# Notable events
* G. ratifies the 2019-09-22 Herald's Monthly Report. Thread:
"protective ratification".
* Nch wins the election for Tailor. It is uncontested.
* H. Herald G. announces intent to award an M.N. degree to Jason Cobb,
after a discussion about which degree to award. Threads: "academic
progressions", "Thesis award intent".
* Proposals 8253-8265 are resolved after further votes, except the H.
Assessor finds the decisions on Proposals 8257 and 8259 were not
initiated.
* Gaelan submits some arguments in favour of eir Proposal 8259 in the
discussion thread: "In defense of 8259".
* Error discovered: two proposals were given the same number in the
"full text" section.
* G. alleges e sees an "angle" on the mysterious Proposal 8265, but
eventually votes AGAINST.
* Incumbent G. initiates an election for Prime Minister.
* Voting begins on Proposals 8266-8274.
# Miscellaneous
* Our H. Distributor, omd, enables From: address rewriting on the
mailing lists to fix DMARC issues. E had tried to do it before, but
it didn't work. Thread: "ATTN omd / Distributor".
* There's some discussion on the distribution of Proposal 8265 possibly
being obfuscated. Thread: "[Promotor] Distribution of Proposals
8253-8264".
* omd submits a proposal which extends the self-ratification mechanism
to include statements that aren't explicitly published, cleaning up
Rules 107 and Rule 2034. This branched off from the
obfuscated-prposals discussion. Thread: "two more proposals".
* Baron von Vaderham starts a discussion about timing and keeping track
of the order of events. ais523 relates an interesting
example. Thread: "banzai!".
* Jason Cobb attempts to auction off One Karma. Thread: "Who wants some
Karma?".
* Some discussion of the non-re-use of code when an office changes
hand. Thread: "Proposal: Encouraging Democracy Through Capitalism or
Who Pays Subs Full Wages Anyway".
* Some discussion of making things cost money. Thread: "Proposal:
Encouraging Democracy Through Capitalism or Who Pays Subs Full Wages
Anyway".
* Murphy proposes requiring the author of a proposal to pay a fee
before it is distributed if they want to earn a reward for its
adoption. Thread: "Proposal: Interested proposals".
# Gaelan's prepararations to become Rulekeepor
* Gaelan, intending to become the next Rulekeepor, proposes some new
editorial guidelines. Thread: "List Cleaning".
* Gaelan announces e is consedering working on an automatic proposal
generator. Thread: "DIS: Proto: review period". (The thread started
with a proposal to add a notice period for proposals.)
* Gaelan calls and omd judges CFJs 3777-8 asking for clarification
about whitespace changes allowed by R2429 ("Bleach"). Threads: "BUS:
CFJs on bleanch" and "BUS: 3777-8 judgement".
# Bugfixes
* G. proposes to add a missing method to R1367. Thread: "Thesis award
intent".
# Subgames and culture
* Nch publishes a proto for an economic game: The Carny.
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- Falsifian
