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acka-voting-digest        Tuesday, May 5 1998        Volume 03 : Number 063

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2949 accepted

Results of Proposal 2949

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
14/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Ayla
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
Astro
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Pandora
Slakko               (SPAM)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2949 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:34 EDT
> It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 961, "Curse of the B-Ack", as follows:
> 
> Replace the last sentence of the second paragraph
> 
> {{[
> Therefore, each day that a player is in the Wilds of Ackanomia and posts a
> public message, there is a 40% chance that the B-Ack will hear the player
> and chase em for the rest of eir stay in the wilds.
> ]}}
> 
> with the following(delimited by BANANARAMA):
> 
> BANANARAMA
> Therefore, each day that a player is in the Wilds of Ackanomia and posts a
> public message, there is a 10% chance that the B-Ack will hear the player
> and chase em for the rest of eir stay in the wilds; the Map-Harfer shall be
> responsible for determining whether or not this occurs.
> BANANARAMA
> 
> {{[ As OiCoRT, I'm tired of doing the B-Ack, and 40% seems too high a
> number to me, too. ]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:18:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2950 accepted

Results of Proposal 2950

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
14/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Ayla
Slakko               (SPAM)
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Astro

    PRESENT:
breadbox

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Pandora

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2950 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:35 EDT
> Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> Amend Rule 600, "Winning Conditions", to insert "Rule 603," between "Rule
> 601, " and "Rule 620,".
> 
> Amend Rule 603, "Winning by Points", as follows:
> 
> Replace the fourth paragraph
> 
> {{[
> If exactly one voting player has a number of points equal to or greater
> than the Magic Number, that player has achieved a Winning Condition. [See
> Rule 600 for the effects of achieving a Winning Condition.]
> ]}}
> 
> with the following text(delimited by BLUR):
> 
> BLUR
> If a voting player has a number of points equal to or greater than the
> Magic Number, and that player is the first one to have done so in the
> current Cycle, then that player has achieved a Winning Condition. In
> addition to the process outlined in Rule 600, it is also possible for a
> player(other than the Scorekeeper) to win the Cycle if the Scorekeeper
> declares em to have satisfied the above condition. If no player objects to
> the Scorekeeper's announcement within three days, then the above-mentioned
> player wins the Cycle. (Otherwise, the player may still resort to CWCFJ as
> outlined in Rule 600.)
> BLUR
> 
> In the fifth paragraph replace the text "win the cycle" with "achieve a
> Winning Condition". {{[ Or has this already been done? ]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2951 accepted

Results of Proposal 2951

19/24 votes: Quorum achieved
19/21 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Pandora
Koxvolio             (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
breadbox
Astro
MetaMorph Unity Vote
Vulcan Unity Vote
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Ayla
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2951 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:36 EDT
> School of Reform For Budding Arch-Criminals
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend Rule 1240.15, "Otzma Card of type Art Thief", as follows:
> 
> Replace the second paragraph
> {{[
> A player who plays this Card shall unambiguously announce the name of an
> entity (other than a player) contained in the Museum. Upon doing so, the
> entity is removed from the Museum and transferred to the player, (and is no
> longer considered "on display" in the Museum).
> ]}}
> 
> with the following text(delimited by GOWAN):
> 
> GOWAN
> A player who plays this Card shall unambiguously announce the name of an
> entity (other than a player) contained in the Museum. Upon doing so, the
> following shall occur:
> 
> a) If the entity's donation value is less than A$10, then the theft
> succeeds.
> 
> b) If the entity's donation value is greater than A$10, then for every A$10
> of the entity's value the chance of failure is 1%. (So, for an A$350-value
> entity, the chance of failure is 35%.)
> 
> c) If the chance of failure is non-zero, then the Officer in Charge of
> Random Things shall determine whether or not the theft fails. If the theft
> does not fail, it succeeds.
> 
> d) If the theft succeeds, then the entity is removed from the Museum and
> transferred to the player(and is no longer considered "on display" in the
> Museum).
> 
> e) If the theft fails, then one of the two following events occurs (with
> equal probability): Either the player is Caught Stealing, or another random
> item of the same type is stolen by mistake(and transferred to the player as
> in d) above). Item types, for this purpose, consist of Trinkets/Majiks,
> Gadgets, and Prosthetic Foreheads.
> GOWAN
> 
> {{[ It shouldn't be _too_ easy for people to steal big huge trinkets from
> the Museum... ]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:30:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2952 accepted

Results of Proposal 2952

19/24 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
H*bert               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Attila the Pun
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Pandora
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
breadbox

    PRESENT:
Astro

    BAA!:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    ABSTAINED:
Ayla
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2952 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:37 EDT
> 1928
> else...if (Henry Towsner)
> 
> {{[This is a little different from what I RFC'd. It adds some controls to
> the activity index, just in case, and allows the Reserve to buy off
> portions of the market value. It also clarifies the definition of insider
> trading (of which I believe we are all guilty).]}}
> 
> 
> Amend section b of rule 530 to read as delimited CONTROL
> 
> CONTROL
> 
> b) If for any reason the positivity value is unspecified, it will be set to
> 10. If the positivity value is less than 0, then it will immediately become
> 0. Whenever a proposal passes, at the moment its results are publicly
> knowable, the positivity value will increase by the P-setting for every
> player who voted in favor of the proposal. Whenever a proposal fails, at
> the moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will
> decrease by the N-setting for every player who voted against it.
> 
> CONTROL
> 
> 
> Amend section c of rule 530 to read as delimited by MORECONTROL
> 
> MORECONTROL
> 
> c) If for any reason the activity value is unspecified, it will be set to
> 10. If the activity value is less than 0, then it will immediately become
> 0. At twelve, three, six, nine (a.m. and p.m.) the activity value will
> decrease by the D-setting. The normality factor will the number of
> activities which occured on the previous day plus ten times the A-setting.
> Every time an activity occurs, the activity value increases by 1/the
> normality factor. Something is only an activity if it is specified as one
> by this rule.
> 
> 
> The following are activities:
> 
> The distribution of a proposal, CFJ, CFCJ, or CSR.
> 
> The announcement of the beginning or end of a hearing.
> 
> The passage of a great work.
> 
> The addition or removal of a player.
> 
> Any action causing a player to pay the standard harfer fee.
> 
> The beginning or end of an election.
> 
> The creation of a gadget.
> 
> The end of a cycle.
> 
> The distribution of the magic potato, oars, raft, or the chocolate frog.
> 
> The granting of any other award based on blue cross rank.
> 
> The posting of Phoebe's wisdom.
> 
> A *ping*.
> 
> The winning of a game of GAD or party chess.
> 
> 
> At the end of each Acka day, one second after the loss latest loss of the
> D-setting, the activity value will be rounded to the nearest tenth.
> 
> MORECONTROL
> 
> 
> Replace the following OUTWITHTHEOLD delimited text from rule 530 with the
> subsequent INWITHTHENEW delimited text.
> 
> OUTWITHTHEOLD
> 
> A player who intentionally manipulates the stock market by any means will
> be guilty of the crime of insider trading.
> 
> OUTWITHTHEOLD
> 
> 
> INWITHTHENEW
> 
> A player who intentionally manipulates the stock market by any means
> primarily for eir own gain or that of another will be guilty of the crime
> of insider trading.
> 
> INWITHTHENEW
> 
> 
> 
> Amend Rule 534 to read as delimited by MULTITUDES
> 
> MULTITUDES
> 
> There is a named, unownable, unique entity known as The Ackan Reserve.
> There is an optional functional office with one seat known as Chair of the
> Ackan Reserve, or AR-C. There is an optional political office known as the
> People's Member of the Ackan Reserve, or AR-P. There is an optional office
> known as the Financial Communitie's Member of the Ackan Reserve, or AR-F.
> There are also six Appointed Members of the Ackan Reserve, known to be
> upstading citizens of Acka, however as they are not players, their votes
> are assumed to be similar to the player members, and can be safely ignored.
> [Presumably this includes Phoebe and so on.] The AR-C, AR-P, and AR-F, are
> collectively known as the Executive Board of the Ackan Reserve, or AREB. If
> a player has two offices which are on the AREB than one will be
> confiscated, either the AR-F, of the AR-P if they do not own the AR-F.
> 
> 
> The AREB is responsible for setting the D-, A-, P- and N-settings. It may
> change them by any two members of the AREB publicly specifying the same
> change to a setting within three days of each other. The specification of a
> change must include which setting they want to change and a value greater
> than 0 and less than or equal to 1.
> 
> 
> The AREB also has the power to declare payoffs. If two members of the AREB
> publicly specify the same payoff within three days of each other than that
> payoff will occur. The specification of a payoff must include a
> non-negative amount for every index in the market less than or equal to the
> value of that index. When the payoff occurs the specified amount is
> subtracted for each index and all players receive in A$ the amount of the
> total loss times the number of stocks they hold.
> 
> 
> It is a duty of the Chair of the Ackan Reserve to track the value of the
> Stock Market, including the calculation of the ACT quotient, and to make
> this value available to all players.
> 
> 
> {{The P-setting is set to 0.1. The N-setting is set to 0.15. The A-setting
> is set to 0.1. The D-setting is set to 0.125.}}
> 
> {{The AR-F is transferred to the treasury, nominations are called for on
> the AR-P.}}
> 
> MULTITUDES

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:34:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2953 rejected

Results of Proposal 2953

18/24 votes: Quorum achieved
2/14 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)

    NO:
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Pandora
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
breadbox
Astro

    PRESENT:
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Attila the Pun

    ABSTAINED:
Slakko               (SPAM)
Ayla
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2953 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:39 EDT
> "Rehalfing the ruleset..."
> H*bert (Jonathan David Amery)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> Create a rule with the lowest currently untaken number with the following
> text:
> 
> {{Set the gamestate to whatever it would have been had CFJ 577 been judged
> FALSE}}
> 
> {{If CFJ 577 has been judged TRUE then give Ayla a Winning Condition,
> H*bert looses 2 points, Ayla gains 2 points}}
> 
> {{Repeal rule 1}}
> 
> {{[I support the CfJ, but don't want the game to go haywire. Someone else
> can fix the rule itself... Deliberatly posted to acka-research]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:39:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2954 rejected

Results of Proposal 2954

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
7/20 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Pandora
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$25]

    NO:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Ayla
Slakko               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
breadbox
Astro

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Attila the Pun

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2954 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:43 EDT
> You Asked For It, breadbox
> Hubert (Eric Plumb)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> Replace all instances of the string "chess" or the string "Chess" in all
> Rules with a base number of 1230 with the string "checkers" or the string
> "Checkers", respectively.
> 
> Repeal all Rules except those with a base number of 1230 and Rule 42.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2955 accepted

Results of Proposal 2955

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
17/22 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Pandora
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
Astro
MetaMorph Unity Vote
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
Klingon Unity Vote
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$25]

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Ayla
breadbox

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
Slakko               (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2955 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:44 EDT
> Official Terms
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> {{[This proposal introduces the concept of a Minimum Term of Office. After
> the end of a Minimum Term an eligible player may request an election. The
> cost of the standard harfer fee will reduce abuse (though not anti-scam)
> and automatic nomination will prevent null elections.
> 
> The intention is to give players a non-impeachment method of activating the
> election process for the 'harfy' offices while not causing too much BWG.]}}
> 
> {{[The graphic Detail]}}
> 
> {{[***Commonality***]}} Amend rule 401 (Offices, Commonalities) in the
> following way: Insert the following between part a) and b) of section (vi)
> and reletter the list accordingly:
> 
> b) The Rules may specify a Minimum Term of Office. When a player has held a
> particular seat of an office for a period greater than its Minimum Term of
> Office, any player who is eligible to hold that seat may as a public action
> demand "an end to this banna republic", specifying the seat and paying the
> Standard Harfer Fee. When this occurs the term of office for the specified
> seat expires and an election is held. The player who called for the
> election is automatically nominated. If the rules fail to specify a Minimum
> Term of Office for a particular office, then this paragraph shall not apply
> to that office.
> 
> {{[***Senate***]}}
> Append to the end of Rule 411 (Senate) as a separate paragraph:
> At the time of a presidential election at most two seats are selected in
> the following manner:
> i) All seats for which an election was held during the previous 16 weeks
> are disregarded.
> ii) Of the remaining seats, the two seats which have not had an election
> for the longest period or all of these seats, whichever is less, have their
> term of office expire.
> iii) Ties in section ii) are broken randomly.
> 
> {{[***Historian***]}}
> Place the following after first sentence of Rule 420 (Historian):
> It has a Minimum Term of Office of 12 months.
> 
> {{[***Poet Laureate***]}}
> Remove the first sentence of Rule 424 (Poet Laureate) and replace with:
> The optional Office of Poet Laureate has a Minimum Term of Office of 6
> months.
> 
> {{[***Praetor***]}}
> Amend the first sentence of section I of Rule 425 (Praetor) to read:
> The Office of the Praetor is a Political Office with a Minimum Term of
> Office of 6 months.
> 
> {{[***Inventor***]}}
> Amend the paragraph under the heading "A. Inventor" in Rule 593 (Ackanomic
> Research Guild) to read:
> The Office of Inventor has one seat with a Minimum Term of Office of 6
> months that is filled by Election.
> 
> {{[***Wizard***]}}
> Append to the paragraph under the heading "B. Wizard" in Rule 593
> (Ackanomic Research Guild):
> If a player's most recent ownership of the office of wizard exceeds 6
> months and that player has not made a discovery or gadget during that time
> and a player points this fact out the office is transferred to the
> treasury.
> 
> {{[***Mad Scientist***]}}
> Insert the following in Rule 597 (The Frankenstein Monster(s)) after
> section xi):
> xii) Eir creative genius having been exhausted, the office of The Mad
> Scientist then becomes vacant.
> 
> {{[***Illuminatus***]}}
> Reassign letters to each of the lettered list items in Rule 607 (Winning by
> Agenda) to give them a unique letter one greater in alphabetic ordering
> than the previous, starting with a) for the first item.
> 
> Insert the following at the end of the list in Rule 607 (Winning by
> Agenda):
> e) The Agent of KAOS has three days from when eir Cycle-Win CFJ becomes
> unapealable to publicly announce eir desire to be Illuminatus. If they do
> so the current Illuminatus is removed from office and the Agent of KAOS
> becomes the new Illuminatus. Otherwise the office of Illuminatus becomes
> vacant.
> 
> {{[***Caped Crusader***]}}
> Amend the second sentence of the second paragraph of Rule 705 (The Caped
> Crusader) to read in full:
> It is an Optional Political office with a Minimum Term of Office of 6
> months.
> 
> {{[***Gaoler***]}}
> Append to section (ii) of Rule 712 (Gaoler):
> It has a Minimum Term of office of 6 months.
> 
> {{[***NAP Swinger***]}}
> Amend Section III, C, 2 of Rule 1040 (Party Hall) to read:
> 2. The Player who holds the NAP Swinger's Office continues to be NAP
> Swinger until e either resigns, is impeached, surrenders, or becomes a
> member of a Party or the current game of party chess is won.
> 
> {{[***AckaPhysicist***]}}
> Replace the second paragraph of Rule 1317 (Codex of Kra) with:
> The optional office of AckaPhysicist exists. It has a Minimum Term of
> Office of 6 months. It is a privilege of the AckaPhysicist to translate the
> Codex of Kra, and report its contents to the people of Acka [maintaining,
> or arranging to maintain a web page of its contents would be ideal].
> 
> {{[Change the authorship of this proposal to Blip]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:46:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2956 accepted

Results of Proposal 2956

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
13/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Ayla
Slakko               (SPAM)
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
Astro
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$25]

    NO:
JT                   (Boomerangs)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
breadbox

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
H*bert               (SPAM)
Pandora

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2956 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:45 EDT
> Veneration
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> Amend to the Rule 917 (Rocks, walls, facial hair and root vegetables) to
> read in full (HIGHLY VENDABLE delimited):
> 
> HIGHLY VENDABLE
> The following types of entities exist:
> i) A Rock To Wind A String Around.
> ii) A Wall Of Trombones.
> iii) Santa's Beard.
> iv) A Magic Radish.
> v) A Bottle of Bubble Gum Flavoured Shampoo.
> vi) A Large Box of Chocolates.
> 
> All of the above entities are collectively known as Venerable Entities and
> may be manipulated by vending machines, should such things exist. All of
> the above entities are Tradable.
> 
> Due to the complex field interactions between Venerable Entities in the
> same location, a player who possesses a least one of each type of the
> Venerable Entities may request a Boon of the Ancients, with a 10% chance of
> it being granted. However, invoking the Officer in Charge of Random Things
> in this manner, causes all of the Venerable Entities in eir possession to
> disappear in a flash of coloured light. A player may make no more than one
> such request per calendar month.
> HIGHLY VENDABLE
> 
> Rename rule 917 to Rocks, Walls, Facial Hair, Root Vegetables and Flavoured
> Shampoo
> 
> Append the following to the end of Rule 594.4 (Blueprint: Vending Machine):
> 
> If a Vending Machine is owned by the second player to legally chew The
> Gumball on any given day, e may vend therefrom A Bottle of Bubble Gum
> Flavoured Shampoo for the remainder of the day. The price for which A
> Bottle of Bubble Gum Flavoured Shampoo may be sold starts at A$12.
> 
> If a Vending Machine is owned by the First Citizen, e may vend therefrom A
> Large Box of Chocolates. The price for which A Large Box of Chocolates may
> be sold starts at A$14.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 15:49:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2957 accepted

Results of Proposal 2957

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
17/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
H*bert               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Ayla
Slakko               (SPAM)
Attila the Pun
else...if            (Klingon)
Astro
Klingon Unity Vote
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
breadbox

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Pandora
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    ABSTAINED:
IdiotBoy
rufus                (SPAM)
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
Illusion

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star
saaremaa
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2957 - Mon 27 Apr 1998 13:46 EDT
> Now That They're Useful
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> [I have previously submitted a proposal to enable Swingpoints to be
> exchanged to purchase Benefyts. Since then my proposal which allows a use
> for Benefyts has passed, so there is significant value in allowing Benefyts
> to be purchased. They shouldn't be cheap, though, so I've set their price
> at 10 Swingpoints.]
> 
> Amend Section 3 of Rule 1044, "Swingpoints", by relabelling subsection "d."
> to subsection "e.", and inserting the following BFT-delimited text
> immediately after subsection "c.":
> 
> BFT
> d. A Player may, as a public action, convert ten of eir own Swingpoints
> into a Benefyt.
> BFT
> 
> Amend Section 3 Subsection e of Rule 1044 by replacing the text "(a)
> through (c)" with "(a) through (d)", and the text "(b) and (c)" with the
> text "(b) through (d)".
> 
> [This gives the Benefyt conversion the same restrictions as any other
> Swingpoint exchange.]

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:21:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2992

Proposal 2992
Minor mentoring Fix
JT (JT Traub)

Replace this OLD delimited sentance
OLD
  Any Acting player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself
  therefrom.
OLD
with the following NEW delimited sentances
NEW
  Any Active player may place emself in the mentor pool or remove emself
  therefrom by notifying the Registrar.  This notification may be done
  privately.
NEW

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2993

Proposal 2993
Securing the secrets of Ackanomia.
H*bert (Jonathan David Amery)

Amend rule 910 "The Ackanomicon" by replacing the paragraphs given below
delimited by the text "OLD" with the paragraphs given below delimited by
the text "NEW".

OLD
 Any Player may visit The Vault of the Book by going to the Library, and
publicly announcing that he is entering The Vault of the Book, in search
of forbidden knowledge. No player may visit The Vault of the Book more
than once in a calendar month, or more than once in any given 14 day span.
No player may visit the Vault of the Book if another player has visited
the Vault of the book in the past 24 hours. Don't ask why, you don't want
to know.

 All players who visit the Vault of the Book will discover that they are
irresistibly drawn to read The Ackanomicon, which is always open to a
random page. No one ever gets past this first page that they read, but
even one page of The Ackanomicon can provide one with great insight, or
great pain.  

 Whenever a player visits The Vault of the Book, the Officer in Charge of
Random Things will determine which page from the list below The
Ackanomicon was open to, by selecting one page at random with (you guessed
it) equal probability. Some pages are duplicates, however, or at least
discuss the same material.  Because of this, some results will be more
common than others. Each entry on the list below specifies how many pages
of it's type are found in The Ackanomicon, if it does not, then there is
assumed to be only one. The effects (if any) of reading a page of the
Ackanomicon occur as soon as it is publicly knowable which page has been
read.
OLD

NEW
 Any Player who is in the Library and has the means to enter the Vault of
the Book may do so.  No player may visit The Vault of the Book more than
once in a calendar month, or more than once in any given 14 day span.  No
player may visit the Vault of the Book if another player has visited the
Vault of the book in the past 24 hours. Don't ask why, you don't want to
know. 

 [The means to enter the Vault are defined elsewhere; notably in the
Rule on the Otzma Card Skeleton Key, and the Rule entitled "Keys to the
Vault"]

 All players who visit the Vault of the Book will discover that they are
irresistibly drawn to read The Ackanomicon, which is always open to a
random page. No one ever gets past this first page that they read, but
even one page of The Ackanomicon can provide one with great insight, or
great pain.  The possession of all Five Keys to the Vault allows a small
amount of control over the Book. 

 Whenever a player visits The Vault of the Book, the Officer in Charge of
Random Things will determine which page from the list below The
Ackanomicon was open to, by selecting one page at random with (you guessed
it) equal probability. Some pages are duplicates, however, or at least
discuss the same material.  Because of this, some results will be more
common than others. Each entry on the list below specifies how many pages
of it's type are found in The Ackanomicon, if it does not, then there is
assumed to be only one. The effects (if any) of reading a page of the
Ackanomicon occur as soon as it is publicly knowable which page has been
read.

Should a player with all five Keys to the Vault read The Ackanomicon they
may chose which page they read rather than this being determined randomly.
If this provision is used then the Chartreuse and Gold Keys are transfered
to Somewhere Else as soon as it is publicly knowable which page has been
read.  
NEW

 Create a new rule; with the integer number that, being greater than 899,
is the closest to 910 and isn't already in use; that has the following
CAIUS-delimited text and is titled "Keys to the Vault".

CAIUS
 There are five Keys to the Vault.  Possession of any of the Keys to the
Vault allows a player to enter the Vault of the Book assuming all other
conditions are adhered to.  All five keys are ownable unique mimsy
entities. 

 The five keys are:

 The Gold Key.  
  The Gold Key is untradeable.  Whenever a player becomes President the
Gold Key is transfered to them.  Should there at any time not be a
President then the Gold Key is Somewhere Else.  

  The Gold Key is also known as the Gold Key of Office. 

 {{Transfer the Gold Key to the President, if such a player exists.  }}

 The Silver Key.
  The Silver Key is tradeable.  If at any time the Silver Key has not been
part of a treasure for more than two weeks then the player owning it must
bury it as part or all of a treasure.  If this is not done before three
weeks have passed since the Silver Key ceasing to be part of a treasure,
or if it is ever both not part of a treasure and not owned by a player
then it is buried as a treasure with the following MAP-delimited map: 

MAP
 A player who possesses an entity named 'Earth', at least one gadget, and
publically says: "I have at least one gadget, and want to possess, love,
hug, and call the silver key george." shall find the silver key treasure. 
MAP

 If this is done while the Silver Key is owned by a player then any
entities that they own which are named 'Earth' are transfered to randomly
determined players. 

 The Silver Key is also known as the Silver Key of Searching.

 The Bronze Key.
  The Bronze Key is untradeable.  Whenever a Swinger's Weight becomes
strictly greater than all other Swinger's Weights then the Bronze Key is
transfered to them.  

  The Bronze Key is also known as the Bronze Key of Politics. 

 The Chartreuse Key.
  The Chartreuse Key is untradeable.  Whenever a player ceases to be
pending they receive the Chartreuse Key.  Should two players
simultaneously cease to be pending then one of them is determined
randomly.  That player receives the Chartreuse Key.  The other receives
the Purple Key.  Should more than two players simultaneously cease to be
pending then the Chartreuse Key is transferred to Somewhere Else.  The
Chartreuse Key may be transfered from a new player to eir mentor or vice
versa so long as the player has not been a player for longer than three
weeks. 

  The Chartreuse Key is also known as the Chartreuse Key of Welcoming. 

 The Purple Key.
  The Purple Key is tradeable.  The Purple Key may not be given away, but
may be traded for any tradeable Acka-Entity.  The Purple Key may remain in
the possession of any Player for any length of time, subject to the
following conditions: 

     1. The current Cycle has not ended.
     2. The Player possessing the Purple Key has no other Keys. 

  If at any time the Player possessing the Purple Key is given another of
the five Keys, the Purple Key must be legally transfered to another player
within seven days or else the Purple Key is given to the player with the
least positive score who does not currently possess any of the five Keys.

  The owner of the Purple Key must accept any offer for it which is in
value at least A$20 within three days of the offer being made or else the
Purple Key is transfered automatically to the player making the offer.

  Should the owner of the Purple Key have used it since the last time they
received it then they must accept any offer for it as specified in the
paragraph above.

  The Purple Key is also known as the Purple Key of Trade.
CAIUS

 {{[This proposal has the dual benefits of restoring the Keys and limiting
(although not too much) any overuse of the Book.  ]}}

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:27:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2994

Proposal 2994
Occupational Hazards
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

A randomly determined floating or detached building is successfully
reattached by the player holding the Office of Nyarlathotep.

[ Let's make em EARN that A$25/month. ]

If no Office of Nyarlathotep exists, or that Office is vacant, Hubert
loses 2 points as penance.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:28:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2995

Proposal 2995
It Ain't Easy
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

Amend the second-to-last paragraph of Rule 611, "Le Grand Fromage," to
read in full:

"A player receives a brie if no CFCJ called against em has returned a
final verdict of TRUE in the last two months.  To own a brie received in
this manner is to commit the Crime of Being Cheesy.  If any CFCJ returns
a TRUE verdict against a player, any brie they may have is destroyed."

{{[ Bries are too easy to get.  Let's spice it up a little. ]}}

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 16:30:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2996

Proposal 2996
Fuzzy Voting
saaremaa (Randy Hall)

Amend rule 104, "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 a quorum has been achieved and 
the proposal's Acceptance Index meets or exceeds its Acceptance
Threshold.
"

{{[text at time of writing:

"
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 a quorum has been achieved and 
the required number of YES votes were cast on the proposal. 
"
]}}

- ----

Amend rule 106, "Voting on Proposals", to read:

" 
Voting Players may vote an integer between 0 and 100 inclusive
on each proposal, by sending their vote to the Tabulator.  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 divided by the total number of
votes legally cast on it within the prescribed voting period.
A proposal's Acceptance Threshold is 60%, 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.
"

- ----

Amend Rule 207, "Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported",
to delete section VII. Boring Proposals, and so that the body of section
III reads:

"
If a Modest proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 5
points.  If a Grandiose proposal is accepted, the player who proposed it 
receives 16 points.  If a proposal which is neither Modest nor Grandiose 
is accepted, the player who proposed it receives 10 points.

If a Modest proposal is rejected, but meets quorum, the player who 
proposed it loses 5 points. If a Grandiose proposal is rejected, but 
meets quorum, the player who proposed it loses 12 points.  If a proposal
which is neither Modest nor Grandiose is rejected, but meets quorum, the 
player who proposed it loses 7 points.

A proposal can only be declared to be Modest or Grandiose as described
in the Rules. 
"

;and so the body of section V reads:

"
For the first three weeks of being a new player (as opposed to a returning
player) in Ackanomic, a player shall receive a bonus as follows:
one point for Modest proposals, five points for Grandiose
proposals, three points otherwise, whenever one of their non-Modest 
proposals is accepted or any one of their proposals is rejected. 
"

- ----

Amend rule 210, "Literature", to replace:

"
All players who voted against a Great Work that was accepted will
lose 7 points
"

with:

"
All players whose vote was less than the Acceptance Threshold
on a Great Work that was accepted lose 7 points
"

- ----

Amend rule 313, "Proposal Bribery", as follows:

A. Replace "YES" in section IV, subsection B, with "100".
B. Amend section V, subsection B, to read:

"
B.  The Acceptance Threshold of a proposal containing an invalid bribe
is 110.

{{[current text:

B. The required number of YES votes for a proposal containing an
invalid bribe to be accepted is one more than the total number of 
YES and NO votes legally cast within the prescribed voting period. 
This paragraph takes precedence over rule 106.

]}}
"

- ----
 
Amend rule 315, "Tammany", to replace section c) with:

"
c) a Desired Vote of one of votes allowed on proposals by the
other rules, or the special Tammany vote of SILENT.
"

;and to replace the last 2 paragraphs with:

"
Tammany shall not vote unless the total amount of currency associated with
Desired Votes other than SILENT exceeds two times the amount of currency
associated with Desired Votes of SILENT.

If Tammany votes, its vote shall be the numeric vote with the most 
total currency associated with it.  If two or more votes share this 
distinction, its vote shall be the average of these.
"

- ----

Repeal rule 319, "Unanimity Is Lovely [...]"

- ----

Amend rule 530, "The Stock Market", so that section b) reads:

"
b) If for any reason the positivity value is unspecified, it will 
be set to 10. If the positivity value is less than 0, then it will
immediately become 0. Whenever a proposal passes, at the moment 
its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will
increase by 0.1 for every player whose vote was in excess of the
proposal's Acceptance Threshold. Whenever a proposal fails, at the 
moment its results are publicly knowable, the positivity value will
decrease by 0.1 for every player whose vote was not in excess of its
Acceptance Threshold.
"

- ----

Amend rule 923, "The Amber Banana", to replace "legal type of Vote"
with "legal vote".

- ----

Amend rule 1009, "Political Parties [...]" so that the first paragraph
reads:

"
A Political Party is a type of Organization. Being a member of more 
than one Political Party simultaneously is the Crime of Branch-Stacking. 
At the end of a proposal's voting period, but before votes on that 
proposal are counted, if every active non-vacationing player member
of a given Political Party voted the same way (SW) on that proposal, 
and no member of the Party is also a member of some other Party, then
the  Political Party itself shall cast an additional vote of SW on
that proposal for every three active non-vacationing player members it has. 
"

- ----

Transform all Otzma Cards of Type Rod & Staff into A$5.
Repeal the rule entitled "Otzma Card of Type Rod & Staff"

- ----

Create a new rule with number 104.1, title "ZZimsy Proposals", and
text:

"
This rule has precedence over all other rules.

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 0.  All PRESENT votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted to
votes of 50.  All BAA votes cast on ZZimsy Proposals are converted
to votes of 60.

Upon it being true that there exists no ZZimsy Proposals whose voting
results have not been reported, this rule repeals itself.
"

- ----

{{[eop]}}

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