Speaking of the ADoP, I kind of feel like it's my responsibility to figure out how to get people into these offices, and how to resolve these elections. That's actually more of a responsibility that you might think, and I'm just not feeling up to it right now. I've been somewhat sick over the last week or so, and I lost a lot of interest in Agora over the holidays when it was so inactive. I feel a bit more interested in it now, but I still just don't want to do anything, at least not anything with offices. But the ADoP is all about offices, and it's also responsible for more than just publishing reports. I'm very close to pushing that button and resigning from ADoP, but I feel that if I do that, I'll throw Agora into even more of a state of anarchy than it already is, and people are going to have to deputize like crazy. I could appoint someone else in my spot, but they may not want the job and all the weight they might get immediately.
I think someone needs to start a thread where we get our stuff together, and we all collaborate on figuring out a solution to this problem we're in. Surely it can't be that hard if we're all on the same page. We just need to figure out who is going to deputize for what, and take it from there. The holidays have thrown everyone off, and so we need some way of bringing everyone back together, and getting the ball that is Agora rolling again. that took me a while to type On 1/10/2018 5:45 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
THE WEEKLY SALPINX (Reportor's Weekly Report for 10-Jan-2018) LEADERSHIP CRISIS DEEPENS With the holidays over, Agorans are wondering: where are our key Officers? The fundamental economic reports have not been seen in a month; moreover, the critical vacancies of Arbitor, Referee, and Assessor are stuck in election limbo due to the required role of the Assessor in resolving elections. The question to ask here: where is the leadership of the Prime Minister? While we've had a discussion- thread reminder from the top office, direct leadership in tackling this crisis has been lacking. As the PM was also the architect of the policy that placed *all* voting resolution on the Assessor, it's time to wonder: Should the ADoP be re-authorized to resolve elections? Moreover, should that great PM power come with PM responsibility? Do we need a change at the top? HISTORICAL ANALYSIS Many sub-games in Agora have ended when they've relied on a single, hard-working recordkeepor to maintain state, and the recordkeepor has stepped away or lost interest. (As an example, right now, shinies are in danger). Moreover, several Nomics have died when key "officers" have left - technically I'm still waiting for the Speaker of Claustronomic - an Agoran offshoot - to resolve Round 3 (since it started in 2005). For Agora as a whole, a couple systems have been used to guard against collapse that happens when a key person abandons the game. Up until ~2006, this was done through a complex line of succession. The Speaker was at the top. E was absolutely forbidden from deregistration, the one exception to "you can always deregister" rule. Moveover, there was a second office - the Speaker-elect (an elected office as the name suggests), whose sole role was to step into the Speaker role when when it was vacated. Further, the Speaker was not just a perk but a responsibility. If any office was vacant, the Speaker was required to perform those duties (this gave the Speaker an incentive to encourage candidates for office!). Finally, if both the Speaker and Speaker-elect became vacant, there was a full line of succession that included all the offices:Rule 786/13 Order of Succession for Speaker-Elect [excerpt] When the Office of Speaker-Elect is to be filled according to the Order of Succession, that order is defined to be: the Promotor the Registrar the Rulekeepor the Assessor the Justiciar the Clerk of the Courts all Officers in order of most recent registration all Active Players in order of most recent registrationThis system required, ultimately, that there be at least one player at all times to bootstrap things, which is why, platonically, there always had to be a route to determining the speaker (who platonically could not deregister). The deputisation system replace that. Now, anyone can deputise to bootstrap an office (or even the game if there are ever no players). This makes it generally easier to run - however the one missing piece is responsibility - there's no "buck stops here" and the PM and/or Speaker aren't required to take on offices to keep things running. Has this been a source of some of the "dead times" that have been experienced since 2006? IN OTHER NEWS RURAL LOBBY PROTECTS FARM SUBSIDIES DESPITE UTTER LACK OF PRODUCTION Despite a complete lack of farm production since its inception in August, Agora continues to subsidize the rural communities through representation in its ruleset and officer rewards, while fixed and very high centralized pricing prevents crops from actually being developed. At least 2 attempts to repeal these rules have failed to do so despite being adopted, for technical reasons, and another comprehensive reform is undergoing continual re-drafting. Normal process, or are proposal authors taking bribes from the rural special interests?
