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

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> --- Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>>> 
>>> On 10/6/02 at 11:10 AM Wonko wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I create a society with the following initial
>> members:
>>>> 404notfound, Athena, Baron von Skippy, bd, Dan,
>> Glotmorf, Iain, Naath, Orc
>>>> In a Spacesuit, Rob, Squire of Dimness, The
>> Voice, Wild Card, Wonko, Wonko
>>>> May Not Vote
>>>> 
>>>> And the following Charter:
>>>> {{
>>>> __Wonko's Slaves__
>>>> 
>>>> If at any time any member of Wonko's Slaves
>> except for Wonko has any points
>>>> or BNS, e must give those points and BNS to
>> Wonko.
>>>> }}
>>> 
>>> For the record, I do not consent to the joining of
>> this or any other society
>>> until further notice.
>>> 
>>> But thanks for thinking of me.  I've always
>> wondered if I look good in
>>> chains...
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Those Gremlins were only part of the society at the
> end of the nweek, after they'd forfeited their chance
> to decline consent.
> 
> Subsection D.1: "Membership in a Society is voluntary.
> An entity is not required to become a Member of a
> Society, and may refuse membership if offered or
> declared by the Society by stating said refusal on a
> public forum."

If they weren't put in at the creation, then they can't have been put in at
all, as nowhere does it say they get put in later.

Also, if the initial members don't get put in immediately, then the society
is immediately obliterated, on the grounds that it has no members.

-- 
Wonko

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