Re: [s-d] [s-b] Consultation: Player Status

["Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, but "deregistering" isn't defined by the rules, and how do you
know it's not defined in a super-secret Agreement?



On Dec 26, 2007 11:04 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hose wrote:
>
> > On Dec 26, 2007 9:02 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Oh, of course I get to this message /after/ updating the subsidiary
> >> pages on the wiki.  I think it should be answered No ("de-register"
> >> does not run into the same type of potential ambiguity that "press"
> >> and "push" did), but if it's answered Yes then I'll revert my changes.
> >
> >>From the "talk like robots thread":
> >
> > [quote]
> > "Pressing", "activating", "switching", and "pushing" aren't Game
> > Actions and don't have any effect.
> > [/quote]
> >
> > [quote]
> > I would be fine with that if it just said that players can hit their
> > panic buttons. But it doesn't - it explicitly spells out what you have
> > to declare in order to turn your Panic Button on or off.
> > [/quote]
> >
> > [quote]
> > Not only does it spell out exactly what you're supposed to state, it
> > even capitalizes the word "Hitting", which is how we usually denote
> > keywords.
> > [/quote]
> >
> > How does this not run into the same type of potential ambiguity?
>
> I'm not sure about "activating", but there were arguably some cases
> where the intended effect of the other words was unclear.  No such
> ambiguity exists here; if synonyms are allowed at all, then "deregister"
> is clearly synonymous with "forfeit".  (I must remember next nweek to
> propose replacing Panic Buttons with Mental States; I think my previous
> attempt was part of a Refresh Proposal that didn't get selected.)
>
> Also, unlike Rule 0 which requires players to "post ... stating that he
> is Hitting his Panic Button" (and similar for Stopping), Rule 1-4 merely
> says "A Player may cease to be a Player by Forfeiting the game".
>
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