2009/6/3 Sean Hunt <ride...@gmail.com>:
> Benjamin Caplan wrote:
>> Sean Hunt wrote:
>>> Benjamin Caplan wrote:
>>>> Sean Hunt wrote:
>>>>> Benjamin Caplan wrote:
>>>>>> I intend, without Objection, to add ora...@cs.indiana.edu as a send-only
>>>>>> address to agora-busin...@agoranomic.org.
>>>>> What effect does this have, exactly?
>>>> The idea is that supplicants would call CFJs.
>>> No, I mean adding it as a send-only address.
>> A person (probably a player) sends an askme to the Oracle with the from:
>> field manually set to a-b. Shortly afterward, an oracular question gets
>> sent to the business forum, thus creating a CFJ.
> Wouldn't that have to be a full rule to actually make it a CFJ?
>
> Also, Agora couldn't reply to such a CFJ in time before the Oracle got
> another answer. While I like the concept, and would definitely support
> making it an Office with the official duty of sending an askme every
> week, we'd need a quicker turnaround.
>
> Actually, proto:
> {{{
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {The Disciple}
> {{
> The Disciple is an office. The Disciple is the liason between Agora and
> the Internet Oracle.
>
> Submitting a message to the Internet Oracle is sending a message to
> ora...@cs.indiana.edu such that the reply will come to a Public Forum.
> It is ILLEGAL to submit a message to the Internet Oracle except as
> directed or allowed by the rules. If a rule directs a player to submit a
> message to the Internet Oracle and it is at that time impossible to
> cause the reply to come to a Public Forum, e CAN, instead, have the
> message sent without causing the reply to come to a Public Forum, and
> then paste the content of the reply in a public message.
>
> Every 4 days, The Disciple SHALL submit a message to the Internet Oracle
> with the work "askme" in its subject.
> }}
>
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {Oracularities}
> {{
> A public message sent from ora...@cs.indiana.edu is an Oracularity.
>
> A player CAN, with 2 support, publish a reply to an Oracularity,
> provided no reply has already been published for that Oracularity. Such
> a reply SHOULD be a creative, humourous answer written from the Oracle's
> perspective, and SHOULD follow conventions of the Oracle (including but
> not limited to zotting supplicants who fail to grovel or ask the
> woodchuck question, answering the question in a highly roundabout
> manner, and demanding some tribute).
>
> Within 48 hours of a reply being published to an Oracularity, the
> Disciple SHALL submit a message to the Internet Oracle. The subject of
> this message must include the word "answer" and the number found in that
> Oracularity's subject line, and the text must be exactly the published
> reply.
> }}
>
> Flip the Interest Index of the Disciple to 2, to account for the
> office's much stronger timing requirements.
>
> Add a new power-1 rule, entitled {Win by Enlightenment}
> {{
> Upon a Win Announcement that the text of an Oracularity and the
> corresponding reply published by an Agoran were published in an Internet
> Oracularities Digest (published to rec.humor.oracle and
> http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/) within the last month, the player
> who published that reply satisfies the Winning Condition of Enlightenment.
> }}
> }}}
>
>
> Completely Unrelated Proto:
> {{
> Within one month of the initiation of an inquiry case with a judgment of
> ZOT had by its question on veracity, being that case's initiator is a
> Losing Condition.
> }}
>
Wouldn't this be better off as some kind of FRC-style contest?-- -Tiger
