Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-29 Thread Pavitra
On Saturday 29 November 2008 03:02:26 pm Elliott Hird wrote: > On 29 Nov 2008, at 20:05, Pavitra wrote: > > informally request a PBA report sometime soonish > > nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx > > by bobthj > > I pledged to allow him to publish a report on my behalf. He hasn't > yet. PBA was a t

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-29 Thread Elliott Hird
On 29 Nov 2008, at 20:05, Pavitra wrote: informally request a PBA report sometime soonish nomic.bob-space.com/agoralog.aspx by bobthj I pledged to allow him to publish a report on my behalf. He hasn't yet.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-26 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Joshua Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I wasn't in on the discussion, could someone provide the context, > please? That was all of the context, and I was incorrect. The contestmaster switch is tracked by the Notary, but the list of contestmasters is par

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-26 Thread Roger Hicks
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:39, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bobthj scammed it as a contest by ratifying scorekeepor's report. Except... > see wooble's quote. > > Arguments: The PRS was a contest for quite some time before it ceased to be one due to a ratification error on the Notary

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-26 Thread Elliott Hird
On 26 Nov 2008, at 12:12, Joshua Boehme wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:59:44 + Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CFJ: The PRS is a contest Arguments: neat, PRS isn't a contest; Notary is recordkeepor of contestmasters so ratifying the Scorekeepor report didn't make it a contest. a

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-11-26 Thread Joshua Boehme
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:59:44 + Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CFJ: The PRS is a contest > > Arguments: > > neat, PRS isn't a contest; Notary is recordkeepor of > contestmasters so ratifying the Scorekeepor report didn't make it a > contest. > and since the Scorekeepor report

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ais523 can't return the point, so an equitable resolution would be to > award each other party 1 free point as well. ;-) No. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you."

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I agree that criminal proceedings aren't reasonable, I'm more thinking of >> the equity; what is an "equitable" solution to making a mistake that >> resets all other members' poin

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:24 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > As is, I don't think there's a lot that can be done. The PRS was acting > > not-in-accordance-with-expectations due to a mistake, so that can

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Elliott Hird
On 27 Oct 2008, at 21:24, Kerim Aydin wrote: I agree that criminal proceedings aren't reasonable, I'm more thinking of the equity; what is an "equitable" solution to making a mistake that resets all other members' points? I'm not too bothered with "gamestate changing" issues, equity is mo

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I agree that criminal proceedings aren't reasonable, I'm more thinking of > the equity; what is an "equitable" solution to making a mistake that > resets all other members' points? ps. Maybe equity would be me putting a big word ILLEGAL next to the w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > As is, I don't think there's a lot that can be done. The PRS was acting > not-in-accordance-with-expectations due to a mistake, so that can be > solved equitably, but the gamestate will have changed a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves > >> to clearly label it as one. ais523 has a score of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 15:07, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves >>> to clearly label it as one. ais523

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves >> to clearly label it as one. ais523 has a score of at least 100. >> >> Therefore, by rule 2187, I satisfy the W

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Roger Hicks
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:52, Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves > to clearly label it as one. ais523 has a score of at least 100. > > Therefore, by rule 2187, I satisfy the Winning Condition of High Score; > I do not sati

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I initiate an equity case regarding the PRS, whose parties are ehird, > BobTHJ, comex, Murphy, Quazie, Wooble, Pavitra, ais523, and root. > ais523 should only have gotten 1 point from the above cashout since e > only had 1 PV

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS changes

2008-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > with: > The total number of points a player MAY award in a given week > is equal to 5 times the number of first-class players who are > members of contracts for which e is contestmaster. Points up to > this total CAN be awarded by a

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS Cashout

2008-10-27 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > The following sentence is a win announcement, and this sentence serves > to clearly label it as one. ais523 has a score of at least 100. > > Therefore, by rule 2187, I satisfy the Winning Condition of High Score; > I do not satisfy any Losing Conditions, th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Taral
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you be a little more specific about what the problem is here? What > about the PRS would you change, or what do you find to be scammable or > unbalanced? The PRS is regulated by the same "without three > objections" that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Elliott Hird wrote: why? >>> >>> I have a problem with the laundering concept of the PRS. It shou

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Taral
I object to ehird's, ihope's, and both of Quazie's attempts to make the PRS a contest. It would allow contests to persistently exceed the rules-mandated cap on number of awardable points. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you." -- Unknown

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Taral
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ihope wrote: >>Just to speed things along or something, I intend to make the Points >>Relay Service a contract with myself as contestmaster without three >>objections. > > I object. And here I thought you'd just reposted the same

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Roger Hicks
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elliott Hird wrote: >>why? > > I have a problem with the laundering concept of the PRS. It should not > be granted the ability to award points. Points should only be awarded > for generally-approved subgames, but the PRS would

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Zefram
Elliott Hird wrote: >why? I have a problem with the laundering concept of the PRS. It should not be granted the ability to award points. Points should only be awarded for generally-approved subgames, but the PRS would open the way for anything to grant points. -zefram

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-28 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/28 Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I object. > > -zefram > why?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Jun 27, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Quazie wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/6/27 Geoffrey Spear <[EMA

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Quazie
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Elliott Hird >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 2008/6/27 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's already a cont

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Quazie
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/6/27 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> It's already a contest. >> >> Ironic. >> > > Proto-proposal: rename "contests" to something

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/6/27 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> It's already a contest. > > Ironic. > Proto-proposal: rename "contests" to something that doesn't share most of the same letters with "contracts"

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Quazie
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Elliott Hird > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I join the PRS. >> >> 2008/6/27 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> I intend to make the Points Relay Service a contract with myself as >>> contest

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Elliott Hird
2008/6/27 Geoffrey Spear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's already a contest. Ironic.

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I join the PRS. > > 2008/6/27 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I intend to make the Points Relay Service a contract with myself as >> contestmaster without three objections. >> > > I object. > > I intend to make the Points Rel

DIS: Re: BUS: PRS

2008-06-27 Thread Quazie
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I join the PRS. > > 2008/6/27 Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I intend to make the Points Relay Service a contract with myself as >> contestmaster without three objections. >> > > I object. > > I intend to make the Points Re