On 20 October 2016 at 19:01, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Alexis Hunt wrote: > > - One set of election rules is too much centralized power. > > We should divide Agora into multiple segments, each with their own > > distinct rules for election, which are all combined together at the > > end to pick the officers. > > We actually tried this one once or twice. (Players organized into > Parties, parties do internal voting and results are applied to Agoran > vote). Need a bigger player-base though. > > I prefer to go for ancient non-democratic systems for our topical > commentary. Around the time Francis was picked, we had some rules > for becoming a Pope... > > Ha, what a coincidence! On a whim, I went digging through my old emails just the other day, after some sort of realisation along the lines of "huh, I've really changed how and on what channels I communicate over the last ten years – what did my inbox look like around 2009?" Turns out it was mostly agora, and I plucked out this gem of a paragraph to show to a friend who's expressed interest in nomic but never played emself: "I support. In any event, the judge did not consider every possible reason Tiger could be a pope (including the gratuitous arguments regarding Discordian Popeiness), so a judgment of UNDETERMINED should be considered." But that was, of course, during a resurgence of one of the pope rules (but, do note, not during a period of papal rule), due to a rule of anarchy at the time. The end result of the court case was that there was no pope :( (Discordian Popeiness did not count for anything.) -Tiger
