Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-21 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 22:02, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > On 6/20/2020 2:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > I don't think we need continuity/historicity on every card transfer, and > > the only reason for some of the other reports to have timestamped > > documents (e.g. Treasuror) is to h

Re: [Poll] A chat client for Agora (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-21 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
For someone whose daily driver is a 2008 laptop from a now-defunct company, bridges are great for me since IRC clients are generally lower-power than Discord's web interface. -- Trigon currently on a phone On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 14:16 nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wr

Re: [Poll] A chat client for Agora (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-21 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/21/20 3:00 PM, omd via agora-discussion wrote: > So we could set up a Discord community and then bridge it with IRC. > This can sometimes have awkward results [1], but from what I've heard > it basically works. I've been on discords that have IRC/Discord bridges, and they seem perfectly serv

Re: [Poll] A chat client for Agora (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-21 Thread omd via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 3:24 PM Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > So here comes the poll part: what does everyone think about a chat client? > IRC or Discord? Something open like Matrix? There are lots of options here. > What's the call? In addition to Matrix, open source options includ

Re: Archival Continuity and Discussion Accessibility (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/20/2020 3:01 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > On 6/20/20 4:55 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >> On 6/20/2020 2:46 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: >>> To be clear, I'd never suggest moving gameplay to a chat client. Discord >>> did not exist 27 years ago, and it's not th

[Poll] A chat client for Agora (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-20 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 16:09 nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 6/20/20 5:07 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > > Alternatively, we do have an IRC chat which is already an official > > forum. Mayhaps if the Webmastor promoted this service, it could > > encourage us to c

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/20/20 5:07 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > Alternatively, we do have an IRC chat which is already an official > forum. Mayhaps if the Webmastor promoted this service, it could > encourage us to congregate there to answer new players' questions. > > -- > Trigon > > (I haven't figured out my signat

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 15:33 nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 6/20/20 4:10 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion wrote: > > (I rejoined discussions) > >> Sorry to see you going, but always happy to have you back if you choose. > >> Can I ask what you foun

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/20/2020 2:55 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I don't think we need continuity/historicity on every card transfer, and > the only reason for some of the other reports to have timestamped > documents (e.g. Treasuror) is to have self-ratified rollback points. What do people think about a type of self

Archival Continuity and Discussion Accessibility (was Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that)

2020-06-20 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/20/20 4:55 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 6/20/2020 2:46 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: >> To be clear, I'd never suggest moving gameplay to a chat client. Discord >> did not exist 27 years ago, and it's not that likely to exist in 27 >> years. Agora needs something wi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/20/2020 2:42 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion wrote: >> I know the downside to chat systems is that things aren't recorded in a > way > that can be referenced long term, > I happen to run an somewhat nomiclike conlang discord server, where we have > a few channels corresponding t

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/20/2020 2:46 PM, nch via agora-discussion wrote: > To be clear, I'd never suggest moving gameplay to a chat client. Discord > did not exist 27 years ago, and it's not that likely to exist in 27 > years. Agora needs something with the continuity of email. This would > only be discussion in

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/20/20 4:42 PM, Stefan Fjellander wrote: > I happen to run an somewhat nomiclike conlang discord server, where we > have a few channels corresponding to agora discussion, which are just > as any else, and then in the channels corresponding to agora business > you have to format messages a ce

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion
> I know the downside to chat systems is that things aren't recorded in a way that can be referenced long term, I happen to run an somewhat nomiclike conlang discord server, where we have a few channels corresponding to agora discussion, which are just as any else, and then in the channels corres

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/20/20 4:10 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion wrote: > (I rejoined discussions) >> Sorry to see you going, but always happy to have you back if you choose. >> Can I ask what you found most difficult/frustrating? >> Difficult > I must admit I don't really know how to vote, nor how CFJs

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/20/2020 2:10 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion wrote: > Thus, I was in the position of "I get 20-50 emails overnight, of which I > instantly delete 99%, from a community which I almost never interact with > and which I don't even understand the basics of", and it's unfair both to >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving or something like that

2020-06-20 Thread Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion
(I rejoined discussions) > Sorry to see you going, but always happy to have you back if you choose. > Can I ask what you found most difficult/frustrating? > Difficult I must admit I don't really know how to vote, nor how CFJs work, and the discussion in general was over my head 90% of the time. I

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2020-06-20 Thread nch via agora-discussion
On 6/20/20 2:58 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-business wrote: > I, Bögtil, hereby deregisters, as via rule 869/46. > It's been nice knowing y'all, but I don't really have time for this nor the > energy (also I understand very little so each email required a lot of > effort) right now. I might rej

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving for a while

2009-06-20 Thread Sean Hunt
Aaron Goldfein wrote: > Also, as a courtesy, H. Conductor Tiger, would you publish an > up-to-date Conductor's report between now and the resolution of the > election? E published an up-to-date report and published intent to resign, remaining only to adress CoEs (of which there are none). At this

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving for a while

2009-06-20 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, comex wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aaron Goldfein > wrote: >> I nominate myself as Conductor. I pledge that any player can act on my >> behalf to decline my nomination for Conductor provided the player so >> acting has also been nominated as Conductor

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-30 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 20:43 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > > I join FRC. Quoting someone joining a contract doesn't cause you to join it. If you meant to join the Fantasy Rules Contest, please say so specifically. -- ais523 Notary

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 15:10 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: >> Goethe wrote: >>> I'd object to any new rewards unless we add something to reward and/or >>> penalize non-performing judges (I don't think we have such a thing, >>> do we?). Something like "the judge o

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 15:10 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > Goethe wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> I intend, without member objection, to amend FRContest by replacing > >> section 6 with this text: > > > > I join this contest. > > > > I'd object to any new rewards unless we add

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Ed Murphy
Goethe wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: >> I intend, without member objection, to amend FRContest by replacing >> section 6 with this text: > > I join this contest. > > I'd object to any new rewards unless we add something to reward and/or > penalize non-performing judges (I don't

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread comex
It's minimum to win, not most likely point gain before win.. Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Alex Smith wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 11:43 -0400, comex wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: ehird wrote: 2009/5/27 Ed Murphy : Would someone please expla

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:32 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > > I intend, without member objection, to amend FRContest by replacing > > section 6 with this text: > > I join this contest. > > I'd object to any new rewards unless we add something to reward and/or >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Smith
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 11:43 -0400, comex wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > > ehird wrote: > > > >> 2009/5/27 Ed Murphy : > >>> Would someone please explain "Min. to Win"? Â I'm sure I could work it > >>> out, but I have enough other things on my plate as it is. > >> > >>

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread comex
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Ed Murphy wrote: > ehird wrote: > >> 2009/5/27 Ed Murphy : >>> Would someone please explain "Min. to Win"? Â I'm sure I could work it >>> out, but I have enough other things on my plate as it is. >> >> Minimum points to win? > > PROTIP:  Begin by assuming I am not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/5/27 Elliott Hird : > 2009/5/27 Jonatan Kilhamn : >> -Tiger, who also did away with the "Geo. Mean" since e didn't know >> what it meant. > > Oh please... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean > Okay, sorry then. My defence would be that I was tired, I was done with that thing around 01:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-27 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/5/27 Geoffrey Spear : > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn > wrote: >> Tue 12 May 17:59 Wooble Wins by High Score. All scores are reset. > > The reset doesn't happen until a week after the win, to give a chance > to declare a skunk. > Oh. In that case any would-be scorekeepor wo

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > -Tiger, who also did away with the "Geo. Mean" since e didn't know > what it meant. It's just a fancy name for the square root of the product. The reason for it is that the product has the annoying property of increasing quadratically as

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > 2009/5/27 Ed Murphy : >> Would someone please explain "Min. to Win"? Â I'm sure I could work it >> out, but I have enough other things on my plate as it is. > > Minimum points to win? PROTIP: Begin by assuming I am not a complete idiot. Has this been evaluated as minimum(dx,dy),

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/5/27 Ed Murphy : > Would someone please explain "Min. to Win"?  I'm sure I could work it > out, but I have enough other things on my plate as it is. Minimum points to win?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Ed Murphy
ehird wrote: > 2009/5/27 Jonatan Kilhamn : >> -Tiger, who also did away with the "Geo. Mean" since e didn't know >> what it meant. > > Oh please... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean Would someone please explain "Min. to Win"? I'm sure I could work it out, but I have enough other thing

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > Tue 12 May 17:59 Wooble Wins by High Score. All scores are reset. The reset doesn't happen until a week after the win, to give a chance to declare a skunk.

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/5/27 Jonatan Kilhamn : > -Tiger, who also did away with the "Geo. Mean" since e didn't know > what it meant. Oh please... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_mean

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/5/27 Sean Hunt : > Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> Tue 12 May 17:59 Wooble Wins by High Score. All scores are reset. > > Not to 0, therefore the report is probably entirely incorrect. > No, they are reset to floor(S*P/10) or whatever. It's in the cart at the bottom headed by "For reference". -- -T

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-05-26 Thread Sean Hunt
Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: > Tue 12 May 17:59 Wooble Wins by High Score. All scores are reset. Not to 0, therefore the report is probably entirely incorrect.

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving the PBA

2009-04-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > I transfer all Coins I own to Wooble. Fails; I'm not a Comrade.

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving

2009-01-27 Thread Warrigal
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > I deregister. > > -root With all these deregistrations going around, I'm sure people would be severely disappointed if I didn't deregister as well. Therefore, I hereby invoke my R101 right. --Warrigal "Specifically, Paragraph Five"

DIS: Re: BUS: Leaving Fight Arena

2008-06-05 Thread ihope
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I leave Fight Arena. > > I intend to make Fight Arena cease to be a contest without 3 objections. I object. --Ivan Hope CXXVII