ais523, can you provide the list of "interested judges" you were working
from for judicial assignments?
> Incidentally, the huge amounts of disruption in the economy are making
> the game rather unsatisfying to play in their own rights.
proto: honorable and dishonorable scams.
[also file under: responsible bug disclosure].
- A player CAN, with X support/objections, designate a set of actions
performed by a set of players as a "scam". A set of actions SHOULD
only be considered a scam if it uses rules against the general intent
but not the letter of the rules, especially if the actions create
a unevenly beneficial result in favor of the scammers.
- A scam is "honorable" if the actors do not break any rules to
conduct it, if they take a minimally reasonable profit from the
scam, it does not overly break the game beyond what was broken already,
and if they take a minimal time to submit proposals or initiate other
methods to fix the loopholes so that the letter of the rules matches the
broken intent.
- bring back Scamster title.
- Fix proposals SHOULD allow scammers to keep rewards from honorable
scams,
but SHOULD NOT allow scammers to keep profits from dishonorable scams.
[since of course the scam rules can be scammed if they are overly technical,
and you can't logically determine the "intent" of rules, the discretion for
intent, reasonable or minimal would be on judges. This amounts to a mini-equity
system specific to scam repair/restitution].
On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Alex Smith wrote:
> I'm having huge problems with my email system at the moment; I can't send or
> receive at all from the @alumni account, and can't easily send from the
> @yahoo account either (you can probably tell that I'm not using my normal
> client because this message isn't wrapped properly). I decided to wait a few
> days to see if the problems fixed themselves, but they haven't.
>
> In the meantime, Agora's activity blew up, and the combination is making it
> impossible for me to cope; I'm hugely behind as it is, and have lost track of
> what I need to respond to / what I need to do. Additionally, I'm receiving
> messages from the lists out of order, which is making things even harder to
> follow (and PSS's messages nearly always get stuck in the spam filter no
> matter how often I mark them as not being spam, which makes things even
> worse).
>
> If the ability to go inactive were still in the ruleset, I'd use it. As it
> isn't, though, I deregister. Hopefully Agora will be in a better place by the
> time I get back.
>
> Incidentally, the huge amounts of disruption in the economy are making the
> game rather unsatisfying to play in their own rights. It's best if people
> don't scam rules until after they've already started working; trying to plan
> out a strategy doesn't really work if the ruleset is radically changed or
> reinterpreted every couple of weeks. Perhaps there could be some sort of way
> to get the economy working as part of a contract, rather than in the rules
> (proto-proto: contracts can be given the ability to pend proposals and award
> wins by proposal, players who aren't participating in any of these "economy
> contracts" can still make AP pends, economy contracts SHOULD consider making
> AP pending illegal for their members); that way, we could have multiple
> competing economies and people could choose the one that worked best.
>
> (P.S. I'm strongly opposed to the idea of the Fearmongor. I didn't much like
> it previous times it was here, and that was in rulesets which were already
> fairly established. Removing fledgling mechanics while we're still trying to
> rebuild just sounds like a way to ensure that we never build anything.)
>
