Reminder that I am still pledged to vote AGAINST anything that adds words
to the rules
I vote as follows. I also act on Tarhalindur's behalf to vote as follows.
8196 Jason Cobb, Falsifian 1.7 Perfecting pledges (v1.2)
AGAINST
8197 G. none no power is all powerful
AGAINST
8198 Jason Cobb 1.0 Be gone, foul demon!
AGAINST, the ritual is fun.
8199 Jason Cobb 3.0 Fixing instant runoff
With regret, AGAINST due to my pledge
8200 Aris, G. 3.0 Sane AI Defaulting
With regret, AGAINST due to my pledge
8201 Aris 3.0 Just Make Them Write It Out
FOR
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 11:56 AM Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran
> Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal
> pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the
> quorum is 7, the voting method is AI-majority, and the valid
> options are FOR and AGAINST (PRESENT is also a valid vote, as are
> conditional votes).
>
> ID Author(s) AI Title
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 8196 Jason Cobb, Falsifian 1.7 Perfecting pledges (v1.2)
> 8197 G. none no power is all powerful
> 8198 Jason Cobb 1.0 Be gone, foul demon!
> 8199 Jason Cobb 3.0 Fixing instant runoff
> 8200 Aris, G. 3.0 Sane AI Defaulting
> 8201 Aris 3.0 Just Make Them Write It Out
>
>
> The proposal pool is currently empty.
>
> The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below.
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8196
> Title: Perfecting pledges (v1.2)
> Adoption index: 1.7
> Author: Jason Cobb
> Co-authors: Falsifian
>
>
> [Comment: This clarifies the wording to explicitly use both the time
> window and penalty specified in the Oath. This also specifies that
> pledges can only be violated once.]
>
> Amend the first paragraph of Rule 2450 ("Pledges") to read:
>
> If a Player makes a clear public pledge (syn. Oath) to perform (or
> refrain from performing) certain actions, then breaking the pledge
> within the pledge's time window is the Class N crime of
> Oathbreaking. If the pledge specifically states that the pledge is
> under penalty of a Class A crime, where A is an integer not less
> than 1, then N is A; otherwise, N is 2. If the pledge specifically
> states that it operates only for a certain time window, and if that
> time window is prospective and not retrospective, then it operates
> only for that time window; otherwise, the pledge operates for 60
> days. It is impossible to commit the crime of Oathbreaking multiple
> times for a single pledge; breaking a single pledge multiple times
> constitutes a single crime.
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8197
> Title: no power is all powerful
> Adoption index: none
> Author: G.
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Create the following Rule, "Supreme Power", Power=4:
>
> G. CAN make arbitrary changes to the gamestate by announcement.
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8198
> Title: Be gone, foul demon!
> Adoption index: 1.0
> Author: Jason Cobb
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Repeal Rule 2596 ("The Ritual").
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8199
> Title: Fixing instant runoff
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Jason Cobb
> Co-authors:
>
>
> Amend item 3 of the only list of Rule 2528 ("Voting Methods") to read:
>
> 3. For an instant runoff decision, non-empty ordered lists for which
> each element is a valid option.
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8200
> Title: Sane AI Defaulting
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Aris
> Co-authors: G.
>
>
> Amend Rule 1950 (Decisions with Adoption Indices) by replacing:
> Adoption index is an untracked switch possessed by Agoran
> decisions and proposals, whose value is either "none" (default) or
> an integral multiple of 0.1 from 1.0 to 9.9.
> with:
> Adoption index (AI) is an untracked switch possessed by Agoran
> decisions and proposals. For decisions, the possible values are
> "none" (default) or integral multiples of 0.1 from 1.0 to 9.9.
> For proposals, the possible values are integral multiples of 0.1
> from 1.0 to 9.9 (default 1.0).
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ID: 8201
> Title: Just Make Them Write It Out
> Adoption index: 3.0
> Author: Aris
> Co-authors:
>
>
> [It's terribly confusing for everyone to leave out a proposal title.
> Leaving
> out AI only works if it's 1.0 anyway, and confuses me every time I see it.
> I usually spend like a solid minute checking that I haven't missed
> something
> as Promotor and that the proposal is effective at that power as a player.
> Just making these fields mandatory would save everyone so much trouble and
> be only marginally more work for authors.]
>
> Amend Rule 2350, "Proposals", by changing the first paragraph, including
> the following list, to read in full:
>
> A proposal is an entity consisting of a body of text and
> other attributes. A player CAN create a proposal by announcement,
> specifying its text, an associated title, and a valid adoption index, and
> optionally specifying a list of co-authors (who must be persons other
> than the author).
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>
--
>From R. Lee
