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acka-voting-digest        Saturday, May 9 1998        Volume 03 : Number 067

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:30:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2959 accepted

Results of Proposal 2959

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

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Pandora

    NO:
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla

    PRESENT:
Astro

    BAA!:
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
UglyBigNose

> Proposal 2959 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:11 EDT
> Wolf's Clothing
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> [SHEEP wants to give away money, but the current Org rules won't let it.
> There should be some leeway for these charitable actions, but not so much
> as to allow willy-nilly actions. I think that the Dispensation/Indulgence
> system described below should allow these kinds of actions, without
> enabling Societies to get away with everything.]
> 
> Create a new Rule, numbered 1020, and called "Dispensations", with the
> following INDULGENCE-delimited text:
> 
> INDULGENCE
> The Org-Harfer (or, if that seat is vacant, the Web-Harfer) shall maintain
> a list of Dispensations. This list is an official Document, but is not a
> Rule, and shall only have effects as defined by the Rules. An entry on the
> Dispensations List shall consist of the name of a Society, a colon, and an
> action or a description of a number of actions (so that it is possible to
> distinguish between actions described by that description and actions not
> described in a non-paradoxical way).
> 
> If an entry on the Dispensations List contains the name of a Society and an
> action, then the Society may perform that action as an Organisational
> Action.
> 
> A member of a Society may submit an Indulgence by sending it to the
> Org-Harfer privately. It is a Duty of the Org-Harfer to publish
> Indulgences. An Indulgence must be an entry of the form included in the
> Dispensations List. Any player may object to a published Indulgence within
> 3 days of it being published.
> 
> If, 3 days after an Indulgence is published, fewer than 2 players have
> objected to the Indulgence, then the Indulgence will be added to the
> Dispensations List as a new entry.
> 
> {{Add the following quoted item to the Dispensations List: "The Society for
> the Huranguing of Emancipated Enfranchised Players: gift A$2 to a player
> who voted BAA! on a proposal whose voting results were distributed in the
> past 7 days."
> }}
> INDULGENCE

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2961 rejected

Results of Proposal 2961

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
8/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
else...if            (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
UglyBigNose                             [UglyBigNose is no longer pending]
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Ayla

    BAA!:
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2961 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:14 EDT
> Just like...
> K 2 (Kelly Kelly)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal
> 
> Amend rule Rule 506.1 (Magik) to read in full (LASTWISHES delimited):
> 
> LASTWISHES
> It privilege of the Archaeologist to convert a trinket worth more than A$99
> into a Majik according to the following procedure:
> As a public action, a player who owns a Trinket worth more than A$99 asks
> if that Trinket is special.
> If the Archaeologist replies publicly within 3 days "This Trinket is
> Majik", then the Trinket becomes a Majik. [It is considered good form to
> give the Archaeologist a 10% fee for this service.]
> 
> Majiks are no longer Trinkets but keep the value, name and description they
> had when Trinkets. Majiks are tradable entities.
> LASTWISHES
> 
> Rename Rule 506.1 to Majik
> 
> {{[This was #15 of Malenkai's departing wish list from the first time e
> tried to leave. Suffice to say this proposal is wholly inspired by
> Malenkai, with out whom I'd prolly not have seen the loophole. For the
> other items; all I can say is: #1 is a long way off. I hope I'm
> accomplishing #2. #3 is a work in progress ;) #4 been done. I don't agree
> with #19.]}}
> 
> {{transfer some posthumous writer's credit to Malenkai's Undead}}
> 
> {{[Malenkai's Undead achieves a winning condition]}}
> 
> {{[Well it has been two cycles in a row now ;)]}}

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:45:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2963 accepted

Results of Proposal 2963

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
14/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Astro
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    NO:
breadbox
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
UglyBigNose
rufus
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2963 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:17 EDT
> Reasonable Attempts Will Be Given Partial Credit
> Slakko (Duncan Richer)
> 
> This is a Modest Proposal.
> 
> [As things stand, if the rules say that a particular piece of text has to
> be sent to achieve a particular effect, no changes from that text (with the
> possible exceptions of punctuation and case) are allowed. This can lead to
> some actions not being completed when most people thought they were. Such a
> situation really could use a "common sense" remedy. However, as common
> sense is rarely common, such a remedy will have to use weasel words of some
> sort. This is the best I could come up with.]
> 
> Amend Rule 340, "Conventions", by appending the following OKAY-delimited
> text:
> 
> OKAY
> VIII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of text
> in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule notwithstanding, any
> piece of text in a public message which is unambiguously a close
> approximation to the text in question, such that the intent of the text in
> the message is unambiguously to satisfy the condition laid down in the
> Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes of that Rule, to be equivalent
> to the fixed piece of text.
> OKAY
> 
> [Yes, I know it is wordy and tangled. If anyone can come up with anything
> better, then let me know quickly, and I can retract this to let yours
> through.]

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:47:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2965 accepted

Results of Proposal 2965

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
13/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
else...if            (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Pandora

    PRESENT:
Astro

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
UglyBigNose
rufus

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2965 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:23 EDT
> More Gratuitous Literature
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> Create a new rule numbered 1351 titled Mooning reading as follows
> (delimited by CRATER):
> 
> CRATER
> Ganymede and Titan are both moons of Ackanomic. If any player has been to
> both Ganymede and Titan and e posts a message containing the phrase:
> "To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around" [Lister, The End, Red
> Dwarf]
> then e will receive a random boon of the ancients. After e has received
> this boon e may not do so again until e has visited Ganymede and Titan
> again.
> CRATER

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:51:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2966 rejected

Results of Proposal 2966

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
10/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Attila the Pun

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Ayla

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2966 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:24 EDT
> Au Revoir
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> Repeal rule 1060. [This one looks as if no-one's going to be using it.]

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:53:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2967 accepted

Results of Proposal 2967

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
17/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
else...if            (Klingon)

    PRESENT:
UglyBigNose

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

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2967 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:25 EDT
> Admissions
> The Gingham Wearer (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> Create a new rule entitled Admissions Policies numbered reading as
> follows(as delimited by TMBSG):
> 
> TMBSG
> As an organizational action any organization may change it's admissions
> policy. The following are valid types of admissions policies:
> 
> 1. Standard: the organisation may accept new members as an organizational
> action.
> 
> 2. Open: any player may join the organization as a public action.
> 
> 3. Privileged Single Player: a single member may grant any request for
> membership in that Organization, without waiting around for the consent of
> the rest of the members. A single player with this ability must be
> specified.
> 
> 4. Quasi-open: Any player may request membership into the organisation and
> will become a member three days later unless any member of the organization
> refuse the player admission
> 
> 5. Communist Single Player: a single member may grant any request for
> membership in that Organization, without waiting around for the consent of
> the rest of the members. Any member of the organisation may grant
> membership in this way.
> TMBSG
> 
> Delete the following text from rule 1003:
> 
> "An Organization may, as a public action, give a particular member the
> ability to grant any request for membership in that Organization, without
> waiting around for the consent of the rest of the members. An Organization
> may also, as a public action, establish an open admissions policy, which
> means that anyone can join that Organization at any time. "
> 
> [I thought some of these might be useful for They Might Be Slumbering
> Giants, specifically Communist Single Player, considering how bad they've
> been at accepting new members as of late.]

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:55:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2968 rejected

Results of Proposal 2968

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
7/18 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Astro
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Pandora

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Attila the Pun
Slakko               (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2968 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:26 EDT
> Pride and Prejudice
> Pandora (David Kenning)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Add the following NORMAL-delimited text to Rule 209/4 as a new paragraph in
> between the current second and third paragraphs:
> 
> NORMAL
> A Proposal that is neither Modest nor Grandiose contains Monosodium
> Glutamate. In all instances where the designation of a Proposal is called
> into question, and that Proposal contains Monosodium Glutamate, the
> designation of that Proposal shall be considered to be Normal.
> NORMAL
> 
> {{[that should sort out the problem of non-modest, non-grandiose proposals
> being technically invalid, whether or not it's been sorted out by a CFJ]}}

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 08:59:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2969 accepted

Results of Proposal 2969

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
13/19 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
H*bert               (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Astro
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    PRESENT:
Slakko               (SPAM)

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2969 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:27 EDT
> Norgrindly
> Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
> 
> Create a new Rule numbered 999, with the title "The Quirpele of
> Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", with text as
> follows(delimited by ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM):
> 
> ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM
> 
> The Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois is a
> tradeable entity. {{ Initially it is owned by a randomly chosen active
> player. }} The owner of the Quirpele of
> Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois may do any of the following,
> as a public action: a) Replace the string "Spelling Bee" in all
> Rules(including this one), and in any Proposals in the voting queue, with
> any legal Ackanomic name. b) Cause the Brass Monkey to climb eir house. c)
> Make it a Crime for a post to the public forum over the next 24 hours not
> to hail em as Emperor. d) Reduce eir score to a number less than -1000000.
> 
> Upon performing any of the above actions, the Quirpele of
> Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois's photoelectric cells become
> flibbled, and it teleports to another random player. Any former owner of
> the Quirpele of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosois may be known
> as a Giant Green Gorilla.
> 
> ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:00:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 2970 accepted

Results of Proposal 2970

19/25 votes: Quorum achieved
8/11 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
UglyBigNose
Ayla

    PRESENT:
breadbox
Astro
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)

    BAA!:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star

> Proposal 2970 - Fri 01 May 1998 14:28 EDT
> small Eleusis change
> JT (JT Traub)
> 
> This is a Modest proposal.
> 
> Amend section 9 'Duties of Deus and the Prophet' in rule 1250.23 by
> appending the following as a new paragraph to the end of the section.
> The Deus may during the round give up to three hints to the Scientists.
> These hints may be given at any time during the round, but no more than
> three may be given. If a Deus gives more than 3 hints in a round, he is
> penalized 2 Gamepoints for each hint above 3.

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:45:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3017

Proposal 3017
If it has to be Boring, let it be *really* Boring!
Ayla (Raquel Peres da Silva)

Amend Rule 207 (Scoring When A Proposal's Voting Results are Reported), so
that its last sentence reads as follows:

The above provisions notwithstanding, no points are scored by any player as
a result of a Boring proposal being accepted or rejected.

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3018

Proposal 3018
Deadbeats and CFJ's
Ayla (Raquel Peres da Silva)

Amend Rule 212 (Selecting a Judge) by removing its last paragraph.

[The last paragraph of Rule 212 states that "Whenever a player is
considered a deadbeat as per this rule or rule 213, their name is added to
the CFJ Ineligibility List if it is not already there." (sic), but Rule 212
says nothing about any player being considered a deadbeat. So, I think the
cause-effect relationship between being considered a deadbeat and the CFJ
Ineligibility List belongs to Rule 213 only]

Amend Rule 213 (Delivering Judgement) by changing its second sentence so
that it looks as follows:

"A Judge who defaults is a deadbeat. This causes em to be penalized 10
points, eir name to be added to the CFJ Ineligibility List, and the CFJ e
defaulted on to be assigned to the Praetor."

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3019

Proposal 3019
If it's public, it's public; if it's private, it's private
Ayla (Raquel Peres da Silva)

Amend Rule 212 (Selecting a Judge) by removing the text "as a public action
or" from the second paragraph.

[As most people agreed to add the text "or by mailing the Clerk of the
Court" after the quoted text above, I think we might as well make it a
private action. That would mean less mail in the public list - OK, not
*that* less! - and anyone who can mail the public list can mail the Clerk
of the Court.]

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:48:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3020

Proposal 3020
Removal of the Possible two-star Paradox
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.

[Current situation: If a Pending player is Rule 257'ed, and fails to
respond, they are removed as if they never joined.  This could be
problematic if the Pending player is Pending because they just returned
from vacation, but had previously been very active - what happens to all
their rule changes, etc.  It isn't quite clear, but a simple fix will
avoid this.  This simple fix allows only always Pending players to be
booted off in such a way.]

Amend Rule 257 by replacing the text "unless eir player state was pending"
with "unless eir player state has only ever been Pending" wherever it
appears.

[There is another problem: How can you remove someone "as if they never
joined"? - if they never joined they cannot be removed as they never
joined.  This need to eliminate players as if they never joined is
obviated by Rule 256 - which creates an Undead only for players who have
actually gone Active, or been Non-Voting for >= 2 weeks.]

Amend Rule 257 by replacing the text "e is removed from the game as if e
never joined" with "e is treated as having left the game at that point,
for the purposes of Rule 256", wherever it occurs.

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:49:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3021

Proposal 3021
Le traffic warden est mort, vive le traffic warden
Attila the Pun (Micah Smulker)

Amend rule 313 by inserting the word "non-trinket" after the word
"tradeable" in subsection D of section IV.

Replace the second occurence of the text "C." in section IV with
the text "E."

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:50:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3022

Proposal 3022
And The Twain Shall Meet
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

[ This is almost identical to my RFC, if anyone indeed read that... The
only change is the depiction of the Virus from '.' to '@'.  I would still
appreciate comments and suggestions for modifications if anyone has any.]

Append to the end of section 2 of Rule 1230.1, "Swingers Play Around I -
the board and the playing pieces," the string "F. Individual 
PartyChessPieceDef rules may define other ways in which pieces may be
created in a Swinger's possession."

Create a Rule as a new member of the Party Chess Rule Suite entitled
"Creation of a PartyChessPiece UberVirus" reading as follows, delimited
by UBERVIRUS:

UBERVIRUS
The material value of an UberVirus is 8.  When an UberVirus is placed on
the Party Chess board, four off-board Virus pieces are created in the
position of the Swinger who placed the UberVirus.

An UberVirus is represented by the ASCII character 'U'.

There is an instance limit of one UberVirus per player. {{ [ I don't know
if this is necessary (I rather like the idea of having more of them) but
it seemed prudent and made the Genesis part of the Rule easier. ] }}

An UberVirus may move any number of squares in any horizontal, vertical,
or diagonal direction, as long as each square it crosses in doing so,
including the destination square, is adjacent to at least one friendly
Virus piece.  An UberVirus may skip over friendly Virus pieces in its
path, but no other pieces.  An UberVirus can Capture using this move.

Unless the Swinger controlling an UberVirus has no on-board Virus pieces,
an UberVirus is taken off-board and placed back into its Swinger's hand if
at any time it is adjacent to no friendly Virus pieces.

As a Special Move, the Swinger controlling an on-board UberVirus can spend
one Benefyt to cause that UberVirus to initiate a Genesis.

When an UberVirus initiates a Genesis, for each square on the Party Chess
board adjacent to at least one friendly Virus piece (i.e., a Virus piece
owned by the Swinger who controls the UberVirus undergoing the Genesis),
one of the following three actions will happen, with the actions
occurring simultaneously for all relevant squares:

a) If that square is unoccupied and adjacent to exactly three friendly
Virus pieces, a new on-board Virus piece is created in that square in the
possession of the Swinger who owns the UberVirus causing the Genesis.

b) If that square is occupied by a friendly Virus piece, the piece is
destroyed if it is adjacent to more than three or fewer than two friendly
Virus pieces.

c) If that square is occupied by a piece other than a friendly Virus
piece and there are three or more Virus pieces adjacent to the square, the
UberVirus initiating the Genesis is considered to have Captured the piece
in that square, but the piece is not removed from the Party Chess board.
[ Basically, three or more Viruses can Infect a neighboring piece,
bringing it under the control of their Swinger. ]

For the purposes of determining the number of Virus pieces adjacent to a
given square, an UberVirus piece counts as a Virus piece.  In other words,
if a square is adjacent to an UberVirus piece, the count of Virus pieces
adjacent to that square is increased by one.

If a Swinger A with an on-board UberVirus has more than 10 on-board
Viruses, any other Swinger may spend one Benefyt to cause Swinger A's
UberVirus to initiate a Genesis.  [ Which might possibly get rid of some
of the excess Viruses. ]

This Rule takes precedence over Rule 1230.1 where necessary.
UBERVIRUS

Create a Rule as a new member of the Party Chess Rule Suite entitled
"Creation of a PartyChessPiece Virus" reading as follows, delimited by
VIRUS:

VIRUS
The material value of a Virus is 1.  In order to purchase a Virus, a
Swinger must have a score of over 1000000.  {{[ R1230.1 doesn't allow this
Rule to forbid the purchase, but does allow horrendously unachievable
conditions to be set in order to make the purchase. ]}}

A Virus is represented by the ASCII character '@'.

A Virus can move in any one of the following three ways:
a) A Virus can move to an unoccupied square at a distance of 1 in any
horizontal, vertical, or diagonal direction.
b) A Virus can move exactly two squares in any of the usual eight
directions if and only if another piece occupies the square at a distance
of 1 from the Virus in that direction.
c) If all of the squares SQ1 through SQn (where n is a positive integer) 
in one of the usual eight directions from a Virus piece are occupied by
friendly Virus pieces, the Virus may move to SQm in that direction, where
m is one greater than n.

A Virus may not Capture other pieces.

If, at any time, the Swinger controlling an on-board Virus has no on-board
UberVirus piece, that Virus piece is destroyed.  If a Swinger owning one
or more off-board Virus pieces can legally make a Placement move on eir
turn, and does not place at least one Virus piece, one off-board Virus
piece in eir possession is destroyed.

This Rule takes precedence over Rule 1230.1 where there is a conflict.
VIRUS

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:51:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3023

Proposal 3023
On Both Your Houses
Hubert (Eric Plumb)

[ Having RFCed this to resounding silence, I thought I'd put it to the
acid test already.  You know, full speed ahead, both feet forward, take
the bull by the horns and damn the torpedoes.  I would also like to point
out that since this is going to amend Rule 207, no anti-voting points
will be scored due to the Potato Paradox.  So there's no reason to
anti-vote NO. ]

This is a chess proposal.

Create a rule as a new member of the Party Chess Rule Suite entitled
"Creation of a PartyChessPiece Locust" with the following
EXPONENTIA-delimited text:

EXPONENTIA
A Locust is a piece with a Material Value of the smaller of
a) 6, or
b) 1.5*N rounded down, where N is the number of on-board Locust pieces.

A Locust is depicted by the ASCII character 'L'.

A Locust may move up to N/2 squares, rounded up, in any horizontal,
vertical, or diagonal direction, and then N/2 squares, rounded down, in
a direction perpendicular to that of the first move, where N is the
number of on-board Locust pieces.  A Locust may not skip over pieces in
its path, and must make both halves of its move in order to move at all.

{{ Hubert loses 2 points.  Richard Garfield gains 2 points. }}
EXPONENTIA

Append the end of the second-to-last paragraph of Rule 1230.14, "Creation
of a PartyChessPiece HarfyBlob," the sentence "If the captured piece was
a Locust, the Hn of the HarfyBlob is increased by the number of Locust
pieces remaining on-board after the Capture." [ This actually increases
the Hn of the HarfyBlob by the number of Locust pieces on-board *before*
the capture, because it was increased by 1 by the first sentence. ]

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 09:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3024

Proposal 3024
Fictionary Submission Ficx
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.

[Game custom dictates that inadvertent violations of the "verbatim
description" requirement in Fictionary go unpunished.  Come on people - it
is cut and paste - you can get that right can't you?]

Amend Rule 1250.10, "Fictionary", by changing section IV subsection 3e to
read as delimited by NOFREEBIE below:

NOFREEBIE
3e) Default: The Brainiac loses 4 Gamepoints, no other scoring occurs this
round, and play proceeds to the next round.  This default section is
applied even if a list of definitions as described in sections 3c or 3d is
posted, if the list does not include a legitimate Actual Definition, or
modifies any of the submitted definitions in a manner not explicitly
allowed above. 
NOFREEBIE

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Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 18:23:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposals 2959-2970 (corrected)

[Note to Scorekeeper: Of the following Proposals, nos. 2959, 2961,
2963, 2966, 2968, and 2970 were modest.]
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2959

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
12/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Pandora

    NO:
breadbox
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    PRESENT:
Astro

    BAA!:
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
UglyBigNose
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2961

21/25 votes: Quorum achieved
10/20 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
else...if            (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Pandora
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
UglyBigNose                             [UglyBigNose is no longer pending]
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)

    PRESENT:
Ayla

    BAA!:
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2963

21/25 votes: Quorum achieved
16/22 YES votes: Proposal accepted

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

    NO:
breadbox
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
UglyBigNose
rufus
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2965

21/25 votes: Quorum achieved
15/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
else...if            (Klingon)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Slakko               (SPAM)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
MetaMorph Unity Vote
Klingon Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Pandora

    PRESENT:
Astro

    BAA!:
H*bert               (SPAM)
UglyBigNose
rufus

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2966

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
11/20 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Attila the Pun

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Ayla

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2967

21/25 votes: Quorum achieved
18/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Astro
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote
MetaMorph Unity Vote

    NO:
breadbox
else...if            (Klingon)

    PRESENT:
UglyBigNose

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

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2968

21/25 votes: Quorum achieved
7/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
Astro
H*bert               (SPAM)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Ayla
Pandora

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Attila the Pun
Slakko               (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2969

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
14/20 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
H*bert               (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
UglyBigNose
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Astro
Ayla
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    PRESENT:
Slakko               (SPAM)

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

Results of Proposal 2970

20/25 votes: Quorum achieved
9/12 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
H*bert               (SPAM)
rufus
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Hubert               (Boomerangs)
The Gingham Wearer   (Klingon)
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
UglyBigNose
Ayla

    PRESENT:
breadbox
Astro
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)

    BAA!:
IdiotBoy
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
Pandora

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Illusion
Koxvolio             (Harf)

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
saaremaa
two-star
________________________________________________________________

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