acka-voting Digest Monday, December 07 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 220 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3874 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 01:32:30 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3874 Well, let's get it fixed Trent Due: Mon Dec 14 01:32:29 1998 In rule 613 (Winning is pretty Harfy): replace "all but one" with "twenty" {{[there are 21 right now, it can be fixed later]}} replace "1 Foolish 2 Silly" with "1 Foolish or Silly 2 Puzzler" replace "18 Jazz JackRabbit or Passive Contemplator 19 Third Cat, Sage o'Doe Gas, Agent of KAOS, small lab mouse, or the Puzzler" with "18 Jazz JackRabbit 19 Third Cat, Sage o'Doe Gas, Agent of KAOS, small lab mouse, or Passive Contemplator" replace item 21 with "21 Wrangler" replace the numbers "1" through "21" on the list with "*" remove "and all the others are renumbered accordingly" ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3875 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 01:32:41 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3875 get the lead out Trent Due: Mon Dec 14 01:32:40 1998 {{[there mightve been a proposal that renumbered it (1390.12)]}} remove "and the Current Paradigm of Ackanomia is not Despotism" wherever it appears in the ruleset. ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3876 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 01:52:58 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3876 Something worthy of a parade JT Due: Mon Dec 14 01:52:57 1998 Repeal rule 107 (Quorum). Amend rule 104 (Proposals) by replacing the following QUORUM_STUFF delimited text QUORUM_STUFF As soon as possible after a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, the votes on that proposal shall be posted publicly. The proposal is then accepted if a quorum has been achieved and the required number of YES votes were cast on the proposal. QUORUM_STUFF with the following text delimited by NON_QUORUM_STUFF NON_QUORUM_STUFF As soon as possible after a proposal's prescribed voting period ends, the votes on that proposal shall be posted publicly. The proposal is then accepted if the required number of YES votes were cast on the proposal. NON_QUORUM_STUFF Amend rule 207 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported) by replacing the following text as delimited by QUORUM_STUFF QUORUM_STUFF If a Modest proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 4 points. If a Grandiose proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 12 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 7 points. QUORUM_STUFF with the following NON_QUORUM_STUFF delimited text NON_QUORUM_STUFF If a Modest proposal is rejected, the player who proposed it loses 4 points. If a Grandiose proposal is rejected, the player who proposed it loses 12 points. If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is rejected, the player who proposed it loses 7 points. NON_QUORUM_STUFF Amend rule 207 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported) by removing section IV (Effect of Proposals which do not meet Quorum) and all of it's text and renumber the remaining sections appropriately. Amend rule 709 (Gaol) by removing the following QUORUM_STUFF delimited text QUORUM_STUFF If a player is in the Gaol, they shall not count for the purposes of determining Quorum. QUORUM_STUFF ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3877 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 17:34:44 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3877 DNC else...if Due: Mon Dec 14 17:34:38 1998 In rule 1021, "Political Parties and Rewarding Party Unity", replace "At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that proposal are counted, if every voting player member of a given organization voted YES on that proposal, and no member of the Party is also a member of some other Party, then the political party itself shall cast an additional YES vote on that proposal for every three voting player members it has." with "At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that proposal are counted, if every voting player member of a given organization made the same vote on that proposal, and no member of the Party is also a member of some other Party, then the political party itself shall cast an additional vote of that type on that proposal for each point of Influence the party has." Append to the same rule, "A party's Influence is equal to the number of political offices held by members of that party, plus the number of voting players who are members of that party, all divided by 3, rounded down, but is 0 for a party with fewer than 3 voting members." ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3878 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 18:25:15 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3878 CSR's for everyone else...if Due: Mon Dec 14 18:25:13 1998 {{[There's really no point in maintaining the distinction. CSR's are for minor tweaks, proposals are for important stuff. CSR's are fast, but easier to block.]}} Amend rule 421.1 to read as delimtied by FREEDOMORATLEASTCSRSFORALL FREEDOMORATLEASTCSRSFORALL There shall be a functional office called Common Sense, Redundancy, and Redundancy. This office may be referred to as CSRR. The purpose of the CSRR is to sort and make available an archive of CSR's. FREEDOMORATLEASTCSRSFORALL Remove from rule 421.2 everything in the first paragraph except for the first sentence and replace it with "The purpose of a CSR is to bring the literal meaning of the rules in line with intend, interpretation, or custom, or to repair minor mistakes in the rules, such as punctuation, capitalization, or rule number references." Remove privilage d from rule 407.1 Remove the second sentence of the third paragraph of rule 422. Remove the last sentence of rule 311 ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3842 accepted Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 19:22:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3842 Votes: 14/23 (11 YES votes): Quorum met Yes votes: 11/12: proposal accepted Yes: Alfvaen (MetaMorph) Euphrates smallpox blanket (Klingon) Slakko (SPAM) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd else...if Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Baa: ThinMan (Vulcan) sIRE Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 Calvin N Hobbes rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) Wild Card two-star Pending & did not vote: Danek Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Ethelred J. M. Bear (MetaMorph) saaremaa (Vulcan) >Subject: Acka: Proposal 3842 > >Proposal 3842 >Marldoom Moved >/dev/joe >Due: Mon Dec 7 19:05:26 1998 > > >This is a Modest Proposal. > >Amend Rule 1250.3, "General Equipment", by changing >eel.st.usm.edu to brauer.math.utoronto.ca in section III a. > ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3879 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 19:24:10 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3879 Those Clauses do *NOTHING* Trent Due: Mon Dec 14 19:24:09 1998 {{[they really don't; the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs lack the precedence to override 101, and CFJs do not actually change game state; they just clarify what the case was all along]}} Insert between the first two paragraphs of rule 214 the following BLAHBLAH delimited text BLAHBLAH All Judgements must be in accordance with all the rules in effect at the time judgement was invoked, and with respect to the game state at that time. When the rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear on the statement in question, however, then the Judge shall consider currently existing game custom and the spirit of the game in reaching a decision. BLAHBLAH Repeal rule 215 ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3880 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 20:49:06 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3880 Outdated Rules Crusade else...if Due: Mon Dec 14 20:49:06 1998 Amend rule 710 to read as delimited by IRON IRON A Crime Hearing is a Hearing. If a player believes that another player (the Dirty Crook) is guilty of a Crime then they may call a Crime Hearing against them iff e has the SHF. When a player calls a Crime Hearing e transfers the SHF to the Treasury and may specify a penalty, as defined below. The player who calls the hearing is the Judge (Hearing Harfer). The legal responses are "Innocent", "Guilty, I guess", and "Lock 'em up and throw away the key". The winning response is determined as follows: 1) If one response has an absolute majority, it wins. 2) Otherwise, if all three are equal, "Innocent" wins 3) Otherwise, if one has an absolute majority ignoring EBS votes, that response wins 4) Otherwise, if the total votes for "Guilty, I guess" and "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" are greater than the total votes for "Innocent", "Guilty, I guess" wins 5) Otherwise, if the total votes for "Guilty, I guess" and "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" are greater than the total votes for "Innocent", ignoring EBS's "Guilty, I guess" wins 6) Otherwise "Innocent" wins If the verdict is "Guilty, I guess", then the Dirty Crook must transfer the SHF or all eir A$ to the Judge, whichever is greater. If the verdict is "Lock 'em up and throw away the key" then the penalty requested by the judge is enforced; if the Judge didn't request a penalty then the verdict is the same as "Guilty, I guess". The valid classes of penalties are: a) a DEDUCTION of 1 or more points from Player X's score. b) a FINE of 1 or more A$ payable by Player X to the Treasury. c) a SENTENCE in the Gaol of 1 or more days for Player X. d) the TRANSFERENCE of one or more trinkets, gadgets, Otzma Cards, or A$ in the possession of Player X to the initiator of the CFCJ. e) a PUBLIC APOLOGY of 1 or more lines by Player X. f) the REMOVAL of Player X from one or more Organizations to which e currently belongs. g) The IMPEACHMENT of Player X from a single specific office which e currently holds. h) the EXPULSION of Player X from the game. If the penalty was a SENTENCE in the Gaol, player X shall be moved from their current Location to the Gaol at which time their sentence will start. If, however, player X was already in the Gaol, the sentence they are currently serving shall be increased by the length of the new sentence. If the penalty specifies a TRANSFERENCE of any entity which it is not permissible to transfer, that part of the penalty shall be void, but such shall not necessarily void other parts of the penalty. If the penalty includes a PUBLIC APOLOGY, Player X is required to post a public message of at least the court-required length apologizing for his criminal ways. This should be done within three days of the expiration of his grace period, and it should have "Acka: Public Apology" as its subject line. Failure to comply will result in the addition of three days to that player's Gaol sentence, if he is in Gaol, or the immediate transfer of that player to the Gaol for a three-day incarceration if he is not in Gaol. Self-abasement is especially encouraged in such a message. IRON Repeal rule 711. ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3881 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:02:20 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3881 Win by Thrall *AND* become puzzler? Not! JT Due: Mon Dec 14 21:02:19 1998 {{[I noticed a small bug. A player who has enough thralls to win by thrall can submit a CWCFJ for this and then immediately convert their thralls into puzzle pieces in order to gain the benefits of that as well. They also gain A$25 per puzzle piece for becoming puzzler. This fixes both of these. ]}} Amend rule 615 (Winning by World Domination) by inserting the following text delimited by LESS_SCAMMY as the second paragraph LESS_SCAMMY Whenever a Winning Condition given by this rule becomes Claimed, all players who are in Thrall to the player Claiming the Winning Condition become set to "". If anyone wins a Cycle by this method, then at the end of that Cycle all Thrall Attributes are set to "". LESS_SCAMMY Amend rule 1270 (Puzzle Pieces) by replacing the following OLD delimited text OLD If a player owns all the pieces in a Winnable Bag, they receive a Bonus Vote, A$250 and an Automatic Sculpture, and the Title of Puzzler is transferred to them. OLD with the following NEW delimited text NEW If a player owns all the pieces in a Winnable Bag, they receive a Bonus Vote, A$250 and an Automatic Sculpture, all of their existing Puzzle Pieces are destroyed, and the Title of Puzzler is transferred to them, upon a player pointing this fact out publically. NEW ------------------------------ From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Subject: Acka: Proposal 3882 Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 21:43:40 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3882 let's help the map-harfer Trent Due: Mon Dec 14 21:43:39 1998 this is a modest proposal {{All players go home if possible}} Replace the final sentence of the first paragraph of Rule 847 with "All players shall scream in terror, run around like chickens with their heads cut off, and go home." ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #220 *********************************