Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Nicholas Evans]

This is basically what I intended for Reportor, with different flair.

I don't like the requests thing. The point is to create an easy reference
point for people to use for research in the future, not to do other
people's research for them.

Otherwise, I'd generally support this.

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus <
p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Well, I am not sure that we need the Archivist to be writing about history
> because that is one of the reasons which you could receive a degree for.
>
> 
> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Quazie  wrote:
>
>> That's a great name - and monthly was a time frame I was looking at - I
>> might make it a switch actually that can be flipped without some objection
>> - if we get into an active period again it might be nice to easily switch
>> the type of reporting on a newspaper.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:33 Aris Merchant <
>> thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How about Archivist? Also, may I suggest that newspaper, if it is kept,
>>> should be made monthly?
>>>
>>> -Aris
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:25 PM Quazie  wrote:
>>>
 I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or
 librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a
 reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general
 summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will
 the ability as a secondary rule for players to request some assistance from
 this officer given they should be more aware than others - it'll be some
 parts of each, not all of each.
 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:22 Aris Merchant <
 thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link
> to resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems
> unnecessary. It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job
> description anyway.
>
> -Aris
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:
>
>> That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
>>> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>>>
>>> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
>>> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Publius Scribonius Scholasticus]

Well, I am not sure that we need the Archivist to be writing about history
because that is one of the reasons which you could receive a degree for.


Publius Scribonius Scholasticus

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:35 AM, Quazie  wrote:

> That's a great name - and monthly was a time frame I was looking at - I
> might make it a switch actually that can be flipped without some objection
> - if we get into an active period again it might be nice to easily switch
> the type of reporting on a newspaper.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:33 Aris Merchant  gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How about Archivist? Also, may I suggest that newspaper, if it is kept,
>> should be made monthly?
>>
>> -Aris
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:25 PM Quazie  wrote:
>>
>>> I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or
>>> librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a
>>> reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general
>>> summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will
>>> the ability as a secondary rule for players to request some assistance from
>>> this officer given they should be more aware than others - it'll be some
>>> parts of each, not all of each.
>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:22 Aris Merchant >> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link
 to resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems
 unnecessary. It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job
 description anyway.

 -Aris

 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:

> That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
>> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>>
>> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
>> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>>
>>
>>
>>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

That's a great name - and monthly was a time frame I was looking at - I
might make it a switch actually that can be flipped without some objection
- if we get into an active period again it might be nice to easily switch
the type of reporting on a newspaper.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:33 Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How about Archivist? Also, may I suggest that newspaper, if it is kept,
> should be made monthly?
>
> -Aris
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:25 PM Quazie  wrote:
>
>> I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or
>> librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a
>> reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general
>> summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will
>> the ability as a secondary rule for players to request some assistance from
>> this officer given they should be more aware than others - it'll be some
>> parts of each, not all of each.
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:22 Aris Merchant <
>> thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link to
>>> resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems unnecessary.
>>> It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job description
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> -Aris
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:
>>>
 That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.

 On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin 
 wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>
> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>
>
>
>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Aris Merchant]

How about Archivist? Also, may I suggest that newspaper, if it is kept,
should be made monthly?

-Aris

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:25 PM Quazie  wrote:

> I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or
> librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a
> reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general
> summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will
> the ability as a secondary rule for players to request some assistance from
> this officer given they should be more aware than others - it'll be some
> parts of each, not all of each.
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:22 Aris Merchant <
> thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link to
>> resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems unnecessary.
>> It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job description
>> anyway.
>>
>> -Aris
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:
>>
>>> That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin 
>>> wrote:
>>>



 On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
 > [...] The Research Assistant [...]

 I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
 inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or
librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a
reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general
summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will
the ability as a secondary rule for players to request some assistance from
this officer given they should be more aware than others - it'll be some
parts of each, not all of each.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:22 Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link to
> resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems unnecessary.
> It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job description
> anyway.
>
> -Aris
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:
>
>> That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
>>> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>>>
>>> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
>>> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Aris Merchant]

I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link to
resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems unnecessary.
It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job description
anyway.

-Aris
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie  wrote:

> That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
>> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>>
>> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
>> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>>
>>
>>
>>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin  wrote:

>
>
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote:
> > [...] The Research Assistant [...]
>
> I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
> inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.
>
>
>
>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Kerim Aydin]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: 
> [...] The Research Assistant [...]

I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very
inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

A Research Request is defined as a request for information about the
history of Agora.

Once per month, each player MAY submit a Research Request from the Research
Assistant.  The Research Assistant SHALL put a reasonable effort into
completing each Research Request, and SHOULD complete it in a reasonable
amount of time.

[I don't think i love this, and I feel like it could lead to really petty,
and overwhelming requests to the Research Assistant]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:52 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus <
p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> I would support this with an added provision that the Research Assistant
> shall be required to respond to research inquiries in a reasonable amount
> of time.
>
> 
> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Quazie  wrote:
>
>> This directly comes from G,'s linking to old CFJ archives - caselaw and
>> archived materials should be easily accessible to all agorans without too
>> much of a hunt.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:13 PM Quazie  wrote:
>>
>>> The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for
>>> helping interested persons and players research agora.
>>>
>>> The Research Assistant's Monthly Report SHALL include research materials
>>> as noted:
>>>  - A link to the FLR and SLR
>>>  - A link to old CFJs both Old and Very Old
>>>  - Other Miscellaneous agora related archives
>>>
>>> It SHALL also include:
>>>  - A summary of new search materials added to the report
>>>
>>> It MAY also include:
>>>  - A CFJ or Old Rule that relates to the current happenings within Agora.
>>>
>>
>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Publius Scribonius Scholasticus]

I would support this with an added provision that the Research Assistant
shall be required to respond to research inquiries in a reasonable amount
of time.


Publius Scribonius Scholasticus

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Quazie  wrote:

> This directly comes from G,'s linking to old CFJ archives - caselaw and
> archived materials should be easily accessible to all agorans without too
> much of a hunt.
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:13 PM Quazie  wrote:
>
>> The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for
>> helping interested persons and players research agora.
>>
>> The Research Assistant's Monthly Report SHALL include research materials
>> as noted:
>>  - A link to the FLR and SLR
>>  - A link to old CFJs both Old and Very Old
>>  - Other Miscellaneous agora related archives
>>
>> It SHALL also include:
>>  - A summary of new search materials added to the report
>>
>> It MAY also include:
>>  - A CFJ or Old Rule that relates to the current happenings within Agora.
>>
>

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

This directly comes from G,'s linking to old CFJ archives - caselaw and
archived materials should be easily accessible to all agorans without too
much of a hunt.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:13 PM Quazie  wrote:

> The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for helping
> interested persons and players research agora.
>
> The Research Assistant's Monthly Report SHALL include research materials
> as noted:
>  - A link to the FLR and SLR
>  - A link to old CFJs both Old and Very Old
>  - Other Miscellaneous agora related archives
>
> It SHALL also include:
>  - A summary of new search materials added to the report
>
> It MAY also include:
>  - A CFJ or Old Rule that relates to the current happenings within Agora.
>

DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

[Quazie]

The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for helping
interested persons and players research agora.

The Research Assistant's Monthly Report SHALL include research materials as
noted:
 - A link to the FLR and SLR
 - A link to old CFJs both Old and Very Old
 - Other Miscellaneous agora related archives

It SHALL also include:
 - A summary of new search materials added to the report

It MAY also include:
 - A CFJ or Old Rule that relates to the current happenings within Agora.