acka-voting Digest Friday, February 05 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 032 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4046 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:47:21 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4046 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 11-12: proposal rejected Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) else...if (2) Studge (2) Eric. (3) No: /dev/joe (2) Danek (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (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) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4046 Proposal 4046 The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling! Eric. Due: Fri Feb 5 00:18:52 1999 Status: rejected In the Rule entitled "If we don't need Gravity, we'd better have Pressure," replace "two average cat-heights" with "one average cat-height". ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4047 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:47:31 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4047 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 5-20: proposal rejected Yes: K 2 (2) Eric. (3) No: Niccolo Flychuck (2) Slakko (2) /dev/joe (2) Danek (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) else...if (2) Studge (2) JT (3) two-star (2) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4047 Proposal 4047 The X Phobes Eric. Due: Fri Feb 5 00:19:02 1999 Status: rejected Repeal each rule which contains the letters 'x' or 'X'. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4048 rejected From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:47:41 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4048 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 10-13: proposal rejected Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) Eric. (3) No: /dev/joe (2) Danek (2) else...if (2) Studge (2) 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) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4048 Proposal 4048 Tomfoolery II Eric. Due: Fri Feb 5 00:19:13 1999 Status: rejected This Rule describes the known Elements. There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium, And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium, And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium... And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium! There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium, And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium, And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium, And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium, And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium, And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium... And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium! There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium, And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium, And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium, And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium. These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard -- And there may be many others but they haven't been disca'vard! {{ Add "Artist: Tom Lehrer" to the Literature List. Renumber this Rule as the Rule-Harfer chooses. Retitle it to "My Dear Watson". Change its authorship credit to "Tom Lehrer". [ For those of you unfortunate enough to never have heard Tom Lehrer, this is sung to the tune of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General" from The Pirates of Penzance. ] }} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4050 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 05:47:52 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4050 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 21-2: proposal accepted Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) /dev/joe (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) else...if (2) Studge (2) JT (3) Eric. (3) two-star (2) No: Danek (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) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Aunt Froot (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4050 Proposal 4050 A few small fixes (take 2) JT Due: Fri Feb 5 04:38:51 1999 Status: accepted This is a modest proposal. {{[ This fixes up a few typos in recent props, and makes some of the rule 1 descendants which are currently unassailable and do not need to be (such as paradigms which are not critical to game play) assailable. I believe we should keep the majority of rules assailable and only protect those which are necessary for functioning of the game. It also gives the rule-harfer the ability to fix references to a rule when that rule is renumbered. (Not when a rule is repealed since that could cause the entire reference to be removed (ie one or more sentences) and thus should be done via proposal. ]}} Amend rule 7-5-1 (The Treasury) by removing section IV which reads as delimited by FIXING_SHF FIXING_SHF IV. Harfer Fee The standard Harfer Fee is A$25. Whenever the rules direct a Harfer Fee to be paid, it is paid to the Treasury. FIXING_SHF {{[It's now covered by R6-20-1]}} Amend rule 9-1 (Gaol) by replacing the text '7-4 (Treasury and AckaDollars)' with '7-5-1 (The Treasury)'. Amend rule 6-4-4 (Rule-Harfer) by inserting the following text as delimited by NEW_PRIV at the end of the list of priveleges. NEW_PRIV e) To alter references to existing rules when the rule the reference is renamed or renumbered so as to maintain consistant references throughout the rules document. Abusing this privelege is the Crime of Number-Crunching. NEW_PRIV Amend rule 1-7-4 (Paradigm Type: Inflationary) to remove item i) from the list as it doesn't work with the new Official Decrees ability. Renumber the list appropriately. Make Rules 7-5-1 (The Treasury), 6-20-1 (SHF), and 4-4-7 (Voting Characteristic) Unassailable. Remove the Unassailable denotation from rules 1-2-8-1 (Remembrance Day), 1-2-8-2 (Yes Virginia), 1-2-8-3 (I'm a Teapot), 1-2-9 (Colours), 1-6-1-2 (Sanctity of Harf), 1-7 (Paradigms Rule Suite) and all of the descendants of 1-7. ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4053 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:47:41 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4053 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 16-5: proposal accepted Yes: Slakko (2) K 2 (2) /dev/joe (2) else...if (2) Studge (2) JT (3) Eric. (3) No: Danek (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) two-star (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Niccolo Flychuck (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4053 Proposal 4053 Warm & Fuzzy K 2 Due: Fri Feb 5 14:35:11 1999 Status: accepted This is Not a Modest Proposal. {{Transfer 2 points each to else...if, /dev/joe and JT from K 2}} {{[ A Fuzzy voting System ]}} {{[I have incorporated the changes made by 4024 by permitting players to place a vote with an absolute value less than or equal to 100 times their Voting Characteristic. The default value of the Voting Characteristic is also changed to 3 (permitting votes between +/- 300 for 'the average player' as per the original RFC)]}} {{[The following modifications were inspired by P2996, authored by saaremaa]}} I. Amend rule 2, "Proposals", to replace the third paragraph with this: " 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 proposal's Acceptance Index exceeds its Acceptance Threshold. " II. Amend rule 2-1, "Voting on Proposals", to read: " Voting Players may vote an integer with an absolute value less than or equal to 100 times their Voting Characteristic on each proposal, by sending their vote to the Tabulator. Players who vote less than a proposal's Acceptance Threshold are said to have voted to reject it, while players who vote greater are said to have voted to accept it. Votes must be unambiguous and unconditional. A Voting Player may also choose not to vote on a proposal, which is called abstaining. Voting Players who do not vote within the prescribed voting period shall be deemed to have abstained. Voting Players may change their vote up until the end of the prescribed voting period, but in any case are limited to one vote per proposal. A proposal's Acceptance Index is the sum of all votes legally cast within its prescribed voting period. A proposal's Acceptance Threshold is 0, unless changed as described in the rules. The prescribed voting period on a proposal is seven days, starting from the moment that the proposal is publicly distributed as specified by the rules. Entities may vote only as specified by the rules. Non-entities may not vote. " III. Replace the text "It has a Default Value of 2." in Amend Rule 4-4-7 (Voting Characteristic) with "It has a Default Value of 3". {{The Voting Characteristic of all players is increased to a value one greater that it was just prior to the acceptance of this proposal.}} IV. Create a new rule numbered 2-1-2 entitled "Mannna from Heaven" with the text: " Mannna is an ownable entity. A Trading entity may own a negative amount of Mannna. When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported, but prior to any effects generated by it (including any scoring changes), the following Mannna changes shall be applied to all players who did not abstain on the proposal: a) Players who cast a vote with an absolute value greater than 100 loose 100 less than the absolute value of their vote in Mannna. b) Players who cast a vote with an absolute value between 60 and 100 gain 50 less half the absolute value of their vote in Mannna. c) Players who cast a vote with an absolute value less than 60 gain 20 Mannna. >From the time it is publicly pointed out that a player possesses a negative amount of Mannna, until it is pointed out that they are out of debt, that player may only cast votes between 100 and -100. Additionally, at the time a player's Mannna debt it publicly pointed out, the player shall by fined either 10% of the absolute value of their debt in Mannna or 10 Mannna, whichever is greater. This paragraph takes precedence over all rules governing how a player can vote. " V. Amend sub-section 2 of section II of Rule 4-1 (Joining the Game) to read: " 2) The new player is paid from the Treasury the sum of A$900 and receives 100 Mannna. " {{All players have 100 Mannna.}} {{[Don't even think of Patent Infringement]}} {{[Fix the rest of the rules]}} VI. Amend Rule 2-2 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported) making section VI. to read in full: " A proposal is Boring if and only if its Acceptance Index is between -60 and 60 inclusive. The above provisions notwithstanding, no points are scored by any player as a result of a Boring proposal being accepted or rejected. " VII. Amend Rule 1-7-3 (Paradigm Type: AntiVoting) by replacing the phrase: " Anti-Voting is defined as voting NO on an accepted proposal or voting YES on a rejected proposal (determined at the end of the prescribed voting period). " with: " Anti-Voting is defined as voting to reject an accepted proposal or voting to accept a rejected proposal (determined at the end of the prescribed voting period). " VIII. Amend Rule 1-7-5 (Paradigm Type: Flow Voting) by replacing the phrase: " Flow-Voting is defined as voting YES on an accepted proposal or voting NO on a rejected proposal (determined at the end of the prescribed voting period). " with: " Flow-Voting is defined as voting to accept an accepted proposal or voting to reject a rejected proposal (determined at the end of the prescribed voting period). " IX. Amend Rule 2-2-3 (Ackanomic Unity) by replacing the first sentence with: " Should it ever occur that every player eligible to do so should vote to accept the same proposal then the following shall happen: " X. Amend the paragraph which commences "If exactly one of the verdicts of a Serious Hearing" in Rule 5 (Hearings) to read in full: " If exactly one of the verdicts of a Serious Hearing would lead to a modification of the ruleset, that verdict must receive sufficient votes such that if it were a proposal it would be accepted, treating votes for that verdict as votes of 100 and all other votes in the hearing as votes of -100. In this case, if this particular response would fail to be accepted, the response that received the second most responses is the verdict of the Hearing. " {{[Potential for a fuzzy hearing system ;-)]}} XI. Amend Section i under the heading 'Effect:' in Rule 7-16-4 (ASS Song: Ode to Joy) to read: " i) Every player that voted to accept the proposal that triggered the song gains one point. " XII. Replace the text "All players who voted against a Great Work that was accepted will lose 7 points" where it appears in section III, [subsection c] in Rule 2-2-2 (Literature) with the text "All players who voted to reject a Great Work that was accepted will lose 7 points" XIII. Make Rule 6-4-6 (Scorekeeper) read in full: " The Office of the Scorekeeper is a Functional Office. The Duties of the Scorekeeper are: (a) maintaining a record of the players' current scores and their Mannna. (b) recording each score and Mannna change (c) detecting and announcing as soon as possible the event of a player achieving a Winning Condition by points. (d) announcing when a player has a negative amount of Mannna and when that has ceased to be the case. (d) performing any random determinations involved in a process solely involving Points or Mannna. " {{[Make the votes on proposals made under the other rules work]}} XIV. Create a new rule with number 2-1-3, title "ZZimsy Proposals", and text: " This rule has precedence over all other rules affecting proposal votes. All proposals distributed after the proposal that created this rule, yet distributed before this rule was created are ZZimsy Proposals. No other proposals are ZZimsy. All YES votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 100. All NO votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of -100. All BAA votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to votes of 0. Upon it being true that there exist no ZZimsy Proposals whose voting results have not been reported, this rule repeals itself. " ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4054 accepted From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:47:50 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4054 Yes/No vote characteristic totals: 12-6: proposal accepted Yes: Slakko (2) /dev/joe (2) Blest Lax Monk Pal (3) Studge (2) JT (3) No: K 2 (2) Danek (2) else...if (2) Baa: Eric. (3) Abstain r-attila the farce (2) Euphrates (2) IdiotBoy (1) Calvin N Hobbes (2) Laa Laa (2) 404 Not Found (2) Robin Hood (2) rufus (2) Vynd (2) ThinMan (3) O Olde Alpha (2) Wild Card (2) two-star (2) Pending & did not vote: WoHo (2) Vacationing & did not vote: Niccolo Flychuck (2) Subject: Acka: Proposal 4054 Proposal 4054 Minimum Punishments JT Due: Fri Feb 5 15:31:17 1999 Status: accepted Amend rule 3-6 (Criminal Justice) insert the following text as delimited by MINIMUMS between sections 5 and 6. Renumber the current sections 6 through 10 appropriately. MINIMUMS 6) A Crime may, when defined by a rule, contain a Minimum Penalty. When a Crime contains a Minimum Penalty, a verdict of TRUE on the CFCJ must include at least that Minimum Penalty as party of the actual penalty. MINIMUMS {{[After the above renumbering is completed, what used to be 8a is now 9a]}} Amend rule 3-6 (Criminal Justice) by amending section 9a) to read as delimited by ENFORCE_MINIMUM ENFORCE_MINIMUM 8a) Upon a verdict of TRUE, the judge may retain or alter the recommended penalty. The result will become the actual penalty. This will be imposed following a 3 day "grace period". If the Crime for which the CFCJ is submitted specifies a Minimum Penalty, and the actual penalty does not include at least the Minimum Penalty, then the actual penalty is changed to include the Minimum Penalty. Failure to include the Minimum Penalty in the actual penalty is the Crime of Excessive Leniency on the part of the judge. ENFORCE_MINIMUM If Proposal 4050 passed, Amend rule 6-4-4 (Rule-Harfer) by inserting the following text as delimited by PUNISHMENT at the end of section e). PUNISHMENT The Minimum Penalty for commiting the Crime of Number-Crunching is Impeachment from the office of Rule-Harfer. PUNISHMENT ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4060 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:52:10 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4060 One more for the Road. IdiotBoy Due: Fri Feb 12 18:52:09 1999 In Rule 2-1, replace the following JOHNLEEHOOKER delimited text JOHNLEEHOOKER A proposal's Acceptance Threshold is 0, unless changed as described in the rules. JOHNLEEHOOKER with the following THUROGOOD-delimited text THUROGOOD A proposal's Acceptance Threshold is 100, unless changed as described in the rules. THUROGOOD ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #32 ********************************