acka-voting Digest Thursday, December 17 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 231 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 3918 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:06:27 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3918 Sizzelean Vynd Due: Thu Dec 24 00:06:26 1998 Amend Rule 1250.22 in the following manner: (1) Replace the string "At the start of each round, each player must privately email the name of an actor" with "At the start of each round, each player must email the referee the name of an actor" (2) In the paragraph begining "The referee" replace the string "If the referee rules that the actron is too obscure, then the player who selected that actron loses one Gamepoint. If the referee rules that the actron is not too obscure, then the player who objected loses one Gamepoint" with the following string "If the referee rules that the actron is too obscure, then the player who objected gains one Gamepoint. If the referee rules that the actron is not too obscure, then the player who selected the actron gains one Gamepoint." {{[This eliminates point losses from the game, which were one of the main reasons why the duel between Trent and I was taking so long.]}} (3) In the paragraph begining with "The referee" replace the last sentence with the following string "If one or both actrons is ruled to be too obscure, the round ends." {{[Necessary now that players can gain points in the midst of a round]}} (4) In the paragraph that begins "Winning:" replace the string "5 Gamepoints" with "7 Gamepoints" ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3888 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:02:26 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3888 Yes votes: 11/14: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) rSiE No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Wild Card Baa: Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd (Vulcan) Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3888 Proposal 3888 let's make it a bit harder Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:12:17 1998 Status: accepted in rule 1270 (Puzzle Pieces) replace the following BORING-delimited text BORING Any player (A) other than the Puzzler may create an Ackanomic Puzzle Piece through use of indentured labour. This involves specifying a player (B) who has player (A) as their Overlord, and the Attributes of the Puzzle Piece to be created. When the Puzzle Piece is created, player (B) has their Thrall Attribute set to "". A player may not create a Puzzle Piece which is part of a Winnable Bag by the above procedure. BORING with the following HARDER-delimited text HARDER Any player (A) other than the Puzzler may create a random APP that is not part of a Winnable Bag through use of indentured labour. This involves specifying a player (B) who has player (A) as their Overlord. When the specification is made, player (B) has their Thrall Attribute set to "". HARDER ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3889 rejected From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:02:36 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3889 Yes votes: 9/16: proposal rejected Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) rSiE Wild Card No: Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3889 Proposal 3889 Santa's Workshop Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:22:48 1998 Status: rejected {{each active player gains a random gadget and a random otzma card}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3890 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:02:46 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3890 Yes votes: 10/16: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) rSiE No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) Wild Card Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3890 Proposal 3890 Fix it Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 05:23:18 1998 Status: accepted {{All offices not defined by the rules are destroyed}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3892 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:02:57 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3892 Yes votes: 9/15: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) K 2 Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) Wild Card No: /dev/joe (Vulcan) Calvin N Hobbes smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) Baa: rSiE Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3892 Proposal 3892 Voting is ALIVE!!!! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:23:47 1998 Status: accepted in rule 106, replace "three-fifths" with "a majority" ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3893 rejected From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:03:07 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3893 Yes votes: 4/14: proposal rejected Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) K 2 Wild Card No: else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) Baa: rSiE Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3893 Proposal 3893 ALIVE, I SAY, ALIVE!!!!! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:23:58 1998 Status: rejected in rule 106, replace "seven days" with "six days" ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3894 rejected From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:03:17 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3894 Yes votes: 5/15: proposal rejected Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) ThinMan (Vulcan) No: else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) rSiE Wild Card Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3894 Proposal 3894 Repeal snowgod's disease Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:09 1998 Status: rejected repeal rule 1132 ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3895 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:03:27 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3895 Yes votes: 11/15: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) rSiE Wild Card No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Baa: ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3895 Proposal 3895 oops Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:20 1998 Status: accepted rename any rule with "Government Type" in its title by replacing "Government" with "Paradigm" ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3896 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:03:38 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3896 Yes votes: 11/15: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) rSiE No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) Baa: Wild Card Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3896 Proposal 3896 old references are for Hungarian blacksmiths Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 06:24:31 1998 Status: accepted remove "(not including Capital Offices)" from rule 611 ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3919 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:13:30 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3919 Outdated Rules Crusade else...if Due: Thu Dec 24 16:13:25 1998 I was young and foolish then, I'm old and foolish now (well, not that foolish, I fixed at least one program) 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 lesser. 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. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3920 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:13:41 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3920 CSR's for everyone else...if Due: Thu Dec 24 16:13:40 1998 I was young and foolish...you know the drill {{[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 ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3921 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:13:52 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3921 The Next Big Thing else...if Due: Thu Dec 24 16:13:52 1998 This is a grandiose proposal Amend rule 303 to read as delimited by HEIRARCHICALSYSTEM HEIRARCHICALSYSTEM I. All rules have an H number. All references to rule numbers are to H numbers unless otherwise specified; this is a Class 1 sentence. Some rules may also have an L number, this is a Class 1 sentence. {{All rules receive an L number equal to their rule number before the proposal which most recently modified this rule passed.}} An H number consists of a string of positive integers separated by hyphens, optionally preceded by an H. Each integer in that string is known as a locator. A rule number is an H number if is preceded by H; this is a Class 1 sentence. A rule number is an L number if is is preceded by L; this is a Class 1 sentence. A rule number is an L number if the number is preceded by neither; this is a Class 1 sentence. The following relations are defined between rules: (Z means an indeterminate set of locators separated by hyphens, X means a single locator. Zn, where n is an integer, is another indeterminate set of locators, Xn is another single locator.) Rule 1 Rule 2 Rule 1 is a ____ of Rule 2 HZ HZ-X Parent HZ-X HZ Child HZ1 HZ1-Z2 Ancestor HZ1-Z2 HZ1 Descendant HZ-X1 HZ-X2 Sibling An H number is larger than another H number if the first (from left to right) integer which differs between the two is larger. When a rule Z1 is moved to become rule Z2, all its children Z1-X are moved to Z2-X II. When a new rule is created it is numbered as follows: 1. If the creator (be it proposal, rule, or something else) assigned it a valid H number not already assigned to a rule than it receives that number. 2. Otherwise, if the creator assigned it a valid H number and there is a parent (hereafter called THEPARENT to the rule with that H number than the rule receives the smallest H number, not already assigned to a rule, which would leave it as a child of THEPARENT. 3. Otherwise, it is given the smallest H number which would make a child of the Unassigned Rule Section. One week after the proposal which defined H numbers passed, {{[***Please note this clause***]}}replace all L numbers in the rules with the H number of that rule, and remove all Class 1 sentences from this rule; this is a Class 1 sentence. HEIRARCHICALSYSTEM Repeal rule 311 Create rule 99, "Unassigned Rule Section" with the following EXTRAPOWER delimited text EXTRAPOWER The rule-harfer may renumber descendants of this rule as a public action. EXTRAPOWER {{[There's a great deal going on in the rules, and it's easier to rearrange these things by CSR:]}} Assign to all rules with L number X the H number H99-X ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3922 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:14:04 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3922 Merrily we fall along else...if Due: Thu Dec 24 16:14:03 1998 I was young and foolish then, I'm old and foolish now. Amend rule 419, "Ambassador" to read as the following THISONCEWASTHELIAISON-delimited text THISONCEWASTHELIAISON The office of Ambassador is a political office. The Ambassador is the delegate^0 of Ackanomic to the InterNomic Treaty Organization^0 as defined in rule 419.1. The Ambassador must always be subscribed to the offical INTO-mailing-list^0. Any player may call an Agreement hearing on an InterNomic-Treaty^0 which Ackanomic has not signed or a Disagreement hearing on an InterNomic-Treaty^0 which Ackanomic has signed^0 and which allows Ackanomic to unsign^0 it. The Ambassador is the Hearing Harfer on both types of hearings. The valid responses to an Agreement hearing are "No! We want to mess up things for ourselves, without help from those black-helicopter flying INTO goons!" and "Surrender control to those black-helicopter flying INTO goons!". If the result is the latter than the Ambassador should sign^0 the treaty^0 the hearing was called on for Ackanomic. The valid responses to a Disagreement hearing are "What's your problem? Our rulers are doing a great job of pretending they still have power" and "Never mind prosperity for all, let's return to the dark ages". If the result is the latter the Ambassador should unsign^0 the treaty^0. The Ambassador may never sign^0 a treaty^0 which has terms which include hyphens or carets. Should the INTO Archivist^0 be a player of Ackanomic then that player receives a monthly A$25 stipend as a salary for bringing glory to Ackanomic. If a word or string of hyphenated words is followed by a caret and then a nonnegative integer: [^n] then the word is considered to be equivalent to the way that word or that word with the hyphens replaced by spaces is used in INT#n^0. No other terms or words used in the rules are considered to be the same as any terms defined in an InterNomic-Treaty^0. If n is 0 then it means the term is considered equivalent to a term defined in the INTO-rules^0. THISONCEWASTHELIAISON Create rule 419.1, "INTO Ruleset" with the following RULESANDREGULATIONS-delimited text RULESANDREGULATIONS Everything in this rule after this sentence is the ruleset of the InterNomic Treaty Organization Rule 1: The Archivist is responsible for tracking InterNomic Treaties. Rule 2: The Archivist selects the official mailing list, and must make a public notification of any changes to it. The first Archivist will be Uri Bruck (bruck@actcom.co.il) and the first mailing list will be internomic@muppetlabs.com. Rule 3: A notification is public if it is sent to everyone subscribed to the mailing list. Rule 4: A Nomic may designate a single delegate to the InterNomic Treaty Organization. Changes to the identity or the initial announcement of a delegate must be made by public notice. If there is an ambiguity about the identity of the delegate, the Archivist should determine the correct identity by inspecting the ruleset of that Nomic and other documents relating to that Nomic. If the rules and other documents for a Nomic are not available on the Web, then that Nomic must make them available to the Archivist in order have a delegate. Rule 5: The Archivist is elected. When there is no Archivist, Treaties may not be made or signed. If public notice is made that there is no Archivist, and no public notice is made by the Archivist contradicting this fact for one week, then nominations begin. A person nominates emself by making public notice of this. After one week of nominations, each Nomic, through its delegate, may vote for a candidate via public notice. Two weeks after the votes begin, the person who received the most votes becomes Archivist. If there is a tie, a runoff is held between tied people as if nominations had just ended and those two were the only nominees. Note that this ay require multiple runoffs. Rule 6: A person proposes a Treaty by making public notice of the content of the treaty. For two weeks after it is proposed, a Treaty is preliminary. After a Treaty has been preliminary for two weeks, it becomes an official InterNomic Treaty if it has been endorsed by at least three people, one of whom must be a delegate, including the player who proposed it (who is automatically assumed to endorse it). Otherwise it is destroyed. Endorsements may only be made by public notice. Rule 7: When a Treaty becomes an official InterNomic Treaty, the Archivist must assign it the smallest positive integer not already assigned to a Treaty and make its content available upon request (preferably be storing it on a web page). In any occurances of the string "INT#n" in that Treaty, the "n" is replaced by the number of the Treaty. Rule 8: Any Nomic, through its delegate, may sign an InterNomic Treaty by making public notice of this. The signing succeeds if and only if the Nomic has met all prerequisites within the Treaty for signing it. The Archivist should track which Nomics have signed a Treaty along with the content of the Treaty. A Nomic may remove its signature from an InterNomic Treaty unless the Treaty puts restrictions on doing so, in which case the Nomic must meet those restrictions before doing so. Rule 9: Although Nomics are expected to abide by an honor code, and obey the treaties they have signed, there is no general enforcement method in existance. Treaties should include enforcement when it is neccessary. RULESANDREGULATIONS ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3923 From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:14:23 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3923 DNC else...if Due: Thu Dec 24 16:14:22 1998 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." (I don't dare locate it exactly, since I have no idea where it will be by the time I get to it) 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." ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3897 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:49:13 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3897 Yes votes: 15/17: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Vulcan Unity Vote /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) Vynd (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) rSiE Wild Card No: K 2 Calvin N Hobbes Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3897 Proposal 3897 not harfy enough for me to try to scam it Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 16:52:13 1998 Status: accepted in rule 594.21 (Good Ballot Stuffer), replace "The possessor of a GBS may flip the harfy lever by publicly announcing they are doing so. Upon doing so, one of the following happens at random and then the GBS then starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably: 1. The GBS casts a vote for all harfy proposals currently in the voting queue." with "The possessor of a GBS may flip the harfy lever by publicly announcing they are doing so. Upon doing so, the GBS starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably, and then one of the following happens at random: 1. The GBS casts a YES vote for all harfy proposals currently in the voting queue." ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3898 rejected From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:49:23 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3898 Yes votes: 6/16: proposal rejected Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) else...if Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) Wild Card No: Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) Calvin N Hobbes Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd (Vulcan) ThinMan (Vulcan) rSiE Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3898 Proposal 3898 EXCELSIOR! Trent Due: Thu Dec 17 16:59:24 1998 Status: rejected create a rule 594.15, "Blueprint: Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer" with the following WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS?-delimited text WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS? The Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer (WBS) is a mechanical gadget. When created it is not broken. The Wishy-Washy Ballot Stuffer is lavender and has 2 levers, the Pesky lever and the Silly lever. The Pesky lever enables the WBS to affect Hearings and Elections. The owner of an WBS may flip the Pesky lever in any given Hearing by privately notifying the Hearing Harfer, and in any Election by privately notifying the Officer responsible for conducting the Election. This notification must be in the same private message as a valid response for the relevant Hearing, or valid vote for the relevant Election. The WBS shall do one of the following, to be determined randomly by the hearing harfer or responsible Officer after the response/voting period is over but before voting results are released: 1) make a response (in a Hearing) or cast a vote (in an Election) identically to their owner. 2) attempt to shut out all Evil Ballot Stuffers as if it were a Good Ballot Stuffer 3) cause a random Ballot stuffer used in the election or hearing to become broken and fail. If the randomly chosen ballot stuffer is itself, it becomes broken without failing. If the WBS does 1), it counts as an EBS for the purposes of rule 360 for the duration of the hearing/election. If the WBS does 2), it counts as a GBS for the purposes of rule 360 for the duration of the hearing/election. The Silly lever is used to randomize Acka (sometimes for good, sometimes for evil). The possessor of an WBS may flip the Silly lever. Upon doing so, the WBS starts to shake and shimmy uncontrollably and does one of the following at random: 1) casts a YES vote for all harfy proposals in the queue. 2) gives its owner a Bonus Vote (provided that no instance limits would be exceeded) 3) switches the scores of two randomly chosen active players 4) switches the amounts of A$ owned by two randomly chosen active players 5) switches who owns it with another randomly chosen Ballot Stuffer Upon a WBS starting to shake and shimmy uncontrollably, one of the following three things happen. A WBS may not be used between the time it starts to shimmy and shake and the time the this random determination is publicly knowable at which time it shall cease to shake and shimmy: 1) The WBS will sputter and die, and thus become broken. 2) The WBS will explode in its operator's face, and thus be destroyed, but not before bellowing a raft of annoying laughter ridiculing its user throughout the land of Acka. 3) The WBS will teleport, and thus change possession to, another random active player. Neither lever may be used if the WBS is broken, and only the player who possesses an WBS may use it, the previous provisions of this Blueprint notwithstanding. A broken WBS may only be fixed as described in the rules or by another Gadget empowered to do so. WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_USING_THE_ELEMENTS_AS_MY_DELIMTERS? ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3899 accepted From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:49:33 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3899 Yes votes: 14/15: proposal accepted Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) smallpox blanket (Klingon) K 2 /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) Vynd (Vulcan) else...if JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Giant Objectionable Potato Unity Vote Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) rSiE Wild Card No: Calvin N Hobbes Baa: ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3899 Proposal 3899 Resigning Referees JT Due: Thu Dec 17 18:14:41 1998 Status: accepted Amends rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests) Section VI, d by appending the following text delimited by RESIGNATION to the end of that section. RESIGNATION When a referee resigns as per this section, the Speaker may appoint another interested player as Referee, and the game will be suspended until such an appointment is made. RESIGNATION ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3900 rejected From: devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:49:43 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3900 Yes votes: 6/12: proposal rejected Yes: r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) Niccolo Flychuck (MetaMorph) Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) /dev/joe (Vulcan) Jenny (The Razor Boomerangs) rSiE No: smallpox blanket (Klingon) Calvin N Hobbes Vynd (Vulcan) else...if JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Wild Card Baa: ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain K 2 Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) MTM (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates Slakko (SPAM) Subject: Acka: Proposal 3900 Proposal 3900 I never saw the need for this Jenny Due: Thu Dec 17 18:20:35 1998 Status: rejected Repeal rule 251.1 (True Names) ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V3 #231 *********************************