Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pledge

2017-09-25 Thread Aris Merchant
Thank you for your honesty. -Aris On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 23:24 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: >> Speaking of mysterious secrets: ais523, can you tell us why you >> submitted the repeal all rules proposal around the time of your >> junta? >> Sorry

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: pledge

2017-09-25 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 23:24 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > Speaking of mysterious secrets: ais523, can you tell us why you > submitted the repeal all rules proposal around the time of your > junta? > Sorry if I already asked and forgot about it. First of all, the actual text of the proposal was irr

DIS: Re: BUS: pledge

2017-09-25 Thread Aris Merchant
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > I pledge as follows: > > If a plaintext (ISO-8859-1) of the following SHA-512 hash is published, > where the plaintext is 42 characters or less in length, then I will have > performed as described in it: > > 766697bbcd12ee0d916bd2ee0edb5d3

Re: DIS: Economy and Games

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:58 AM, VJ Rada wrote: > > BTW whose idea was it that paying agora for proposals and cfjs would > cost LESS when agora had LESS money? Can we like insta-fix that? This was an intentional design decision. From a discussion I had with nichdel at the time: On 06/13/17 23:

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7899-7904

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
NttPF. -o > On Sep 25, 2017, at 3:42 AM, Gaelan Steele wrote: > > >> On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Aris Merchant >> wrote: >> >> I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran >> Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal >> pool. For this decision, t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Ah, found it. It was called by o on Sept 7 (a few days before ais523 deregistered) and never got a number or judge. Will fix. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > No, I meant CFJ. There was one called by Orjan contending that, > because my proposal "minor fixes" that fixed that loophole refe

Re: DIS: Economy and Games

2017-09-25 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 00:56 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I’d be open to replacing the Estate auction with a lottery of players > with the fewest number of Estates, or a straight lottery. My original > intention was specifically to create a high-value item, so that > shinies would return to Agora s

Re: DIS: Economy and Games

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
BTW whose idea was it that paying agora for proposals and cfjs would cost LESS when agora had LESS money? Can we like insta-fix that? On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >> On Sep 23, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >

Re: DIS: Economy and Games

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 23, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> As for the gerontocracy argument: Money is an inherently gerontocratic >> system. >> It abstracts value from labor in a way that allows arbitrary allocation. > > Ok, I've been mulling this

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

2017-09-25 Thread Aris Merchant
I will issue everyone who does this a trust token (all at once, with my charity report) and will try to think of a more substantial token of gratitude. Thank you. -Aris On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:53 PM VJ Rada wrote: > I have like 62 I think? I give Agora 20 shinies. > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
No, I meant CFJ. There was one called by Orjan contending that, because my proposal "minor fixes" that fixed that loophole referred to a rule as "a rule with no number", which was wrong by the time the proposal passed, the fix did not work. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >

Re: DIS: Shinies and Stamps Omnibus Fix Thread

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
>> With that in mind, here are the things I believe need to happen: >> >> 1. The proposals fixing the stamps, welcome package, and floating value >> rules need to pass. If there are any lingering bugs you’re aware of that >> would perpetuate our shiny problems, please share them so that we can g

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Oh you mean "proposal" not CFJ ... that's in the late-to-assess batch. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > Card Reform & Expansion, from the really massive distribution a couple > of weeks ago. > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > Which one was that? The only

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

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:50 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> * The reward for authoring or pending a successful proposal pended with >> shinies is 1 sh. > > Ok, so as much as I understand the assessor's lateness, I suspect it cost me > personally a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Below, surely? Would have been strangely amusing if they'd both passed... I've started to dislike proposals written in a way that's super vulnerable to race conditions. Greetings, Ørjan. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: I rescind the above proposal. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Ørj

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Sigh, this started when I was looking for a specific Japanese term for peasant, and it's not like peasants had it any easier in the old days, if that's something to be offended by. I'd very much prefer a fix that fits the theme. Or go with Gamma, which would be a typical Agoran sort of joke.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
Card Reform & Expansion, from the really massive distribution a couple of weeks ago. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Which one was that? The only unresolved ones are on different subjects > I think. > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: >> Did the CFJ on fixing the Co

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
I rescind the above proposal. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > >> I create and pend with 1 shiny the following >> Title: Two Words >> AI: 1.7 >> Text: In rule 2478, Vigilante Justice, add the word "either" after the >> words "shall con

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Which one was that? The only unresolved ones are on different subjects I think. On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > Did the CFJ on fixing the CoE loophole ever get resolved? Not sure it did. > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Ow

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report (revision 2)

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 26, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 23:59 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> As Secretary, I destroy the organization “Agoran Betting Market”, as >> its Income is below the Income Floor of 50. >> >> If anyone feels like reinstating it, its final charter is re

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, VJ Rada wrote: I create and pend with 1 shiny the following Title: Two Words AI: 1.7 Text: In rule 2478, Vigilante Justice, add the word "either" after the words "shall conclude the investigation by" but before the colon. Also, before the words "if e believes that no rules v

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report (revision 2)

2017-09-25 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 23:59 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > As Secretary, I destroy the organization “Agoran Betting Market”, as > its Income is below the Income Floor of 50. > > If anyone feels like reinstating it, its final charter is reproduced > below. About time too, I guess; its charter was b

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
Did the CFJ on fixing the CoE loophole ever get resolved? Not sure it did. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:06 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> >>> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:49 PM, VJ Rada wrote: >>> >>> I create and pend with 1 shiny the following >> >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Aris Merchant
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:49 PM, VJ Rada wrote: >> >> I create and pend with 1 shiny the following > > Aris, your reward package is ready for pickup. > > -o There's a 24 hour time limit. -Aris

DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Fixing Fingers

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:49 PM, VJ Rada wrote: > > I create and pend with 1 shiny the following Aris, your reward package is ready for pickup. -o signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

DIS: Re: OFF: [Secretary] Weekly Report

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > * The reward for authoring or pending a successful proposal pended with > shinies is 1 sh. Ok, so as much as I understand the assessor's lateness, I suspect it cost me personally a fair purse of shinies. I'm at the point where I'm ready to call the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
For the record, in advising me, 天火狐 said that it's possible the term could be offensive to some, and if so we could pretend Eta was good Agoran Greek. (And I liked the double meaning, we could go all brave new world and have an orthogonal Greek letter system that intersects at eta). But I'm cool

Re: DIS: Rules confuse me.

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
Yeah rulekeeping is _very_ hard. The real state of the rules is not as currently written in the ruleset, which is confusing, but yeah it's really really hard. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > The FLR and SLR are sometimes behind because the rule keeper has > a life. :).

Re: DIS: Rules confuse me.

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
The FLR and SLR are sometimes behind because the rule keeper has a life. :). The "last change" is so players can read the SLR and know that proposals numbered after that aren't in there yet, though the "true state" of the rules at any given moment includes later stuff. The assessor is indeed

DIS: Re: BUS: Reward

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Sep 24, 2017, at 10:41 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > I claim a reward of 5 shinies for publishing the Promotor report. > > -Aris This was, unfortunately, ineffective: Agora’s balance at this point was 4 shinies. Nobody’s spent any shinies since then, either. -o signature.asc Description:

Re: DIS: Rules confuse me.

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
1. The rules are tissue paper, but Gaelan is the incumbent rulekeepor, he is the only one who could have an answer 2. Assessing is hard. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Nic Evans wrote: > > > On 09/25/17 21:47, Trigon wrote: >> At the time that I'm writing this, the Full Logical Ruleset [1] clai

Re: DIS: Rules confuse me.

2017-09-25 Thread Nic Evans
On 09/25/17 21:47, Trigon wrote: > At the time that I'm writing this, the Full Logical Ruleset [1] claims > that the most recent change to the ruleset is the adoption of Proposal > 7875, "Better Accounting" [2]. This should have modified rules 2496 > and 2497, but the text that was proposed to be

DIS: Re: BUS: Frivolous AP spending

2017-09-25 Thread VJ Rada
>it’s now impossible for me to card CuddleBeam for the remainder of the week. Whoops, I forgot that that would also have this effect. On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > Week soon over so: > > I create the following Pr

DIS: Rules confuse me.

2017-09-25 Thread Trigon
At the time that I'm writing this, the Full Logical Ruleset [1] claims that the most recent change to the ruleset is the adoption of Proposal 7875, "Better Accounting" [2]. This should have modified rules 2496 and 2497, but the text that was proposed to be appended cannot be found. Additionally

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
> On Sep 25, 2017, at 10:37 PM, Josh T wrote: > > @o: Where were you when G. asked about terminology? Busy with non-Agora things. The lateness of the hour is why I’m still voting FOR the proposal, even though I find that element objectionable: I’d rather not drag things out simply because I’m

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread Josh T
@o: Where were you when G. asked about terminology? 天火狐 On 25 September 2017 at 22:18, Owen Jacobson wrote: > On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > >- Any player with a karma of 7 or greater is a Samurai. >- Any player with a karma of -7 or less is an Eta. >

DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >- Any player with a karma of 7 or greater is a Samurai. >- Any player with a karma of -7 or less is an Eta. I am _deeply_ uncomfortable with this terminology. As recently as the mid-19th century, Japanese magistrates consi

Re: DIS: Various questions

2017-09-25 Thread ATMunn .
On second thought, I don't think I really want the responsibilities of an office yet. I think I'll stay unemployed for now. On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 3:26 PM, ATMunn . wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for your answers. > > I'm not too interested in the Superintendent office, so I don't think I'll > go f

Re: DIS: Re: CFJ (Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7899-7904)

2017-09-25 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: If you just say "I vote as G. does" that to me reads like voting the same as my current vote, which wouldn't change if I changed my current vote. I don't think there's anything in "I vote as G. does" that makes it sound conditional. Hm, that leaves the

DIS: Re: CFJ (Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7899-7904)

2017-09-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
Hmm, the key part is "conditionally", the "last part" shouldn't be separated from that. When you say "endorse", the key thing about defining it to be "conditional" is to ensure it's evaluated at the end of the voting period. If you just say "I vote as G. does" that to me reads like voting the s

DIS: Re: CFJ (Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7899-7904)

2017-09-25 Thread Nic Evans
On 09/25/17 18:38, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > I CFJ on the statement: > >     In the below quoted message, VJ Rada endorsed G. > > Argument: Rule 2127 states > >   Casting a vote endorsing another voter is equivalent to >   conditionally casting a vote whose value is the same as the most >  

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7905-7907

2017-09-25 Thread ATMunn .
Oops, I don't know how that got sent here... On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:24 AM, ATMunn . wrote: > I vote the same as PSS does. > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < > p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7905-7907

2017-09-25 Thread ATMunn .
I vote the same as PSS does. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > > > On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:01 AM, Aris Merchant gmail.com> wrote:

Re: DIS: Screw all of this

2017-09-25 Thread ATMunn .
I got this. I think you're good. On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Josh T wrote: > I can hear you fine. > > 天火狐 > > On Sep 25, 2017 08:40, "Nicholas Evans" wrote: > >> Somewhere on the wiki is instructions for a gmail filter that should save >> any agora emails that might go to spam. It works fo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Such is karma

2017-09-25 Thread ATMunn .
Same. On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:07 PM, VJ Rada wrote: > Uh... I got your previous email, trigon, but not that one. Sorry. > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Ørjan Johansen > wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Reuben Staley wrote: > > > >> If the majority of players are convinced to attack some

Re: DIS: Screw all of this

2017-09-25 Thread Josh T
I can hear you fine. 天火狐 On Sep 25, 2017 08:40, "Nicholas Evans" wrote: > Somewhere on the wiki is instructions for a gmail filter that should save > any agora emails that might go to spam. It works for me (i receive all of > trigon's emails with a 'saved from spam by filter' notice attached).

Re: DIS: Screw all of this

2017-09-25 Thread Nicholas Evans
Somewhere on the wiki is instructions for a gmail filter that should save any agora emails that might go to spam. It works for me (i receive all of trigon's emails with a 'saved from spam by filter' notice attached). Someone should dig it up as I'm in transit for the rest of the day. On Sep 25, 20

DIS: Re: BUS: Frivolous AP spending

2017-09-25 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
I don't think you can... Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > On Sep 25, 2017, at 1:54 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > > I retract "make Cuddlebeam happy". The other one's useful in its own way. > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:53 AM, Cuddle Beam wrote: > dangit >

DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7899-7904

2017-09-25 Thread Gaelan Steele
> On Sep 24, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Aris Merchant > wrote: > > I hereby distribute each listed proposal, initiating the Agoran > Decision of whether to adopt it, and removing it from the proposal > pool. For this decision, the vote collector is the Assessor, the > quorum is 2.0 and the valid options

Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7905-7907

2017-09-25 Thread Gaelan Steele
Double bah. I wanted to change voting power to voting strength, but forgot. Also, where is the power requirement for voting strength? I checked but didn’t see anything. > On Sep 24, 2017, at 11:23 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Aris Merchant wrote: >> Create a rule ti