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

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/4/02 at 2:38 PM Wonko wrote:

>{{
>__Fixing the Past__
>
>[[ Well, I was going to use this last proposal to do something with the
>Scoring Gremlin, but it has occurred to me that would have been very
>helpful
>had we had some way of legalizing all the illegal actions taken by the
>Adminstrator and M-Tek in regards to the proposal making process. The ideal
>system would be one that we don't even notice - one that goes in and
>changes
>the gamestate to match what we think the gamestate is. The only time we'd
>ever even realize that the system was working would be when realize
>belatedly, as we have done now, that something we were all assuming was
>legal wasn't. Thus I propose the following change to the Statute of
>Limitations: ]]
>
>Amend Rule 129 [[ Statute of Limitation ]] to read:
>
>"10 days after the Administrator, in a message to all players, makes any
>statement about the rules or game state, the rules and gamestate shall be
>altered to what they now would be had that statement been true at the time
>it was made, unless in the intervening time any player objects to the
>statement in a message to all players, in which case the usual methods for
>determining the current rules and game state shall apply.
>
>The Administrator may prevent the effects of this rule at any time, without
>publicly notifying anyone.
>
>This rule takes precedence over all other rules. "
>}}

What does that second paragraph mean?  Among other things, I interpret it to mean the Administrator can ignore the player objections cited in the first paragraph without saying he is doing so or giving a reason for doing so.

						Glotmorf


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