spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Ballot?

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:19 PM 2002-04-01 -0500, you wrote:
> Quoth r23:
>
> "The Administrator shall, at least 48 hours prior to the close of voting
> each nweek, distribute to all Players the Ballot for that nweek. The Ballot
> shall list all proposals that were recognized after the start of the
> previous nweek's voting period."
>
> I have yet to see such a Ballot this nweek, even though the deadline has
> passed. My question is this: Has the Ballot in fact been distributed to all
> players, and listed all proposals that were recognized after the start of
> the previous nweek's voting period? Because according to the world, the
> admin hasn't sent it out, and according to the rule, e has... Do we have
> some procedure for dealing with rules that make false statements?
>     As far as I can tell, the procedure so far has been to assume the
> statement is true within the context of the Nomic Game, as in, although
> there is not, in the real world, a Scoring Gremlin, we assume the statement
> "There exists a Gremlin called the Scoring Gremlin" to be true in the
> context of the Game. But by that logic, we must also assume that the Admin
> has, in fact, already distributed 'a Ballot' which has listed all proposals
> for this nweek. So it's 'happened'. It just hasn't happened.

I know I'm a stickler for rule accuracy and literality, so I'm thinking 
that we have two options in this scenario.  Option one, invoke rule 0.  I 
don't like that option, it's icky.

Option two:  Informal vote:  Stop the clock until such a time as the admin 
starts it again.  It's our game, and we can do what we want to.  If we all 
turn a blind eye to it, sure it's against the rules but we'll never know 
the difference.  I vote yes on my informal proposal.  Anyone else?

Bean