Thank you, oh powerful and benevolent dictator.
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Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I transfer 10 Shinies to Agora. (The victory from this scam seems like
> enough of a reward without trying to cheat on pending costs at the same
> time.)
>
> I submit the following proposal, "Close Recent Loopholes", AI 3:
> {{{{
> Amend rule 683, by replacing the last paragraph with:
> {{{
> A valid ballot is a ballot, correctly submitted, that has not
> been withdrawn. During the voting period of an Agoran decision,
> a player CAN by announcement withdraw (syn. retract) a ballot
> that e submitted on that decision. To "change" one's vote is to
> retract eir previous ballot (if any), then submit a new one.
> }}}
>
> Amend rule 2445 so that it has the following text:
> {{{
> Imminence is a switch, tracked by the Promotor, possessed by
> proposals in the Proposal Pool, whose value is either "pending"
> or "not pending" (default).
>
> Pending List Price is an integer switch, tracked by the Promotor,
> whose default value is 5. At the beginning of every month, the
> Pending List Price is set to the mean of the price paid for each
> proposal pended in the previous month, rounded down. If less
> than 2 proposals were pended in the previous month, the Pending
> List Price is set to its default.
>
> Any player CAN pay Agora a specified amount, which is no less
> than the Pending List Price, to flip a proposal's imminence
> to "pending" by announcement. If the specified amount is less
> than the Pending List Price, then the attempt to pay is
> INEFFECTIVE, and the proposal's imminence is not flipped.
> }}}
>
> Amend the rule created during the resolution of proposal 7850 by
> deleting all paragraphs that contain the word "imminence", and then
> inserting the following paragraphs at the end:
> {{{
> ais523 CAN cause a specified player to earn a Black Ribbon by
> announcement.
>
> ais523 CAN cause this rule to repeal itself by announcement.
> }}}
> [I already have my Black Ribbon, so I forgot that I might potentially
> need to award them to co-conspirators. Also, give me a way to clean up
> the rule when I'm done giving out rewards. As a reminder to people who
> aren't used to the Ribbon system, the idea of Black Ribbons is that
> they can only be gained via proposal or via scam, and it's standard to
> give a Black Ribbon to all the participants in a scam if it's capable
> of altering the gamestate enough to give Ribbons.]
>
> Then retitle that rule to "Scam Reward".
> }}}}
>
> I submit the following proposal, "Close Ancient Loopholes", AI 3:
> {{{{
> Amend rule 879 so that it has the following text:
> {{{
> Each Agoran Decision has a quorum. This is a number set when the
> decision is created, and thereafter cannot be changed. When a
> person initiates an Agoran Decision, that person SHALL state the
> quorum of that decision. However, incorrectly stating the quorum
> of a decision does not invalidate the initiation, nor does it
> actually change the quorum of the decision.
>
> The quorum that an Agoran Decision gains as it is created can be
> defined by other rules of power 2 or greater. If no other rule
> defines the quorum of an Agoran Decision, the quorum for that
> decision is equal to the number of players who voted on the
> Agoran Decision to adopt a proposal that had been most recently
> resolved at the time of that decision's initiation, minus 2.
>
> As an exception to the previous paragraph, the quorum of an
> Agoran Decision can never be less than 2. If the rules would
> attempt to set the quorum of an Agoran Decision to less than 2,
> it is set to 2 instead.
> }}}
>
> Amend rule 955 by replacing the text:
> {{{
> - If there is more than one option, and the number of valid
> ballots is less than quorum, the outcome is instead FAILED
> QUORUM.
> }}}
> with:
> {{{
> - If there is more than one option, and the number of valid
> ballots is less than the quorum of that decision, the outcome
> is instead FAILED QUORUM.
> }}}
> }}}}
>
> I pend these two proposals using the mechanism in the rule "Reward and
> Delay".
>
> --
> ais523
