Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] proposal

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/17/02 at 2:02 PM Wonko the Sane wrote:

>>{{
>>__Who said games were supposed to be easy?__
>>
>>delete ",and comments" from the last paragraph of rule 154, subsection
>>B.6.
>>
>>append to same rule and subsection the following
>>
>>{{
>>
>>These restrictions also apply to any non-public forum communication with
>>players on the subject of this game or nomic games in general.  A player
>>violating this restriction in a non-retractable way [[for example where
>>the transgression was during the exchange of information not some action
>>that can be disallowed]] shall have eir score reduced by the admin 10
>>points per email message, conversation, or simmilar amount of information
>>up to a maximum of 50 points per nday and 100 points per nweek.  A
>>player's score shall not be reduced to fewer than zero points in this way.
>>There shall be no penalty if the transgression is not noticed by or
>>brought to the attention of the administrator within an nweek of having
>>been commited.
>>}}
>>}}
>
>
>Quite frankly, I don't like all these restrictions on public forum
>messages,
>because I'm not convinced that they work. If a rule says "No player may
>post
>a message to a public forum unless that message contains the word 'foo' at
>least twice", and I post a message that only has one 'foo', what happens
>then? The rule says I can't post a message like that, but obviously, I
>did.
>If you like at the list of everything that's reached the public forum, the
>one-foo message would most definitely be there. So in fact, the problem is
>that the rule is wrong - it says I can't, when I can. Basically, you're
>trying to regulate Real World actions with Nomic World rules.
>
>Now, if the rule said "the effects of postings that don't comply with this
>rule are nullified", maybe that would work. Or perhaps "The author of any
>message that fails to comply with these restrictions loses 10 points". But
>not "no player may post a message that doesn't comply with these
>restrictions", because that's not something the Game can control.

Sure it is.  If it's not legal to post in such a way, it can't possibly be a legal action worthy of being recognized by the Administrator.

						Glotmorf


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