Re: DIS: interest poll

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 20:28 -0500, Henri Bouchard wrote: How about resetting the entire Agora ruleset? I dislike full resets, and prefer gradual change. It's better to reset it a bit at a time. -- ais523

Re: DIS: interest poll

2014-01-01 Thread Henri Bouchard
That would be a better idea. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 20:28 -0500, Henri Bouchard wrote: How about resetting the entire Agora ruleset? I dislike full resets, and prefer gradual change. It's better to reset it a bit at a time.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7611-7613

2014-01-01 Thread Henri Bouchard
I vote: FOR Proposal 7611 FOR Proposal 7612 FOR Proposal 7613 -Henri

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
This does nothing to simplfiy actual game play. One of the charms of Agora is its record, and this one is fairly self-sustaining, and one of the big reasons for winning is to add names to the winner role. The degree-awarding system itself is pretty messy though. If you want to start true

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 09:50 -0500, Henri Bouchard wrote: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic Repeal the following rules: Rule 649: Patent Titles Rule 1367: Degrees Rule 2231: Order of the Hero of Agora Nomic Rule 2415: Badges [This

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Alex Smith wrote: On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 09:50 -0500, Henri Bouchard wrote: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic Repeal the following rules: Rule 649: Patent Titles Rule 1367: Degrees Rule 2231: Order of the Hero of

DIS: The Ruleset

2014-01-01 Thread Henri Bouchard
Is the ruleset on the berkeley website not updated regularly?: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~charles/agora/current_flr.txt -Henri

Re: DIS: The Ruleset

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote: Is the ruleset on the berkeley website not updated regularly?: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~charles/agora/current_flr.txt -Henri It doesn't cover the most recent proposals. Current ruleset is here:

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote: [This is the start of The Simplification] Also, just a nitpick: this simplification started with the recently-passed 'Low-Hanging Fruit', and is continuing with the 'Just Not Rights' which you might want to take a look at... and partially inspired

Re: DIS: The Ruleset

2014-01-01 Thread Henri Bouchard
Ah, thank you. So from now on, I'll reference the rulesets that are sent out in the emails. On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote: Is the ruleset on the berkeley website not updated regularly?:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Henri Bouchard
My apologies. We should all be thinking about this, which I bet most of us are. We just need to face the problem openly, and the fastest (and probably most risky) road to change would be to accept some radical changes. Maybe we aren't taking enough risks? On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Kerim

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
Well, omd proposed a fairly radical reform in October. Proposal 7608 here: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2013-October/010556.html It got a lot of good response, but failed because it (maybe!) was broken in a very specific (and easily fixable) way which

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Sarah
On 01/01/2014 12:36 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: One version I had, that I liked, removed a huge amount of legalese (e.g. edge cases). That might be a way to go... Of course, a lot of that stuff is blocking known scams.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Pavitra
On 01/01/2014 12:36 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: One version I had, that I liked, removed a huge amount of legalese (e.g. edge cases). That might be a way to go... Of course, a lot of that stuff is blocking known scams.

Re: DIS: The Ruleset

2014-01-01 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
Is the ruleset on the berkeley website not updated regularly?: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~charles/agora/current_flr.txt -Henri It doesn't cover the most recent proposals. Current ruleset is here:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Pavitra wrote: On 01/01/2014 12:36 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: One version I had, that I liked, removed a huge amount of legalese (e.g. edge cases). That might be a way to go... Of course, a lot of that stuff is blocking known scams. Well see, that's just it. A lot of

Re: DIS: The Ruleset

2014-01-01 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Henri Bouchard wrote: Is the ruleset on the berkeley website not updated regularly?: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~charles/agora/current_flr.txt That's woggle's website. The last updates in that directory are from Sep 13, the same day he resigned Rulekeepor because of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 13:59 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: For example, common sense committee procedure says you can't both support and object to something at the same time. But because someone a while ago probably CFJed on that, and a judge said well the Rules don't say you can't, so you can,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 14:07 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: Example: MAIN TEXT When interpreting and applying the rules, the text of the rules, takes precedence. Where the text is silent, inconsistent, or unclear, it is to be augmented by game custom, common sense,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, Alex Smith wrote: On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 13:59 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: For example, common sense committee procedure says you can't both support and object to something at the same time. But because someone a while ago probably CFJed on that, and a judge said well

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Fool
On 2014-01-01 5:25 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 14:07 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: Example: MAIN TEXT When interpreting and applying the rules, the text of the rules, takes precedence. Where the text is silent, inconsistent, or unclear, it is to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 14:40 -0800, Kerim Aydin wrote: See, I fundamentally disagree with this. I feel that we've more-or-less tried to implement an email version of parliamentary voice vote (all in favor?... opposed?... the ayes have it!) And in that context, supporting and objecting have

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Initiation of the Great Reset of Agora Nomic

2014-01-01 Thread omd
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Except it isn't set up as a vote. For instance, things like withdrawing objections are possible You can withdraw votes too. Remember when dependent actions used to be Agoran decisions? It matched up decently well except for