Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Wonko's Slaves

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Orc In A Spacesuit,

>> From: Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Except you're on the list of initial members. Which means, by any
>> reasonable
>> definition of 'initial', 'member', and 'list', that you start out in it,
>> regardless of what you later do. I seem to recall you using this to make a
>> society in which the Gremlins you named began in the society. No special
>> provision is made for players, so the same rules apply to you.
>> 
>> It's too late, pal, yer points are mine.
>> 
>> --
>> Wonko
> 
> Yes, I do believe you just made a huge list of bugs, and decided to exploit
> them rather than fix them... You seem a bit out of date.
> 
> From Rule 578/8, __Societies__, G.2:
> "Only Players can be initial Members of a Society created by a Player
> Action. 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."
> 
> Being on the 'list of initial members' doesn't make us members.
> 
> I just realized the ramifications of this.  If interperted the right way, it
> could mean that all the 'initial members lists' of all the other societies
> didn't do anything, and unless something else added members, those societies
> never got members.  Oh my.  Well, good thing my charter named me Master, and
> doesn't requie membership to be the Master.

No, being on the list of initial members is pretty initial - that's what the
word means. The second part, about dropping off the list, is a violation of
r204.

-- 
Wonko

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