On 9/7/25 21:08, Mischief via agora-business wrote:
> On 9/7/25 8:37 PM, Janet Cobb via agora-official wrote:
>> THE AGORA NOMIC CODE OF REGULATIONS
>> (PART OF THE RULEKEEPOR'S MONTHLY REPORT)
>>
>> These ACORNs are also online at http://agoranomic.org/ruleset/
>>
>> Date of this ACORN: 8 Sep 2025
>>
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>>
>> Table of Contents:
>>
>> Administrative Regulations
>> * Regulation AA0: Obligations on the Arbitor
>> * Regulation AA1: Public exercise of judiciary powers
>> * Regulation AA2: Recommendations for players
>> Subgame Ideas Tournament
>> * Regulation FT1: Suggesting Pre-Proposals
>> * Regulation FT2: Role of the Gamemaster
>> * Regulation FT3: Winning the Tournament
>> * Regulation FT4: General Guidelines
>>
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> CoE: this doesn't include the Collar's regulations
>
> Actual actions:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14700.html
>
> Intents with all the details:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14687.html
>
I respond to the above-quoted CoE (from Mischief on the most recently
published ACORN) by initiating a call for judgement (an inquiry case) as
follows:
I CFJ: "There exists a Collar's Administrative Regulation."
Arguments:
{
Rule 2124 authorizes a to perform a tabled action "by announcement" if
an intent meeting certain criteria has been tabled. I'm not disputing
that such intents existed (created at [0]). One could argue that to
"adopt" is not a synonym of to "enact" (as required by Rule 2630), but I
think it meets even the heightened standards for tabling an intent.
My question here is whether the attempt to actually enact the
regulations, available at [1], meets the standard for the "by
announcement" action of enacting Administrative Regulations. For it to
do so, it must "in a single public message, specify[] the action and
set[] forth intent to perform that action by sending that message, doing
both clearly and unambiguously". Per Rule 2493, regulations are
"textual" entities, so specifying the text of the regulation must be
part of the action of enacting it. The attempt to actually enact the
regulations might fails because it does not specify the action and set
forth intent to perform it "in a single public message", regardless of
it references parts of a prior message that don't actually specify
required parameters. (It might also fail to "specify" the action at all,
regardless of the "in a single public message" clause.)
}
Evidence:
{
[0]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2025-August/018640.html
[1]:
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2025-August/018640.html
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Rule 1728/46 (Power=3)
Tabled Actions
An action is a Tabled Action if the Rules purport to authorize its
performance via one of the following methods:
* With N Support, where N is a positive integer.
* Without N Objections, where N is a positive integer.
* With N Agoran Consent, where N is a positive integer multiple of
0.1.
* With T notice, where T is a time period.
The parameters N and T, if omitted, default to 1 and 4 days,
respectively (e.g. "without objection" means N=1). If a rule
defines N as less than 1, it is instead treated as 1.
A person, acting as emself, CAN by announcement table an intent
(syn. "intend") to perform a tabled action, clearly,
conspicuously, explicitly, and without obfuscation specifying the
action, the method (including non-default parameter values), and,
optionally, conditions.
A person is the sponsor of such an intent if e tabled it, or if e
is authorized to perform its action due to holding a rule-defined
position previously held by the person who tabled it.
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Rule 2124/32 (Power=3)
Performing Tabled Actions
For a given tabled intent, a player CAN, unless otherwise
forbidden by the rules or the document enabling the action, act on
eir own behalf, by announcement, to:
* Become a supporter ("support" it), unless e tabled or previously
supported it;
* Become an objector ("object to" it), unless e previously
objected to it;
A supporter/objector to an intent, acting as emself, CAN by
announcement cease to be a supporter/objector ("withdraw"
support/objection) of that intent.
Limiting the ability to support or object to an intent is secured
at the power of the rule enabling that action to be performed.
An intent is ripe if was tabled within the past 14 days, the
Speaker hasn't objected to it in the past 48 hours, and its
conditions, if any, are each clearly and unambiguously met.
An intent is mature if it was tabled at least 4 days ago and
nobody withdrew objections from it in the past 24 hours.
A rule purporting to allow a person to perform a tabled action
allows em to do so by announcement, if, considering only intents
for that action/method combination:
* With N Support: e is a sponsor or supporter of a ripe intent with
at least N supporters.
* Without N Objections: e is a sponsor of a mature ripe intent with
less than N objectors.
* With N Agoran Consent: e is a sponsor or supporter of a mature
ripe intent with supporters greater than N times its objectors
(e SHOULD list supporters and objectors).
* With T notice: e is the sponsor of a ripe intent created at
least T ago.
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Rule 478/42 (Power=3)
Fora
Publicity is a secured forum switch with values Public,
Discussion, and Foreign (default), tracked by the Registrar.
The Registrar CAN change the publicity of a forum without
objection as long as:
1. e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and
2. if the forum is to be made public, the announcement by which
the Registrar makes that forum public is sent to all existing
public fora.
Each player should ensure e can receive messages via each public
forum.
A public message is a message sent via a public forum, or sent to
all players and containing a clear designation of intent to be
public. A rule can also designate that a part of one public
message is considered a public message in its own right. To
"publish" or "announce" something is to send a public message
whose body contains that thing. To do something "publicly" is
to do that thing within a public message.
Where the rules define an action that a person CAN perform "by
announcement", that person performs that action by, in a single
public message, specifying the action and setting forth intent to
perform that action by sending that message, doing both clearly
and unambiguously.
Any action performed by sending a message is performed at the time
date-stamped on that message. Actions in messages (including
sub-messages) are performed in the order they appear in the
message, unless otherwise specified. Allowing actions performed by
sending a message to take place simultaneously must be done
explicitly and is secured at power 2.
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Rule 2630/3 (Power=2.0)
The Administrative State
Each officer CAN, with 1.5 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or repeal
eir own office's Administrative Regulations. If e has won an
election for the office in the past 7 days, e CAN repeal them by
announcement. Administrative Regulations have the following
properties:
1. An officer SHALL NOT violate requirements in eir office's
administrative regulations clearly intended to be punishable as
rules violations in the discharge of eir office.
2. Any player CAN act on behalf of an officer to exercise eir
official powers as authorized by eir office's administrative
regulations.
3. All players SHOULD abide by an officer's administrative
regulations in matters relating to eir area of responsibility.
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Rule 2493/11 (Power=3)
Regulations
A regulation is a textual entity defined as such by a Rule (its
parent rule) and existing solely because that Rule defines its
existence. A regulation has no effect other than those that the
Rules explicitly give it.
A regulation CAN be enacted, amended, and repealed as specified by
its parent rule. Regulations are tracked by the Rulekeepor as part
of eir monthly report in a fashion similar to rules.
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Janet Cobb
Assessor, Rulekeepor
