Re: DIS: [Proto-Contract] LoAFER revision 3

[Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion]

> On Jun 3, 2020, at 18:48, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion 
> <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 
> I have another LoAFER. This one includes all the feedback I received today 
> and a method of changing the contract that's maybe a bit overengineered. Let 
> me know what you think. If all goes well, I'll actually create this contract 
> before the week is over.
> 
> --
> 
> League of Agorans Facilitating Effective Recordkeeping
> 
> === SECTION 1: THE DUTIES OF PARTIES TO THIS CONTRACT ===
> 
> Parties to this contract should attempt to help the officers of Agora in
> their official duties by following the guidelines of this contract,
> which are enumerated below:
> 
> 1. Signaling: the act of placing in the subject text of a message to the
>   effect of "[attn {Office}]" when actions taken in the message pertain
>   directly to the mentioned office's duties or "[{Action}]" when
>   rule-defined actions are taken that pertains to an officer's duties.
> 
>   Parties to this contract should signal their own messages. They
>   should also, if a message that should be signaled lacks signaling,
>   reply to that message, signaling their own message and stating that
>   the quoted message contains actions that should be signaled.
> 

I’m not sure how I feel about this clause. I apologize for not raising this at 
an earlier draft, but I wonder whether this will actually help or just serve to 
make the mailing list busier. I think if it becomes near universal, this will 
be good because the collective impact will be minimally busying  and will allow 
everyone to read fewer messages if they don’t want to; otherwise, I think it 
will just crowd the mailing list.

>   A list of actions that should be so signaled and the appropriate
>   signals is included below, sorted by which office they are most
>   pertinent to the duties of. If the specified action signal is already
>   included in the subject of the message, players should signal the
>   office instead.
> 

I’m confused by this. This seems to imply that both the action and the office 
should be signaled.

>   * ADoP
>     * Initiation of, voting on, or declaring the winner of an election:
>       [Election]
> 
>   * Arbitor
>     * Calling and judging of CFJs: [CFJ]
>     * Intendion to file and filing Motions to Reconsider: [Motion]
>     * Intendion to enter and entering a judgement into Moot: [Moot]
>     * Recusing oneself from a CFJ: [Recusal]
> 
>   * Assessor
>     * Casting a vote on a Proposal (if not in response to the message
>       in which the Proposal was distributed): [Voting]
> 
>   * Herald
>     * Performing Any action resulting in winning the game: [Victory]
>     * Notices of Honour: [Notice of Honour] or [NoH]
>     * Submission of a Thesis for peer-review: [Thesis]
>     * Suggestions for or intentions to award patent titles: [Patent
>       Title]
> 
>   * Notary
>     * Creation and destruction of pledges: [Pledge]
>     * Creation and destruction of contracts: [Contract]
>     * Any action defined or permitted by a contract: either that
>       contract's full name or an easily identifiable part of that
>       contract's name that cannot be confused with that of another
>       existing contract.
> 
>   * Promotor
>     * Submission and withdrawal of Proposals and intentions to flip the
>       class of a proposal: [Proposal]
> 
>   * Referee
>     * Pointing one's finger: [Finger Pointing] or [Pointing]
>     * Submitting a CFJ to the Referee: signal Referee
> 
>   * Registrar
>     * Deregistration, changing of master switch, and submissions of
>       Cantus Cygnei (if to a public forum): signal Registrar
> 
>   * Rulekeepor
>     * Cleaning: [Cleaning]
> 
>   * Tailor
>     * Awarding a ribbon: [Ribbon]
>     * Awarding oneself glitter: [Glitter]
> 
>   * All Offices
>     * Transfer of an asset tracked by an Office: signal that Office
>     * Situations not enumerated above that require special attention
>       from an Officer: signal that Officer

Maybe also include something for contracts?

> 
> 2. Respecting Drafts: the act of not performing actions that would cause
>   an officer to be required to update already-published drafts.

What about things like the Promotor’s report where back-dating is permissible? 
It seems that this would have little force in that regard.

> 
>   Parties to this contract should respect drafts except when urgent
>   action is required and when the rules require them to take said
>   actions.

I think this should be an or not an and.

> 
> === SECTION 2: AMENDMENT OF THIS CONTRACT ===
> 
> A LoAFER Proposal is a document containing a list of suggested changes
> to this contract or anything defined by it. Players CAN submit a LoAFER
> Proposal by enumerating in a public message its full contents and
> specifying clearly that it is a LoAFER Proposal.
> 
> Parties can vote on a LoAFER Proposal by replying to the message in
> which it was created, specifying either Aye or Nay as their vote.
> 
> Any party to this contract CAN, by announcement, pass a LoAFER Proposal
> if:
> 
> A. the number of Aye votes on that LoAFER Proposal exceeds floor(1+P/2),
>   where P is the number of parties to this contract; OR
> B. the number of Aye votes is greater than the number of Nay votes, and
>   the LoAFER proposal in question was submitted at least 96 hours
>   before.
> 
> Any party to this contract CAN, by announcement, fail a LoAFER Proposal
> if the number of Nay votes is equal to or greater than the number of Aye
> votes and the LoAFER Proposal was submitted at least 96 hours ago.
> 
> When a LoAFER Proposal is passed, all the changes specified therein are
> put into effect, then it is destroyed. When a LoAFER Proposal is failed,
> it is destroyed.
> 
> -- 
> Trigon