spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal limiting jurisdiction of rules:

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Daniel Chapman:
> With the passage of Rule 350/0 (which I voted for) I feel that it's time to
> pass a rule that will mildly limit the jurisdiction of new rules.  I don't
> want to see a new rule which requires me to buy a digital camera from a
> particular site or requires me to visit some web site.
> 
> <proposal>
> 
> Title: Jurisdiction of Rules
> 
> New rules may not be proposed which will require the player to take an
> action outside of the limits of public fora. 
> 
> [[ This should allow for rules which require Officers to keep track of
> points and other such data, as you're requiring the Officer to produce a
> correct report. ]]
> 
> New rules may also not be proposed which will restrict a player's actions
> outside of public fora.
> 
> </proposal>

HEAR HEAR!
 
I have a suggestion, though: why not repeal R350, while you're at it, since 
it is clearly in violation of the spirit of this Proposal?

> In addition, I would also like to make a motion to recognize the website as
> a public forum.  I don't recall ever seeing any sort of recognition of it as
> such, but we all sort of assumed that it would be.

Hmm. I'm not sure that's a good idea, namely because what it means for 
something to be a public forum is that official actions may be taken there. 
If the site were a public forum, a page could be hidden away there where 
someone could do things that would be legal actions, but no one else in the 
game would have any reasonable way of finding out about, until such time as 
it was convenient to reveal them. Since I'm the only one who presently can 
edit the web pages, that someone could only be me. I don't really want to 
have the option of doing that, nor do I think you should give it to me. So, 
I'm not going to declare the site as a public forum, pending further 
argument to the contrary. (If you really want me to, keep trying. You need 
to come up with some  really persuasive reason, though.)

-- 
J.