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Agora Nomic is the longest continuously running Nomic known. Agora started in 1993 and has been going on ever since. For many years, Agora maintained a roster of around 20 players. The number of watchers - people who are observing the game and perhaps participating in discussions - is often even higher than the number of players. In early 2001 Agora was hit by the Slashdot effect, and for a while its population was up to about 30 active players - this seems to have been only a temporary thing at the time. For quite a while since then, they generally had around 12 players. Agora is now back up to 30 players again, but not all are active, and even some of the active players do nothing except to object to attempts to deactivate them. However, Agora is always ready to welcome still more players (you can join by subscribing to the lists, then sending a message to agora-business stating that you register).

Agorans take their Nomic very seriously. Many regard it as much as exercise in philosophy, political science and group dynamics as a game. But they are not above silliness and having fun.

Since Agora has been running so long, almost everything has already been tried (and repealed) a couple of times. Still, people keep coming up with strange new ideas. You're welcome to start watching or playing if you're interested.

Wiki pages on some historical incidents in Agora:

Wiki pages on other aspects of Agora:

Relations to other nomics:

Web pages:

This web page on the NomicWiki is maintained by the Ambassador as required by rule 2135.

Agora is an EmailNomic, presently occupying five mailing lists. Most traffic goes to the three main lists, segregated according to status. In case the main lists break down, as they have in the past, there are two backup lists. To subscribe to the mailing lists, or view archives of play within the last few years:

The IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net:6667/##nomic is also an official Discussion Forum for Agora (http://java.freenode.net/index.php?channel=%23nomic web access).

Current active players (29 November 2009):

Inactive players (29 November 2009):

Some former players:

(The official Registrar's report lists over 70 former players of Agora)

Status:

AliveStatus OpenStatus ExtendedStatus

-- NomicDatabase