Last updated: 29 Apr 1996

Misanthropists' Group Ordinances

  1. These Group Ordinances may be changed only by unanimous agreement of all Group Members. When all Members have agreed to a change, the Vizier shall distribute the new Ordinances to all Members. Under no circumstances shall these Ordinances be interpreted as constraining the casting of personal Votes by Members.

  2. The initial Vizier for the Group is favor. The Vizier may resign at any time, transferring the Viziership to a willing Group Member by whatever procedure is mandated by the Rules of Agora Nomic. It is the responsibility of the Vizier to detect and report any currency transfers mandated by these Ordinances.

  3. There are two positions, known as Misanthropists' Group Voter and Misanthropists' Group Roller. The Roller is normally the Vizier, although e may delegate this position to any willing Member. The Voter is selected as described below.

  4. At any time that the Group has fewer than four (4) members, any Player of Agora Nomic may become a Member of the Group by informing the Vizier that e does so, and by taking any other actions that are required by the Rules of Agora Nomic. No membership fee is required.

  5. When a Player becomes a member of the Group for the first time, e is issued three (3) Group Coins from the Group Treasury. With luck, these will become Valuable Collector's Items. If any currencies except Extra Votes somehow find themselves in the Group Teasury, they will remain there until the Members of the Group unanimously agree to do something else with them.

  6. Each Nomic Week, the Roller will randomly select one of the Active Players who is a Member of the Group to be Group Voter for the next week. The Roller will announce the selection to all Group Members. There will be no Group Voter for the week that the Group first comes into being.

  7. The Group Voter for a given Week has the full and sole authority to vote on behalf of the Group on any Proposals which are distributed by the Promotor during that Week. e may also at eir discretion cast one (and no more than one) of the Extra Votes (if any) in the Group Treasury on one of those Proposals; eir notifying the Vizier of eir desire to do so causes one of the Extra Votes in the Group Treasury to be transferred to the Treasury of the Group Voter. The Group Voter shall inform the Vizier of how the Group will vote, and the Vizier shall forward this information to the Agora Assessor (or other mechanisms for Group Voting, should any be adopted by Agora Nomic).