Re: DIS: simple way to give out funds

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/8/2020 2:51 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/8/20 5:39 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >> The Notary CAN flip a contract's donation level to a non-default >> value with 3 Agoran consent, provided e has not done so for any >> contract in the curr

Re: DIS: simple way to give out funds

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 5:39 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > The Notary CAN flip a contract's donation level to a non-default > value with 3 Agoran consent, provided e has not done so for any > contract in the current Agoran month. Does this really need to have such a long coold

DIS: simple way to give out funds

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
Falsifian wrote: > So, the idea is that if there's someone good work that should be > funded, but that shouldn't be a permanently rules-defined office, the > Agoran public could vote to fund their venture. Proto - Enact the following rule, Charities: Donation Level is a natural switch for

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Fri, 8 May 2020 at 13:36, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > On Friday, May 8, 2020 8:29:25 AM CDT Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > > because of the last paragraph of

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 10:01 AM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch up on the game by reading emails than by read

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 12:51 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > Are the auction rules stable enough to do Stones? That one's pretty ready > to go (except I don't have time to officer that, that's the reason I > haven't done a draft in months). I think the auction rules are fine since P8373 passed,

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/8/2020 9:36 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > On 5/8/20 12:04 PM, Rebecca wrote: >> The problem with economic rewards of that sort, of course, is that the >> economy has NO VALUE WHATSOEVER right now. the time i had the most fun in >> this game and it was most active was the broken boom/bust economy w

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 5/8/2020 9:13 AM, nch wrote: > On Friday, May 8, 2020 11:01:07 AM CDT Rebecca wrote: >>> I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well >> >> except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), >> mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 12:04 PM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: > The problem with economic rewards of that sort, of course, is that the > economy has NO VALUE WHATSOEVER right now. the time i had the most fun in > this game and it was most active was the broken boom/bust economy when > everyone was filing

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Friday, May 8, 2020 11:01:07 AM CDT Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: > > I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well > > except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), > mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch up on the game by

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 2:01 AM Rebecca wrote: > r > > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:40 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > >> >> On 5/8/2020 6:16 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: >> > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca wrote: >> > >> >> Repo

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:40 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On 5/8/2020 6:16 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca wrote: > > > >> Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an offi

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 9:35 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion wrote: > If e doesn't want that, e can simply specify that they will start vacant in > the proposal, according to my reading of R1006. Am I correct in this? That's my understanding. -- Jason Cobb

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On Friday, May 8, 2020 8:29:25 AM CDT Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > because of the last paragraph of R1006. > > Clarification: this is only an issue if you don't want the

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:29 AM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > > because of the last paragraph of R1006. Clarification: this is only an is

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/8/20 9:03 AM, Jason Cobb wrote: > - As written, these proposals would make you the holder of both offices > because of the last paragraph of R1006. Clarification: this is only an issue if you don't want the offices right now. I wasn't trying to say you shouldn't hold them if you would like t

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus via agora-discussion
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an official > position because it is useless. It is just very bad. Could you elaborate on this? nch seems to be proposing a new para

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Rebecca via agora-discussion
Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an official position because it is useless. It is just very bad. Webmaster is good though. On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:04 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/7/20 1:44 PM, nch via agora-disc

Re: DIS: Protos: Two Small Offices

2020-05-08 Thread Jason Cobb via agora-discussion
On 5/7/20 1:44 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > First, the Reportor. We've had it before, it gets sporadic usage, and then it > disappears. I think repealing it is a mistake. There's little-to-no legal > debt > in having such a simple office, and its existence encourages someone to take >