diff --git a/lawguide.tex b/lawguide.tex index 5c0b3fd..7c740a1 100644 --- a/lawguide.tex +++ b/lawguide.tex @@ -21,51 +21,7 @@ \section{\#offtopia law guide} This document is merely a summary of the most important laws helpful for everyday -activity. - - -\subsection{Terminology} - -\begin{itemize} -\item \texttt{law}: A passed proposal. A proposal requires three contiguous votes -by unique non-bot members of the channel to be passed. - -Laws need not effect active behavior on the channel, and can be passed because of -Rule of Funny. - -\item \texttt{malcompliance}: The act of complying in the worst possible manner. Or, -as the Finnish define it, ``following the letter of the law while pissing on the spirit''. - -Examples: -\begin{quote} -``Hey could you test sortix?'' ``test -f sortix.iso \# Yep. It's a file.'' \\ -``Hey, can you give me some water?'' ``You mean aqua?'' ``...sure.'' *gives aqua fortis* -\end{quote} - -\item \texttt{filibuster}: Anything that is sent on the channel, and can stop a -law from being passed, is known as a filibuster. This is line in with the literal meaning, -``obstructs progress in a legislative assembly''. - -\item \texttt{proposal}: Anything that can filibuster can be a proposal. - -\item \texttt{new ancient law}: A law that has always been true, -but was only recently discovered and legislated. - -\item \texttt{lawrememberer}: The person responsible for maintaining the lawlist, -currently `nortti'. - -\item \texttt{lawspeaker}: The person who interprets and clarifies the law, -currently `nortti'. - -\item \texttt{triminority}: The three required to pass a law. Can be used to refer to -an actual group, or a hypothetical group. - -\item \texttt{triumvirate}: People who are more active with channel work, and have -additional rights with ChanServ. Currently consists of `FireFly', `heddwch', `meowrobot', -`nortti', `puckipedia', `shikhin', `sortie', `vehk', and `ybden'. - -\item \texttt{vote}: Anything described under `Voting.Syntaxen'. -\end{itemize} +activity. Most important parts are the first two sections `Behaving` and `Logs`. \subsection{Behaving} @@ -78,7 +34,7 @@ here; currently in helpful form. By new ancient law, MMMM is lawful. \item Calling women subhuman; making racist, homophobic, or transphobic comments; calling people with disabilities leeches and subhuman; telling people with mental illnesses to kill themselves; or other comparable acts -are to be prohibited, except in cases of clear sarcasm. +are be prohibited, except in cases of clear sarcasm. \item If someone lays out a boundary to you, you are to respect it. No "jokes" where you repeatedly violate it after being specifically told so. If you violate a boundary by accident, @@ -190,4 +146,48 @@ if requested to do so. \item It is a good custom to vote on one's own proposal last. \end{itemize} + +\subsection{Terminology} + +\begin{itemize} +\item \texttt{law}: A passed proposal. A proposal requires three contiguous votes +by unique non-bot members of the channel to be passed. + +Laws need not effect active behavior on the channel, and can be passed because of +Rule of Funny. + +\item \texttt{malcompliance}: The act of complying in the worst possible manner. Or, +as the Finnish define it, ``following the letter of the law while pissing on the spirit''. + +Examples: +\begin{quote} +``Hey could you test sortix?'' ``test -f sortix.iso \# Yep. It's a file.'' \\ +``Hey, can you give me some water?'' ``You mean aqua?'' ``...sure.'' *gives aqua fortis* +\end{quote} + +\item \texttt{filibuster}: Anything that is sent on the channel, and can stop a +law from being passed, is known as a filibuster. This is line in with the literal meaning, +``obstructs progress in a legislative assembly''. + +\item \texttt{proposal}: Anything that can filibuster can be a proposal. + +\item \texttt{new ancient law}: A law that has always been true, +but was only recently discovered and legislated. + +\item \texttt{lawrememberer}: The person responsible for maintaining the lawlist, +currently `nortti'. + +\item \texttt{lawspeaker}: The person who interprets and clarifies the law, +currently `nortti'. + +\item \texttt{triminority}: The three required to pass a law. Can be used to refer to +an actual group, or a hypothetical group. + +\item \texttt{triumvirate}: People who are more active with channel work, and have +additional rights with ChanServ. Currently consists of `FireFly', `heddwch', `meowrobot', +`nortti', `puckipedia', `shikhin', `sortie', `vehk', and `ybden'. + +\item \texttt{vote}: Anything described under `Voting.Syntaxen'. +\end{itemize} + \end{document}