Re: Fwd: DIS: Re: BUS: Zombie auction fix

2020-01-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:18 PM AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 19:07 -0800, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > You're half right. Regulated actions have been around forever, but > > after I ruled in my manifestly terrible opinion

Re: Fwd: DIS: Re: BUS: Zombie auction fix

2020-01-16 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:45 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 1/16/20 9:39 PM, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 19:38, AIS523--- via agora-discussion < > > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 15:05 -0800, Kerim

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3792 Assigned to G.

2020-01-13 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 5:45 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 19:05, Aris Merchant via agora-business < > agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:28 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-official > > wrote: > > > > > > The below CFJ is 3792.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Herald] Weekly Report

2020-01-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 8:34 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 1/12/2020 3:21 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:20 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business > > wrote: > >> >

DIS: Back-Awarding of Silver Quills

2020-01-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
We haven’t awarded Silver Quills for any year since 2015. 2019’s awards will be dealt with in this year’s awards month, but that leaves 2016, 2017, and 2018. Would anyone mind if I, as Promotor, suggested Silver Quills for those years? I was only Promotor for part of 2016, but it was a very

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: [Herald] Weekly Report

2020-01-12 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:20 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-business wrote: > > On 1/12/2020 3:15 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Herald's Weekly report > > > > Date of Last Report: 07 Dec 2019 > > Date of This Report: 12 Jan 2020 > While your at it, your report seems to suggest that there both is and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Treasuror] Forbes 500

2020-01-11 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 11:26 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On 1/11/2020 10:53 AM, Alexis Hunt wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 13:25, Jason Cobb wrote: > > > >> I suppose. I was considering keeping them to try to bribe people, but > >> since they're pretty useless, that

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:28 PM Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > >>> 1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated, and not subsequently > >>> publicly withdrawn eir state

DIS: [Draft] Administrative Adjudication v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I made several changes, including clarifying that the judiciary has judicial review over memoranda. I also decided to go in the direction of making memoranda purely interpretative, because I have other plans for gamestate changes that have more safeguards. I've allowed them to be like CFJs or

DIS: Contract Patency v3

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Gaelan's comments made me think of a way to tear out pacts completely. It's a bit less backwards compatible, but also vastly simplified. -Aris --- Title: Contract Patency v3 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Gaelan, Jason Cobb, Falsifian Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full:

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
ame, and I’m not *that* unhappy with > the proposal as it stands, so I would probably vote FOR even as it is. > > Gaelan > > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 2:31 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > > I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcom

Re: DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 2:42 PM AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 14:31 -0800, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > wrote: > > I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome. > [snip] > > Amend Rule 2519, "Consent"

DIS: [Draft] Contract Patency v2

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome. -Aris --- Title: Contract Patency v2 Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-authors: Jason Cobb, Falsifian Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full: A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if: 1. e,

Re: DIS: Draft: Contract Patency

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 6:35 PM James Cook wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 06:11, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > Here's a draft that separates out contracts from pacts, and creates an > > office of Notary to track contracts and pledges. NOTE: Volunteers are > > needed for Notary! Apply now! > > I

DIS: [MUD] MUD Opening!

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
The MUD is now open. The server is at agora.ddns.net Port 4000 is telnet. Port 4001 is HTTP. Port 4004 is SSH. Port 4005 is webclient-websocket. -Aris

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8277-8279

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
TBH, there's no real reason to disallow 1-member contracts. It doesn't make sense under real world contract law, but Agoran contracts can also function like corporations. -Aris On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > Yeah, the rules need to handle open-ended

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:07 AM Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote: > > Aris wrote: > > A minimalist proto along the lines of #1 follows. This could be a > > complex interconnected set of 15 rules, but I think it would be more > > fun to leave it as minimal as possible at let the

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
n that? Seriously, if the CFJs don't have a major impact on the future of the game, it's just boring. This way is more fun. -Aris > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:24 PM Aris Merchant > >

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-08 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:24 PM Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:12 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion > > wrote: > > > This gets me thinking of a potential big and maybe-interesting-maybe-not > >

Re: DIS: Proto: Fool Season

2020-01-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
The simplest option would be to just cut AiaN from the clone. -Aris On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:50 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion wrote: > > I proto'd a similar rule using the “parallel nomic” implementation a while > back, and someone (G?) worried that the parallel nomic’s Agora Is A

DIS: [Promotor] Draft

2020-01-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
A draft report follows. -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 4, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:12 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:00 PM Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion > wrote: > > This gets me thinking of a potential big and maybe-interesting-maybe-not > > big change to the order of things... what if officers presumptively

Re: DIS: ratifying honour etc.

2020-01-07 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:56 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > Would anyone complain/object if I ratified a "false" Herald's Report > that claims the Notices of Honor received during the Troubles were > successful? > > Looking at the message list that Murphy nicely assembled for

DIS: Re: BUS: rant

2020-01-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 8:20 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > Dear lord - all the messages are in the archives and any officer can find > them - can we just ratify that those messages HAPPENED instead of undoing > them. It seems much more complications

Re: DIS: Re: BAK: [RWO] List Patch

2020-01-01 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 8:13 AM James Cook via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 06:09, Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion > wrote: > > *Sigh* I seriously think considering history to be a part of game state > > may have been a mistake, but

Re: DIS: [MUD] New Agoran MUD

2019-12-31 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 8:55 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I will refrain from posting the address of the MUD for a few days, > although if anyone wants to, they can probably work it out. There are > two reasons: First, I would like to see who is interested in

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 8277-8279

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 6:45 PM Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Dec 2019, AIS523--- via agora-discussion wrote: > > > On Sun, 2019-12-29 at 03:32 +0100, Ørjan Johansen via agora-discussion > wrote: > >> The simplest way I can see to fix

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposal 8277

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
Whoops. That error is in my latest distribution too. Sorry all. -Aris On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:40 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 12/19/19 1:38 AM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the > > quorum is 3 > > > I think quorum was 4,

DIS: Research Question

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
I seem to recall hearing once about an incident where a person attempted to register as a player twice concurrently under different names. Does anyone know where that precedent can be found? It's relevant to a thesis that I'm thinking of writing. -Aris

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Resolve the troubles

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 1:07 PM Edward Murphy via agora-discussion wrote: > > Aris wrote: > > > All of the messages having been sent to the public forum would apparently > > stop me from being PM (see the recent thread). In general, it seems unfair > > to have changes to the gamestate occurring

DIS: Re: BUS: PM Candidacy

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 12:55 PM Edward Murphy via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Jason Cobb wrote: > > > On 12/28/19 3:04 PM, Edward Murphy via agora-business wrote: > >> I wrote: > >> > >>> If the above initiation was effective, then I resolve it: Falsifian is > >>>

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Resolve the troubles

2019-12-28 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
All of the messages having been sent to the public forum would apparently stop me from being PM (see the recent thread). In general, it seems unfair to have changes to the gamestate occurring without a significant number of people being apprised of them. I’d urge going the other direction, and

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