I believe there was a second improved version, but I currently do not have it.
Unfortunately, this Committee did not survive the demise of Nomic World. Anyone want to resurrect it?
2b7c6b54: Petition of Intent (Mutation Committee). (Geoff, Feb 3 14:24)
This is a Petition of Intent to form the Mutation Committee (abbrev: mc). The following people have agreed to become members (err sign?): Geoff, Joev, Blob, Vlad, Steve and Chuck.
#
2. Life Span
All mutable ordinances shall have a total life span of 4 weeks from
the time of their creation or transmutation to a mutable ordinance before
they are subject to death except where they gain extra life span by subsuming
another ordinance. A mutable ordinance's current life span shall be the
time remaining until its death. A mutable ordinance's life span may never
exceed 4 weeks.
#
3. Ordinance Changes
Ordinances may not be changed, except as dictated by the immutable
ordinances.
#
4. Death
Death is the process of a mutable ordinance being removed from the
ordinances set.
#
5. Transmutation
Transmutation is the process of renumbering an immutable ordinance.
The transmuted ordinance loses its old ordinance number, and gains a number
greater than or equal to twenty, which is not the number of an already
exisiting ordinance. An immutable ordinance cannot be transmuted if there
exists another immutable ordinance with a greater number.
#
6. Mutation.
Mutation is the process where a committee member replaces up to 4 consecutive
words or 2 non-consecutive words in a mutable ordinance with from zero
to 8 other words. A word is a contiguous sequence of non-whitespace characters.
The ordinance number is part of the text of an ordinance, and hence it may be mutated; however the number may not be mutated to an already existing number or an illegal number.
#
7. Subsumption
Subsumption is the process of a mutable ordinance appending the text
of another mutable ordinance to its own text. The mutable ordinance that
has been subsumed is subject to death. A mutable ordinance which subsumes
another mutable ordinance gains one half (in days; integer portions are
rounded down) of the other mutable ordinance's remaining life span.
#
8. Division.
Division is the process of duplicating an ordinance and prepending
a new number to the duplicate. The number prepended may not be an already
existing number. Both the ordinance and its duplicate (if mutable) are
given a life span equal to half the ordinance's life span before it divided,
plus two weeks.
#
9. Precedence.
Lower number ordinances always take precedence over higher number ordinances,
without exception.
#
10. Ordinance Numbers.
Ordinance numbers must be integers greater than 0. A ordinance number
is always at the start of an ordinance and is terminated with a full stop
followed by a space.
#
11. Committee Members' Actions.
Each week a committee member may perform up to two "actions". An action
consists of mutating an ordinance, dividing an ordinance, transmuting an
ordinance, or subsuming an ordinance on behalf of another ordinance.
Should less than 2 mutable ordinances remaining then the next action
performed by a committee member must be to divide.
#
1001. Scoring.
A player shall gain 10 points by performing an action. All scores shall
begin at zero on the formation of this committee.
#
1002. Permissibility of the Unprohibited. Whatever is not regulated
or prohibited by these ordinances is permitted.
#
1003. Committee Members.
Only committee members may post to the committee notice board.
#
1004. New Committee Members.
New Committee Members are only allowed to join by the explicit regulation
of an ordinance.
#
1005. Tag.
Committee members may only "tag" other committee members "it".