This could, in theory, be adopted now and wouldn't particularly do very much apart from allowing for funding of special projects (though it would allow for a somewhat absurd amount of funding; I imagine most of it would go to

Re: DIS: Protos: Coins have Value

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:56 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/13/2020 1:20 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > > On 5/13/20 2:04 PM, nch wrote: > >> The equivalent in Agora would be to have several desirable assets and > either > >> 1) restrict who can

DIS: Re: BUS: Moot Attempt

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:14 PM Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > > It's because it's too hard. It should just be that anyone can vacate a > (somewhat recent) judgement and reassign it to a new judge if they get say > 2 agoran consent, with a minimum of 3 voters for it or something. I have

DIS: [Proto] Promises

2020-05-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
This represents a reenactment of an old game system, with new text. I mentioned that I was considering something like this a while ago. The original is from [1], but I didn't go back and look at it until I'd almost finished mine (that was when I decided to add the Library and the fungibility

DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon] Presidential Elections and Shorter Voting Periods

2020-05-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:48 PM James Cook via agora-business wrote: > I vote FOR the first amendment quoted above. I consent to the second > amendment, but have mixed feelings. Here's the reasoning for the second amendment: Corporate Proposals are required for Dragon to do anything. Having it

DIS: Re: BUS: [Dragon Corporation] The Dragon's Lair

2020-05-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:42 PM James Cook via agora-business wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 21:09, Jason Cobb via agora-business > wrote: > > I become a party to the Dragon Corporation. > > > > > > This is a self-ratifying report of the asset shares of DRGN: > > > > There are 3 shares of

Re: DIS: a side-game for sets

2020-05-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:54 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/16/20 10:27 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > Proto: Sets side-game > > > > [nch didn't name an officer for Sets I'm going to use "Dealor" here]. > > > > Enact the following Rule, "Setting the Table": >

Re: DIS: a side-game for sets

2020-05-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:28 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > Proto: Sets side-game > > The Jack's Hand, the Queen's Hand, and the King's Hand are each > Dealor-tracked switches, with possible values being any specified set > of 8+

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Ministerial Referrals

2020-05-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:48 PM Edward Murphy via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > G. wrote: > > > On 5/15/2020 10:13 AM, James Cook wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 19:40, Aris Merchant wrote: > >>> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:18 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Ministerial Referrals

2020-05-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:13 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/15/20 7:09 PM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: > >> If we're allowed to use the words "earn", "award" and "qualify", whose > >> meanings cannot be reasonably assumed, at least

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3833 Assigned to Jason

2020-05-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:48 PM Rebecca via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 10:41 AM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On 5/15/20 7:36 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > I disagree

DIS: Re: OFF: CFJ 3834 judged FALSE

2020-05-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:43 PM Rebecca via agora-official < agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > CFJ 3834 asks whether or not "In a generic Agoran context, to refer a > proposal to a chamber is > to set its chamber switch to that chamber." > > This CFJ has a very odd statement. Generic means

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: more paradox CFJs

2020-05-15 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/15/20 8:29 PM, Rebecca via agora-business wrote: > > I call for judgement on this statement: It is both possible and true > that a > > rule named "A coin award" took the game action of

Re: DIS: Re: Treason (Was: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8377-8387)

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:16 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/14/20 8:11 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-business > wrote: > > I think that this sounds like a fun idea, but to distinguish it from other, > > lesser crimes, it should have a different process: what

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8377-8387

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:40 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:24 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> On 5/14/20 4:13 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-official wrote: >> > 8387l Aris, P.S.S.

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8377-8387

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:24 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/14/20 4:13 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-official wrote: > > 8387l Aris, P.S.S. 1.0 Defense Against the Dark Arts > > > Was this proposal ever actually submitted to the

DIS: Re: Possible Tardiness

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 3:19 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > I'll be extremely busy, on and off, for the next two weeks. Promotor reports > may be delayed somewhat (definitely not for the entire period, but for a few > days to a week). I apologize in advance the delay. Time to get back to IRL

Re: DIS: Proto: Sets

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:57 PM nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thursday, May 14, 2020 3:17:11 PM CDT James Cook via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Is there any reason for a player to transmute victory points at any > > time other than when they want to declare victory? > > > > Not

Re: DIS: [Proto] Defense Against the Dark Arts

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:44 PM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 07:10, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Here's a different version of P.S.S.'s proposal. Eirs didn't work > > because you can't take an action that would cau

DIS: MUD Post Mortem

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
So, the MUD appears to have flopped. The primary reason is that I didn't do anything past setting it up, which is totally on me. Anything one else have thoughts or analyses? -Aris

DIS: [Proto] Defense Against the Dark Arts

2020-05-14 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a different version of P.S.S.'s proposal. Eirs didn't work because you can't take an action that would cause the game to become ossified, only attempt one. Also, it didn't cover the game ceasing to exist or proposals. Plus I added some other stuff. LMK what y'all think and if people like it

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-05-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Okay, I've been working at this in whatever time I could steal for the last few days, and it's finally here! Behold my draft report! -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this

Re: DIS: Proto: Sets

2020-05-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:38 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:36 PM nch via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:20:21 PM CDT Kerim Aydin via >> agora-discussion >> wrote: >> >

Re: DIS: Proto: Sets

2020-05-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:36 PM nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:20:21 PM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > On 5/13/2020 3:52 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > > > Also interested in suggestions for other ways to

DIS: Possible Tardiness

2020-05-10 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I'll be extremely busy, on and off, for the next two weeks. Promotor reports may be delayed somewhat (definitely not for the entire period, but for a few days to a week). I apologize in advance the delay. -Aris

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3832 Assigned to Trigon

2020-05-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:14 AM Rebecca via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > 1 > > On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 2:35 PM Aris Merchant via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:24 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business > > wrote: > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I won the game btw

2020-05-05 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:26 PM Rebecca via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:11 PM Aris Merchant via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:16 PM Rebecca via agora

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: I won the game btw

2020-05-05 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:16 PM Rebecca via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:07 PM Rebecca wrote: > > > I CFJ: > > { CFJ 3828, which had the following statement, “A recent rule named "A > > coin award" was enacted, increased > > the number of coins

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: More Expensive Wins

2020-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 7:39 PM Rebecca via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Too many people having won by paying 1,000 coins, I create and pend the > following proposal > > Title: Winflation > AI: 2 > Text: Replace the third sentence of rule 2483 (Economics) with "A

DIS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Speaker Appointment! All Hail the Speaker!

2020-04-27 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:29 PM Alexis Hunt wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 20:23, Aris Merchant via agora-official > wrote: >> >> A Proclamation >> >> WHEREAS the rules require the Prime Minister, upon the beginning >> of a new Round, to install a laureled player as Speaker; and >> >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Wooden Gavel for twg

2020-04-26 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:11 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:43, Aris Merchant via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > [I'm attempting to replicate, as nearly as possible, the 2 Agoran > > Consent requirement for awarding the

DIS: Draft Report

2020-04-26 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report. Note that I'm now going back and forth over whether to refer P8374. -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: attn referee (Re: OFF: [ADoP] Metareport)

2020-04-25 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:55 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 4/25/2020 3:44 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 4/25/20 6:41 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > >> Still, I don't see that there's a way to CFJ on

DIS: Re: BUS: [Arbitor] Wooden Gavel 2019 shortlist

2020-04-25 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:20 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > > > Reviews all the 2019 cases (including those not in the archives). > > My shortlist (discussion welcome! Especially if there's one not on this > list where I missed its deep importance/later citations) > > > CFJ 3694 by

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 12:03, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via > agora-business wrote: > > > Because this was ineffective, I impose the Cold Hand of Justice by > levying > > a

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Awards Month: Call for Nominations

2020-04-20 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:09 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:38 PM Aris Merchant via agora-official > wrote: > > > > I hereby call for nominations for the 2020 Silver Quill. The eligible > > proposals > > are the ones in the Promotor reports listed here [1]. The

Re: DIS: [proto] Auction fixes

2020-04-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 7:57 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > In light of the recently discovered bugs in auction resolution, here's a > proto to fix them: Alexis's auction proposal looks to be failing. I think there's general agreement that in the

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-04-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report. -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 4:50 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:04 PM Aris Merchant via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > Arguments: > > A fine should be reduced to the degree the infraction was "minor, > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-10 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:16 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 4/10/2020 1:08 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:05 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business > > wrote: > >>

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Awards Month: Call for Nominations

2020-04-10 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:38 PM Aris Merchant via agora-official wrote: > > I hereby call for nominations for the 2020 Silver Quill. The eligible > proposals > are the ones in the Promotor reports listed here [1]. The nominations period > will remain open until I close it, not less than one

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-10 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 1:05 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > > > On 4/10/2020 12:21 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 21:34, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > >> LET IT FURTHERMORE BE KNOWN that I hereby

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-10 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:22 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 21:34, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > LET IT FURTHERMORE BE KNOWN that I hereby charge and petition the > > responsible officers of my cabinet, namely

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-09 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:28 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 22:11 -0700, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2020, at 6:33 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > > > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: >

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Prime Minister] Awards Month

2020-04-09 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:11 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2020, at 6:33 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-official < > agora-offic...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > At agora-official, this fourth day of April in the Year of our > >

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-04-06 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's my weekly-ish draft! -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt 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

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 3826 Judgement

2020-04-05 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I just realized I top-posted. I apologize. -Aris On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:46 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not actually convinced by the region example; I initially read that > the other way, and on rereading think it's ambiguous. Still, the apple > example

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ 3826 Judgement

2020-04-05 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I'm not actually convinced by the region example; I initially read that the other way, and on rereading think it's ambiguous. Still, the apple example seems sound, and I find that a good enough as an analogue. Good judgement! -Aris On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 5:56 PM Rebecca via agora-business <

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] March Zombie Auction

2020-04-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 7:29 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 22:16, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > Sorry, I should have been more clear, and I wasn't asking specifically > > about this situation. > > > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] March Zombie Auction

2020-04-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:53 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 20:48, Kerim Aydin via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > I withdraw my previous bid. I bid 1 coin. > > > > Bidding's over so this mess can stop. So, the bug was the

DIS: Test

2020-04-04 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
1... 2... 3... testing. -Aris

Re: DIS: Prime Minister Protos

2020-04-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:12 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > > Also, even if the PM is allowed to issue e.g. Certiorari and > > Consultation during the same month, I'd still prefer they were at least > > informally grouped by the office primarily affected. (For one, it makes > > it easier to work

Re: DIS: Prime Minister Protos

2020-04-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 9:39 AM Edward Murphy via agora-discussion wrote: > > Aris wrote: > > > - Pardon: N of a person's blots are expunged, where N is the number > > of blots e received from a specified fine. This power SHOULD be used > > only when extraordinary factors counsel in favor of

Re: DIS: Prime Minister Protos

2020-04-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 3:08 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 3/22/20 1:50 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > Here are three protos relating to the powers/duties of the Prime Minister. > > > > First off there's "Executive Exp

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 7 assigned to Jason

2020-03-25 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:11 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 3/24/2020 8:27 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote: > > > > Gratuitous arguments in CFJ 7: > > > > This is well-written and reasonable, but (even if only in the spirit of >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 7 assigned to Jason

2020-03-24 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 7:02 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 3/19/20 11:33 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote: > > I was somewhat looking forward to judging a case older than I am too, > > and I had some ideas on how to resolve it. Still, I suppose I can > > submit

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Emergency Fix and Expansion

2020-03-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:12 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 at 21:01, Aris Merchant via agora-business > wrote: > > > > I submit the following proposals. > > > > -Aris > > --- > > Title: Fix Emergencies > > Adoption index: 3.0

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-03-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here's a draft report. -Aris --- I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran Decision of whether to adopt 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

DIS: Prime Minister Protos

2020-03-21 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Here are three protos relating to the powers/duties of the Prime Minister. First off there's "Executive Expansion", which tweaks the way that Cabinet Orders work and adds several new ones. These are a combination of powers that seem like they should be available to a head of government and ones

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 7 assigned to Jason

2020-03-19 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:55 PM Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: > > On 3/19/20 7:39 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-business wrote: > > If CFJ 7 is open, I exercise certiorari to assign it to myself. > > > > -Aris > > > Rude :(. If you're particularly interested, I'll recuse myself. I didn't

DIS: Re: BUS: One last one for tonight.

2020-03-17 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:30 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-business wrote: > If the Prime Minister has not Extended the Emergency in the past > month, any player CAN cause this rule to repeal all Emergency > Regulations and then itself. > Unless I'm seriously misunderstanding even your intent or the

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] Thesis Submission Peer Review

2020-03-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:49 PM Tanner Swett via agora-discussion wrote: > > Respectfully, although Aris's thesis is interesting and well-written, > it doesn't seem to show a great amount of analysis or research effort. > I think that to be eligible for a degree, a thesis should show more >

Re: DIS: [Proto-Proto] Freeform regulations

2020-03-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:57 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > Now that it looks like the statute reform proposal is going to squeak > through, I started thinking about where we might first want to create > non-statute bodies of law. Contracts are the natural choice, but on >

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