acka-research Digest Sunday, January 03 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Gavin Logan" Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3954 accepted Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 08:14:45 -0500 (EST) > I was going to stay on vacation another day or two, but I had a >nightmare that the number of voters had dropped absurdly low and that the >few remaining ones had passed some really stupid proposals. I have to let people know that I am not a reliably good voter. I will vote for things which quite evidently crash the game; proposals which include words like "chaos", "rampant disorder" and "wibble". I will vote against proposals because I'm in a bad mood, or because I don't like your face. At first I felt no qualm about my absurd voting strategy, including my tendency to still anti-vote, because the number of sensible voting players momentously outweighed me. Recently though, I feel a responsibility to actually READ proposals; to analyse them for loopholes; I have even found myself looking at the party chess rules. Quite clearly, some players have to start voting again or I will plunge Acka into the pits of eternal peril by retroactively giving all entities the description: "It is green." or some such insanity. O Olde Alpha ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3968 rejected Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:35:56 -0500 (EST) At 06:36 PM 1/2/99 -0500, you wrote: >Proposal 3968 > >Yes votes: 2/7: proposal rejected > >No: Calvin N Hobbes Danek smallpox blanket (Klingon) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) O Olde Alpha > > > this is a modest proposal > repeal the rule titled 'Miscellaneous Rule Suite' > repeal the rule titled 'sloppy else...if' um, hello? Rule Suites are not rule defined. They are not necessary with heirarchical rules. Please don't be stupid. -- Trent Acting CotC, Butthead, Crazy French-Scotsman, Daring Adventurer, DeeJay, Dungeon Master, Grey Councillor, Really Weird, Rules-Harfer, Worker Caste, Weird ------------------------------ From: "Gavin Logan" Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3968 rejected Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:34:01 -0500 (EST) >um, hello? > >Rule Suites are not rule defined. They are not necessary with heirarchical >rules. > >Please don't be stupid. >-- >Trent I warned you. This is why more people should be voting. O Olde Alpha ------------------------------ From: "Gavin Logan" Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3980 Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:34:03 -0500 (EST) >Proposal 3980 >Dateing >else...if >Due: Sun Jan 10 16:10:42 1999 > > Should Ackanomic be invited publicly to a date on the internet, any >player who attends will receive one honour. Any players who attends or has >attended such a date on the day this rule is created receives one honour. > Shouldn't we work out some way that ackanomic should go? Thank Pheobe I'm not ambassador otherwise it would probably be my job. O Olde Alpha ------------------------------ From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3980 Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:49:31 -0500 (EST) >Shouldn't we work out some way that ackanomic should go? Thank Pheobe I'm >not ambassador otherwise it would probably be my job. I have this vision of a half-dozen Ackans showing up and confusing things. -- -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ End of acka-research Digest V4 #3 *********************************