acka-voting Digest Friday, January 08 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 3971 accepted From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 04:05:56 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3971 Yes votes: 12/14: proposal accepted Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) Slakko (SPAM) K 2 NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) else...if JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) O Olde Alpha Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star No: Calvin N Hobbes Danek Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) 404 Not Found Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Vynd (Vulcan) Pending & did not vote: WoHo Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates /dev/joe (Vulcan) Wild Card Subject: Acka: Proposal 3971 Proposal 3971 Bad From (sic) K 2 Due: Thu Jan 7 20:18:22 1999 Status: accepted {{[Now that JT has gained a winning condition by illuminatus e can go on and achieve another one by points simply by delaying the submission of eir CW-CFJ. Not that I expect JT to do this but e won't be Illuminatus for ever.... ]}} Replace the following paragraph of Rule 6-5-6 (Illuminatus) which reads: " It is a privilege of the Illuminatus that e achieves a Winning Condition if it is publicly knowable that e has a score that is greater than 5/6 times the Magic Number. " with: " It is a privilege of the Illuminatus to achieve a Winning condition by points when eir score exceeds 5/6 times the Magic Number. " Replace the following text in Rule 8-4 (Winning by Points) which reads: " A player achieves a Winning Condition at the instant their number of points first reaches or exceeds the Magic Number in any given Cycle, provided that no one else has previously had a score reach or exceed the Magic Number during that cycle. " with: " A player achieves a Winning Condition by points at the instant their number of points first reaches or exceeds the Magic Number in any given Cycle, provided that no one else has previously achieved a Winning Condition by points during that cycle. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3972 rejected From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 04:06:06 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3972 Yes votes: 7/14: proposal rejected Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) else...if O Olde Alpha Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) No: Slakko (SPAM) Calvin N Hobbes Danek smallpox blanket (Klingon) Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) ThinMan (Vulcan) JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) 404 Not Found Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) rufus Vynd (Vulcan) two-star Pending & did not vote: WoHo Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates /dev/joe (Vulcan) Wild Card Subject: Acka: Proposal 3972 Proposal 3972 "There are those who call me Tim." IdiotBoy Due: Thu Jan 7 22:44:02 1999 Status: rejected {{K2 is a Klein Bottle}} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4003 From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 04:06:16 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4003 Guard of Honour Slakko Due: Fri Jan 15 04:06:16 1999 [I was thinking about Trinkets, and why we use them. I came up with two possible reasons: Firstly, they are a fun way to transfer money. Secondly, they are a way to recognise people for special events (through interesting trinket descriptions). I wonder, though, if the trinket system isn't a bit of a dinosaur at the moment. I'm sure that it would make the Financier's job simpler if we didn't have all these little bits of cash lying around in trinket form, so that everyone had just one number for their cash value. So this is an alternative way to recognise people for service to Acka above and beyond the call of duty. Feel free to suggest additional Orders if you feel they are appropriate. If this works, I may ask people whether or not they want trinkets to continue, but if people want them to remain I see no reason why this system should not coexist with them.] Create a new Rule, numbered 4-10, titled "Awards and Orders", with the following AC-delimited text: AC Orders of Heraldry are collections of Titles, and are thus collections of classes of non-tradeable entities. Each Order contains five different titles, each of which correspond to a rank in that order. The ranks are, in increasing order of prestige, Medallist, Ordinary Member, Commander, Knight Commander and Grand Commander, which may be abbreviated M, OM, C, KC and GC appropriately. It is good form for the names of orders to be easily abbreviable (e.g. so that a Grand Commander of the Order of the Loophole Surfboard can be abbreviated as GCLS). Unless other rules explicitly state how ranks in a particular Order can be achieved, ranks in that Order can only be achieved by the following method: Players may nominate other Players to receive a particular Order by notifying the President. No player may make more than one nomination per calendar month. The President may grant or deny the request at whim, but must state so publicly, and it is a Duty of the President to respond to such requests. It is good form to give vague yet plausible reasons for denial or acceptance of any nomination. If the nomination is accepted, then the player nominated receives the lowest rank in that Order which they have not already achieved, if such exists. The following Orders of Heraldry exist: Order of the Blue Cross (BC) Order of the Harf (H) Order of the Loophole Surfboard (LS) Order of the Steel Flea (SF) {{saaremaa becomes a Commander of the Order of the Loophole Surfboard and Robert Sevin becomes a Commander of the Order of the Harf}} AC Amend Rule 2-4 (Blue Cross) by replacing section 6 with the following NEWSCHEME-delimited text: NEWSCHEME 6. When a player first reaches or exceeds certain Blue Cross Ranks, they acquire ranks in the Order of the Blue Cross, as follows: Reaching or exceeding BCR 20 makes a player an MBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 60 makes a player an OBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 180 makes a player a CBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 340 makes a player a KCBC. Reaching or exceeding BCR 500 makes a player a GCBC. A player with two Ruby Slippers may wear them on his feet; any two Ruby Slippers so worn are considered to be a spaceship. A player wearing a spaceship may click the two Ruby Slippers together to launch himself to Kansas, provided he obeys any other restrictions in the rules on spaceship launches. Kansas is a moon of Acka; it is a location not in Acka, nor on either side of Acka. Ruby Slippers magically adjust to fit any feet as needed. {{All holders of the title Officer of the Blue Cross receive an OBC. All holders of the title Commander of the Blue Cross receive a CBC. All titles Officer of the Blue Cross and Commander of the Blue Cross are destroyed. All players with Blue Cross Rank at least 20 but less than 60 receive an MBC.}} NEWSCHEME ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 3974 accepted From: jtraub@dragoncat.net Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 13:22:47 -0500 (EST) Proposal 3974 Yes votes: 10/16: proposal accepted Yes: Trent (Giant Objectionable Potato) IdiotBoy (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) K 2 NY E NJ (The Razor Boomerangs) smallpox blanket (Klingon) else...if Studge (Giant Objectionable Potato) O Olde Alpha Eric. (The Razor Boomerangs) two-star No: Slakko (SPAM) Calvin N Hobbes Danek JT (The Razor Boomerangs) Robin Hood (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party) ThinMan (Vulcan) Abstain r-attila the farce (Giant Objectionable Potato) 404 Not Found rufus Vynd (Vulcan) Pending & did not vote: WoHo Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot Euphrates /dev/joe (Vulcan) Wild Card Subject: Acka: Proposal 3974 Proposal 3974 5 is Even and Odd O Olde Alpha Due: Fri Jan 8 13:16:10 1999 Status: accepted Create a new rule, with a number of the Rule-Harfer's choosing with the name "Mathematics Produces a Belief in Raisins" with the following SLAKKER delimited text: SLAKKER The Office of Evil Maths Troll is an optional, political office. It is the duty of the Evil Maths Troll to mediate in mathematical disputes. Whenever an ambiguity in rule interpretation or game state occurs in the field of mathematics, the Evil Maths Troll may submit a Mathematical Resolution Document (MRD). If this occurs, a Conscientious Scholar Hearing is called. A Conscientious Scholar Hearing is a hearing, and the Evil Maths Troll is the Hearing Harfer. The valid responses in this hearing are "Sorry, I have too much of a Real Life" and "I have a degree in Pure Maths!" If the verdict is "Sorry, I have too much of a Real Life", the MRD is accepted and will then guide play (but only in regard to mathematics). Any player who can prove (to the Evil Maths Troll's satisfaction) that e in fact *has* a degree in pure maths may cast a second vote in this hearing. It is considered good form to elect idiots to the office of Evil Maths Troll and similiarly for the holder of that office to submit MRDs which have little or no grounding in conventional mathematical theory. Players are permitted to sneer at other players who vote against silly or frivolous MRDs. SLAKKER {{O Olde Alpha loses a point. The Rule-Harfer gains a point. [I don't know how the numbering system works and I can't be bothered learning. I'm sorry, I have too much of a real life .]}} ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #8 *******************************