Archived at https://github.com/AgoraNomic/Reporter/tree/master/weekly_summaries
For the week 2020-01-13..19:
# Voting
* Voting continues on Proposals 8280-8286. G. pleads for Rule 2597
("Line-item Veto") to not be repealed yet.
# Rules questions
* Debate continues on CFJ 3792, which is about whether whether the
Promoter published a valid report. The arguments are generally about
whether officers can fulfill their duties by publishing reports
specifying past dates, but G. judges the CFJ FALSE on a technicality.
In further discussion, Alexis asks for the judgement to be
reconsidered. Threads: "[Arbitor] CFJ 3792 Assigned to G.", "CFJ 3792
Judgement".
* Jason Cobb judges CFJ 3791, which is about whether a contract was
successfully created, TRUE.
* Alexis starts a discussion of whether conditional actions lik "If
Rance's Master is set to me, I cause Rance to transfer all of eir
liquid assets to Jason Cobb." work. This is branched from discussion
of the January zombie auction.
* twg argues the precedent in CFJ 1215 saying they don't work
shouldn't apply here.
* Aris publishes a whimsical judgement of CFJs 3784 and 3785, about
what a proposal that purports to transfer coins from itself does.
There follows some debate about the judgement, with G. arguing that
the judgment may be wrong. Thread: "CFJs 3784, 3785, and 3785.5
judged FALSE".
* On messages becoming public due to being forwarded to a public forum:
* G. judges CFJ 3790 FALSE: Jason Cobb did not cause the Officeholder
of Comptrollor to be flipped by forwarding the H. ADoP's earlier
message to a public forum.
* Falsifian attempts to Declare Apathy by forwarding eir own earlier
message declaring intent, but e messes up the intent wording
(saying "with notice" rather than "without objection"). Falsifian
withdraws eir CFJ about it, and Aris submits a replacement CFJ.
Thread: "Apathy".
* G. calls a CFJ about whether e can earn Glitter for a ribbon-earning
that is not their most recent.
# Culture
* Aris proposes to take on the task of suggesting recipients for
back-awarding of Silver Quills for 2016, 2017 and 2018. Thread:
"Back-Awarding of Silver Quills".
# High-level rule change discussions
* Alexis outlines a possible direction for the changing the rules that
would "move us towards a more pragmatic model of law". Thread:
"Proto-proto: Findings of Law & Fact".
* twg restarts discussion on Trigon's "Interesting Chambers" proposal
by circulating an updated version. Thread: "Proto: Interesting
Chambers v3". E later submits it in the thread "Proposal dump".
* Aris circulates an updated plan for "Administrative Law" including
drafts of related proposals (thread: "[Drafts] Administrative Law"),
then submits them along some others in the thread "Dumping More
Proposals".
# Smaller proposals and other rule change discussions
* G. proposes a use for karma. Others critique the proposal. Thread:
"[proposal] kamikaze".
* Gaelan sends a proto proposal that would give officers more voting
power on proposals affecting rules that relate to them. Others
critique the proposal. Thread: "Proto: Bureaucratic Power".
* G. proposes to increase the maximum voting strength. There has been
discussion on this topic recently, including this week in the
"[proposal] kamikaze" thread.
* Alexis proposes to make officers repsonsible for figuring out when
players earn rewards. Thread: "Straw poll: officers responsible for
rewards?".
* In response, twg protos a couple of proposals along these lines. E
publicly "warrents" that e did not intentionally include loopholes.
* E calls a CFJ about whether eir warranty constitutes a pledge
about the future, but withdraws it after Jason Cobb points out e
already tried similar CFJ in the past (CFJ 3748).
* A thread of the discussion turns to winning the game by flagrant
rule violations.
* G. recounts part of the story of how the Rule 2029, "Town
Fountain", got passed, involving the power held by the Assessor.
* Gaelan volunteers to take the Notary office that would be added by
Aris's "Contract Patency" proposal.
* Jason Cobb sends a proto-proposal fixing a possible bug in Rule 2160
("Deputisation"), leading to discussion about deputisation. Thread:
"[Proto] Deputisation timeliness".
* Alexis sends a proto-proposal adding a notion of "default votes",
making zombies endorse their masters by default, and removing zombies
from quorum calculations. Thread: "[Proto] Zombie voting package".
* Alexis sends some proto-proposals and says e doesn't intend to submit
them, and pledges to reward players whose proposals helped em receive
a Lime ribbon.
* twg submits several proposals in the thread "Proposal dump".
* Aris promises that the proposals e has submitted are not part of a
scam, and encourages twg, who has also submitted many proposals, to
do the same. Thread: "Warranty".
# Offices
* G. points eir finger at the current Tailor, Nch, and promises eir
vote to anyone who deputises to publish a Tailor's report. twg
obliges by deputising as Tailor, and initiates an election. Threads:
"finger-point", "[Deputy Tailor] Ribbon Bar", "Tailor Election".
* The Referee levies a fine of 2 blots on Nch, making Nch the only
person with blots.
* Alexis makes a bid for Referee, saying in eir election speech that e
will use Summary Judgement capriciously and arbitrarily but not
against anyone who votes for em. Thread: "Referee Election".
* Eir attempt to initiate the election fails (e misremembered the
rules) but the current Referee, twg, initiates the election for em
and joins the race, giving a contrasting election speech.
* G. initiates an election for Herald, hoping to find someone else to
take on the work. Alexis becomes a candidate. Thread: "Herald
Election".
# January Zombie Auction
* The January zombie auction ends.
* Jason Cobb points out that a bid by Gaelan was not sent to the
public forum, so e beats Gaelan in the auction and the Registrar's
end-of-auction email is erroneous. The Registrar sends an updated
announcement.
* Gaelan calls a CFJ asking whether zombie auctions actually work.
Thread: "[Registrar] End of January zombie auction" with various
prefixes added to the subject line.
* G. re-surfaces a thread from June 2019 in which the issue was
discussed before. Thread: "Zombie auction fix".
* This leads to some discussion of cases where the rules state that
something CAN be done, but do not give a mechanism, whether
by-announcement should be the default mechanism, and the history of
regulated actions.
# Miscellaneous
* Aris asks about thesis expectations. Alexis suggests looking at past
examples, and G. (technically on Monday January 20, so I'm stretching
the scope of this document by a few minutes) posts some old criteria
from 2003. Thread: "Theses in the Agoran Context: A Query".
- Falsifian
