Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
That's a great name - and monthly was a time frame I was looking at - I might make it a switch actually that can be flipped without some objection - if we get into an active period again it might be nice to easily switch the type of reporting on a newspaper. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:33 Aris Merch

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
How about Archivist? Also, may I suggest that newspaper, if it is kept, should be made monthly? -Aris On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:25 PM Quazie wrote: > I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or > librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
I was going to suggest that there be a new position of journalist or librarian or Local Blogger or something that combines the two ideas in a reasonable way - be a resource of information and possibly do some general summarizing of events with less obligation than is on the reporter - will the abil

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
I disagree. It seems perfectly reasonable to ask the reporter to link to resources, but requiring them to do research on request seems unnecessary. It doesn't fit well with my conception of the reporter's job description anyway. -Aris On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:17 PM Quazie wrote: > That's super

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
That's super reasonable - next draft will combine the two. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 23:11 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > > [...] The Research Assistant [...] > > I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very > inactive (since its beginning) Repor

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > [...] The Research Assistant [...] I think this should replace or be merged/combined with the very inactive (since its beginning) Reporter.

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
A Research Request is defined as a request for information about the history of Agora. Once per month, each player MAY submit a Research Request from the Research Assistant. The Research Assistant SHALL put a reasonable effort into completing each Research Request, and SHOULD complete it in a rea

Re: DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:23 PM Quazie wrote: > the referee's quota, and if an officer receives some number N `Report > Cards' - 8 perhaps - then any player may oust the current officer from > their > position. > >

Re: DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:23 PM Quazie wrote: the referee's quota, and if an officer receives some number N `Report Cards' - 8 perhaps - then any player may oust the current officer from their position. Any player already can do that, by deputising for the office. Greetings, Ørjan.

Re: DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
Might I suggest penalizing them only if fewer than x number of other officers were tardy in their reports? Also, I like the auto shredding after doing a report on time. -Aris On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:44 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I wo

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Weekly Report

2017-04-18 Thread Owen Jacobson
A solid +1. Theme proposals encouraged? -o > On Apr 13, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > You'd need to create a new rule. I'd also suggest paying them something. > Maybe add "If this proposal passes, the Secretary CAN and SHALL once pay the > Speaker 10 shinies, plus 5 extra shin

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2017-04-18 Thread James Beirne
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Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Full Logical Ruleset

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
I have a master XML file that I manually edit, that has rules in numerical order, including previous versions and repealed rules. Then I have an index file that lists rules in SLR order, so I can quickly change the ordering or categories by changing the index - a script then outputs the final

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Rulekeepor] Full Logical Ruleset

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Do you manually type up the rulesets or do you have a program that assists you? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:57 PM Kerim Aydin > wrote: > > THE FULL L

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Could someone add the second link to the website? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > > Note: The CFJ history i'm referring to comes from the FLR as linked to > here: http://faculty.washington.edu/

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I would support this with an added provision that the Research Assistant shall be required to respond to research inquiries in a reasonable amount of time. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Quazie wrote: > This directly comes from G,'s linking to old CFJ arch

Re: DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I would like this idea as along as there was some way to account for whole game lulls. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Quazie wrote: > Originally I was thinking these report cards were automatically issued, > thus `robo-ref` but then i never said that in th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:12 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > > Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make > an agency named Alexis - I hadn't decided > > There's caselaw

Re: DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
This directly comes from G,'s linking to old CFJ archives - caselaw and archived materials should be easily accessible to all agorans without too much of a hunt. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 5:13 PM Quazie wrote: > The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for helping > intereste

DIS: Proto-Research-Assistant

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
The Research Assistant is an office; its holder is responsible for helping interested persons and players research agora. The Research Assistant's Monthly Report SHALL include research materials as noted: - A link to the FLR and SLR - A link to old CFJs both Old and Very Old - Other Miscellaneo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:12 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > > Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make an > agency named Alexis - I hadn't decided > > There's caselaw about that. Will have to remember what the matter was to > look up

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > Note: The CFJ history i'm referring to comes from the FLR as linked to here:  > http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/rkeep/current_flr.txt For those who don't know, full CFJ texts from the Distant Past through June 2014 can be found here: https://c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
Note: The CFJ history i'm referring to comes from the FLR as linked to here: http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/rkeep/current_flr.txt On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:46 PM Quazie wrote: > I also present the CFJ history of rule 478 as supporting arguments to me > being a player at this moment in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
I also present the CFJ history of rule 478 as supporting arguments to me being a player at this moment in time. CFJ 1695, 1719, and 1833-1834 seem especially relevant - they mostly deal with players, and as such are related, but not direct precedent of what Persons can do. CFJ 2322 on the other h

Re: DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
Originally I was thinking these report cards were automatically issued, thus `robo-ref` but then i never said that in the body of the post. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:23 PM Quazie wrote: > I'm a little sadened by this current lull in official weekly and monthly > reports, and so I'm thinking of c

DIS: Robo-Ref-ideas

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
I'm a little sadened by this current lull in official weekly and monthly reports, and so I'm thinking of creating a class of card for late reports - `Report Card` for example [1 card issued after a weekly report has been late for a week, and 2 cards issued when a monthly report has been late for 2

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Weekly Report

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > It is getting returned to me by my SMTP server as rejected. omd (the maintainer) did at one point have filters on it, but I don't remember if e has to manually approve new addresses or not, or if that's only to Official, or what. o

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Weekly Report

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
It is getting returned to me by my SMTP server as rejected. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Quazie wrote: > So what issue are you running into? I think that official somehow has a > max text length - i know that I was able to get around this in the past >

DIS: Re: OFF: [Registrar] Weekly Report

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
So what issue are you running into? I think that official somehow has a max text length - i know that I was able to get around this in the past somehow. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:25 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Given my inability to send

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Good catch there, we might have to rephrase the next dictator. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > I was thinking about deputising as dictator to publish a decree. > > Oh

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I was thinking about deputising as dictator to publish a decree. Oh, I wondered why and guessed there was a possible scam! Wouldn't have worked though. R2160 says: A player CAN perform an action as if e held a particular o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
That's a clever bit of deputising there - I would've been angry that I missed it, and also applauded you. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:33 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I was thinking about deputising as dictator to publish a decree. > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I was thinking about deputising as dictator to publish a decree. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > > Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make an > agency named Alexis -

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Oh, sorry. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > I hereby CFJ on the statement, "The dictatorship is an office." > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > > The Dictator rule

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Quazie wrote: > Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make an > agency named Alexis - I hadn't decided There's caselaw about that. Will have to remember what the matter was to look up the case, but I have a memory of an example the Judge used:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:14 AM Quazie wrote: > Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make an > agency named Alexis - I hadn't decided > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 06:53 Kerim Aydin wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> > I hereby

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
There are two questions at play: 1 - Did my power of attorney statement actually allow me, as a person, to give Murphy the ability to act on my behalf as a person. (That seems like a yes as contracts can exist between people in general, but i'm unsure if the power to make oneself a player is indee

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Quazie
Darn - I was gonna change my nick name to Alexis shortly and/or make an agency named Alexis - I hadn't decided On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 06:53 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > I hereby CFJ on the statement, "The dictatorship is an office." > >

DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on the Status of Dictator

2017-04-18 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > I hereby CFJ on the statement, "The dictatorship is an office." > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus The Dictator rules were repealed by Proposal 7839 (adopted on Jan 17). My apologies for the not up-to-date ruleset.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJ on Quazie's Status as a Player

2017-04-18 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I would support that proto-proposal with the suggested edit. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Kerim Aydin > wrote: > > > > > > Just back from vacation myself. I'll