[s-b] [auto] Zarpint submits p1927

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Zarpint has submitted a new proposal, p1927.

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Proposal 1927/0: Less is More: The Admin
A Standard Proposal by Zarpint
Last modified on nweek 71, nday 4

[[ First redo the Ministry rule to remove the Admin]]

Replace r625 with the following:
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A. General Stuff
A Ministry is a set of powers and responsibilities. Each Ministry may be held by a single player (the Minister); a Ministry that is not held by any player is said to be Open.

When a player holds a Ministry, e is expected to perform all duties required of that Ministry.

A Public Display is a listing easily accessible to all Players. It is recommended that Ministers keep a copy of all Public Displays on a game website; additional forms of Display are also encouraged.

B. Ministerial Elections
Any player may start an Election for any Open Ministry as a Game Action, provided that no player other than emself has held the Ministry for at least five ndays, and that there is not already an Election in progress for that Ministry; that player may also specify a Selection Method. 

Kurt Godel may call such elections regardless of how many ndays have passed since the Ministry became open.

For five ndays following the start of an Election, players may Nominate other players or themselves to be Candidates in that Election. Players so Nominated may accept or reject their nominations; those that accept become candidates in the election. After these five ndays have passed, the Election enters the Voting phase, and an Election is called. This Elections has all players as Eligible Voters, four ndays as its Duration, the candidates as the choices, the Selection Method specified by the player who called the election as its Selection Method (or Borda Count if the caller didn't specify), and the player who called the election as its Moderator.

At the beginning of each nweek, Godel must perform Ministry Rotation. Ministry Rotation consists of calling an election for each Open Ministry and each Ministry that has not experienced such Rotation in the last three nweeks.

When an Election is called for an occupied Ministry, the player who was Minister at the time it became open is expected to continue eir duties until the end of the election, and may receive the usual payment at the end of that nweek if e does.


C. Leaving a Ministry
In order to leave a Ministry, a Minister must call an Election for eir Ministry as above. The Minister is expected to continue eir duties until the end of the Election, but need not Nominate emself in the Election.

Additionally, any Minister who gets put in The Vat ceases to hold eir Ministries.

Votes of Non-Confidence are Unauthored Proposals, consisting of two actions: making an occupied Ministry open, and calling an Election, in which the previous occupier may not be a Candidate, for that Ministry. 


D. Current Ministries
D.1. Generalities
All Ministers are responsible for notifying the Minister of Forking Paths of the location on the Public Displays for which they are responsible.

All Ministers are responsible for notifying the Minister of the Roster of any Roster changes necessary involving eir Ministry.

All Ministers are responsible for, and have the power to, perform Executive Tidiness. [[See r257.]]


D.2. The Meta-Ministry
The Meta-Ministry is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as Kurt Godel. The duties of the Meta-Ministry are to maintain a list of which players hold which ministries and to oversee the elections for the Open Ministries.

D.3. The Ministry of Justice 
The Ministry of Justice is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as the Attorney Generalist. The duty of the Attorney Generalist is to maintain a Public Display of all pending CFIs and their status.

D.4. The Ministry of Forking Paths
The Ministry of Forking Paths is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as Chauncey. The duties of the Minister of Forking Paths are to maintain the Big Ol' Book of Quotes, a Public Display of quotations [[See r396, Quotes]], to maintain the Meta-Public Display, a Public Display of all existing Public Fora and Public Displays, and to maintain a Public Display of all existing Vines and Tomatoes listing their owners.

E is also empowered to designate new Public Fora; when e does so, e must notify all players of the new Forum, either by posting to a previously existing Public Forum, or by sending a message to every player.

D.5. The Ministry of Twiddles
The Ministry of Twiddles is a Ministry; the Minister of Twiddles may be referred to as The Twiddler. The duty of The Twiddler is to maintain a Public Display of the current amount of Tildex held by each game entity.

D.6. The Ministry of the Roster
The Ministry of the Roster is a Ministry. The duty of the Minister of the Roster is to maintain the Roster, a Public Display showing necessary information unavailable elsewhere. The Roster must include the names and attributes of all Players. The Minister of the Roster is also responsible for recognizing new Players.

It is the responsibility of all Ministers to notify the Minister of the Roster of any Roster changes necessary involving eir Ministry.

D.7. The Ministry of the Rules
The Ministry of the Rules is a Ministry. The Minister of the Rules may be referred to as the GM. The duty of the GM is to maintain a Public Display showing the Ruleset and any other Rulebooks for which no other Minister is responsible. The GM must indicate which rules are deactivated.

D.8. The Webministry
The Webministry is a Ministry whose Minister may be referred to as the Weaver. The duty of the Weaver is to maintain all websites e deems necessary for the game. E must provide some way for the Ministers to put Public Displays on the Web and to automate their tasks if they so choose. E is also responsible for maintaining the Program List.

D.9. The Ministry of Arcana
The Ministry of Arcana is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as the Adept. The Adept is responsible for performing any necessary game task for which no other Minister is responsible.

The Adept has really got to know where eir towel is.

D.10. The Ministry of Change
The Ministry of Change is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as the Chairman. The Chairman is responsible for the following things:
* E must maintain a Public Display of all current proposals.
* E must publish the Ballot each nweek in a Public Display.
* E must count the vote results on the Ballot each nweek.
* E must publish a Public Display of which proposals passed, failed, were shelved, etc. each nweek, along with the points earned/lost by the proponents of said proposals.
* E must assign serial numbers to revisable objects.
* E must maintain a Public Display showing the Clock and the Watch.

D.11. The Ministry of Cards
The Ministry of Change is a Ministry; its Minister may be referred to as the Dealer. The Dealer is responsible for maintaining one or more Public Displays containing the following information:
* The names, images, and full texts of all extant cards
* The locations of all copies of every card (i.e., whose hand are they in, or are they in the deck, or in some sort of 'in play' state, etc.)

D.12. The Ministry of the Board 
The Ministry of the Board is a Ministry. Its Minister may be referred to as the GameKeeper. The GameKeeper is responsible for maintaining a Public display of the Book of Piece. E is responsible for assigning id numbers to P-Specs and amending typos in them as well. E is also responsible for maintaining a Public Display containing a representation of the board.

Finally, e is responsible for posting correct boards after changes to the board that are not players' moves. [[ For example, if a proposal puts a new piece on the Board ]] 

D.13. Society Ministries
There exists a Ministry for every Society. Unless the Society's Charter says otherwise, the member of the Society who joined the Society first is the Minister of that Society. The Minister of a Society must be a member of that Society. Elections may not be called for Society Ministries. It is the responsibility of the Minister of each Society to keep track of eir Society's Charter in a Public Display.

E. Ministerial Payment
At the end of each nweek, each Minister who has held eir Ministry for that entire nweek and performed all Duties required shall receive 20 points and 1 Temporary Wisdom, except that Society Ministers do not recieve payment.
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In r1898, change the last paragraph to:
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It is the responsibility of the Weaver to maintain the Program List.
}}

[[Now remove the Admin from the rest of the Ruleset]]

In r0, do the following:

Replace the second example of an Emergency with "The failure of, or absence of, enough Ministers that the Game cannot continue, for a period of seven days."

Remove "or The Administrator" from step 3 of the Procedure.

Remove "and the Administrator" and "or the Administrator" from step 5 of the Procedure.

Remove "and The Administrator" from step 7 and step 10 of the Procedure.

In r5, replace "The Administrator" with "the Chairman".

In r7, replace "within the powers of grammar correction of the Admin" with "within the powers of Executive Tidiness."

In r10, delete "and the Administrator". [[2/3 plurality required]]

In r14, replace "the administrator" and "The Administrator" with "the Minister of Forking Paths".

In r15, delete the list items beginning "Imperial" and "Despotic". [[Yay for autonomous government!]]

In r23, remove "Imperial" from the second sentence and delete the paragraph:
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If a ballot poll fails, but would not have failed if the Administrator hadn't vetoed it, the player who proposed the vetoed proposal, if one exists, has the choice of having the proposal Shelved, or having the proposal treated as Failed and receiving one more than the maximum number of points possible from that proposal's passage bonus.
}}

Replace r25 with:
{{__Automation__

Any action which is required to be performed by a Minister may also be performed by an automated script, program or webpage, or collection of same (otherwise known as a "software system"), acting on the Minister's behalf. 

If the action that such a software system would perform is the acceptance of submitted player actions, then for the purpose of that specific action, said software system will be considered a public forum.
}}

Replace r129 with:
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10 days after any Minister, in a message to all players, announces that the Public Displays for which e is responsible are up to date, the rules and gamestate shall be altered to what they now would be had that statement been true at the time it was made, unless in the intervening time any player objects to the statement in a message to all players, in which case the usual methods for determining the current rules and game state shall apply.

[[Ministers, when you update the Wiki, tell everyone.]]

This rule takes precedence over all other rules except rule 33 and rule 699. 
}}

In r212, remove "and the number of Chits held by the Admin becomes 4".

Delete r255 and replace r257 by:
{{__Executive Tidiness__

If a game document contains an error in grammar, spelling, format, or content; or system errors, system downtime, program errors, or other unanticipated system events have altered the game state in a manner not explicitly permitted by the rules, the Minister responsible for producing, maintaining, or listing the document shall be permitted to Rectify it by posting a Rectification to a public forum stating what is being changed and correcting the faulty text. This power is referred to as Executive Tidiness.

Any Player may, if e thinks the Rectification did anything other than fix an error, object to the Rectification via a post to a public forum, in which case the Rectification shall be anulled, and the document shall revert to its original text. Objections posted more than 3 ndays after the Rectification they object to shall have no effect. 

Executive Tidiness also includes the power of Ministers to make the following corrections in documents for which they are responsible:
1. Removing mentions of an object or type of object which no longer exists. 
2. Adding, in comments, a note of clarification indicating the result of a CFI pertaining to the interpretation of that document. 
3. Removing irrelevant, colorless, and uninteresting comments that lack aesthetic, literary, scientific, or historical value.
4. Clarifying an ambiguity in such a way as to enforce a Judge's decision regarding a CFI. 
}}

In r437.A.4, change "Admin" to "GM".

In r573, change the three occurrences of "Administrator" to "Chairman".

Change r578.V to:
{{
V. Charters 
Each Society may have a Charter. A Charter consists of the following things: 
1. A list of conditions, and Actions (called Auto Actions) that the Society takes when those conditions are met. If it is legal to do so, when the conditions for Auto Actions are met, the Society takes those Auto Actions. Auto Actions do not take place at the same time that other Actions are taking place or pending (like the actions that happen at the end of an nweek), they instead become pending until all other actions (except other Auto Actions that became pending afterwards) and their results finish resolving. 
2. A list of restrictions on its members. Its members may not perform any actions that the society forbids them from doing. No Society's Charter may outright forbid a member from leaving the society, nor may it impose unreasonable restrictions on leaving. [[ Whether a restriction is unreasonable is left to the Courts, but common sense is advised - giving back the Speeder given out by the society is reasonable, but listing the last ten names in the Siberian Yellow Pages is not. ]] If such a restriction is judged unreasonable by a CFI, members may ignore that restriction. 

A Society may change the text of its Charter at any time, except while the Clock is Off. Charters may only be changed as specified in the rules. The Minister of a Society may choose to refuse any change to its Charter (other than one that removes all contents of it) or any Auto Action for any reason, including but not limited to its causing confusion, its putting an undue burden on em, its breaking the game, its causing a paradox or unknown state of the game, or its having unintended consequences.
}}

In r578.VIII, change "If this results in more objects being given than are necessary, any excess objects are given to the Administrator." to "If this results in more objects being given than are necessary, any excess objects are destroyed.

In r819, replace "Admin" with "Chairman".

In r1085, replace "If a rule remains Deactivated for three consecutive nweeks, that rule shall be repealed. The Administrator is encouraged to indicate in the ruleset all rules which are deactivated." with "The GM must indicate which rules are deactivated."

Replace r1272 with:
{{__Deputies__
A Minister may designate any player as eir Deputy. Deputies are empowered to fulfill duties assigned to Ministers, but only such duties as are explictly assigned to the Ministers who designate them. 

A Minister may revoke a Player's Deputyhood at any time for any reason, including but not limited failure or refusal to do eir duties. If the Minister revokes a Player's Deputyhood, the Player ceases to be a Deputy. A Player may also cease to be a Deputy by stating in a Public Forum that he resigns the Deputy position.
}}

In r1639.B, delete the first sentence.

[[Admin-free in 2004.]]

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