RESOLUTION OF PROPOSALS 8866-8868 ================================= THIS IS AN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED REPORT. SOME INFORMATION MAY DIFFER FROM THE HISTORICAL REPORT. THE ASSESSMENT SENT TO THE PUBLIC FORUM IS THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE OF HISTORICAL INFORMATION. The official historical report is located at https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2022-November/016559.html ID Title Result ---------------------------------------------------------- 8866 Restricted confederation ADOPTED 8867 Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness ADOPTED 8868 Slippery Stones v2.1 ADOPTED I hereby resolve the Agoran decisions to adopt the below proposals. The quorum for all below decisions was 3. VOTING STRENGTHS ================ Strength is 3 unless otherwise noted. %: player has voting strength 5 PROPOSALS ========= PROPOSAL 8866 (Restricted confederation) AUTHOR: Janet CLASS: DEMOCRATIC FOR (3): Shy Owl, juan, snail AGAINST (1): Janet PRESENT (2): Murphy, nix BALLOTS: 6 AI (F/A): 9/3 (AI=3.0) POPULARITY: 0.333 OUTCOME: ADOPTED [ Janet: Aris would have been endorsed, but eir vote was inextricable ] PROPOSAL 8867 (Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness) AUTHOR: nix CLASS: DEMOCRATIC FOR (6): Janet, Murphy, Shy Owl, juan, nix, snail AGAINST (0): PRESENT (0): BALLOTS: 6 AI (F/A): 18/0 (AI=3.0) POPULARITY: 1.000 OUTCOME: ADOPTED PROPOSAL 8868 (Slippery Stones v2.1) AUTHOR: nix CLASS: ORDINARY FOR (5): Janet%, Shy Owl, juan, nix, snail% AGAINST (0): PRESENT (1): Murphy BALLOTS: 6 AI (F/A): 19/0 (AI=2.0) POPULARITY: 0.833 OUTCOME: ADOPTED The full text of each ADOPTED proposal is included below: ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8866 Title: Restricted confederation Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Janet Co-authors: Aris Amend Rule 869 by replacing "Any entity (including a group of confederated entities)" with "Any entity (including a group of entities confederated with the intent of forming a single person under this Rule)". [Requires intent for the formation of a group person. This prevents a random group of people confederated for some other purpose (the example initially raised was BlogNomic, or its set of players) from being treated as a group person, unless they also wish to confederate for the purposes of Agora.] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8867 Title: Expectations, Values, Bans, and Forgiveness Adoption index: 3.0 Author: nix Co-authors: Janet, R. Lee, Murphy, G. [ The goal of this is to expand on our banning system and implement some clearly defined values into the rules of Agora. This comprises two main changes. The first removes the "free speech" clause from R478 and replaces it with a bill of expectations that largely seek to maximize participation while recognizing ways in which that might reasonably be abridged. Nothing here is strictly binding. The second one expands on the banning system largely through guidelines. It does not actually add any new mechanisms for banning or unbanning, but offers a strongly-worded procedure for what should occur before a ban, and what kind of actions might constitute bannable offenses. It also adds an official mechanism to attempt to appeal a ban, and what should be considered when such an attempt is received. This is largely informed by Jason's current ban system, Murphy's response to Anti-Cleisthenes, R. Lee's values proto, and parallel discussions in other spaces. Hopefully I have done justice to everyone's viewpoints. ] Amend R478 by deleting the following text: Freedom of speech being essential for the healthy functioning of any non-Imperial nomic, it is hereby resolved that no Player shall be prohibited from participating in the Fora, nor shall any person create physical or technological obstacles that unduly favor some players' fora access over others. Enact a new Power=3 rule titled "Expectations of Participation" with the following text: An "Agoran forum" is a forum with publicity of discussion or public. Players of Agora have the following expectations of agoran fora: * Agoran fora allow equal participation for all players, subject to the rules of Agora and the explicitly stated rules of the fora. * The rules of participation in public fora are as closely aligned with the rules of Agora itself as possible; a player expects to be able to fully participate in all public fora as long as eir participation is in line with Agora's rules. * Agoran fora allow all interested persons, even those that are otherwise restricted in eir participation, to read all messages. * Discussion fora moderators may restrict participation subject to eir own clearly stated rules but should only do so to players temporarily and proportional to the harm of the rule breakage. * The content of discussion fora should primarily be about Agora itself, or reasonably adjacent topics. If an existing Agoran forum is in violation of these expectations, the Agoran community, led by the Registrar, SHOULD remove it or replace it with an appropriate forum as soon as possible. Amend R869 by deleting the following: Banned is a secured negative boolean person switch tracked by the Registrar. A person is unwelcome if e is Banned or if at least one part of em is unwelcome. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, an unwelcome person CANNOT register or be registered, and e is immediately deregistered if e is ever a player. Designations of unwelcomeness are secured. Unwelcomeness is to be used only to make a social statement that the Agoran community no longer wishes to interact with certain persons; in particular, it is not to be used to acquire gameplay advantage. As such, an unwelcome person SHOULD NOT, under any circumstances, attempt to bypass unwelcomeness, and e SHOULD carefully consider the circumstances of eir becoming unwelcome before participating in public or discussion fora. Enact a new Power=3 rule titled "Restrictions on Participation" with the following text: Banned is a secured negative boolean person switch tracked by the Registrar. A person is unwelcome if e is Banned or if at least one part of em is unwelcome. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, an unwelcome person CANNOT register or be registered, and e is immediately deregistered if e is ever a player. Designations of unwelcomeness are secured. A Banned switch SHOULD ONLY be flipped by a proposal for the express purpose of flipping Banned switches. Flipping a Banned switch to True (banning a player) SHOULD ONLY be done when: * the person's actions have been deemed harmful to Agora, to any player of Agora, or the overall community, and * the harm has been clearly communicated to the person, and e has been given time to consider and respond, and * e has made no attempt to make amends, eir attempt was unsatisfactory, or e has continued to act in harmful ways. Actions that are harmful are subject to the discretion of the community of Agora, but may include: any form of identity-based discrimination, personal attacks, disrespect of values or beliefs of any member of the Agoran community, or provocative/bad-faith comments. Once a quarter, any unwelcome player may submit a Request for Forgiveness to the Registrar. Such a document SHOULD contain sincere self-reflection including any appropriate apologies and an indication on how e intends to avoid or prevent similar incidents in the future. The Registrar SHALL publish any Request for Forgiveness e receives in a timely manner. If the community deems the Request sincere and appropriately reconciliatory, steps should be undertaken to flip the submitter's Banned switch to False. The Banned switch of any player that was unwelcome before this proposal was enacted is flipped to True. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ID: 8868 Title: Slippery Stones v2.1 Adoption index: 2.0 Author: nix Co-authors: G., ais523, Janet, ziproot Amend R2640, "Stones", by replacing: The escape risk of the stone, which must be a percentage between 0% and 100% inclusive; with: The smoothness of the stone, which is a non-negative integer; and appending to the end the following paragraphs: Mossiness is a Stone switch with values of non-negative integers and a default of 0 tracked by the Stonemason. When a stone is transfered, its Mossiness is set to 0. The mossiest stone(s) in a set of stone is (are) the stone(s) with the highest Mossiness value. The Slipperiness of a stone is that stone's smoothness plus its mossiness. Amend R2641, "Wielding Stones", by replacing: If a stone has a frequency, then it is IMPOSSIBLE to wield that stone if it has been previously wielded in the same Agoran time interval as indicated by its frequency (e.g. if its frequency is daily, if it has been wielded in the same Agoran day). with: A stone with a frequency that has been wielded in the corresponding Agoran time interval is Hot for the remainder of the time period (e.g. if the frequency is daily, it is hot for the remainder of the Agoran day it was wielded during). While a stone is hot, it is IMPOSSIBLE to wield it or to transfer it by announcement Amend R2642, "Distributing Stones", to be titled "Gathering Stones" and to read in full: A player who has not possessed a stone in the last 30 days CAN, by announcement, transfer the mossiest stone (if there is a tie, then a specified stone tied for mossiest) Agora owns to emself. E SHOULD specify the stone when doing so. Amend R2643, "Collecting Stones", to read in full: Once per month, the Stonemason CAN publish a Collection Notice by announcement, specifying all necessary information and choices. The Stonemason SHALL publish such a notice in a timely fashion after the beginning of each Agoran month. A Collection Notice includes a random numbers between 1 and 6; this is the Escape Minimum. When a Collection Notice is published, for each player eir non-immune stone with the highest slipperiness equal to or above the Escape Minimum is transferred to Agora. If there is a tie, the Stone Mason selects which one escapes. If e has no such stones, none of eir stones are transferred to Agora. The mossiness of all stones that are not transferred is incremented by 1. Amend R2645, The Stones to read in full: The following stones are defined, one per paragraph, with the following format: Stone Name (Frequency, Smoothness): Scroll. - Power Stone (weekly, 2): A specified player (defaulting to the wielder if not specified) is Power Stoned; Power Stoning is secured. A player's voting strength on a referendum on an ordinary proposal is increased by 3 for each time that e was Power Stoned during the referendum's voting period. - Soul Stone (weekly, 3): The Soul Stone is hereby transferred to the owner of a different specified non-immune stone, then that stone is transferred to the wielder. - Sabotage Stone (weekly, 4): The adoption index of a specified AI-majority Agoran decision is hereby increased by 1. - Jockey Stone (monthly, 3): A specified Running horse's Race Position is increased by 1. - Protection Stone (monthly, 4): A specified stone is granted immunity. - Recursion Stone (Monthly, 4): The recursion stone can be wielded once per month as if it had the power of any other stone of your choice. - Hot Potato Stone (Weekly, 5): When this stone is wielded, the wielder specifies an eligible player and gains 8 points. The stone is transferred to the eligible player. An eligible player is one who has not owned this stone since the last time Agora owned it. If this stone is not owned by Agora, it cannot otherwise be transferred, other rules notwithstanding. This stone is immune if 3 or more players have wielded it since the most recent collection notice. - Blank Stone (Monthly, 0): This stone has no effect. - Mason's Stone (None, 0): If the Mason's Stone is owned by the Stonemason, its Mossiness is continuously set to 0. If the Mason's Stone is owned by Agora, it is transferred to the Stonemason. - Anti-Equatorial Stone (Monthly, 5): The mossiest stone is transferred to the wielder. When this happens, the Anti-Equatorial Stone's mossiness is incremented by 1. - Score Stone (Weekly, 3): A specified player's (defaulting to the wielder if not specified) Score is increased by 3. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////