spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: RR 4

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/29/02 at 8:54 PM Wonko wrote:

>{{
>__Ruleset Restructuring #4 - The Ballot__
>
>In rule 23, replace the sentence
>"The Ballot shall list all proposals that were recognized after the start
>of
>the previous nweek's voting period."
>with the sentence
>"The Ballot shall list all proposals that were issued between the start of
>the previous nweek's voting period and the start of the current nweek's
>voting period."
>
>[[As it *crackle* is, stuff made after the Voting cutoff but before the
>Ballot was issued would be on that Ballot, then on the next nweek's Ballot
>too.]]
>
>Change the Gamestate to what it would have been if the above change had
>been
>made to rule 23 upon the beginning of the game.
>}}
>[[quote from earlier msg *buzz*]]
>
>--
>Wo*buzz*nk.

Aside from the whole proposal being a violation of r8, as I mentioned before, this is also a violation of r17 and r204.  The gamestate is the sum of the original rules and actions taken since then; to change the gamestate as if certain acts in the past were legal is to declare those acts to be legal.  This is an alteration of the past, and is illegal.

						Glotmorf