PROMOTOR'S REPORT AS OF RIGHT NOW
I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating a referendum on it,
and removing it from the proposal pool. For this decision, the vote collector
is the Assessor, the quorum is 8, 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
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8459* Jason, [1] 3.0 Talismans
8460* G., ais523 3.0 UV-G Sunblock
8461l R. Lee, Aris 2.0 Redoing Adopted Proposals
8462* Jason, Falsifian 3.0 Fee-based methods
8463* Jason 3.0 Future-proofing black ribbons
8464j R. Lee 1.0 You can certify, but you can't win ever!
8465j Jason, P.S.S. 1.0 Public defense
8466l ATMunn 1.0 the simple option
8467e Jason, Trigon 2.0 Talismans auction patch
8468* Jason, nch, G. 3.0 Decision resolution patch
8469f Aris, [1] 2.0 Bureaucratic Reengineering
8470l nch, G., Trigon 1.0 Sponsored Proposals
8471j R. Lee, Aris 1.7 Only the PM can be arbitrary!
8472p Aris 2.0 Welcoming Back Outlaws, etc.
The proposal pool contains the following proposals:
Author(s) AI Title
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G. 3.0 no backdating needed
omd, nch 1.0 Reset deadlines when resetting the economy
Falsifian, G. 1.0 Contract charities
Murphy 1.7 Decriminalization
Murphy, G. 1.0 Generalized card auctions
omd 1.0 Stop disincentivizing bugfixes
[1] nch, Falsifian
[2] Alexis, Falsifian, nch, G.
Legend: <ID>* : Democratic proposal.
<ID># : Ordinary proposal, unset chamber.
<ID>e : Economy ministry proposal.
<ID>f : Efficiency ministry proposal.
<ID>j : Justice ministry proposal.
<ID>l : Legislation ministry proposal.
<ID>p : Participation ministry proposal.
The full text of the aforementioned proposal(s) is included below. Where
the information shown below differs from the information shown above,
the information shown above shall control.
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ID: 8459
Title: Talismans
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: nch, Falsifian, G.
For the purposes of this proposal, a player's prior master is eir master
before this proposal applies any effects.
Amend Rule 2532 to read, in whole:
{
A talisman is an indestructible asset, tracked by the Registrar, and
with ownership wholly restricted to players and Agora. There exists
exactly one talisman for each player, and no other talismans; if one
does not exist for a certain player, it is created in eir posession.
Talismans CAN only be transferred as explicitly specified by the rules.
The creation, destruction, and transfer of talismans is secured.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, a player CAN, by announcement,
transfer the talisman for em to emself. The master of a player is the
entity that possesses the talisman for em. A player who is eir own
master is active; any other player is a zombie (syn. inactive).
The master of a zombie CAN act on behalf of em, except a master CANNOT
act on behalf of a zombie to:
- initiate, support, object to, or perform a dependent action;
- act on behalf of that zombie's zombies;
- bid in a zombie auction;
- enter a contract, pledge, or other type of agreement;
- initiate a Call for Judgement;
- create blots;
- deregister.
If a master causes a zombie to perform an ILLEGAL action, the master
commits the Class 4+N Crime of Masterminding (where N is the class of
the illegal action).
If an active player who was a zombie has not received a Welcome Package
since e most recently ceased being a zombie, and if eir resale value was
less than 2 at any point during eir most recent time as a zombie, then
any player CAN cause em to receive a Welcome Package by announcement.
}
Amend Rule 2574 to read, in whole:
{
Any player CAN, with notice, transfer the talisman for an active player
who has not made a public announcement in the past 60 days to Agora.
Resale value is a secured natural switch for zombies, tracked by the
Registrar, with a default value of 2. Whenever the talisman for a zombie
is transferred to a player, that zombie's resale value is decreased by
1. At the end of a zombie auction, the resale value of every zombie that
is an excess lot in that auction decreases by 1.
The talisman for a zombie with zero resale value CANNOT be transferred
to any player other than that zombie.
Any player CAN, with notice:
- If a zombie has been a zombie for the past 90 days and not had
Agora for a master during any of that time, transfer the talisman for
em to Agora;
- If a player possesses more than one talisman, specify and transfer
one of those talismans to Agora;
- Deregister a zombie whose resale value is zero and whose master is
Agora.
The Registrar SHALL track the date for each zombie on which Agora was
most recently eir master. The Registrar SHALL perform all POSSIBLE
actions in the preceding paragraph in a timely fashion after first
reporting their possibility via the facts in eir weekly report.
}
Amend Rule 1885 to read, in whole:
{
Whenever a zombie has Agora for a master and has a resale value greater
than 0, and when eir talisman is not currently a lot in an auction and
has not been won as an auction lot in the past 14 days, then the
Registrar CAN put that zombie's talisman (along with any other talismans
that fulfill the same conditions) up for auction.
In a timely fashion after the beginning of each month, the Registrar
SHALL either initiate such an auction or, if no talismans meeting these
conditions existed at the beginning of the month, announce that no such
auction is necessary.
For such an auction, each lot consists of the talisman for one zombie,
ordered at the discretion of the Registrar. The Registrar is the
auctioneer, and the minimum bid is 1. The method to be used for this
auction is the zombie auction method if such a method exists, or
otherwise the default auction method.
}
Amend Rule 2575 by replacing the final sentence with
"Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, the talisman for the Distributor
is possessed by emself (and is transferred to em if it ever is not), and
e CANNOT deregister or be deregistered."
For each player who is not eir own prior master, transfer the talisman
for em to eir prior master.
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ID: 8460
Title: UV-G Sunblock
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors: ais523
Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing:
Ultraviolet (U): When a person is awarded the Patent Title
Champion, that person earns an Ultraviolet Ribbon.
with:
Ultraviolet (U): When a person is awarded the Patent Title
Champion, that person earns an Ultraviolet Ribbon, unless
the Champion title was awarded as the result of winning
the game via this rule.
Ultraviolet is hereby removed from G.'s Ribbon Ownership.
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ID: 8461
Title: Redoing Adopted Proposals
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors: Aris
Amend rule 2450 "Pledges" by inserting the following sentence after
the words "where N is 2 unless the pledge explicitly states otherwise":
{It is also Oathbreaking for a player to let a pledge expire without taking
an action e pledged to do in that pledge. }
Amend rule 2531 "Defendant's Rights" by renumbering the list items so that
each item is preceded by a number one above the previous item, except the
first item which is preceded by the number 1.
Amend rule 2557 "Sentencing Guidelines" by replacing "where P is the
minimum of the value of the fine and 3" with "where P is the value of the
fine"
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ID: 8462
Title: Fee-based methods
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Falsifian
Amend Rule 2579 by replacing the first three paragraphs with the following:
{
If the Rules associate payment of a set of assets (hereafter the fee for
the action; syns: cost, price, charge) with performing an action, that
method for performing that action is a fee-based method.
If the fee is a non-integer quantity of a fungible asset, the actual fee
is the next highest integer amount of that asset.
To use a fee-based method, an entity (the Actor) who is otherwise
permitted to perform the action must announce that e is performing the
action; the announcement must specify the correct set of assets for the
fee and indicate intent to pay that fee for the sole purpose of using
that method to perform that action.
}
and replacing the final paragraph with the following:
{
If a fee-based method to perform an action has a fee of no assets, that
action CAN be performed by announcement, but the actor SHOULD announce
that there was a 0 or empty fee.
}
[Inspired by Falsifian pointing out that winning the game is/was a
fee-based action, which might have meant that all attempts to win the
game required a fee. This removes actions being fee-based and instead
makes methods fee-based. This change is also designed to keep all
protections and (hopefully) protect existing precedent for fee-based
actions.]
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ID: 8463
Title: Future-proofing black ribbons
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2438 (Ribbons) by replacing the text "An Instrument CAN, as
part of its effect" with the text "A statute CAN, as part of its effect".
[Legislative intent is that black ribbons are to be awarded for a
dictatorship of any power. The current wording does not reflect this -
it instead permits black ribbons to be awarded for controlling a body of
law. Since part of the idea of bodies of law was to expand them to
regulations and contracts, this is a ticking time-bomb that could result
in giving black ribbons to anybody capable of forming a contract.]
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ID: 8464
Title: You can certify, but you can't win ever!
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:
Amend rule 2626 "Certifiable Patches" to read, in full "Any player
CAN, by announcement, certify a specified proposal, causing it to become
pending. A player SHALL NOT do so. Doing so is the Class-25 crime of
Legislative Misconduct. The amount of Blots given for this crime SHOULD be
significantly reduced in and only in cases of utter and manifest necessity"
Retitle rule 2626 to "Costly Certification"
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ID: 8465
Title: Public defense
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Amend Rule 2617 (Defense Against the Dark Arts) by replacing "Attempting
a forbidden action" with "Publicly attempting a forbidden action".
[This makes joke attempts to a-d or attempts outside of Agora not
punishable.]
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ID: 8466
Title: the simple option
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: ATMunn
Co-authors:
Repeal Rule 2626 "Certifiable Patches".
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ID: 8467
Title: Talismans auction patch
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: Trigon
Amend Rule 1885 by deleting the sentence beginning "The method to be
used for this auction".
[This fixes a specification bug in the talismans proposal, since
auctions are now supposed to have their method determined by the
auctioneer, rather than a rule. If talismans has not been adopted, then
this will have no effect.]
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ID: 8468
Title: Decision resolution patch
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Jason
Co-authors: nch, G.
Amend Rule 208 by replacing the text "To be valid, this announcement
must satisfy the following conditions" with the text "To be EFFECTIVE,
such an attempt must satisfy the following conditions".
[This resolves a potential bug that *may* permit the vote collector of a
decision to resolve it without adhering to the conditions in the
numbered list of Rule 208 based on the precise wording of how the
conditions are enforced. The argument that they don't work is that the
sentence doesn't sufficiently override R208's earlier statement that
"The vote collector for an unresolved Agoran decision CAN resolve it by
announcement, indicating the outcome.", because it describes the
announcement, rather than the attempt itself.
Even if that interpretation is wrong, there is enough of an ambiguity
that it should be resolved. The new wording makes this clearer by
describing the /attempt/ as INEFFECTIVE (clearly overriding the earlier
CAN) rather than the "announcement".]
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ID: 8469
Title: Bureaucratic Reengineering
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Alexis, Falsifian, nch, G.
If there is a rule entitled "The Administrative State" amend it to have the
text labelled "NEW TEXT" below. Otherwise, enact a new power 2.0 rule entitled
"The Administrative State", with the text labelled "NEW TEXT" below.
NEW TEXT: {
Each officer CAN, with 1.5 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or repeal
eir own office's Administrative Regulations. If e has won an election for
the office in the last 7 days, e CAN repeal them by announcement.
Administrative Regulations have the following properties:
1. An officer SHALL NOT violate eir office's administrative regulations in
the discharge of eir office.
2. Any player CAN act on behalf of an officer to exercise eir official
powers as authorized by eir office's administrative regulations.
3. All players SHOULD abide by an officer's administrative regulations
in matters relating to eir area of responsibility.
}
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ID: 8470
Title: Sponsored Proposals
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: nch
Co-authors: G., Trigon
Amend R2622, "Pending Proposals", to read in full:
Pended is an untracked negative boolean proposal switch.
Any player CAN pay 1 Pendant to flip the Pended switch of a
specified proposal to True. If the player did not create the
proposal and is not listed in the list of co-authors of the
proposal, e is added to the list of co-authors. When e does so,
the proposal becomes sponsored.
The Promotor CAN, with 2+X support, flip the Pended switch of a
proposal in the Proposal Pool to true. For this, X is equal to the
number of times e has done so in the past 7 days.
Any player CAN, without objection, flip the Pended switch of a
proposal in the Proposal Pool to true.
A proposal with a Pended switch set to True is 'pending'.
Repeal R2626 "Certifiable Patches".
Amend R2623, "Popular Proposal Proposer Privilege", by replacing:
The player who proposed the adopted proposal whose referendum had
the greatest popularity among all referenda assessed in the last 7
days CAN once earn one Legislative Card by announcement, provided
that no referendum initiated in the same message as it remains
unresolved. If there is a tie, all authors of the tied proposals
can do so once each.
with:
The author of the most popular sponsored proposal adopted in the
last 7 days CAN once earn one Legislative Card by announcement,
provided that no referenda initiated in the same message as it
remain unresolved. If there is a tie, all authors of the tied
proposals can do so once each.
Amend R2496, "Rewards", by replacing "an adopted proposal" with "an
adopted sponsored proposal".
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ID: 8471
Title: Only the PM can be arbitrary!
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: R. Lee
Co-authors: Aris
Repeal Rule 2479/6 "Official Injustice"
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ID: 8472
Title: Welcoming Back Outlaws, etc.
Adoption index: 2.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2499, "Welcome Packages", by replacing:
A player CANNOT receive a Welcome Package via this method if e was
deregistered on account of having excessive blots.
with:
A player CANNOT receive a Welcome Package via this method if e has been
deregistered on account of having excessive blots within the last 30
days.
Amend Rule 2124, "Agoran Satisfaction", by replacing:
The above notwithstanding, if an action depends on objections, and
an objection to an intent to perform it has been withdrawn within
the past 24 hours, then Agora is not Satisfied with that intent.
with:
The above notwithstanding, if an action is to be performed without N
objections or with N Agoran consent, and an objection to an intent
to perform it has been withdrawn within the past 24 hours, then Agora
is not Satisfied with that intent.
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Title: no backdating needed
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: G.
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 1607 (Distribution) by replacing:
The Promotor's report includes a list of all proposals in the
Proposal Pool
with:
The Promotor's report includes a list of all proposals that were
in the Proposal Pool at the beginning of the current Agoran week
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Title: Reset deadlines when resetting the economy
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: omd
Co-authors: nch
Retitle Rule 2621 (VP Wins) to "Economic Victory", and amend it by replacing:
If a player has at least 20 more Victory Points than any other
player, e CAN win by announcement. When a player wins this way,
all Cards and all Products are destroyed. Then each non-zombie
player is granted 1 card of each type.
with:
If a player has at least 20 more Victory Points than any other
player, e CAN trigger an Economic Victory by announcement,
causing em to win the game.
When an Economic Victory occurs, all Cards and all Products are
destroyed; then each non-zombie player is granted 1 card of each
type.
Amend Rule 2624 (Card Administration) by replacing:
An officer CAN, once per month and by announcement, grant another
player a specified type of card under the following conditions:
with:
An officer CAN grant another player a specified type of card by
announcement under the following conditions:
and by adding this bullet point between the first and second ones:
* e has not already granted the same type of card this way since
the start of the Agoran month or the last Economic Victory,
whichever is later,
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Title: Contract charities
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Falsifian
Co-authors: G.
[Comment: The original version was by G..]
Enact the following rule, Charities:
Donation Level is a natural switch for contracts, tracked by the
Notary, with a default of 0 and a maximum of 25. A contract with
nonzero donation level is called a Charity.
The Notary CAN flip a contract's donation level to a non-default
value with 3 Agoran consent. This SHOULD only be done if the
contract's provisions ensure that its funds will be used solely
for the betterment of Agora. Any player CAN flip a contract's
donation level to 0 with Agoran consent.
Whenever a payday occurs, half of each charity's coin holdings
(rounded down) are destroyed, and then each charity earns a
number of coins equal to its donation level.
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Title: Decriminalization
Adoption index: 1.7
Author: Murphy
Co-authors: G.
Amend Rule 2557 (Sentencing Guidelines) by replacing
"Class N Crime"
with
"Class N Crime" or "Class N Infraction"
and by replacing
inconsequential infraction.
with
inconsequential violation.
Amend Rule 2619 (Indictment) by replacing "crime" with "violation".
Amend Rule 2626 (Certifiable Patches) by replacing "unless its sole
function is" with "unless e reasonably believes its sole function is".
[In addition to quibbles about "sole function", this also covers cases
like "I thought X was a minimal fix until someone suggested Y as an
alternative.]
Amend Rule 2143 (Official Reports and Duties) by replacing "Crime of
Tardiness" with "Infraction of Tardiness".
[This leaves Making My Eyes Bleed as a Crime.]
[For reference, here are other SHALL NOTs that are not explicitly
defined as Crimes. The only functional purpose of such a definition
is that it can change the base fine from its default of 2, however
we may want to explicitly define some as Infractions to indicate that
they're generally not considered Seriously Immoral.
Rule 1607 (Distribution), Promotor distributing non-pending proposal
Rule 2619 (Indictment), fining a rejected indictment (should also be
changed from passive to active)
Rule 911 (Motions and Moots), Arbitor reassigning a remitted judge
when another eligible judge expressed interest
Rule 2175 (Judicial Retraction and Excess), making excess CFJs
Rule 2471 (No Faking), lying
Rule 2466 (Acting on Behalf), making someone else violate the rules
]
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Title: Stop disincentivizing bugfixes
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: omd
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2626 (Certifiable Patches) by removing:
that relates to a) an office e holds; or b) a CFJ, open within the last
week, of which e is the judge
and by removing:
5. A problem relates to an office if it plausibly affects the area
of the game the office is responsible for and relates to a CFJ
if it could plausibly be interpreted to affect that CFJ's
outcome.
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