Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 May 2017, Quazie wrote: >> If the judiciary calms down, or we get lucky enough that G. comes back >> and wants eir post > > I think splitting the "assigner" and the "recordkeepor" is a good split to > keep, whether informally or

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
IMHO, the current informal system of gratuitous arguments work fine; I see little point in assigning someone the job of arguing for a particular side when we have plenty of arguments for both sides (assuming there is some hope of both sides being correct). Gaelan > On May 30, 2017, at 6:39 PM,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Quazie wrote: > If the judiciary calms down, or we get lucky enough that G. comes back > and wants eir post I think splitting the "assigner" and the "recordkeepor" is a good split to keep, whether informally or formally (I plan to keep up the recordkeeping for a bit, anyway)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I didn’t mean that minute, I just meant in general. This is one of my problems with email, it is interpreted as quick, but really it is more equivalent to fax or memos than phone calls. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Aris

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On May 30, 2017 7:39 PM, "Aris Merchant" wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:21 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I like the idea of a public defender, but their salary should be paid by > the callers. Agreed. We should have fees for cases (a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
I will in a few hours, but I really do have to go right now. -Aris On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:37 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Could you share what is involved in your Massive Reform Plan and how you > would allow others to help? > >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:21 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I like the idea of a public defender, but their salary should be paid by > the callers. Agreed. We should have fees for cases (although Agora can pay if someone can't), which shou

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Could you share what is involved in your Massive Reform Plan and how you would allow others to help? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM Publius Scribonius Schola

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:28 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > How would people feel about reimplementing a formal criminal and civil > court system in addition to CFJs? Some version of that is already part 3 of my Massive Reform Plan (it's n

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:25 PM Gaelan Steele wrote: > I think normal threading handles voting fine (and subject changes may > break threads, making more of a mess). I agree about tagging the others. > That's what I was going to discuss later. In brief, marking pends would only be required if in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
How would people feel about reimplementing a formal criminal and civil court system in addition to CFJs? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 8:27 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: > > Actually what could be interesting is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Actually what could be interesting is make a system of solicitor and defender, in which the caller pends it, then the solicitor argues for FALSE, defender for TRUE, then the judge decides. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 8:25 PM,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:07 PM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) > wrote: > >> >> >> On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 30 May

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
I think normal threading handles voting fine (and subject changes may break threads, making more of a mess). I agree about tagging the others. Gaelan > On May 30, 2017, at 5:07 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) >> wrote: >> >> >> On May

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Tags would be very helpful for sorting. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) > wrote: > > > On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: > On Tu

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I like the idea of a public defender, but their salary should be paid by the callers. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 7:59 PM, grok (caleb vines) wrote: > > > > On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On May 30, 2017 7:07 PM, "Aris Merchant" wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) wrote: > > > On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > I'll let ais523 comment on

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) wrote: > > > On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > I'll let ais523 comment on whether the 2-day bit is a bother at all. >> >> (f

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM grok (caleb vines) wrote: > > > On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> > I'll let ais523 comment on whether the 2-day bit is a bother at all. >> >> (f

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread grok (caleb vines)
On May 30, 2017 6:25 PM, "Quazie" wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I'll let ais523 comment on whether the 2-day bit is a bother at all. > > (final?) followup: I still disagree with the wide/narrow judging idea > (both o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I think in general, we should try and lessen the need for officers and increase the number of non-tracked concepts and/or self-tracking concepts. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Quazie wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:20 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I'll let ais523 comment on whether the 2-day bit is a bother at all. > > (final?) followup: I still disagree with the wide/narrow judging idea > (both on the principle and as a 'too much work for

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I'll let ais523 comment on whether the 2-day bit is a bother at all. (final?) followup: I still disagree with the wide/narrow judging idea (both on the principle and as a 'too much work for officer' grounds). We purposefully built a lot of flexibility

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Gaelan Steele wrote: > I don't see why the pre-case formatting work is needed. The only > difference is that ais would need to wait 2 days before assigning > the ID/judge (and take into account any BUS replies to the CFJ). > At the end of the day, however, if this will caus

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
I don't see why the pre-case formatting work is needed. The only difference is that ais would need to wait 2 days before assigning the ID/judge (and take into account any BUS replies to the CFJ). At the end of the day, however, if this will cause some additional work on behalf of the officers, t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Gaelan Steele wrote: > > On May 30, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > It wasn't clear. But being stuck with a CFJ you don't want is part of the > > job and random draw of being a judge, helping to clear the load. (we > > should definitely have judicial compen

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
> On May 30, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > It wasn't clear. But being stuck with a CFJ you don't want is part of the > job and random draw of being a judge, helping to clear the load. (we > should definitely have judicial compensation/salaries though). I disagree: - The lack of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Nicholas Evans wrote: > What about an analogous pending system for CFJs? Anyone can submit but > they only get assigned to a judge after someone has paid the fee. The > fee should be low and stable. The judge gets paid the fee upon > judgment. Even 2 shinies is probably en

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Nicholas Evans
What about an analogous pending system for CFJs? Anyone can submit but they only get assigned to a judge after someone has paid the fee. The fee should be low and stable. The judge gets paid the fee upon judgment. Even 2 shinies is probably enough to slow tge pace down without stopping it, and beca

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 30 May 2017, Gaelan Steele wrote: > I don't know if this was clear, but the intent of the proposal was > to avoid people getting "stuck" with CFJs they don't wish to judge. > Under this proposal, the only people bothered by a frivolous CFJ > are ais523 and anyone interested in judging

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
I don't know if this was clear, but the intent of the proposal was to avoid people getting "stuck" with CFJs they don't wish to judge. Under this proposal, the only people bothered by a frivolous CFJ are ais523 and anyone interested in judging (assuming others don't mind skipping over the DIS me

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I might be in favor of a change such as`CFJs SHOULD be initiated in a newly named thread, beginning with [CFJ]` so fewer CFJs get `lost` That might make things easier to get a small handle on? On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:48 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Since I mentioned it in a recent message, tho

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
Since I mentioned it in a recent message, thought I'd offer some specific comments. When I had the whole Arbitor job (assign and report), the largest obstacle was formatting the cases at the beginning (collecting them into a big case log and formatting the random conversations into arguments, be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I think we've found a couple of holes in the current ruleset that need patching (I personally have a list of 6 proposals that should go in) I think we've found a couple of places we have some issues: 1 - Maybe we are overworking our officers. 2 - We have many registered players that have made no a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
Erm, funny phrasing given a lack of something is the opposite of a mess :). But if that's the understanding, no worries! I'm concerned at jumping to reforms; for example, the judicial reform proposal IMO seems to be the opposite of reform, by imposing a bunch of structure that won't actually he

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I feel like 'No game play' is a valid mess to be cleaned up. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Um, can you specify what "messes" you see that are actually needing clean > up by > rules changes, rather than just being a bit of high-traffic and new player > assimilation? >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I think expanding the economy with a stock market is the best course of action right now. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > Um, can you specify what "messes" you see that are actually needing cl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Academia

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I agree we need something to do, but maybe we need a base proposal that we all agree on before we have a competition towards making that thing better. It seems valid to 'clean up the mess' by giving us something to do (So I don't feel like my new proposal competition suggestion blocks an academic

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
Um, can you specify what "messes" you see that are actually needing clean up by rules changes, rather than just being a bit of high-traffic and new player assimilation? This is apropos of recent comments that "clean up drives" in the past have led to less game play (after doing a couple, I thin

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Academia

2017-05-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
One comment: there's a lot of energy in Agencies right now. Agencies are useful to let people do things on behalf of other people. But that's all pretty meaningless if there's nothing for people to actually *do*. Get *something* in there (other than proposals) that's worth spending money on.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Treat Agora Right Good Forever

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
This is purposefully vague, so that we can all work towards cleaning things up in all the ways we need to clean. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:49 PM Quazie wrote: > I hereby issue intent to initiate a Proposal Competition, with Agoran > Consent, with the specified > ​ > Objective o > ​​ > f Treatin

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] State of the Union

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
That is the change I have made. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Quazie wrote: > Suggestion: > > For the agency the responsible person is the head. For an organization the > responsible person is either defined by the organization, or the player > with the h

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal Competition: Academia

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Quazie wrote: > I Object - I think a proposal competition around making things less messy > might be more important at the moment vs adding a bunch of new academic > stuff (I like the general idea, but it might not be the perfect time) I object as well, with the

Re: DIS: I don't want to CFJ, but let's just chat

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I'll add it to my long list of things to do. I might get around to a better writeup of the Agency rule today, if not, then tomorrow. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:52 AM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't care if it's actually a problem or just appears to be one, we

Re: DIS: I don't want to CFJ, but let's just chat

2017-05-30 Thread Aris Merchant
I don't care if it's actually a problem or just appears to be one, we need to fix this. Care to write up a proposal Quazie? -Aris On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Josh T wrote: > If this is the case, I have no problem supporting such a proposal. > > 天火狐 > > On 30 May 2017 at 14:26, Quazie wrot

Re: DIS: ADoP and Assessor

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
> On May 30, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Quazie wrote: > > 1 - I'm only suggesting i become assessor (You noted promotor once) Typo. > 2 - I'm not at all comfortable with updating a report automatically that I > don't own > 3 - I'm mostly looking to make a script that makes vote tallying reasonable >

Re: DIS: I don't want to CFJ, but let's just chat

2017-05-30 Thread Josh T
If this is the case, I have no problem supporting such a proposal. 天火狐 On 30 May 2017 at 14:26, Quazie wrote: > So grok left, and that's a bummer, but it's especially a bummer for me, > the Superintendent - I think his agency still exists... there's nothing in > the rule about Agencies that sug

DIS: I don't want to CFJ, but let's just chat

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
So grok left, and that's a bummer, but it's especially a bummer for me, the Superintendent - I think his agency still exists... there's nothing in the rule about Agencies that suggests it goes away, but I think the agency is fully neutered, as agencies only allow you to act on behalf of a player.

Re: DIS: ADoP and Assessor

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
1 - I'm only suggesting i become assessor (You noted promotor once) 2 - I'm not at all comfortable with updating a report automatically that I don't own 3 - I'm mostly looking to make a script that makes vote tallying reasonable via a series of csvs, and you can't really do work off of webhooks, as

Re: DIS: ADoP and Assessor

2017-05-30 Thread Gaelan Steele
I'd love if your assessor scripts automatically updated the ruleset. My plan is to create proposals as git branches, then just have a script to merge them and fill in rule IDs, etc. If you kept a Promotor log on GitHub, I could probably set up a web hook that merged the accepted proposals. > O

Re: DIS: ADoP and Assessor

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
Superintendent's report (on github) is now up to date: Also, I hate new emoji unicode chars, they look so ugly in this plain text report: https://agoranomic.github.io/Superintendent/reports/month/next.txt On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:17 AM Quazie wrote: > I've almost completed my automated ADoP rep

DIS: ADoP and Assessor

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
I've almost completed my automated ADoP report (running off of csv files recording all events) and should be able to publish the ADoP report easily on time from now on. I'll get to writing an instant run-off script so I can handle all of the Elections that are on-going and the elections that will

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] State of the Union

2017-05-30 Thread Quazie
Suggestion: For the agency the responsible person is the head. For an organization the responsible person is either defined by the organization, or the player with the highest budget switch if not defined. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 03:15 Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@go

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Martin Rönsch
I like this proposal. It fixes the problem of growing caseloads for judges while still ensuring that important CFJs (those that multiple people have an interest in) get judged. However this proposal does not address the problem of growing caseload for Arbitor and recordkeeping of CFJs. The Arb

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] State of the Union

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I like this revision because it seems to have closed the loopholes of the last one. However, one issue I see is if the member of the Organization leaves, it is unclear what occurs. For your ease, I have compiled my suggested revisions below: Create the power-1.5 rule “Internal State” with this

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Judicial Reform

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I like this, but I think also adding procedural DISMISSALS without objection would be a helpful addition. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 30, 2017, at 2:41 AM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > > Bah. > > I retract “Judicial Reform.” > > I create the

Re: DIS: Proto/Suggestion: Agoran Provinces

2017-05-30 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I think we should trust Aris on this because he has more experience, but we could still experiment with the concept through agencies or orgs. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On May 29, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > On Mon, May 29, 201