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acka-voting-digest        Sunday, June 7 1998        Volume 03 : Number 093

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:11:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3202

Proposal 3202
Preventing Stalemate Associations
Slakko (Duncan Richer)

This is a Modest Proposal.

[As things stand, it may not be particularly moral, but there is a Word
Un-Association strategy which is in a player's best interest.  It is
naming words without links when you are the linker, so that no-one gets
any points.  This should be penalised so as to remove its desirability as
a tactic.]

Amend Rule 1250.19 by appending the following SCHEME-delimited text after
the text "Any Confused who do not post any proposed link word within three
days of the Linker publicly posting the uh? word is deemed to
have failed to come up with a link word.":

SCHEME
If no Confused player submitted an acceptable link, and the Linker does
not come up with a word to link the two words e was thinking of
(acceptable to the referee) within 6 days of submitting the
word, then the Linker shall lose 3 points.
SCHEME

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:13:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3158 accepted

Results of Proposal 3158

19/22 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
saaremaa
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
IdiotBoy
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Attila the Pun
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$40]

    PRESENT:
Koxvolio             (Harf)
breadbox

    BAA!:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3158 - Sun 31 May 1998 14:27 EDT
> No Auto-hunting
> JT (JT Traub)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> Repleal rule 1395 'Mu-Cow Hunter'.
> {{[Please help make breadbox's life easier. I voted for the Mu-Cow merely
> to prevent that proposal from finding it, and I suspect others did as
> well.]}}

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3153 rejected

Results of Proposal 3153

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
6/19 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
Slakko               (SPAM)
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
breadbox
IdiotBoy
Tammany                                 [breadbox bribed Tammany A$25]

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3153 - Sat 30 May 1998 11:31 EDT
> Not As Good as an Outright Repeal But....
> Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> Delete the second sentence of rule 206 (Keep 'em in the game).
> 
> [It currently reads:
> 
> "Anyone whose score reaches exactly -60 has their score changed to 20."]

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:53:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3154 rejected

Results of Proposal 3154

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
7/16 YES votes: Proposal rejected

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Slakko               (SPAM)
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3154 - Sat 30 May 1998 11:32 EDT
> But it's Really Interesting, Steve!
> Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> 
> Delete the following SNOOKER delimited text from rule 207:
> 
> SNOOKER
> VII. Boring Proposals
> 
> A proposal is Boring if and only if at least half of the votes cast on the
> proposal were Present or Baa! votes. The above provisions notwithstanding,
> no points are scored by any player as a result of a Boring proposal being
> accepted or rejected.
> SNOOKER
> 
> {{[The problem with boring proposals, as I see it, is that the only
> proposals likely to be declared boring are ones which are in a specialist
> area, such as party chess or the stock market. These proposals are not
> normally boring but have a large number of present and baa! votes cast on
> them because people aren't sufficiently knowledgeable on the subject]}}

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:55:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3155 accepted

Results of Proposal 3155

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
17/21 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Attila the Pun
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
IdiotBoy
SPAM Unity Vote
Razor Boomerangs Unity Vote

    NO:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3155 - Sat 30 May 1998 11:33 EDT
> And We'll Watch Them Fall
> Hubert (Eric Plumb)
> 
> {{ [ Another "collect 'em all" method of winning. More difficult than, more
> interactive than, and mutually incompatible with Cheeses. ] }}
> 
> In the tomes of the Ancients, in the lost pages of the Ackanomicon, there
> are listed Crimes far more heinous than mere Annoyingness, Heresies far
> greater than simply doubting the colorhood of Black. These are acts so
> foul, so terrible, with such nasty pointy teeth, that they are known simply
> as the Seven Deadly Sins of Ackanomic.
> 
> Unfortunately, the exact details of the Seven Deadly Sins have been lost in
> the mists of time. Thus, the entire populace of Acka is called upon to,
> through frantic research and long hours of burning the midnight oil,
> determine exactly what constitutes these seven heresies.
> 
> Any player without a Brie cheese (i.e., a player convicted of a Crime
> within the past two months) may post a message which purports to add a Rule
> detailing a new sin to this Rule Suite or replace a Sin already described
> in this Rule Suite with a Rule detailing a new sin. Such a message is known
> as a Sin Submission and is invalid if it does not contain at least the
> following three bits of information:
> a) the name of the Sin it wishes to create,
> b) an action or actions which constitutes the commission of that Sin, and
> c) the name and/or Rule number of the Sin it is replacing, or, if it
> intends to create a new Sin, the fact that it wishes to do so.
> 
> Upon the posting to a public forum of a valid Sin Submission, a
> Sinquisition is called. A Sinquisition is a type of Hearing; it is also a
> Cause for Rejoicing. The player who submitted the Sin Submission shall be
> the Hearing Harfer for this Hearing and shall be known as the Faerie Queene
> for its duration. The valid verdicts in a Sinquisition are "Right up there
> with Disrespecting the Harfers" and "I'm still looking for the original
> sin." If the verdict is "Right up there with Disrespecting the Harfers,"
> then if the Sin Submission purported to replace a current Sin, the Rule
> describing that Sin is repealed. Whether a replacement was intended or not,
> a new Rule is added to this Rule Suite with the title "The Deadly Sin of
> X", where X is replaced by the name for the Sin given in the Sin
> Submission. The body of this Rule shall be the text detailed by the Sin
> Submission, and the player submitting the Sin Submission shall gain 7
> points for eir vigilance.
> If the verdict of the Sinquisition is "I'm still looking for the original
> sin," the player submitting the Sin Submission loses 7 points and must
> spend three days in the Library researching further the nature of Sin.
> 
> If, at any time, there exist more than seven Rules besides this one in this
> Rule Suite, the highest-numbered Rule in this Rule Suite shall be repealed.
> 
> A player who commits any of the Seven Deadly Sins is guilty of the Crime of
> Original Sin, and a judge convicting such a player is encouraged to be as
> harsh as possible in penalizing the infidel. In fact, the penalty in a CFCJ
> convicting a player of this Crime must contain an Apology of at least 7
> lines; this takes precedence over Rule 710. The initiator of a CFCJ which
> attempts to convict a player for Original Sin must clearly state in eir
> Reasoning which Sin or Sins were committed and how.
> 
> When a CFCJ alleging that a player has committed the Crime of Original Sin
> is returned with a final verdict of TRUE, that player becomes a Vile
> Committer of Y, where Y is replaced by the name of the Sin which that
> player was convicted for committing. If a player was convicted for multiple
> Sins at once, e gains such an attribute for each such Sin. If a player ever
> receives a Brie cheese in any manner, all attributes granted em by this
> Rule are removed from em. If ever a player is a Vile Committer of all seven
> Sins detailed in this Rule Suite, and only those seven Sins, e shall gain a
> Winning Condition.
> 
> {{ Renumber to 777. Retitle to "The Seven Deadly Sins Rule Suite". }}

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:56:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3157 accepted

Results of Proposal 3157

19/23 votes: Quorum achieved
9/15 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Koxvolio             (Harf)
Attila the Pun
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
IdiotBoy
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
breadbox
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)

    PRESENT:

    BAA!:
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)
Wild Card            (SPAM)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
saaremaa
Guy Fawkes

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3157 - Sat 30 May 1998 12:27 EDT
> Wall Street
> else...if (Henry Towsner)
> 
> There is a building know as the Ackan Stock Exchange. It is classy [because
> the Reserve can't get approval for that sixth kaa]. It is owned by the
> Ackan Reserve, as are the kaas of land it is on, and is a common location.
> The Ackan Reserve also owns an undeveloped kaa of land adjacent to the
> building.
> The Ackan Stock Exchange is a tall building made of glass. About half way
> up, there is a stock ticker, and the stock price is always displayed on it.
> Although any player may enter the Stock Exchange, only a member of the AREB
> can go to the top floor.
> 
> {{Renumber this rule to number 859}}

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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 23:57:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: nomicbot <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3158 accepted

Results of Proposal 3158

20/24 votes: Quorum achieved
12/17 YES votes: Proposal accepted

    YES:
/dev/joe             (Vulcan)
else...if            (Klingon)
Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
rufus                (SPAM)
JT                   (Boomerangs)
saaremaa
Joe Java             (Boomerangs)
Fortunato
Slakko               (SPAM)
Niccolo Flychuck     (MetaMorph)
IdiotBoy
J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)

    NO:
K 2                  (MetaMorph)
Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
Attila the Pun
867-5309             (Boomerangs)
Tammany                                 [K 2 bribed Tammany A$40]

    PRESENT:
Koxvolio             (Harf)
breadbox

    BAA!:
Vynd                 (Vulcan)
Wild Card            (SPAM)

    ABSTAINED:
Calvin N Hobbes      (Harf)
ThinMan              (Vulcan)
Ayla
The Mu-Cow Hunter

    VACATIONING:
Guy Fawkes
Mr. Tambourine Man   (Klingon)

    PENDING:
two-star

> Proposal 3158 - Sun 31 May 1998 14:27 EDT
> No Auto-hunting
> JT (JT Traub)
> 
> This is a modest proposal.
> Repleal rule 1395 'Mu-Cow Hunter'.
> {{[Please help make breadbox's life easier. I voted for the Mu-Cow merely
> to prevent that proposal from finding it, and I suspect others did as
> well.]}}

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