Subject: acka-voting-digest V3 #183
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acka-voting-digest     Wednesday, October 28 1998     Volume 03 : Number 183

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:57:49 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3709

Proposal 3709
Goosed Goose?
JT
Due: Wed Nov  4 00:57:47 1998

{{[
   This is an attempt to fix two problems.  First, the possible fact that
   the timing of rules between rule 620 and rule 607 is not sufficient to
   actually have given me the goose and prevented the winning condition.
   Second, according to how the goose rules are worded, any judge can (on
   a CWCFJ that e thinks is false) judge it undecided, giving the goose to
   initiator, then when the Cortex judges it, it has a verdict of false,
   the player gets the goose AGAIN and is forced to pay A$60.  This seems
   a bit harsh, and too easily abused by the judge.   My opinion is that
   Undecided should be a 'semi-verdict' as it is really a passing of the
   buck, and thus an undecided CFJ should still be retractable and should
   not give the player the goose.
]}}

Replace rule 620 (Chartreuse Goose), section 7 with the following 
text as delimited by GOOSE_BE_GONE
GOOSE_BE_GONE
   7) Upon a player who possesses the Goose achieving any of the
   following titles, the Goose is transferred Somewhere Else: Commander
   of the Blue Cross, Officer of the Blue Cross, Sage o'Doe Gas, Agent of
   KAOS, Angry Villager. If the event which granted one of these titles
   also would have established a winning condition had the player not had
   the Goose, this transfer is deemed to have occurred an infinitesimal
   amount of time the winning condition would have been awarded.
GOOSE_BE_GONE

Replace rule 620 (Chartreuse Goose), section 1 with the following 
text as delimited by NO_DOUBLE_GOOSING
NO_DOUBLE_GOOSING
   1) Upon a verdict of other than TRUE or UNDECIDED on a Winning
   Condition CFJ, the initiator of the CFJ receives the Goose from
   wherever it is. If the initiator already has the Goose, however,
   they shall transfer an A$60 court fee to the Clerk of the Court.
NO_DOUBLE_GOOSING

Amend rule 330 (Retractions) by replacing the following RETRACT delimited
text
RETRACT
   A player may retract his own CFJ as a public action. This action will
   fail if a verdict on the CFJ has already been delivered. The player
   retracting the CFJ does not lose any points unless the CFJ was a
   paradox win CFJ or a cycle win CFJ in which case e loses 3 points.
RETRACT
with the following BUCK_PASSING delimited text
BUCK_PASSING
   A player may retract his own CFJ as a public action. This action will
   fail if a verdict other than Undecided has already been delivered on
   the CFJ. The player retracting the CFJ does not lose any points
   unless the CFJ was a paradox win CFJ or a cycle win CFJ in which case
   e loses 3 points.
BUCK_PASSING

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:16:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3686 accepted

Proposal 3686

Votes: 14/22 (8 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 10/15: proposal accepted

Tammany Bribes:
JT A$25 yes

Yes:
  A Mean Hat.          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  **** Bonus Vote (JT) ****
  Fortunato            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Tammany
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)

No:
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  K 2                  
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

Baa:
  eirs                 (Klingon)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3686
>
>Proposal 3686
>Re-Leveling the Playing field
>JT
>Due: Wed Oct 28 02:01:29 1998
>
>{{[
>   It occured to me when speaking with a few others on IRC this afternoon
>   that it is a bit unfair for only swingers to be able to buy bonus votes
>   and otzma cards (because truthfully, they are the only folks who would
>   gain enough swing points to be able to do so.
>   So I had this radical idea, get rid (well sorta) of swingpoints.
>   Reward the players of Party Chess with the gain of a small amount of
>   points (1 real point for 2 current swing points), and allow anyone to
>   trade some points for either OCs or Bonus Votes (and raise the price
>   of bonus votes quite a bit.. they are more powerful than OCs and should
>   cost more.
>   This version is different in that it remembers to destroy the
>   Swingpoints.
>]}}
>
>{{Slakko gains 2 points.}}
>
>Repeal rule 1044.
>Create rule 1044 named 'The Benefits of Swinging' with the following text
>as delimited by BENEFITS
>BENEFITS
>1. Let NoS be the the number of Swingers, excluding vacationing Swingers,
>including Acting Swingers.
>
>2. a. Every two weeks on Monday the Chess-Umpire announces how many points
>      each swinger is to recieve.  Each Swinger receives a number of points
>      equal to the number of Swingers (excluding Swingers on Vacation, but
>      including Acting Swingers) with equal or lower Weights divided by two
>      and rounded down.
>
>   b.  If the application of Section 2a results in a non-zero amount points
>       being awarded to at least one Party Swinger on a particular Monday,
>       then all other members of the Party of the Party Swinger who received
>       more points than any other Party Swinger (or the only Party Swinger who
>       received a non-zero amount of points, if only one received any) each
>       receive one point for eir support immediately after Swinger points are
>       awarded.
>BENEFITS
>
>Create a rule 1045 titled 'Alternative uses for points' with the following
>text as delimited by SPENDAGE
>SPENDAGE
>Any player may perform the following conversions as a public action.
>When the conversion is performed, the player performing the conversion
>loses the number of points named and unless otherwise specified (see c. (i))
>gains the object created by the conversion.
>
>a. Otzma Card Conversion
>   (i)   A Player may convert 10 points into any Otzma Card with an
>         F-Designation of Common.
>   (ii)  A Player may convert 15 points into any Otzma Card with an
>         F-Designation of Normal.
>   (iii) A Player may convert 20 points into any Otzma Card with an
>         F-Designation of Rare.
>b. Bonus Vote Conversion
>   (i)   A Player may convert 30 points into a Bonus vote.
>c. Chess Piece conversion
>   (i)   A Player may conver N points into a Party Chess Piece in the
>         possession of a specified Swinger provided that the material
>         value of that Party Chess Piece is no more than (5*N)/7, 
>         provided that no instance limits are violated by the conversion,
>         and provided that the specified Swinger has owns at most 15 Party
>         Chess Pieces after the conversion.
>d. Benefyt conversion
>   (i) A Player may convert 10 points into a Benefyt.  Benefyts are
>       tradeable entities.
>SPENDAGE
>
>In rule 1230.40 (Wining a Hand), replace the words 'The ChessChamp
>additionally receives 10 Swingpoints' with 'The ChessChamp recieves 1 point
>for every Swinger in the game including themself'
>
>In rule 1250.1 (Games & Contests), Section XIII (Additional Game Rewards)
>replace the current text of that section with the following REWARDS
>delimited text.
>REWARDS
>a. A Referee for a game may, at most once in any calendar week regardless
>of how many games they are currently refereeing, specify a player of a game
>which they are refereeing to receive a FairPlay Award. FairPlay Awards are
>nontradeable entities.  Whenever a player is awarded a FairPlay Award, they
>also gain 1 point.   Specifying a player to recieve a FairPlay Award is a
>public action.
>{{[
>   This removes the duty of doing this from the ChessUmpire, and keeps the
>   number of fairplay awards a player has recieved around (which I kind of
>   like).
>]}}
>REWARDS
>
>{{
>  Every player is given points equal to 1/2 (rounded down) of the number
>  of swingpoints they own.
>  All swingpoints are destroyed.
>}}
>  

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 02:55:15 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3710

Proposal 3710
Use Them While They Last
Slakko
Due: Wed Nov  4 02:55:13 1998

This is a Modest Proposal.

Append the following ANTISCAM-delimited text to rule 1003,
"Organizations":

ANTISCAM
10. The Principle of Otzma

Organizations are faceless corporations, and so have no real understanding
of the power that lurks in cards.  Therefore, if any Organization owns an
Otzma Card, that Otzma Card is destroyed.
ANTISCAM

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 03:01:57 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3711

Proposal 3711
Otzma Scam Fix (and BV too while I'm here)
JT
Due: Wed Nov  4 03:01:55 1998

This is a modest proposal.

{{[I goofed.. I'm a bad proposer.  I'll do better next time.]}}

Amend rule 1045 (Alternative uses for points), by inserting the following
NO_SCAM delimited text into section a so that numbering of the sub-points
is maintained.
NO_SCAM
   (iv)  This type of conversion may only be performed if a conversion
         of this type has not been performed in the prior 14 days.
NO_SCAM

Amend rule 1045 (Alternative uses for points), by inserting the following
NO_SCAM_II delimited text into section b so that the numbering of the
sub-points is maintained.
NO_SCAM_II
   (ii)  This type of conversion may only be performed if a conversion of
         this type has not been performed in the prior 14 days.
NO_SCAM_II

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 03:11:35 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3712

Proposal 3712
Second Point Spending Fix
JT
Due: Wed Nov  4 03:11:32 1998

Amend rule 1045 (Alternative uses for points) by inserting the following
text as delimited by NO_NEG_POINTS immediately before subsection a.
NO_NEG_POINTS

Regardless of anything else, a player may not make a conversion in
accordance with this rule which would result in eir having negative
points.

NO_NEG_POINTS

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:20:44 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3687 accepted

Proposal 3687

Votes: 14/22 (13 YES votes): Quorum met
Yes votes: 13/14: proposal accepted

Yes:
  eirs                 (Klingon)
  Alfvaen              (MetaMorph)
  A Mean Hat.          (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  Fortunato            
  Slakko               (SPAM)
  K 2                  
  /dev/joe             (Vulcan)
  Rex Mundi            (Klingon)
  Vynd                 (Vulcan)
  JT                   (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Studge               (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  The Green Ripper     (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Wild Card            (SPAM)

No:
  Rambo R Minuteman    (The Razor Boomerangs)

Abstain
  Leather Artifact     (Giant Objectionable Potato)
  saaremaa             (Vulcan)
  Calvin N Hobbes      (HARF)
  404 Not Found        (The Razor Boomerangs)
  Robin Hood           (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  ThinMan              (Vulcan)
  IdiotBoy             (Anti-Voting Preservationist Party)
  two-star             

Vacationing & did not vote:
  AJ                   
  Rig R. Mortis        
  breadbox             
  J. M. Bear           (MetaMorph)
  rufus                (SPAM)

>Subject: Acka: Proposal 3687
>
>Proposal 3687
>All We Are Saying, Is Give breadbox a Chance
>Slakko
>Due: Wed Oct 28 03:23:39 1998
>
>
>This is a Modest Proposal.
>
>[To be eligible for the Hall of Elders, you must be nominated after you
>leave the game.  What if you never leave the game, but become a non-Player
>through inaction - should that necessarily disqualify you from the Hall?
>I don't think so - not if your other works have justified you.]
>
>Amend Sections 2 and 3 of Rule 843 to read as delimited by ICICLE below:
>
>ICICLE
>2) If a Player is On Ice, their likeness (hereafter, where appropriate,
>referred to as if it were the actual player) is eligible to be
>enshrined in the Hall of Elders. They shall be a candidate for such an
>honor if someone nominates them (via a public message) for such provided
>they have not been On Ice for all of the last 14 days.  A player may only
>be nominated once at any one time.
>
>3) If a player has been nominated according to the previous section,
>their confirmation period starts at the time of their nomination and ends
>3 days after their nomination. During the confirmation period, players may
>send messages to the public forum supporting the nominee (maximum one such
>message per player). The nominee shall receive one confirmation point for
>each such message posted in accordance with the rules. They shall
>also receive one point for each cycle (or game) they won while a player,
>up to a maximum of 5 points from this source. 
>ICICLE
>
>Amend Section 5 of Rule 843 to read as delimited by BRASS below:
>
>BRASS
>5) If the On Ice player becomes Active during either the
>nomination period or the confirmation period, they are no longer
>considered a nominee. This section takes precedence over all the preceding
>ones. 
>BRASS
>
>Amend Section 8 of Rule 843 to read as delimited by MONKEY below:
>
>MONKEY
>8) If the player in question becomes Active at least 30
>days after being enshrined, they may use the title Elder, and shall have
>the powers and benefits explicitly specified by other rules for Elders. 
>MONKEY
>

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3713

Proposal 3713
Ordering Please
Slakko
Due: Wed Nov  4 04:20:44 1998

This is a Modest Proposal.

[This proposal is really a fixup, designed to prevent the Mad Hatters
being used as a dumping ground.]

Append the following paragraph to the Rule "Mercury Poisoning":

A player may not trade an Agenda Hat to the Mad Hatters if said trade
would result in the player having a Winning Condition.  It is, however,
legal to trade an Agenda Hat away from the Mad Hatters to achieve a
Winning Condition.

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:42:03 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3714

Proposal 3714
Show your disaffection here!
IdiotBoy
Due: Wed Nov  4 13:42:01 1998

{{All extant Otzma Cards are destroyed.}}

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:32:01 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3715

Proposal 3715
Repairing a Frobnotz
JT
Due: Wed Nov  4 22:31:58 1998

This is a modest proposal.
{{[
   On September 30, 1998, K 2 changed rule 1201, so that Tammany voted
   YES on a hearing.   This just fixed that rule.  The other pole of the
   Frobnotzer didn't change the semantic meaning of the rule, so I
   don't see any need to bother with that one.
]}}

Amend rule 1201 (The Illustrious DoppelSlakko) by replacing the following
sentance as delimited by FROB
FROB
An infinitesimal amount of time before that, Tammany will vote YES on a
Hearing.
FROB
with the following sentance as delimited by NOTZER
NOTZER
An infinitesimal amount of time before that, Tammany will vote NO on this
proposal.
NOTZER

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