acka-voting Digest Tuesday, November 24 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 202 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3802 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 02:54:16 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3802 A better way for games to become moribund JT Due: Tue Dec 1 02:54:15 1998 This is a modest proposal. {{[ This merely lets any player in a game declare it to be moribund. Enough players objecting is still sufficient to keep it alive. ]}} Amend rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) by replacing section XII with the following text as delimited by MORIBUND MORIBUND XII. Moribund Games a. Any player may declare a game they are playing in to be moribund, as a public action. That game will be terminated without a winner 3 days following such a declaration unless at least 33% of its players publically object before the 3 days elapse. MORIBUND ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3802 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:01:39 -0500 (EST) > Amend rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) by replacing section XII with the > following text as delimited by MORIBUND > MORIBUND > XII. Moribund Games > > a. Any player may declare a game they are playing in to be moribund, > as a public action. That game will be terminated without a winner > 3 days following such a declaration unless at least 33% of its > players publically object before the 3 days elapse. > MORIBUND Does this still allow the referee to declare a game moribund? I don't think the referee counts as a player but e should probably still be able to declare a game moribund. Gromit. -- Tom Walmsley t.walmsley@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739 Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo. ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3802 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:22:12 -0500 (EST) #retract 3802 #end On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: >> Amend rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) by replacing section XII with the >> following text as delimited by MORIBUND >> MORIBUND >> XII. Moribund Games >> >> a. Any player may declare a game they are playing in to be moribund, >> as a public action. That game will be terminated without a winner >> 3 days following such a declaration unless at least 33% of its >> players publically object before the 3 days elapse. >> MORIBUND > > >Does this still allow the referee to declare a game moribund? I don't think >the referee counts as a player but e should probably still be able to >declare a game moribund. My goof. I retract P 3802 and will resubmit with that fix. --JT [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3803 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:26:44 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3803 A better way for games to become moribund (again) JT Due: Tue Dec 1 13:26:43 1998 This is a modest proposal. {{[ This merely lets the referee any player in a game declare it to be moribund. Enough players objecting is still sufficient to keep it alive. ]}} Amend rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) by replacing section XII with the following text as delimited by MORIBUND MORIBUND XII. Moribund Games a. Either the Referee of a particular instance of a game or any player of that instance may declare that instance of a game to be moribund as a public action. That instance of a game will be terminated without a winner following such a declaration unless at least 33% of its players publically object before the 3 days elapse. MORIBUND ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #203 *********************************