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\section{\#offtopia law guide}
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This document is merely a summary of the most important laws helpful for everyday
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activity.
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\subsection{Terminology}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \texttt{law}: A passed proposal. A proposal requires three contiguous votes
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by unique non-bot members of the channel to be passed.
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Laws need not effect active behavior on the channel, and can be passed because of
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Rule of Funny.
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\item \texttt{malcompliance}: The act of complying in the worst possible manner. Or,
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as the Finnish define it, ``following the letter of the law while pissing on the spirit''.
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Examples:
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\begin{quote}
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``Hey could you test sortix?'' ``test -f sortix.iso \# Yep. It's a file.'' \\
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``Hey, can you give me some water?'' ``You mean aqua?'' ``...sure.'' *gives aqua fortis*
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\end{quote}
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\item \texttt{filibuster}: Anything that is sent on the channel, and can stop a
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law from being passed, is known as a filibuster. This is line in with the literal meaning,
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``obstructs progress in a legislative assembly''.
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\item \texttt{proposal}: Anything that can filibuster can be a proposal.
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\item \texttt{new ancient law}: A law that has always been true,
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but was only recently discovered and legislated.
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\item \texttt{lawrememberer}: The person responsible for maintaining the lawlist,
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currently `nortti'.
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\item \texttt{lawspeaker}: The person who interprets and clarifies the law,
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currently `nortti'.
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\item \texttt{triminority}: The three required to pass a law. Can be used to refer to
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an actual group, or a hypothetical group.
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\item \texttt{triumvirate}: People who are more active with channel work, and have
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additional rights with ChanServ. Currently consists of `FireFly', `heddwch', `meowrobot',
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`nortti', `puckipedia', `shikhin', `sortie', `vehk', and `ybden'.
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\item \texttt{vote}: Anything described under `Voting.Syntaxen'.
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\end{itemize}
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activity. Most important parts are the first two sections `Behaving` and `Logs`.
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\subsection{Behaving}
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\item Calling women subhuman; making racist, homophobic, or transphobic
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comments; calling people with disabilities leeches and subhuman;
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telling people with mental illnesses to kill themselves; or other comparable acts
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are to be prohibited, except in cases of clear sarcasm.
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are be prohibited, except in cases of clear sarcasm.
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\item If someone lays out a boundary to you, you are to respect it. No "jokes" where you
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repeatedly violate it after being specifically told so. If you violate a boundary by accident,
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\item It is a good custom to vote on one's own proposal last.
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\end{itemize}
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\subsection{Terminology}
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\begin{itemize}
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\item \texttt{law}: A passed proposal. A proposal requires three contiguous votes
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by unique non-bot members of the channel to be passed.
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Laws need not effect active behavior on the channel, and can be passed because of
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Rule of Funny.
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\item \texttt{malcompliance}: The act of complying in the worst possible manner. Or,
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as the Finnish define it, ``following the letter of the law while pissing on the spirit''.
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Examples:
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\begin{quote}
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``Hey could you test sortix?'' ``test -f sortix.iso \# Yep. It's a file.'' \\
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``Hey, can you give me some water?'' ``You mean aqua?'' ``...sure.'' *gives aqua fortis*
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\end{quote}
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\item \texttt{filibuster}: Anything that is sent on the channel, and can stop a
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law from being passed, is known as a filibuster. This is line in with the literal meaning,
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``obstructs progress in a legislative assembly''.
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\item \texttt{proposal}: Anything that can filibuster can be a proposal.
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\item \texttt{new ancient law}: A law that has always been true,
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but was only recently discovered and legislated.
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\item \texttt{lawrememberer}: The person responsible for maintaining the lawlist,
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currently `nortti'.
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\item \texttt{lawspeaker}: The person who interprets and clarifies the law,
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currently `nortti'.
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\item \texttt{triminority}: The three required to pass a law. Can be used to refer to
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an actual group, or a hypothetical group.
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\item \texttt{triumvirate}: People who are more active with channel work, and have
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additional rights with ChanServ. Currently consists of `FireFly', `heddwch', `meowrobot',
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`nortti', `puckipedia', `shikhin', `sortie', `vehk', and `ybden'.
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\item \texttt{vote}: Anything described under `Voting.Syntaxen'.
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\end{itemize}
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\end{document}
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