acka-voting Digest Sunday, January 31 1999 Volume 04 : Issue 029 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4039 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:05:47 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4039 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 10-15: proposal rejected Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) else...if (2) Eric. (2) two-star (2) No: /dev/joe (2) Danek (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) Robin Hood (2) ThinMan (3) JT (3) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Niccolo Flychuck (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) Studge (2) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4039 Proposal 4039 Making things a little harder else...if Due: Sat Jan 30 23:35:24 1999 Status: rejected Append to the end of "Dateing" the following JUSTPLAINMEAN delimited text JUSTPLAINMEAN It is the Crime of Promiscuity to invite a player of Ackanomic to a date. JUSTPLAINMEAN ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4040 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 05:21:25 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4040 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 23-2: proposal accepted Yes: Niccolo Flychuck (2) Slakko (2) K 2 (2) /dev/joe (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) else...if (2) Robin Hood (2) ThinMan (3) JT (3) two-star (2) No: Danek (2) Baa: Eric. (2) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) Studge (2) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4040 Proposal 4040 Save the Swingers! Niccolo Flychuck Due: Sun Jan 31 02:26:57 1999 Status: accepted {{[since the old org framework doesn't appear to be coming back, and all Party Swingers are now on very thin ice, this proposal divorces Swingers entirely from Parties, removes the restriction on the number of Free Swingers, but doesn ot remove the restriction on the number of on-board Swingers. I will submit a seperate proposal that will allow opening up additional boards. The purpose of this proposal is only to save the game of Party Chss from the org chaos]}} {{The name of each Party Swingership is set to a name which is identical to its Party attribute. Each Party Swingership is transformed to a Free Swingership, it retains ownership of all its Party Chess pieces, and their position on the Party Board. The Swingership itself does not change ownership}} Ammend R11-1 "Party Hall" to read in full: " I. Swingerships are Tradeable entities. The owner of a Swingership is known as a Swinger. The term Free Swingership is identical to the term Swingership. II. Swingerships can only be owned by players. III. Any player who does not already own a Swingership, can create a new Swingership in eir possession, by paying 10 times the Standard Harfer Fee to the Treasury, and specifying a legal Ackanomic name which can be used to refer to the new Swingership. IV. Any player may destroy a Swingership they own as a Public Action. V. Whenever a Swingership is destroyed, all Party Chess Pieces associated with it are destroyed. VI. Whenever a Swinger goes on Vacation, eir Swingership becomes Warm. When ever a Swinger returns from Vacation eir Swingerhsip ceases to be Warm. VII. Any player may change the name of a free swingership they own by announcing the name change and paying the standard harfer fee. VIII. The Swingers are collectively known as Party-Hall. " In R12-8-2 "Swingers Like to Play Around II - Let's play" : I.remove the second sentence of section 4 B (ii) II.remove section 4 B (iv) III.remove the sentence "If a Party Swinger's last three moves have all been default plays, then their Swingership goes Somewhere Else. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4055 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:14:39 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4055 Let's Get Together else...if Due: Sun Feb 7 18:14:38 1999 Create a child of rule 12-8, name it "Backers", and make it read as= delimited by FRIENDSANDFAMILY =46RIENDSANDFAMILY All player are either Swingers or Non-Swingers. A Non-Swinger may choose= to Back a Swinger as a public action. If the Swinger and more than half of= that Swinger's Backers accept the Non-Swinger publicly, than the= Non-Swinger ceases to Back any other Swingers, and becomes a Backer of the= Swinger who accepted him. A Backer may cease to Back a Swinger as a public= action. As a public action, a Backer may approve a Support Payment of a= specified number of A$. If, within seven days, more than half of the= Backers of the same Swinger approve the Support Payment, it is Ordered. = One week after the Support Payment is ordered, all active Backers of that= Swinger automatically transfer the specified number of A$ to the associated= Coalition. Backers who don't own the specified number of A$ cease to be= Backers; this is the only way a Backer can cease to be one involuntarily. = If a Swingership is Warm, a Backer may publicly approve that it be= transfered to a specified player. If, within one week, more than half of= the Backers approve that the Swingership be given to the same player, and= the player accepts, than the Swingership is transfered to that player. As= a public action, A Backer may approve changing the Swinger's salary. If= more than half of the Backers of a Swinger approve the same salary change= with seven days, the Swinger's salary is set to that amount. Coalitions are unownable, named entities. Each Swingership has an= associated Coalition. Coalitions may only own A$ and Point Pointers. A= Swinger may order eir Coalition to buy PartyChessPieces for the Swinger as= a public action. The cost of the piece is transfered to the Treasury from= the Coalition, and the Swinger receives the PartyChessPiece. If the= Swinger would not be allowed to purchase the Piece, e may not order eir= Coalition to. Point Pointers are ownable, nameless entities which may not= be owned by anything other than a Coalition. =46RIENDSANDFAMILY Replace section 4 of rule 12-8-4 with "A player may resign eir Swingership= at any time, at which point it becomes unowned and Warm." Amend section 2 of rule 12-8-4-1 to read " a) A Swinger's salary is of the form "a+b". a is the number of raw points= the Swinger receives, and b is the number of half-shares the Swinger receiv= es. b) Every Monday each Swingership receives a number of points equal to the= number of Swingers (excluding Swingers on Vacation, but including Acting= Swingers) with equal or lower Weights to be distributed to the Swinger and= the Backers. First the number of raw points the Swinger receives are taken= out. Then the remaining points plus one point for each Point Pointer owned= by the Coalition are distributed so that each Backer receives an equal= share, and the Swinger receives b halves of that. If the points cannot be= distributed evenly, as many points as possible are distributed, and the= Coalition receives one Point Pointer for each point not distributed. = Regardless, the old Point Pointers are destroyed. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4041 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:27:09 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4041 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 8-17: proposal rejected Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) Robin Hood (2) Eric. (2) No: /dev/joe (2) Danek (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) else...if (2) ThinMan (3) JT (3) two-star (2) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Niccolo Flychuck (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) Studge (2) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4041 Proposal 4041 Burn the witch! O Olde Alpha Due: Sun Jan 31 19:17:48 1999 Status: rejected Amend rule 5 ("Hearings") by appending the following quoted text: " Failing to report silly, frivolous or otherwise invalid responses to a hearing is the Crime of Taking the Harf Too Seriously. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4056 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:43:47 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4056 Let's Get Together else...if Due: Sun Feb 7 22:43:46 1999 Create a child of rule 12-8, name it "Backers", and make it read as delimited by FRIENDSANDFAMILY FRIENDSANDFAMILY All player are either Swingers or Non-Swingers. A Non-Swinger may choose to Back a Swinger as a public action. If the Swinger and more than half of that Swinger's Backers accept the Non-Swinger publicly, than the Non-Swinger ceases to Back any other Swingers, and becomes a Backer of the Swinger who accepted him. A Backer may cease to Back a Swinger as a public action. As a public action, a Backer may approve a Support Payment of a specified number of A$. If, within seven days, more than half of the Backers of the same Swinger approve the Support Payment, it is Ordered. One week after the Support Payment is ordered, all active Backers of that Swinger automatically transfer the specified number of A$ to the associated Coalition. Backers who don't own the specified number of A$ cease to be Backers; this is the only way a Backer can cease to be one involuntarily. If a Swingership is Warm, a Backer may publicly approve that it be transfered to a specified player. If, within one week, more than half of the Backers approve that the Swingership be given to the same player, and the player accepts, than the Swingership is transfered to that player. As a public action, A Backer may approve changing the Swinger's salary. If more than half of the Backers of a Swinger approve the same salary change with seven days, the Swinger's salary is set to that amount. Coalitions are unownable, named entities. Each Swingership has an associated Coalition. Coalitions may only own A$ and Point Pointers. A Swinger may order eir Coalition to buy PartyChessPieces for the Swinger as a public action. The cost of the piece is transfered to the Treasury from the Coalition, and the Swinger receives the PartyChessPiece. If the Swinger would not be allowed to purchase the Piece, e may not order eir Coalition to. Point Pointers are ownable, nameless entities which may not be owned by anything other than a Coalition. FRIENDSANDFAMILY Replace section 4 of rule 12-8-4 with "A player may resign eir Swingership at any time, at which point it becomes unowned and Warm." Amend section 2 of rule 12-8-4-1 to read " a) A Swinger's salary is of the form "a+b". a is the number of raw points the Swinger receives, and b is the number of half-shares the Swinger receives. b) Every Monday each Swingership receives a number of points equal to the number of Swingers (excluding Swingers on Vacation, but including Acting Swingers) with equal or lower Weights to be distributed to the Swinger and the Backers. First the number of raw points the Swinger receives are taken out. Then the remaining points plus one point for each Point Pointer owned by the Coalition are distributed so that each Backer receives an equal share, and the Swinger receives b halves of that. If the points cannot be distributed evenly, as many points as possible are distributed, and the Coalition receives one Point Pointer for each point not distributed. Regardless, the old Point Pointers are destroyed. ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #29 ********************************