spoon-business: Revisions to my proposals

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to the suggestions from Uncle Psychosis.  Proposal 275 has gotten a 
lot of flack, but very little constructive criticism.  I think that's 
what's necessary to make a judicial system like the one in the real world, 
and I know in its current state it's flawed... I'd like to fix it but I 
don't quite know how, and so again I solicit suggestions.

Anyways, here come the revisions:

I revise Proposal 275 in the following manner:

1) Add the following text to the beginning of the proposal:
"Determine if proposal 276 will pass or fail.  If it will pass and received 
the same or more affirmative votes than proposal 276, this proposal does 
nothing.

Otherwise, the following actions are taken:"

2) Remove the part about revising Rule 1.

3) Add the following text to the end of the proposal:
"After points have been awarded to Bean for the passage of this proposal, 
transfer one third (rounded up) of the aforementioned points to Scoff!."

Revise proposal 276 to read:

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__We Can Only See Shadows On the Wall__

If proposal 275 passed and received more affirmative votes than this 
proposal, this proposal does nothing.

Otherwise, the following actions are taken:

Revise Rule 128 to read:
{{
__Call For Inquiry__

If a player has any question or complaint regarding the rules or their 
application, e may issue a Call For Inquiry (CFI, or for historical [[and 
Roman]] reference, CFJ).

A CFI may be issued by any player by posting eir intention to a public 
forum together with a Statement in question and optionally an analyisis. 
That Player shall be known as the Plaintiff with regard to the CFI. While 
submitting CFI the Plaintiff may also specify a player or the Administrator 
as Defendant for that CFI.

CFIs are given a serial number as if they were a revisable object. A CFI 
cannot be modified once submitted.
}}

Revise Rule 127 to read:
{{
__Judges__

When a Call for Inquiry has been made, the Administrator shall randomly 
select one player among the eligible players to be the Judge. Eligble 
players for the purpose of this rule are all players excepting the 
Defendant, the Plaintiff and players in the List of Misbehaving Judges. If 
that leaves no players eligible to be the Judge, then out of the players on 
the List of Misbehaving Judges, the player who was placed on the List of 
Misbehaving Judges first shall be the Judge.

In the event of a CFI naming the Administrator as defendant, the duty of 
randomly selecting an Judge shall fall to the player with the highest 
Score. That player will also be ineligible to be a Judge for the CFI.
}}

Revise Rule 128 to read:
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__Judgement__

A Judge shall, within seven days of eir selection, give one of the 
following responses to the Call for Inquiry to which e was assigned, 
accompanied by an Analysis:

1. Refused: A Judge may refuse to hear the CFI if it lacks a clear 
Statement or is not germain to the game.
2. True: The Statement is true.
3. False: The Statement is false.
4. Undecided: It could not be determined at the time the CFI was made 
whether the Statement is true or false.
[[not quite completly ripped off from A Nomic]]

This response constitutes the Judge's Judgement on that CFI and has the 
same serial number of the CFI.

The Analysis of the Judgement is the reasoning that the Judge used to 
arrive at the Judgement, and must be a direct interpretation of the rules. 
A Judge may not make a Judgement which is contradictory to one or more 
rules. [[This either results in another Call For Inquiry, or we need an 
appealate court]]

Should it happen that a Judge has not issued a Resolution within seven days 
of eir selection, that Judge shall be recused and a new player shall be 
selected in the ways prescribed by the rules as Judge for the CFI. When a 
Judge is recused in this manner, e shall lose 10 points and, if a rule 
entitled "Misbehaving Judges" exists, eir name shall be added to the List 
of Misbehaving Judges.
}}

After points have been awarded to Bean for the passage of this proposal, 
transfer one third (rounded up) of the aforementioned points to Scoff!.  [[ 
Scoff! initally took on the role of Judicial Reformer... I'm just trying to 
give it my own twist ]]

Transfer 2 points from Bean to Uncle Psychosis. [[ A tip of the hat for the 
title :) ]]

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