DIS: proto: up with annotations

2007-04-20 Thread Zefram
I'd like to make rule annotations more formal and more common: Proto-proposal: up with annotations {{{ Amend rule 1681 by replacing the words "and text, and must also include any annotations to the rule required by order" with "text, and interpretive annotations". Retitle rule 789 to "Interpret

DIS: proto: rule restoration

2007-04-20 Thread Zefram
An idea that's been knocking around my head as I've been researching rule history. We're re-enacting some previously-existing concepts, and it seems more economical to do so by resurrecting the old rules rather than by enacting new ones. It'd be nice to have the resulting longer history annotatio

Re: DIS: BUS: proposal: allow Speaker deregistration

2007-04-20 Thread Zefram
Kerim Aydin wrote: >I forgot to ask, what happens when the last player in the game resigns? Under my proposed amendments to R101 and R103, the last player deregisters successfully, leaving no players and no Speaker. This does not terminate the game, but of course without officers there can't be a

DIS: BUS: proposal: allow Speaker deregistration

2007-04-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: > There should always be exactly one player who is the Speaker. > No one other than a player can be Speaker, and there can never be > more than one Speaker. If there is ever no Speaker then the player > whose most recent registration was earliest becomes the Spea

DIS: Re: BUS: Votes

2007-04-20 Thread Kerim Aydin
Zefram wrote: > What constitutes tangibility? Voting FOR 4930 (democratic for *just* this reason), then a mini- conspiracy to spend enough VCs on em so e wins, thus resetting eir voting power? -Goethe

DIS: Re: BUS: Votes

2007-04-20 Thread Zefram
Benjamin Schultz wrote: >I am willing to change my votes in return for tangible >offers. What constitutes tangibility? -zefram