DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Full disclosure

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Edward Murphy emurph...@zoho.com wrote: Proposal: Full disclosure The text you're amending was modified four days ago. Sorry, I haven't updated the ruleset yet.

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Tanner Swett wrote: 7710 3 G. Defining Reasonable Review AGAINST - I think a proposal should be able to effect a rule change without actually literally containing the text of the rule change. Can you give an example? Happy to vote against this if it kills

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Wordplay

2014-10-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, omd wrote: Period), King Azaz CAN initiate a Shopping Period by AGAINST!!! roars the Mathemagician. (but I'm all for it).

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: 7706 3 omd Fast Track AGAINST. For some reason I don't trust omd with rapidly-adopted proposals right now. Oh, come on, don't punish me for scamming. The proposal's pretty straightforward.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Oct 26, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: 7698 1 ais523 Ribbons 2014 AGAINST. Too retro. Let's move forward folks. Can I count on your votes for my Agora: 2008 Edition proposal series? Heh. I was going to say to you underlying idea we cycle in and out and cool to bring

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, omd wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: 7706 3 omd Fast Track AGAINST. For some reason I don't trust omd with rapidly-adopted proposals right now. Oh, come on, don't punish me for scamming. The proposal's

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Eritivus
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 19:15 +, Tanner Swett wrote: I was thinking that it may be useful to have a proposal say something like Enact a rule saying 'blah blah blah N blah', where N is the number of things that have happened in the past 14 days. I can't think of a good example, so on second

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Tanner Swett
On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Eritivus wrote: So what is the full text of the rule change? I worried that it might be the full diff of the rules the change would effect, which is not directly included in Henri's proposal, and which seems too restrictive. I'd say text of a rule change means

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Tanner Swett
On Oct 26, 2014, at 3:38 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: For perspective, my personal favorite times in the game were mid-2001 (tri-currency zombie auctions)and 2005 (Discordian Cards). I'll have to check those archives out. —the Warrigal

DIS: Re: BUS: JUDGES NEEDED

2014-10-26 Thread Edward Murphy
G. wrote: If I don't get some more willing judges, ais523, omd, or I will end up re-judging these cases and no one wants that. Judge list currently: ais523, G., omd, Sprocklem, Eritivus. Join this list by letting me know. You can also express unwillingness to judge that whole

DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scroll of Agora

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, woggle woggl...@gmail.com wrote: = THE SCROLL OF AGORA = Belated CoE: You were de-Heralded by

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Herald] The Scroll of Agora

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:31 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, woggle woggl...@gmail.com wrote: = THE SCROLL OF AGORA

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Elections!!!11

2014-10-26 Thread Sean Hunt
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:59 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: It's been a long time. Some might say we're overdue. But now the WAIT is OVER! I initiate elections for the following offices: First off, there are several VACANCIES to fill! #1: Prime Minister. With minimal duties and an

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Elections!!!11

2014-10-26 Thread Edward Murphy
omd wrote: #5: IADoP, current holder omd, since October 5. In the span of just three weeks, I've ratified TWO people out of office and published NOT A SINGLE accurate initial report! Try competing with that! For each of these elections, ANYONE can initiate voting at ANY TIME. But I

DIS: Score sheet

2014-10-26 Thread Edward Murphy
I suggest including this as part of the Scorekeepor's Report, if and when someone gets around to publishing one (last one was October 15 and its accuracy was disputed). +20 Start of month: new player stayed active (R2424) +40 Start of month: mentor of new player who stayed active (R2424) -N

DIS: yoyo?

2014-10-26 Thread Eritivus
Is yoyo still up? I note that the link in the Registrar's Census (http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/nomic) 404's. How do I subscribe? Even if it's no longer up, if anyone has an archive (preferably .mbox) of all the yoyo messages, I'd appreciate a copy (or hints on how to obtain

DIS: Unplanned absence

2014-10-26 Thread Luis Ressel
Hello *, sorry, I've been absent for a week. Thanks to you, omd, for doing the promotor job, and also to you, eritivus, for volunteering to do so. I'll read the ~200 mails I've missed tomorrow and be right back at my job. I'll also check again on scorekeeping. aranea -- Luis Ressel

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Elections!!!11

2014-10-26 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
On 26 October 2014 21:59, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: It's been a long time. Some might say we're overdue. But now the WAIT is OVER! I initiate elections for the following offices: First off, there are several VACANCIES to fill! #1: Prime Minister. With minimal duties and an extra

DIS: Re: OFF: [IADoP] Elections!!!11

2014-10-26 Thread Tanner Swett
A figure, a little shorter than the average adult human, and wearing a black robe and a hood that completely covers eir face, walks into the room. E approaches a chair, and puts a gloved hand on the back of the chair, but does not sit down. I am the Warrigal, the person says in a strange

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Henri Bouchard
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: 7700 1 Henri Office Salary AGAINST while no-one's willing to scorekeep. People would be willing to scorekeep if the salary of scorekeeper was greater than the salary of the other offices. Scorekeepor is probably

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Alex Smith
On Sun, 2014-10-26 at 12:40 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, omd wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: 7706 3 omd Fast Track AGAINST. For some reason I don't trust omd with rapidly-adopted proposals right now.

DIS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Any proposals around?

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Luis Ressel ara...@aixah.de wrote: I deputise for the Promotor to publish the following report: The Proposal Pool is currently empty. Wordplay is in there; it was submitted shortly before the last distribution but not distributed because I wanted to get

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: My current opinion on that proposal is: a) omd does not currently know of a way to scam it; b) omd thinks the proposal is genuinely good for the game; and c) omd will nonetheless probably come up with some way to scam it later on. I suddenly got this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Deputy Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7698-7710

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Ørjan Johansen oer...@nvg.ntnu.no wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: My current opinion on that proposal is: a) omd does not currently know of a way to scam it; b) omd thinks the proposal is genuinely good for the game; and c) omd will nonetheless

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Expedition

2014-10-26 Thread omd
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Tanner Swett tannersw...@gmail.com wrote: Amend Rule 2160 Deputisation by appending the paragraph A rule which purports to allow a person to specially deputise under particular circumstances thereby makes it POSSIBLE for the person to do so

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Expedition

2014-10-26 Thread Tanner Swett
On Oct 26, 2014, at 10:51 PM, omd wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Tanner Swett tannersw...@gmail.com wrote: Amend Rule 2160 Deputisation by appending the paragraph A rule which purports to allow a person to specially deputise under particular circumstances thereby makes it