A game written and run by Jonathan Whiting
Patrick's proposal, introductions.
For: Terry, Robert, Damien, Patrick, Darien, Rolpege
Against: Alan, Stephen, Ian, Niall, Jonathan
PASSED
Stephen Lavelle's proposal, removal of overriding vote.
For: Terry, Robert, Stephen, Patrick
Against: Damien, Alan, Ian, Darien, Niall, Jonathan, Rolpege
REJECTED
Terry Cavanagh's proposal, democratic dictator.
For: Terry, Damien, Stephen, Patrick, Ian, Rolpege
Against: Robert, Alan, Darien, Niall, Jonathan
PASSED
Alan Hazelden's proposal, beneficial loser.
For: Terry, Robert, Damien, Alan, Stephen, Ian, Darien, Niall, Jonathan, Rolpege
Against: Patrick
PASSED
Damien Landreau's proposal, our law should not kill.
For: Damien, Niall, Rolpege
Against: Terry, Robert, Alan, Stephen, Patrick, Ian, Darien, Jonathan
REJECTED
Jonathan Whiting's proposal, by any other name.
For: Robert, Damien, Alan, Patrick, Ian, Darien, Niall, Jonathan, Rolpege
Against: Terry, Stephen
PASSED
Nial Moody's proposal, amendments.
For: Terry, Robert, Damien, Alan, Stephen, Patrick, Niall, Jonathan, Rolpege
Against: Darien
PASSED
Stephen Lavelle proposed:
would like to introduce a new law:
There are two political parties.
Each citizen must declare their party affiliation, and they may change it at most once per day.
Each citizen must align themselves with one party, and all members of a party must vote in exactly the same way.
If a citizen neglects to vote on a particular issue it is to be treated as a vote in concordance with the rest of the party members.
Robert Yang proposed:
I would like to propose an amendment to Law 9, which is currently -- 9: OUR PROCESS
In the turn following a motions submission citizens can take an action to vote for or against it. One vote per citizen per motion.
... and change it to...
In the turn following a motion's submission citizens can take an action to vote for or against it. One vote per citizen per motion. Citizens will vote by entering their votes into a "Doodle" or similar web polling app. Citizens caught falsifying votes will have their voting privilege suspended the next round.
example: http://www.doodle.com/zykq48pcyrdwtkb4#table
Darien Sumner proposed:
Given that laws with a higher identifying number are more likely to reflect the recent thinking and desires of the group, I propose that Rule 3 be changed to the following:
"3. ONE TRUE ORDER When two of our laws contradict, the law with the higher index prevails."
Alan Hazelden proposed:
I propose a new law, to be called "identifying talented citizens" and to read as follows:
" Citizens are assessed for their ability to design good laws which carry the support of our community.
The popularity of a motion is defined to be an integer equal to the number of votes for that motion minus the number of votes against.
The popularity of a citizen is defined to be an integer equal to the sum of the popularity of all motions which have been submitted by that citizen. "
Ian Snyder proposed:
The Ninth Law currently reads:
"In the turn following a motions submission citizens can take an action to vote for or against it. One vote per citizen per motion."
I propose the following addition:
"Whatever voting method is employed should encourage anonymity in voting. No citizen may view the contents of another citizen's ballot. The Benevolent Dictator may see each citizen's ballot, but may not reveal that information to other citizens. The amount of votes for and against a motion should not be made public until that motion has either passed or failed."
Our laws define the games scope.
Anything not defined or mentioned in our laws is not a part of the game.
Each of our laws has an index. A unique positive integer.
New laws are assigned the lowest available index that is higher than all already in play.
When two of our laws contradict the law with the lower index prevails.
Our game begins at 8pm GMT on Monday 11th July.
Our game ends at 8pm GMT on Friday 29th July.
Our turns last 24 hours.
New turns begin at 8pm GMT on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
When a turn is not in play the game is suspended.
We are the citizens of our game.
Citizens must abide by our laws.
Citizens should act in the spirit of our laws.
An action is a single act made a single citizen.
During a turn citizens submit actions by stating unambigously that they are doing so via the mailing list.
A correction is an addition, repeal or amendment of one of our rules.
A motion is an action taken to propose a single correction.
Our citizens may each submit a single motion during a turn.
Motions should be sent with an email subject indicating that it is a proposed correction, and includes a name for the motion that hints towards its contents.
In the turn following a motions submission citizens can take an action to vote for or against it.
One vote per citizen per motion.
We require a beneficial dictator at all times.
Our beneficial dictator can make a single overriding vote in each turn.
When the beneficial dictator excercises this right all other votes on that motion are ignored.
At the end of the turn a motion was up for vote the motion will be enacted or discarded.
If the majority of votes are in favour of the motion it is enacted; otherwise the motion is discarded.
At the end of the game the winner is the citizen who has spent least time serving as beneficial dictator.
If multiple citizens tie, a winner is chosen randomly from this group.
Citizens are only amongst us whilst a law explicitly describes them.
Traitors should be executed by a motion repealing that law.
Jonathan Whiting is our current beneficial dictator. A new beneficial dictator is elected every turn by popular vote.
Jonathan Whiting is one of our citizens.
Rolpege is one of our citizens.
Darien Sumner is one of our citizens.
Alan Hazelden is one of our citizens.
Niall Moody is one of our citizens.
Terry Cavanagh is one of our citizens.
Ian Snyder is one of our citizens.
Kyle is one of our ciitzens.
Patrick is one of our citizens.
Damien Landreau is one of our citizens.
Stephen Lavelle is one of our citizens.
Robert Yang is one of our citizens.
During the turn it was proposed, a motion may be amended any number of times by the citizen who proposed it. In the following turn citizens will vote on the most recent version of the motion.