Subject: acka-voting Digest V4 #136
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acka-voting Digest	Thursday, July 08 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 136

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4237
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 00:48:49 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4237
Binary Me
K 2
Due: Thu Jul 15 00:48:48 1999
Sphere: Wombles of Wibbledon

I. wibble

II. Amend Section III (Scoring on Proposals) of Rule 2-2 (Scoring When A
Proposal's Voting Results are Reported) to read in full:
"
When a proposal is accepted its author and all players who voted on it
gain half the difference between their current score and their Magic
Number.

When a proposal is rejected its author and all players who voted on it
have thier score halved.
"

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4235 accepted
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:47:06 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4235

Subcommittee vote for: 100   against:0
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 100.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 545   Total vote against:0
Acceptance Index: 545.0: proposal accepted

** This proposal was boring! ** 
5 sub-60 votes out of 8 non-60 votes total.

Votes to accept:
  Alfvaen                 5    +20  ==> 375
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito!   59    +20  ==> 425
  Blest Lax Monk Pal     60    +20  ==> 519
  IdiotBoy              100         ==> 472
  Sir Galahad            40    +20  ==> 440
  Dragon Mage             1    +20  ==> 3241
  rice                  100         ==> 610
  /dev/joe               60    +20  ==> 2726
  K 2                   120    -20  ==> 251

Zero Votes:
  ThinMan                 0    +20  ==> 1156

Votes to reject:

Abstainers:
  two-star             
  Calvin N Hobbes      
  Taser                
  Studge               
  404 Not Found        
  King Felix           
  Vynd                 
  danke                
  Burn the Witch       
  Niccolo Flychuck     
  rufus                
  Laa Laa              

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4235
 
 Proposal 4235
 Conventional Timing
 K 2
 Due: Thu Jul  8 15:32:38 1999
 Sphere: Tocpe
 Status: accepted
 
 Append the following to the end of Rule 1-2 (Conventions) as a new
 section and number it appropriately:
 "
 Acka shall operate in the same time zone as New York City, USA
 [EDT(-0400)/EST(-0500)]. All dates and times will be assumed to be
 in that time zone, unless specified otherwise. When an event is
 specified to occur on a particular day, it shall occur at noon (12:00)
 on that
 day, unless specified otherwise. A "calendar week" starts at the
 beginning of a Sunday and lasts 7 days.
 "
 
 Repeal Rule 1-2-7 (Time Zone)

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4236 accepted
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:47:16 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4236

Subcommittee vote for: 100   against:0
Subcommittee Acceptance Index: 100.0
Passed subcommittee
Total vote for: 434   Total vote against:-80
Acceptance Index: 314.0: proposal accepted

** This proposal was boring! ** 
4 sub-60 votes out of 7 non-60 votes total.

Votes to accept:
  Emperor Ai! Pedrito!   59    +20  ==> 445
  Blest Lax Monk Pal     60    +20  ==> 539
  ThinMan                25    +20  ==> 1176
  IdiotBoy              100         ==> 472
  Sir Galahad            40    +20  ==> 460
  Dragon Mage             1    +20  ==> 3261
  /dev/joe               60    +20  ==> 2746
  K 2                    89    +5   ==> 256

Votes to reject:
  Alfvaen               -80    +10  ==> 385

Abstainers:
  two-star             
  Calvin N Hobbes      
  Taser                
  Studge               
  404 Not Found        
  King Felix           
  Vynd                 
  rice                 
  danke                
  Burn the Witch       
  Niccolo Flychuck     
  rufus                
  Laa Laa              

 Subject: Acka: Proposal 4236
 
 Proposal 4236
 I told you so!
 K 2
 Due: Thu Jul  8 15:32:49 1999
 Sphere: Tocpe
 Status: accepted

 Amend Rule 10-1-2-1 (The Ackanomicon) by replacing the paragraph which
 starts with "Vile prophecies (5 pages):" with the following:
 "
 Vile prophecies (5 pages): These are pages describing all manner of
 terrible events that are to befall the reader in the near future. The
 reader of one of these pages suffers a loss of 5 points, unless she is
 the ScareMonger, in which case everyone else will lose 5 points and
 she will feel vindicated.
 "

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4238
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:47:27 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4238
Silly Crescent
Dragon Mage
Due: Thu Jul 15 19:47:26 1999
Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies

Amend rule 12-3-13 (Abstract Crescent) by replacing the following text
delimited by SHEESH
SHEESH
   1. Each player has 3 days to send the referee their play for the given
   round. A player's play is a positive integer congruent to their
   current player number modulo n (where n is the current number of
   players). For example, in an 8 player game, player 6 can make plays of
   6,14,22,30,etc. When Abstract Crescent is played in a duel, numbers
   larger than 20 cannot be chosen.
SHEESH
with the text delimited as SANER
SANER
   1. Each player has 3 days to send the referee their play for the
   given round. A player's play is a positive integer congruent to their
   current player number modulo n (where n is the current number of
   players). For example, in an 8 player game, player 6 can make
   plays of 6,14,22,30,etc. The players number must be less than or
   equal to 10 times the total number of players in that instance of
   Abstract Crescent.
SANER

{{
  Amend the game state of the current game of Abstract Crescent to be
  played by the rules as modified by this proposal and to reset the score
  of any player with less than -n points to 0, where n is the number of
  players.
}}
{{[
   It's either that or I'll drop out of the game since if this rule
   passes I'd have no chance of winning ever.
]}}

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Subject: Acka: Proposal 4239
From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:36:21 -0400 (EDT)

Proposal 4239
CPR for the Media
Sir Galahad
Due: Thu Jul 15 20:36:20 1999
Sphere: Hypnotist of Ladies

{{[ Given that newspapers, as currently defined,
    tend to go belly-up on a frequent basis,
    and that we now have only one type of Institutional Power,
    I decided to combine the ideas with a new incentive.

    The Printing Press may be more expensive, 
    but it is permanent and may be paid off in time.
    We may now also have multiple people writing for the same paper
    provided they are members of a single Institution,
    which makes more intuitive sense to me.

    Please note that a Spherical Rator would be destroyed
    when a Sphere of Influence buys a Printing Press.
    However, a Newspaper may have the same membership as a Sphere.
]}}

Renumber Rule 16-2, "Backers", to 16-3.
Renumber Rule 7-7, "The Press", to 16-2, 
and amend it to the text delimited by NEW_NEWS.

NEW_NEWS
A Printing Press is an Institutional Power.
Any Institution may at any time buy a Printing Press 
for four times the Standard Harfing Fee.
An Institution which owns a Printing Press 
is known as a Newspaper.

A member of a Newspaper is allowed to post messages
to an official mailing list with an indication that the message
is an article of that Newspaper. 
Such an article is then said
to have been published by that Newspaper.

At the end of each month in which a Newspaper 
published at least one article of at least 300 words,
it will receive A$10 for the efforts of its writers.

When a Newspaper ceases to own a Printing Press,
it is said to have 'gone bust' and ceases to be a Newspaper.

A posting that is not sent to one of the official mailing lists 
is never considered to be a newspaper publication. 
In addition, no player may publish an article in a Newspaper 
of which e is not a member.

News articles may be published without reference to a specific Newspaper;
such articles are said to be the work of the Underground Press or the Samizdat.

Journalistic pseudonyms are permitted.

It is the Crime of Lying In Print for the author of an article 
to refuse to publish a correction of a clearly false statement 
which appeared in that article,
after a public request for such a correction has been made. 
Simply neglecting to publish such a correction 
for a period of three days or more after the request 
shall be taken as refusal to do so.
NEW_NEWS

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