spoon-business: PROPOSAL: Who the hell are you anyway?

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

PROPOSAL: "Who the hell are you anyway?"

Append the following paragraphs to the end of Rule 2/0

{{
Names of Players are used for identification of Players. Any similarity 
between the string of characters that constitute the name of a Player and a 
string of characters in the text of a Proposal, Rule, or Judgment shall 
have no impact on the implementation of that Proposal, Rule, or Judgment, 
unless the language of the Proposal, Rule, or Judgment specifically 
indicates the string of characters is referring to a Player of that name. 
[[For example, "the player JohnDoe" or "the player named JohnDoe."]]

Other named entities in the game are not necessarily governed by the same 
standard for Player names.
}}

EXPLANATION:

If a Player changes their name to something like "the rules" or "B Nomic" 
this proposal would assure that such an action would not affect the 
implementation of any proposals, rules or judgments.

However, if a rule that implements a title says something like "the Player 
named JohnDoe" or "the Player JohnDoe" shall be the first person to hold 
that title, then that would be legitimate.

The final paragraph is to avoid confusion about referring to other named 
entities that are not Players, e.g. Bob the Voting Fish.

This allows someone to change their names to "the rules," but it prevents 
that action from having any negative effect on game play. The only 
ramification is that in official business we need to refer to players as 
"the player Plunder" ...which seems to be general practice anyway.

CFJ's are not included in the list of exceptions (e.g Proposals, Rules, 
Judgments), because in a CFJ whether the Statement refers to the Player 
name or to the string of characters in the Proposal, Rule, or Judgment is a 
matter of interpretation for the Judge to decide.

Vote for this proposal instead of #240, Wonko's proposal. :-) Wonko's 
proposal is less specific, and only prevents a Player from changing their 
name to that of an *entity* defined in a current *proposal*. For example, 
"the rules" is not necessarily and entity, nor would "the rules" 
necessarily appear in a current proposal....but it certainly appears in the 
rules.

--gritter