The Unofficial Agora Nomic Dictionary
Originally produced by TAL (then known as "Stella?"), the Agora A to W
is a semi-comprehensive guide to Agora Nomic, and the most common terms
used therein.
From: KUNNE@crnvma.cern.ch
To: nomic@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: Nomic from A to Z
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 12:45:40 SET
The Unofficial Agora Nomic Dictionary
Current Definitions
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- ABSTAIN, interj.
- One of the three possible way to Vote.
Assures a Point without taking a decision
on a Proposal.
(683)
- Active, adj.
- Any Player not On
Hold.
(1016)
- Adopt, v.
- To put a Proposal into effect; a
Proposal is Adopted when it passes the Vote.
(106,
955)
- AGAINST, interj.
- One of the three possible way to Vote.
Assures much chagrin for the Proposer.
(683)
- Agora, n.
- The name of the Game.
(1020)
- Ambassador, n.
- Officer charged with relations with
other Nomics.
(1070)
- Amend, v.
- To change the wording of a Rule.
(105)
- Appeal, v.
- To request to change a Judgement.
(911)
- Archivist, n.
- Officer charged with keeping a historical
record of the Ruleset, and other archiving
duties.
(417)
- Bank, n.
- Entity that may hold
Marks, but most often doesn't
(1470)
- Banker, n.
- Officer charged with the recording of
Marks held.
(1548)
- Bar, v.
- To exclude Player(s) from being
Judge on a CFJ.
(897)
- CFJ, v., n.
- Call for Judgment. Formal request for a certain Statement
to be Judged.
(991)
- Champion, n.
- Patent Title given to a game Winner. (755)
(755)
- Clerk of the Courts, n.
- Officer charged with the selection of
Judges and the general bookkeeping necessary
for CFJ's.
(889)
- Coin, n.
- Currency minted by
Groups.
(1474)
- CotC, n.
- See Clerk of the Courts.
- Create, v.
- To enact a new Rule.
(105)
- Crime, n.
- A certain class of Rule violations explicitly defined by
rules and punishable in Blots.
(1503)
- Currency, n.
- A class of Entities with a common set
of Rules regulating possession, transfer, etc. Examples include
Marks, Points, and Win Tokens.
(1467)
- Game Custom, n.
- Last resort of a Judge who can't decide
a CFJ by the Rules.
(217)
- Date: header, n.
- Timestamp at the top of an email message, usually used as
the official time of a game Move.
- Directories, n.
- see Phone Books.
- Distributor, n.
- Officer charged with the distribution
of Official mail. In practice, the Officer mostly maintains the
various Nomic listservers.
(796)
- Electioneer, n.
- Player charged with the filling of an
empty Office.
(790)
- Eligible, adj.
- Said of a Player who may be selected
as Judge for a given CFJ (698)
(951,
698)
- Enact, v.
- See Create a Rule.
- Nomic Entity, n.
- Any "thing" existing directly as a result of the Agora Ruleset. It is hotly disputed as to what
exactly Entities are, and how to legally define them.
- FALSE, interj.
- One of the four possible Judgements
of a CFJ. (591)
(591)
- FOR, interj.
- One of the three possible ways to Vote.
(683)
- Foreign Policy Directive, n.
- A legal document that directs the actions required
of the Ambassador.
(1070)
- Formal apology, n.
- A letter required of a Ninny for
breaking one or more Rules.
(908)
- Game
- 1. the game of Agora Nomic as we continuously play it.
(1020)
- 2. part of (1) between the moment all Players have zero
points and the moment that a player becomes Champion.
(388,
1433)
- Group
- a set of Players registering as such.
(766)
- Herald
- Officer charged with recording Kudo
transfers.
(1377)
- Hero
- Patent Title given to those persons
who gave outstanding service to Agora. Peter Suber is the only
Hero. (There is no longer any Rule which authorizes this
Patent Title, but a number of people believe it still
exists.)
- Honour
- The amount of Kudos a
Player holds.
(1062)
- Injunction
- a statement or series of statements specifying an action or
actions which must take place, and which may accompany certain
Judgements.
(663,
665,
789,
1500)
- Judge
- Player selected to
Judge a given CFJ.
(951,
408,
591)
- Judgement
- Decision on the validness of a statement on the Game (591)
- Justices
- e three players that judge Appeals (910)
- Justiciar
- Officer who is the third Justiciar in the Appeal Court (910)
- Kudo
- One unit of Honour (963)
- Legal
- permitted by the Rules
- Mark
- currency too optimistically created to start an
economy (516)
- Member
- Player belonging to a Group (719)
- Mutable
- Set of those Rules that may be changed by less unanimity
(101)
- Ninny
- Player accused of breaking the Rules (908)
- Office
- Set of tasks required of an Officer
- Officer
- Player charged by the Rules to execute certain tasks, see
Ambassador, Archivist, Banker, Clerk, Scorekeepor
- On Hold
- Status of a Player for which Real Life interfered with
Nomic (870)
- Ordinancekeepor
- r charged with keeping up-to-date the Ordinances
of a Group (766)
- Ordinances
- Rules specific to the Members of a Group (721)
- Originator
- Patent Title given to Chuck. We know why, but it's not
in the Rules (816)
- Patent Title
- Nomic Entity given to certain Players for certain reasons
as determined by the Rules. One of those Entities which serve no
apparent reason, but are fun to have around (649)
- Phone Books
- List of Players and Officers (676)
- Player
- any person registered as such. You and me (869)
- Point
- magic entity of which a certain amount is needed to win
- Proposal
- Attempt to change (or not to change) the Rules
- Quorum
- Minimum number of Players required to Vote to adopt
a Proposal (103 879)
- Registrar
- Officer charged with registering Players and Groups,
and the update of the Phone Books and the Group Report (559)
- Repeal a Rule
- deleting a Rule from the Rule Set
- Rule Set
- collection of currently 200 Rules that gouvern play
- Rulekeepor
- Officer charged with updating and distributing the Rule
Set (399)
- Salary
- Compensation for Officers
- Spirit of the Game
- Last resort of a Judge who can't decide a statement
by the Rules. Highly subjective (217)
- Mighty Samourai
- Player who holds more than fourty Kudos (963)
- Scamster
- Patent Title awarded to a Player who has shown great
enthusiasm, persistence or skill in the perpretating of Scams
(I am quoting, I am quoting) (840)
- Score
- number of Points a Player has
- Scorekeepor
- Officer charged with updating and distributing the scores
(901)
- Speaker
- Player in charge of distributing Proposals and collecting
the Votes (208).
- Squealer
- Player accusing another of breaking the Rules (908)
- Statement
- Set of sentences being judged after a CFJ (991)
- Title
- First line of a Proposal (597)
- Transfer
- Point or Currency change where one Entity receives the
amount that a second Entity looses (614 692)
- Treasury
- Group account that may hold Points and Currencies (721)
- TRUE
- one of the three possible Judgments of a CFJ (591)
- Vizier
- Officer holding the executive power of a Group (766)
- Vote
- 1. The decision process for adopting or rejecting
Proposals (108)
2. One unit of decision power (206)
- Winning a Game
- Obtaining the limit of Points defined in (724)
Obsolete Defintions
Included for reference when listening to the Seasoned
Veterans babble about the Good Old Days
- Accusation
- A CFJ claiming a Player broke a Rule (848)
- Act of Mischief
- the weapon in the War between the Groups. A dead baby
at present (764)
- Assistant
- Officer charged with the recording of Official mail (839)
- Auction
- The public sell of a Nomic Entity (758)
- Auctioneer
- Player charged with the organization of an Auction (758)
- Cache
- Black boxes that hold Points given to the Vototron (574)
- Conserved Quantity
- Any Entity that may only be created or destroyed
as explicitly stated by the Rules (747)
- Contested Proposal
- a proposal that directly changes the actions required
or forbidden to the Speaker, to which e is opposed (956)
- Criminal Court
- Mythical entity supposed to judge Crimes (41)
- Declaration
- Prescribed statement on the 2nd line of a Proposal giving
its effect on the Ruleset (884)
- Decrees
- A proposal that is not a proposed Rule Change (900)
- Dividend
- 5% of the score of Player X, as paid to the Player which
holds X Stock(931)
- Entrepreneur
- Mythical Patent Title of which the awarding seems to
be a little later than foreseen (862)
- Group Report
- list of Groups, Members and unaffiliated Players (717)
- Guilty
- condition of a Player who committed a prescribed Crime
(see Crime)
- Immutable Rules
- Set of Rules whose transmutation and subsequent
change is virtually impossible (101)
- Lottery
- ekly happening where a Player chosen among those who
submitted proposals receives a prize in Points (749)
- Marxist
- Patent Title of the Player holding the most Marks (736)
- Non-Rule-Change
- Proposals that are not Rule Changes (891)
- Oath
- Sworn statement by a Player to do (or not to do) something
(853)
- Poverty Line
- 20% of the average score of all Active Players. See
Welfare (713)
- Point Reserve
- the Nomic Point Sink in whereto all negatives go (628)
- Sane Proposal
- Proposal on which no non-Voter Nomic Entity may Vote (779)
- Stock
- Entity that give its owner the right on Dividend (931)
- Sweepstake Officer
- Officer in charge of the weekly Lottery (655)
- Transmutation
- The act of changing an Immutable Rule into a Mutable
one or vice versa (110)
- Vototron
- Black Box mechanism that may be used to push trough one's
Proposals (574)
- Walrus
- Animal abused in a mythical Scam by Waggie (864)
- Welfare
- Point transfer to Players that have less points than most
other (903)
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