Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
mail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, November 4, 2016, Michael Brown wrote: > >> >> On 5 November 2016 at 14:35, Aris Merchant > l.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm definitely in favor of this >>> Discord/Slack idea. I don't know about cost and e

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 13:13, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > If you have ideas for founding rules that aren’t Suber’s, let me know at > this address? > Nothing terribly specific at this stage. I think perhaps something similar to Blognomic - or anything semi-imperial - might be better suited to the pul

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 14:35, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm definitely in favor of this > Discord/Slack idea. I don't know about cost and effort, but for a > discussion forum? Go for it. Besides, it will simplify my plotting > about the next generation of inter-no

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
16 at 11:00 PM Michael Brown > wrote: > >> >> On 5 November 2016 at 11:47, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> >> (Personally, I’d like to experiment with a Nomic executed through Github >> pull requests.) >> >> >> ^^^ This as well. The handful of Gi

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
On 5 November 2016 at 11:47, Owen Jacobson wrote: > (Personally, I’d like to experiment with a Nomic executed through Github > pull requests.) ^^^ This as well. The handful of Github nomics I have seen don't seem to work very well though, either because they don't get very many players and/or t

Re: DIS: The State of Discussion, Mailing Lists, IRC, and things that were actually invented this century.

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
3') Or a dedicated Agora Slack server with separate channels for OFF, BUS and DIS... On 5 November 2016 at 09:24, Nicholas Evans wrote: > There's been some frustration voiced about the three mailing list system, > again. I say again because there was a plan to migrate the mailing lists to > a un

Re: DIS: (Off-Topic) BlogNomic

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
Brendan has indicated that he intends to reintroduce the doomsday proposal after taking people's concerns into account. We'll have to wait and see what he comes up with... On 5 November 2016 at 08:46, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > > On Nov 4, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > > > > On the th

Re: DIS: (Off-Topic) BlogNomic

2016-11-04 Thread Michael Brown
I like "the Nomic Preservation Society" and agree the effort should be broader than Agora itself. This was just a good place to start recruiting. :D I'm also fine with the watch and wait approach, but we should be prepared to act. Of course, people who don't care about Blognomic aren't mandated to

Re: DIS: (Off-Topic) BlogNomic

2016-11-03 Thread Michael Brown
I am (unfortunately) a lurker here and, until today, also at Blognomic. So this is officially unofficial, but I hereby move the following for consideration by all watchers, lurkers and registered players of Agora: WHEREAS, Nomic is a precious gift to humanity; and WHEREAS, Long running nomics are