Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Proposal

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/3/02 at 11:49 PM Wonko wrote:

>Quoth Glotmorf,
>
>> On 7/3/02 at 6:38 PM Wonko wrote:
>>
>>> {{
>>> __Cleaning up everything__
>>>
>>> Prevent all societies declared in the past nweek from existing.
>>>
>>> Change the sentence "All Members of a Society auto-vote "yes" on any
>>> proposal the Society submits." in rule 578 to read "All Players in a
>>> Society
>>> auto-vote "yes" on any proposal the Society submits."
>>>
>>> Change the sentence "Players in the list other than the Player declaring
>>> the
>>> Society must state their acceptance of membership into the Society in
>the
>>> same nweek as the declaration, or will be dropped from the list of
>initial
>>> Members." in rule 578 to read "Entities in the list other than the
>Player
>>> declaring the Society must state their acceptance of membership into the
>>> Society in the same nweek as the declaration, or will be dropped from
>the
>>> list of initial Members. "
>>>
>>>
>>> }}
>>
>> "Prevent"?  You're writing this based on the assumption that the
>societies in
>> question don't exist yet.  This is a flawed interpretation of the rules
>on
>> your part.  If the societies do in fact exist at this time (and I
>maintain
>> that they do exist), this proposal becomes another violation of Rule 204.
>
>"If, at the end of the nweek in which the Society was declared, a proposal
>that nweek has barred it from existing, or the Society would have no
>Members, the Charter is discarded and the Society does not exist."
>
>I'm proposing to bar the societies from existing. If it passes, the Charter
>is discarded and the Society does not exist.

You might want to use the word "bar", then.  "Prevent" isn't defined, and the dictionary definition doesn't work here.

						Glotmorf


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