spoon-discuss: multiple things

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm responding to a whole bunch of different messages here; I hope this 
doesn't bother anyone. BTW, things have really picked up in the last few 
days---I haven't had this much fun in a while. Thanks, guys. :)

1. Zagarna makes a good point with regard to distinguishing between actions 
required of the Banker, and say, me due to R350. If we're going to take 
that route, we need a principled way to make distinctions between the two.

2. With regard to making the site a public forum, it occurred to me that 
there is a difference between public records and public fora. Fora are 
arenas for action, while records are documents---they're just not 
comparable.

3. In response to Joerg's point that R350 takes effect prior to the next 
voting period: I think we should repeal it regardless, since after that it 
will be a non-operative rule.

4. I like Joerg's amendment to the R211. I don't really want the Bank to 
win either. I'm pretty sure that I own more than 20 rules, and I think 
Poulenc might (I'll figure that out sometime soon, as I've let that go way 
too long), so if either of us quit, the Bank would win.

5. In response to Joerg's question about conflict resolution among Rules: 
we don't have any precedence Rules. None. I know most Nomics have them, and 
so it would seem natural to look for one here. That we lack any precedence 
Rules was an intentional choice on my part when forming the initial 
Ruleset. Mainly I thought it would present the Judiciary with fewer knots 
to untangle. As I've said before, I favor judges giving priority to newer 
Rules, but I'm not so sure that's something we should legislate. 
(404notfound and I agree on that last part, I believe.)

6. With respect to 404notfound's comments on needing secure private dice 
rolls: If whatever we're doing is like sufficiently like vote 
counting---i.e., one person can collect the votes with no problem so long 
as e 1) votes before looking at others' votes, and 2) keeps quiet about it 
until voting ends---then we could use current methods. If we should ever 
need something more than that, I'll probably just set up a dice server on 
nomic.net. Come to think of it, I have a DECstation 5000/200 currently in 
use as a paperweight that would make a wonderful dice server. 
dice.nomic.net. I like that...

Enough for now...

-- 
J.