Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6441-6449

2009-08-19 Thread comex
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I think there's precedent that randomly high votes work fine (I suppose > unless some critical threshold in the upper reaches makes a scam work). > But it may be just that assessors haven't questioned it.  In theory it > may matter that a person

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6441-6449

2009-08-19 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, ais523 wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 17:25 -0400, comex wrote: >> Precedent says 1 is too high, at least for CFJs :) > > Hmmm... because that creates extra recordkeepor burden? > I think there's precedent that randomly high votes work fine (I suppose unless some critical

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6441-6449

2009-08-19 Thread ais523
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 17:25 -0400, comex wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, ais523 wrote: > > As far as I can tell, this correctly scams round loopholes in the > > proposal's tricks; if the proposal would pass even with an AGAINST from > > me, I have no votes AGAINST; and I have ten thousand

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6441-6449

2009-08-19 Thread comex
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:21 PM, ais523 wrote: > As far as I can tell, this correctly scams round loopholes in the > proposal's tricks; if the proposal would pass even with an AGAINST from > me, I have no votes AGAINST; and I have ten thousand unconditional votes > FOR, so I'm likely to win as a re

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6441-6449

2009-08-19 Thread Sean Hunt
C-walker wrote: >> 6447 O 0 1.0 coppro Terrible > FOR * VL if it would cause me to win, AGAINST * VL otherwise Just so you know, that's effectively an unconditional AGAINST vote; the proposal was written to prevent this manner of stupid vote from functioning. -coppro

DIS: Re: BUS: A propo

2009-08-19 Thread Sean Hunt
comex wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM, comex wrote: >> I play Distrib-u-Matic to make it distributable. > > I play Committee to make it undistributable. > I play Debate-o-Matic to make it democratic. > Fails; it's not an ongoing decision.

Re: DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/8/19 Geoffrey Spear : >> ...and so relies on the faulty assumption that people care enough >> about imaginary scarce resources to take the sort of actions needed to >> make a free market actually work.  The utility of any asset gain in >> Agora is us

Re: DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/8/19 Geoffrey Spear : > ...and so relies on the faulty assumption that people care enough > about imaginary scarce resources to take the sort of actions needed to > make a free market actually work.  The utility of any asset gain in > Agora is usually not worth the effort it takes to work out

Re: DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Kelly
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Elliott > Hird wrote: >> 2009/8/19 Sgeo : >>> The system used by the guild "The Goods" in A Tale In The Desert is >>> described in http://wiki.atitd.net/tale3/Guilds/The_Goods/FAQ/The_System >>> . How would

Re: DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2009/8/19 Sgeo : >> The system used by the guild "The Goods" in A Tale In The Desert is >> described in http://wiki.atitd.net/tale3/Guilds/The_Goods/FAQ/The_System >> . How would a bank based on such a system work out in Agora? >> > > Involves

Re: DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/8/19 Sgeo : > The system used by the guild "The Goods" in A Tale In The Desert is > described in http://wiki.atitd.net/tale3/Guilds/The_Goods/FAQ/The_System > . How would a bank based on such a system work out in Agora? > Involves the same player-correction as the PBA.

DIS: Bank with automatic price adjustments "The Goods" style?

2009-08-19 Thread Sgeo
The system used by the guild "The Goods" in A Tale In The Desert is described in http://wiki.atitd.net/tale3/Guilds/The_Goods/FAQ/The_System . How would a bank based on such a system work out in Agora?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Bribereee

2009-08-19 Thread C-walker
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Pavitra wrote: > Taral wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Pavitra wrote: >>> A player CAN play N Distrib-u-Matics to make an II(N-1) Undistributable >>> proposal Distributable. E thereby becomes the proposal's sponsor. When a >>> proposal becomes Undistribut

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJ 2666 assigned to woggle

2009-08-19 Thread Pavitra
Charles Reiss wrote: >> == CFJ 2666 == >> >> This is to decide. >> >> > > I judge UNDETERMINED. Oh come on. That was trivially TRUE.