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

2017-06-15 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 02:34 -0400, 天火狐 wrote: > I don't see how something like the following in the appropriate forum > wouldn't successfully give a card, assuming that it was issued in the right > time frame: "I issue Donald Trump a Green Card for breaking his pledge to > direct his secretary of t

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

2017-06-15 Thread Josh T
I don't see how something like the following in the appropriate forum wouldn't successfully give a card, assuming that it was issued in the right time frame: "I issue Donald Trump a Green Card for breaking his pledge to direct his secretary of the treasury to label China a currency manipulator." M

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

2017-06-15 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2017-06-16 at 02:08 -0400, 天火狐 wrote: > > I don’t think I can do anything about this, formally, since you’re still > > not a player, but if you insist I can put together a theory under which > this should be carded. > > CFJ 1709 states that non-players are still bound to contracts if they

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

2017-06-15 Thread Josh T
> I don’t think I can do anything about this, formally, since you’re still not a player, but if you insist I can put together a theory under which this should be carded. CFJ 1709 states that non-players are still bound to contracts if they are party to it, with the implication that non-players mus

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: An apology

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 1:32 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> charged with keeping a perfect and omniscient watch over the activities >> of Agora. Even had I been a present and obedient servant, I am only human, >> and my watch must fail. > > When I was refe

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Quazie
You're gonna break that pledge, aren't you? On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 20:23 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Secretary's Weekly Report > > I pledge that I SHALL NOT deny any CoE concerning this alleged report. > > I note that I do NOT give any willful consent to

DIS: Re: BUS: An apology

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > charged with keeping a perfect and omniscient watch over the activities > of Agora. Even had I been a present and obedient servant, I am only human, > and my watch must fail. When I was referee, I would constantly issue myself green cards for failure

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread V.J Rada
He pledged to conduct a lottery according to the rules which contain a provision for being changed. That's absolutely acceptable. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Jun 15, 2017, at 5:40 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: > > > With an emulation of 2 Agoran Support, I'm going to add

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jun 15, 2017, at 5:40 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: > With an emulation of 2 Agoran Support, I'm going to add to the "rules" of the > lottery the following: > > - Purchasers of a HAFL Ticket must also choose a 5-number string for their > ticket, which is that "ticket's number" (which defaults to be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 20:04 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > This logic (the Secretary's Report can only be published by the  > > Secretary) would still break the whole purpose of allowing anyone to > > do it in times when the Secretary is uncertain, I think.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 20:04 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > This logic (the Secretary's Report can only be published by the  > Secretary) would still break the whole purpose of allowing anyone to > do it in times when the Secretary is uncertain, I think. Well, you could do it via RWO if you know that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 18:23 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > > > there's at least one error in it. Thus, in order to block ratification, > > > I picked the mistake in the report that was a) most clearly a mistake,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread V.J Rada
Unless "e SHALL either impose summary judgement on a player" means he must only do it to one player to be absolved of this rule. The card rules are badly written. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:51 AM, V.J Rada wrote: > Fun fact about cards " > > As part of the Referee's weekly duties, e SHALL

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread V.J Rada
Fun fact about cards " As part of the Referee's weekly duties, e SHALL either impose Summary Judgment on a player or truthfully announce that e believes that there are no rules violations in the preceding Agoran week for which a Card has not already been issued." conflicts

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jun 15, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: >> On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 07:49 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> Secretary's Weekly Report >> >> Just to make absolutely sure: >> >> CoE: You are not the Secretary. > > C'mon now. You just said yourself that t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > there's at least one error in it. Thus, in order to block ratification, > I picked the mistake in the report that was a) most clearly a mistake, > and b) hardest for you to correct. But I don't need to correct that for this particular self-ratification

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread V.J Rada
I'm not interpreting any rules, simply the pledge which CB made, inexplicably allowing others to change the rules of eir own pledge (does this even work if e doesn't pledge it personally?). I'm also aware of CFJ 3468 in which the caller said that "Agoran support" could be interpreted in two ways: "

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 16:14 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 07:49 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Secretary's Weekly Report > >  > > Just to make absolutely sure: > >  > > CoE: You are not the Secretary. > > C'mon now.  You just said

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: I also object. -Aris Your objection is also not clear whether you are objecting just to V.J Rada's change or also to Cuddlebeam's. Greetings, Ørjan. On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 3:55 PM Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@goog

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: I object. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com I note that the message you quoted contains within it _two_ attempted lottery rule changes, and you are not making it clear whether you are objecting

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 07:49 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Secretary's Weekly Report > > Just to make absolutely sure: > > CoE: You are not the Secretary. C'mon now. You just said yourself that the rule was designed so that anyone could do it. CoEing t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread V.J Rada
But here it's "2 agoran support" so that should be interpreted as "the support of 2 players" to make sense. On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Agoran Support has been interpreted, if I recall correctly, as being >

DIS: Re: BUS: humble agoran farmer lottery

2017-06-15 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Agoran Support has been interpreted, if I recall correctly, as being equivalent to Agoran Consent and therefore both supporters and objectors are tracked. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 15, 2017, at 6:53 PM, V.J Rada wrote: > > I would like t

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

2017-06-15 Thread Quazie
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:53 AM Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 16:00 +, Quazie wrote: > > Wow, that's broken - any public document proporting to be a report > > self-ratifies? > > It's not broken, it's intentional: > > a) Public documents puporting to be reports are fairly obvious

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

2017-06-15 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Yes, they are. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 15, 2017, at 12:00 PM, CuddleBeam wrote: > > Isn't PSS and Publius Scrib(...) the same person? (8 and 45 Shinies)

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

2017-06-15 Thread Alex Smith
On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 16:00 +, Quazie wrote: > Wow, that's broken - any public document proporting to be a report > self-ratifies? It's not broken, it's intentional: a) Public documents puporting to be reports are fairly obvious, so if someone makes one incorrectly or maliciously, we can just

DIS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Josh T
I understand that this isn't an actual report, but in the event are going to think it is, my balance should be 15 Shinies after updating the values with respect to my CoE in the prior report. 天火狐 On 15 June 2017 at 10:49, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Secretary's Weekly Report > > Date of this report: T

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

2017-06-15 Thread Quazie
Wow, that's broken - any public document proporting to be a report self-ratifies? On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 08:28 Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Quazie wrote: > > Given there's no way for this report to be published by any one > > other than the current office holder as it isn't late

DIS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread CuddleBeam
Isn't PSS and Publius Scrib(...) the same person? (8 and 45 Shinies)

Re: Re: DIS: 1 person playing as many players?

2017-06-15 Thread CuddleBeam
About the perma-banning, I'd prefer it to be encased in "subjectivity" (versus "formality") because the more formal it is, the easier it is to scam, and I really, really don't want to get a legitimate scam involving perma-banning others.

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

2017-06-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, Quazie wrote: > Given there's no way for this report to be published by any one > other than the current office holder as it isn't late, I choose > to ignore it. Please read R2162(c) (noting shiny holdings are switches) and let me know if ignoring it is still a preferred o

DIS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
I don’t think I can do anything about this, formally, since you’re still not a player, but if you insist I can put together a theory under which this should be carded. nichdel’s already done most of the legwork. This does appear to be a purported report - at least, sending a complete report wit

DIS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-06-15 Thread Quazie
Given there's no way for this report to be published by any one other than the current office holder as it isn't late, I choose to ignore it. But the SLR is late, so if you do the work for that I might not ;) On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 07:49 Kerim Aydin wrote: > Secretary's Weekly Report > > Date

Re: DIS: 1 person playing as many players?

2017-06-15 Thread Nicholas Evans
I'd support a rule to the effect of "a player can only be banned from Agora by a power-3 (or higher) instrument". That both introduces the concept legally and restricts without adding any other baggage. On Jun 15, 2017 04:43, "Publius Scribonius Scholasticus" < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Interaction between CFJ 1709 and R869

2017-06-15 Thread Nicholas Evans
It's possibly a violation of No Faking if other people thought it was effective. On Jun 15, 2017 02:01, "Owen Jacobson" wrote: > > > On Jun 13, 2017, at 5:17 PM, V.J Rada wrote: > > > > "I Point My Finger at um... what's your nickname? Kerim, anyway. For > clear reasons, let's see what happens

Re: DIS: 1 person playing as many players?

2017-06-15 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I agree with o, any such punishment should be administered by proposal. Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:11 AM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Quazie wrote: >> >> Proto Proposal: >> AI = 4 >> Title: When t

Re: DIS: 1 person playing as many players?

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Quazie wrote: > > Proto Proposal: > AI = 4 > Title: When two become one > Rule: 'A short list of things that are too agregious to even attempt' > Doing any of the following is `Treating Agora Right Bad Forever` and are > bannable offenses: > - A single person attempt

Re: BUS: Re: DIS: Interaction between CFJ 1709 and R869

2017-06-15 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 5:17 PM, V.J Rada wrote: > > "I Point My Finger at um... what's your nickname? Kerim, anyway. For clear > reasons, let's see what happens though” Incidentally, I’m pleased to see the finger-pointing system getting some use. Thanks for this test case! -o signature.asc