Correction: all players, not Agora.
-Aris
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Aris Merchant
<thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I'm distributing tomorrow (for clarity, between 12 and 24 hours
> from now), and it would simplify my operations somewhat if you could
> pend this before then.
>
> Second, I'm concerned about the way you're handling organizations (and
> thus contracts). It seems likely to disproportionately and unfairly
> impact communal service organizations. I would suggest using the
> principle of "effective control", which I invented for my Card Reform
> and Expansion proposal. The idea is that if someone controls money, it
> should be counted as theirs, but if they don't it shouldn't. In this
> case it would mean that half of all money that an
> organization/contract owns that a person controls is transferred to
> Agora. The phrasing "effective control" is vague enough that judges
> can work out the details in accordance with fairness and common sense.
> For instance, if a person is the sole member of an organization and
> can unilaterally amend it, e probably controls its money even if its
> charter doesn't say so. I believe that this creates a system that is
> fairer while maintaining adaptability. For the sake of full
> disclosure, I'm likely to vote at least PRESENT anyway, mostly because
> I disagree with fear as mechanism of encouraging spending (effective,
> but not very friendly). I do commend you for the amount of thinking
> that has obviously gone into this.
>
> -Aris
>
> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 8:52 PM, Gaelan Steele <gael...@icloud.com> wrote:
>> I’ve learned my lesson about insta-pending. I create this proposal
>> “Proletarian Rerevolution” with AI 1 by Gaelan and o: {{{
>>
>> Create a Power 1 rule titled “The Hot Potato” (or amend it, if it already
>> exists) with the following text: {{
>>
>> For the purposes of this rule, the Wealth of a player may be calculated by
>> taking their shiny balance, then, for each organization they are a member
>> of, adding the shiny balance of that organization divided by that
>> organization’s member count, rounded down.
>>
>> The player with the largest Wealth value is said to have the Hot Potato.
>>
>>
>> Combustibility is defined as (x/500)*(y/30) where x is the difference
>> between the lowest and highest player Wealth values, and y is the number of
>> days in the past 30 days in which the current holder of the Hot Potato has
>> held the Hot Potato at any point in the day. If Combustibility would be
>> greater than 1 according to the above formula, it is instead defined as 1.
>>
>>
>> The Pyromaniac is an office.
>>
>>
>> Once per day, the Pyromaniac SHALL randomly select whether or not Combustion
>> occurs, such that the probability of Combustion occurring is equal to the
>> current Combustibility. If Combustion occurs, the Pyromaniac SHALL announce
>> this publicly. The Pyromaniac NEED NOT announce that Combustion has not
>> occurred. When Combustion occurs, half of the current Hot Potato holder’s
>> shinies are evenly distributed among the remaining players, with players
>> with lower wealth receiving more shinies if even division is not possible.
>> Then, for each organization the Combusted player is a member of, a portion
>> of the organization’s shiny balance, calculated via the formula 1/(2x) where
>> x is the number of members, is evenly distributed among all players,
>> breaking ties with players with lower wealth receiving more shinies if even
>> division is not possible.
>>
>> If the rules define a concept known a as a Contract, any player may cause
>> this rule to amend itself by announcement, replacing the word “organization”
>> with “contract” and “member” with “party,” then removing this paragraph. If
>> the current date is after November 2017, any player may cause this rule to
>> amend itself by removing this paragraph.
>>
>> }}
>> Make Gaelan the Pyromaniac.
>>
>> }}}
>>
>> Gaelan
