acka-voting Digest Wednesday, March 03 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 055 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Acka: Proposal 4115 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:34:28 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4115 Cneoix Towie K 2 Due: Wed Mar 10 00:34:27 1999 This is a Modest Proposal {{[Fixing Characteristic Tests]}} Renumber the rule entitled "Characteristic Tests" as a decedent of Rule 4-4 and make it unassailable {{ [These rules we could live without for a while] The following rules lose their unassailability: 1-8 (Retractions) 1-99 (The Dragon) 6-20-1 (SHF) [Losing these rules would either generate work for another officer or create fundamental problems] The following rules become unassailable: 2-1-3 (Substantially Similar Proposals) 3-6 (Criminal Justice) [How else can we remove players who register under multiple names etc] 4-4-2 (Basic Player Characteristics) [No rule defining Characteristics makes rescue a hubert situation] 5 (Hearings) [Crisis resolution documents are reliant on this for anti scam] 6-3 (Offices, Impeachment) 6-5-1 (President) [Functional office re-assignment] 7-4 (Points) [Hubert Scam] [The officers who fill these duties would more than likely continue to fulfil eir duties - so what's the point of having em kidnapped rather than some other rule?] 6-4-4 (Rule-Harfer) 6-4-5 (Financier and Free Market) 6-4-6 (Scorekeeper) 6-4-9 (Count Tabula) [Default Hearing Harfer and Election runner] 6-4-15 (Trinket-Harfer) 6-4-19 (Dungeon Master) [Default Characteristic Tracker] }} ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4116 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:00:12 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4116 Two heads are better than one else...if Due: Wed Mar 10 19:00:10 1999 Amend rule 3-4-2 to read " Whenever the Rules call for the Supreme Court to consider a CFJ for the= first time, the Clerk of the Courts shall assign that CFJ to a Supreme= Cortex. A Supreme Cortex exists only for the purpose of judging a single= case, although there may be multiple Cortices with overlapping or identical= memberships. A Supreme Cortex has two members, who are refered to as= owning the Cortex. A member of the Supreme Court may decline a case which= has been appealed as a public action. If a member of the Supreme Court= declines a case which has already been assigned to em, then a new Cortex is= selected. =20 The CotC shall select two players for the Supreme Cortex (hereafter Cortex)= based on the following guidelines: 1) All active members of the Supreme Court are considered to be in the pool= of candidates 2) Any player who has declined the case is removed from the pool 3) Any player who is named as a defendant is removed from the pool 4) Any player who made the case initially is removed from the pool 5) Any player who appealed the case is removed from the pool 6) Any member of the Supreme Court considering more cases than any other= player in the pool is removed from the pool 7) Two players are randomly selected from the pool if possible 8) If there are fewer than two players in the pool, players are added as= follows until there are enough players in the pool to complete the cortex= (if at any time there should be more players in the pool than are needed to= complete the cortex, a random selection is made among them and the process = stops): 8a) The member or members of the Supreme Court who were removed from the= pool in step 6, not returned in step 8a, and are considering fewer cases= than any other member of the Supreme Court removed during step 6 and not= returned during step 8a are returned to the pool. 8b) Repeat step 8a until all players removed from the pool in step 6 are re= turned 8c) Return the players removed in step 5, then 4, then 3, in that order 8d) If there are still not enough players in the pool then the case is= considered by the entire Supreme Court If the Rules direct the Supreme Court to consider a given CFJ for a second= time, the entire Court shall consider the matter (as opposed to a single Co= rtex). " Repeal rule 3-4-1 are renumber 3-4-2 to 3-4-1 Remove section VI from rule 3-4 ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Proposal 4117 From: ackabot@ackanomic.org Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:40:48 -0500 (EST) Proposal 4117 Two heads are better than one else...if Due: Wed Mar 10 19:40:46 1999 Amend rule 3-4-2 to read " Whenever the Rules call for the Supreme Court to consider a CFJ for the first time, the Clerk of the Courts shall assign that CFJ to a Supreme Cortex. A Supreme Cortex exists only for the purpose of judging a single case, although there may be multiple Cortices with overlapping or identical memberships. A Supreme Cortex has two members, who are refered to as owning the Cortex. A member of the Supreme Court may decline a case which has been appealed as a public action. If a member of the Supreme Court declines a case which has already been assigned to em, then a new Cortex is selected. The CotC shall select two players for the Supreme Cortex (hereafter Cortex) based on the following guidelines: 1) All active members of the Supreme Court are considered to be in the pool of candidates 2) Any player who has declined the case is removed from the pool 3) Any player who is named as a defendant is removed from the pool 4) Any player who made the case initially is removed from the pool 5) Any player who appealed the case is removed from the pool 6) Any member of the Supreme Court considering more cases than any other player in the pool is removed from the pool 7) Two players are randomly selected from the pool if possible 8) If there are fewer than two players in the pool, players are added as follows until there are enough players in the pool to complete the cortex (if at any time there should be more players in the pool than are needed to complete the cortex, a random selection is made among them and the process stops): 8a) The member or members of the Supreme Court who were removed from the pool in step 6, not returned in step 8a, and are considering fewer cases than any other member of the Supreme Court removed during step 6 and not returned during step 8a are returned to the pool. 8b) Repeat step 8a until all players removed from the pool in step 6 are returned 8c) Return the players removed in step 5, then 4, then 3, in that order 8d) If there are still not enough players in the pool then the case is considered by the entire Supreme Court If the Rules direct the Supreme Court to consider a given CFJ for a second time, the entire Court shall consider the matter (as opposed to a single Cortex). " Repeal rule 3-4-1 are renumber 3-4-2 to 3-4-1 Remove section VI from rule 3-4 ------------------------------ End of acka-voting Digest V4 #55 ********************************