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acka-voting-digest      Monday, February 2 1998      Volume 03 : Number 271

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:26:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2682

Proposal 2682
The Chocolate Frog
else...if (Henry Towsner)

Create a rule named "The Chocolate Frog", reading as follows:
"
There is an named, ownable entity known as the Chocolate Frog.  It is a
small, golden statue in the shape of a lawnmower.  It is the most valued
posession in all Acka.  Whoever owns it is known as The First Citizen.  On
the eleventh of each month, the Officer in Charge of Random Things will
select an active player at random to recieve the Chocolate Frog, and it
will be transferred to that player.

Any players who vote against a proposal made by the First Citizen will
recieve no points for anti-voting.  Any player who publicly insults the
First Citizen will be guilty of the Crime of Disrespect.
"

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:27:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2683

Proposal 2683
Just doing my job
Vynd (John McCoy)

{{[This proposal will eliminate some archaic language from the CSSR Rule.
More importantly, it creates a seperate Rule defining CSRs and how they
function, which should clear up how CSRs not issued by the CSSR are
handled.]}}

Renumber Rule 421 Office of Common Sense, Redundancy, and Redundancy to
421.1

Amend Rule 421.1 in the following PATCH delimited manner.

PATCH

Delete sections b through d.

Delete the first occurance of (a) from the first paragraph.  Then add the
following to the end of that paragraph:  The purpose of the CSSR is to
correct the Rules where they are redundant, do not make sense, do not
conform _in fact_ to their interpretation in game custom, or are
redundant.  Other functions may be assigned to this office by the Rules.

Add the following paragraph to the end of Rule 421.1:  It is a privilige
of the Office of CSSR to author Common Sense Reports in accordance with
the Rules on said Reports.

PATCH

Create a new Rule 421.2 entitled Common Sense Reports, with the following
RSC delimited text.

RSC
A Common Sense Report (CSR) is a list of suggested changes to the Rules,
but is not a proposal.  A CSR may only be authored by someone given
explicit permission to do so by the Rules.  Other Rules may restrict the
possible contents of a CSR authored by a given player, and nothing issued
by that player is considered a CSR unless it follows these restrictions.

Whenever a player authors a CSR, he must assign it a unique number and
distribute it publicly.  After it has been distributed, any player may
publicly object to that CSR.  3 days after it has been distributed, the
changes described in a CSR are enacted, unless 2 or more players objected
to the CSR within those 3 days.  The author of the CSR shall publicly
announce the fact of its enaction, or failure.
RSC

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:34:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2643 accepted

Results of Proposal 2643

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    NO:
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2643 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 19:56 EST
> Exorcist
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> Repeal rule 261 [Zombie Master]

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:38:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2644 rejected

Results of Proposal 2644

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
8/17 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
else...if            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    NO:
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Fortunato            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2644 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 19:58 EST
> Remember breadbox's Threat
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> {{All Commanders of the Blue Cross receive the title of Consulting
> Surgeon.}}
> 
> Create a new Rule, numbered 857, titled "Ackanomic Hospital", with the
> following SICKBAY-delimited text:
> 
> SICKBAY
> The classy Common Location known as the National Ackanomic Hospital exists.
> Whenever a player is Injured, they are transferred to the Hospital.
> Whenever a player is found to be suffering from snowgod's Disease, they are
> transferred to the Hospital.
> 
> A player in the Hospital may not leave the Hospital unless another player
> who is a Consulting Surgeon sends a public message allowing the exit, or
> the hospitalised player sends a public message after being in Hospital for
> 3 consecutive days, pointing out that fact. Such messages automatically
> results in the hospitalised player being transferred to eir Home.
> 
> A player may not make a proposal or CFJ in Hospital, as attempts to do so
> are discounted as paranoid delusional ramblings.
> SICKBAY
> 
> Create a new Rule, numbered 435, titled "Kneecapper General", with the
> following BANG-delimited text:
> 
> BANG
> The Optional Functional office of Kneecapper General exists. It has one
> seat. Whenever a player becomes Kneecapper General, they receive the title
> of Consulting Surgeon.
> 
> It is a privilege of the Kneecapper General to, once per calendar week,
> issue a Public Requirement as a public message. A Public Requirement is an
> action which is permissible for all active players to perform, and the
> performance of the action must be publicly knowable within 3 days of the
> action having been performed.
> 
> If at least one-quarter of all active players perform the Public
> Requirement within a week, then all active players who fail to perform the
> action are Kneecapped by the Kneecapper General. When a player is
> Kneecapped, they lose 5 points and become Injured.
> 
> If fewer than one-quarter of all active players perform the Public
> Requirement and the week has elapsed, then the Kneecapper General Kneecaps
> emself. However, instead of losing 5 points, they gain 10 points for being
> true to eir code of honour. Whenever the Kneecapper General Kneecaps
> emself, e automatically resigns eir Office of Kneecapper General.
> BANG
> 
> {{[breadbox's threat to kneecap everyone who didn't support Malenkai for
> the HoE inspired this obviously.]}}
> 
> {{Slakko loses 4 points. breadbox gains 4 points.}}

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:42:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2645 rejected

Results of Proposal 2645

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
9/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
else...if            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Hoover 2300
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
K 2
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2645 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 19:59 EST
> McCarthy-ism lives on yet more
> else...if (Henry Towsner)
> 
> Create a rule entitled "Red Scare" reading as follows:
> It is possible that there are athiestic communists across the river who
> intend to destroy our democratic, just, and religious way of life, and may
> even believe that black is not a color. Clearly, on this risk, and the risk
> that they have sent spys amoung us, we must take precautions. To protect
> against spies, the President may publicly announce that "There are spies
> amoung us." If the President has not announced this in the thirty days
> preceding the announcement, than Ackanomic will be said to be "Paranoid"
> for one week. During this time it will be a crime to publicly suggest that
> there is something wrong with the Ackanomian way of life. Any Player may
> call a Hearing on the matter of whether a certain public message from
> another Player was seditious.
> The valid responses to a Sedition Hearing are "Perhaps he's only a light
> shade of pink." and "Commie traitor!". If the verdict of the Hearing shows
> that the message was seditious, the Player who sent it is tarred and
> feathered until Ackanomic is no longer paranoid. If it shows that it was
> not seditious, the person who called the hearing is tarred and feathered
> for one day. Being tarred and feathered is identical to being in gaol
> except that a tarred and feathered player cannot cease to be tarred and
> feathered except as specified in this rule.
> 
> This rule takes precedence over all other rules, since any rule conflicting
> with this one must be a pinko-commie.
> 
> {{else...if loses one point. Slakko gains one point. [Royalties. This was
> inspired in large part by his Though Police proposal.]}}

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:45:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2646 rejected

Results of Proposal 2646

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
9/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
K 2
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2646 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 20:00 EST
> A humble and humbling token of our appreciation
> else...if (Henry Towsner)
> 
> Create a new rule entitled "Harfer Day" reading as follows:
> The 20th of February will be know as Harfer Day. Some time during the
> calender week containing Harfer-Day the President may give a speech
> commemerating the hard work of the Harfers throughout the history of
> Ackanomic. If e does so, e will recieve 5 points for it. This day will not
> count towards the time limit for a harfer to complete eir duties. All
> players are encouraged to personally thank the harfers who make Ackanomic
> possible on this day. The holder of each functional office will recieve a
> salary as if it were the first monday of the month on this day.
> 
> If any player attempts an action on harfer day which would cause work for
> any of these positions (including, but not limited to, voting, making a
> proposal, finding/burying a treasure, making a trinket, etc. etc., but
> expressly not including sending a public message which does not perform an
> action or the act of paying the standard harfer fee) then that player will
> be considered horribly impolite for the next week. All players are
> encouraged to sneer at a player who does this.
> 
> This rule take precedence over all rules necessary in order to pay proper
> tribute to our great harfers.
> 
> {{[Feb 20 is the day the first official harfer position, the web-harfer,
> was created. There were of course harfing position before this, but this
> was the first one with the word harfer in it (as far as I know.) Besides,
> the timing works well, being just about a month after our birthday
> celebration.]}}

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:49:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2647 accepted

Results of Proposal 2647

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
14/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)

    PRESENT:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2647 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 20:00 EST
> Radishes
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> Rename rule 917 to "Rocks, walls, facial hair and root vegetables" and then
> ammend it by adding:
> 
> "There exists a type of entity called A Magic Radish."
> 
> between the third and fourth paragraphs.
> 
> In addition modify rule 594.4 by inserting the following paragraph:
> 
> "If a Vending Machine is owned by the possessor of the Magic Potato, e may
> vend therefrom Magic Radishes. The price for which a Magic Radish may be
> sold starts at A$7.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:52:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2648 rejected

Results of Proposal 2648

18/23 votes: Quorum achieved
8/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Hoover 2300
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Fortunato            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Red Barn
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2648 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 20:01 EST
> Play it again, Sam
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal
> 
> Amend rule 911 by replacing "76" with "126" and replacing "152" with "252".
> 
> Amend rule 666 by replacing "p)" with "q)", then "o)" with "p)", then "n)"
> with "o)", then "m)" with "n)" and then insert the following text
> immediately before the paragraph starting "n)":
> 
> "m) If the base value of the magic number was changed in accordance with
> section k) then amend rule 911 by replacing "126" with _X_ and "252" with
> _Y_ where _X_ is the integer value closest to one third of the base value
> of the magic number (rounding up) and _Y_ is the integer value closest to
> two thirds of the base value of the magic number (rounding up). Then
> replace the second number in section m) of this rule with _X_ and the third
> number in section m) of this rule with _Y_ where _X_ and _Y_ are the same
> as they were in the previous sentence of this rule.
> 
> {{[the current points values seem a little low to me, considering that the
> magic number is almost four hundred. This system will allow players to keep
> the trombone for longer in a long drawn-out points cycle.]}}

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 04:56:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2649 rejected

Results of Proposal 2649

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
8/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Red Barn
else...if            (Klingon)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300

    NO:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
breadbox
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2649 - Sun 25 Jan 1998 20:03 EST
> Sleepwalking
> else...if (Henry Towsner)
> 
> Create a rule numbered 0, with the following DREAM delimited text:
> DREAM
> A player may announce that they believe an Alternatively Defined Reality by
> informing all players of this belief (for example by sending it to the main
> mailing list.) An ADR must be a series of facts about the game state. The
> ADR will be "dubious" for one week. During that week, players may
> disbelieve it by informing all players that they are doing so. If, at the
> end of the week, at least one quarter of all active players have
> disbelieved it, then it will be discarded and the player who initially
> believed it will lose 15 points. However if this does not happen, then the
> game state will be changed such that the statements specified in the ADR
> are true. This rule has precedence over all other rules.
> (ADR's should consist of statements, such as "no player commited a crime
> between date x and date y" If this passed, then it would be true that no
> player commited a crime during that period.)
> DREAM

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:01:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2650 accepted

Results of Proposal 2650

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
18/21 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
SPAM Unity Vote
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Red Barn
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2650 - Mon 26 Jan 1998 03:19 EST
> Self-Defence
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{[ It seems that when a CFCJ is filed against a player they have no
> official method to go on record and respond to the allegations. The
> following allows them to append reasoning relevant to the case to the CFCJ
> document ]}}
> 
> Add the following DEFENCE delimited text to rule 710, between sections 5
> and 6, and renumber the sections that follow, appropriately:
> 
> DEFENCE
> 6) Before the result of a CFCJ is made public the player who is alleged to
> have committed a crime may add their own reasoning and claims of mitigating
> circumstance to the official publication of the result by sending it either
> to the person in charge of CFCJs, or to the public forum.
> DEFENCE

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:05:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2651 accepted

Results of Proposal 2651

20/23 votes: Quorum achieved
14/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Red Barn
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)

    PRESENT:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2651 - Mon 26 Jan 1998 03:19 EST
> Frankenstein Feedback
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{[ I noticed that submissions for Valaraukar seemed to be plagued with
> invalid parts. This proposal will allow the Mad Scientist to reveal to the
> submitting player, if a part is invalid (included in a previous monster,
> from a non-proposal rule, etc.) and allow the player to submit a valid part
> ]}}
> 
> Amend the following paragraph
> Any voting player (including the Mad Scientist) has the option of digging
> up and delivering a Frankenstein Part to the Mad Scientist, once per
> calendar week.
> 
> to read:
> Any voting player (including the Mad Scientist) has the option of digging
> up and delivering one valid Frankenstein Part to the Mad Scientist, once
> per calendar week.
> 
> Insert the following paragraph after section iv) of Rule 597 :
> v) Upon receipt of a Frankenstein Part (weather valid or invalid), The Mad
> Scientist may inform the player who submitted the part weather it was a
> valid Frankenstein Part or not.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:14:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2652 accepted

Results of Proposal 2652

20/23 votes: Quorum achieved
21/23 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Red Barn
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Klingon Unity Vote
Boomerangs Unity Vote
Rule 1 is repealed. #1 Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
rufus                (SPAM)

    PRESENT:

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2652 - Mon 26 Jan 1998 03:21 EST
> Duel Restart
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> Append to rule 1215 the following section :
> 
> l. If both the Chalenger and the Challenged players publically agree that
> the Game or Contest being used for a Duel has been fatally compromised [for
> instane by a third party revealing the finctionary definition or an error
> in the Game's rules], a new Game or Contest may be selected, and the Duel
> is restarted.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:16:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2653 rejected

Results of Proposal 2653

20/23 votes: Quorum achieved
10/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
Slakko               (SPAM)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
Hoover 2300
else...if            (Klingon)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)

    NO:
Red Barn
breadbox
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
Fortunato            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2653 - Mon 26 Jan 1998 03:22 EST
> Slander
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> Create a rule entitled Slander
> 
> If a player has a CFCJ submitted against them and the final verdict, after
> appeals are no longer possible, is False, that player is said to be
> Vindicated for the next 3 days, while the author of the CFCJ is called a
> Mud Slinger.
> 
> A Vindicated player may call a Mud Wrestling Match against the author of
> the CFCJ by specifying the CFCJ (on which they were Vindicated) and its
> author.
> 
> A Mud Wrestling Match is a hearing for which the Vindicated player is the
> hearing harfer.
> 
> The valid responses to a Mud Wrestling Match are "That mud's going to
> stick" and "It'll wash off"
> 
> In the event of a verdict "That mud's going to stick" the Mud Slinger is
> punished in the same manner e recommended for the victim or for 2 days in
> gaol, if no punishment was recommended.
> 
> If the verdict is "It'll wash off" the victim must describe the Mud
> Wrestling Match and is sent to goal for 2 days.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 05:20:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2654 accepted

Results of Proposal 2654

20/23 votes: Quorum achieved
12/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Malenkai             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
K 2
else...if            (Klingon)
Vynd                 (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Goldenmean           (Boomerangs)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Hoover 2300
rufus                (SPAM)
Bill the pirate king (Boomerangs)

    NO:
Fortunato            (SPAM)
Red Barn
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Slagothor            (Boomerangs)
/dev/joe             (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)
Balsamic Dragon      (SPAM)
ThinMan              (Rule 1 is repealed. #1)

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    ABSTAINED:
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
two-star             (MetaMorph)
Crackfoo             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Michael Wren

    PENDING:
Device

> Proposal 2654 - Mon 26 Jan 1998 03:43 EST
> Prolix Propositions
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> If a player submits a proposal which fulfills the following requirements,
> then the proposal is a Prolix Proposition:
> 
> a) The proposal contains the furniture: "Warning Contains: <word>", were
> <word> is a word, contained in the official dictionary, which is not in the
> current rule set.
> b) <word> is used in the body of the proposal such that it is not contained
> in quotation marks, square brackets or double curly brackets and will
> become part of an existing or new rule. [ In other words it must be/become
> part of a functional sentence within a rule ]
> c) The player has not previously submitted a Prolix Proposition, that has
> been accepted, within the current calender month.
> 
> Whenever a Prolix Proposition is accepted, the player who submitted it
> shall gain one extra point for enriching Acka (in addition to any other
> points that they would gain as a result of the proposal's acceptance).

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 07:12:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2684

Proposal 2684
Harfing That Entity ...
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[This proposal gives the Rule-Harfer the right to submit renumbering
CSRs, and removes the equivalent privilege from the Tabulator. That
privilege is really sort of a hack, which I proposed before the
Rule-Harfer Office existed. It also has small potential for abuse,
since the effect of a rule can be altered by its number. (For example,
assigning a rule the number 102.1 would give it precedence over the
retroactivity ban, which might have surprising consequences if the
rule wasn't worded well.) Since the Tabulator doesn't need
approval from anyone to assign a number, players could, in theory,
find that they have accepted something other than what they actually
voted for. A CSR is the right way to do this.]}}

I. Modify Rule 408 ("Tabulator and Count Tabula") by deleting the
paragraph that currently reads:

b) To assign rule numbers to rules created by proposals. The Tabulator
is only permitted to do this when the new rule is not already assigned
a number by the rules. To exercise this privilege, the Tabulator must
announce the number in the same public message wherein e reports the
voting results for that proposal. The assignment of rule number to new
rule must be specified unambiguously, and e may not assign a rule
number that the new rule would not be allowed to have normally. [In
other words, the rule number must be one that the proposal would have
been allowed to give the rule anyway.]

II. Modify Rule 303 ("Proposal and Rule Numbering") by deleting the
paragraph that currently reads:

3. Otherwise, if the Tabulator legally exercises eir privilege to give
the rule a number, then the new rule uses that number.

III. Modify Rule 303 ("Proposal and Rule Numbering" again) by
renumbering paragraph II.4 to become 3.

IV. Modify Rule 407.1 ("Rule-Harfer") by inserting the following
text before the last paragraph:

d) To submit Common Sense Reports (CSRs) which only affect rule
numbers and rule number references in the rules.

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 07:13:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2685

Proposal 2685
... Consisting of All Rule Numbers
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[This is a continuation of my previous proposal. Currently the
Speaker also has the power to issue renumbering CSRs. Malenkai did
this following his Re-Org II. Players hadn't gotten used to having an
organized ruleset yet (what a concept), and were still making new
rules without sensible numbers. That isn't much of a concern anymore,
and having this privilege given to the Speaker seems to be a bit out
of place. I put this in a separate proposal, however, because it is
something of a separate issue, and I don't want objection to this to
kill the main idea. Malenkai often objected to robbing the Speaker of
any of the pitifully few privileges the Office has.]}}

Modify Rule 405 ("Speaker") by deleting the paragraph that currently
reads:

(ix) It is a privilege of the Speaker to submit Common Sense Reports
(CSRs), provided that the game effect(s) of the CSR, should it be
accepted, is limited to the renumbering of rules and the fixing of
rule number references in the rules. The CSR is distributed, and
accepted or rejected as described in the rules for CSRs.

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