Rainbow Wolfe on Sun, 22 May 2005 14:55:03 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] Wonko votes


I like to know what a party stance is... I don't really care, so I'm not 
gonna look it up - but a random message may prompt me. I think of it as 
political campaigning.

- Rainbow Wolfe

On 5/22/05, eugman@xxxxxxxxxxx <eugman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Ahhh. Thanks for clearing both of those up.
> 
> 
> >
> > On May 22, 2005, at 3.34 PM, eugman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > The party line of HIP is as follows:
> > > Proposal 91/1: The Baron's Story, Chapter Two: Speeders Return (BvS)
> > > Proposal 96/0: We Recognize All, Capicse Kiddos? (BvS)
> > > We're for these. The first brings back Speeders, the second brings 
> back
> > > the much-loved Default Case and thus makes this message legal.
> > >
> > >> Proposal 96/0: We Recognize All, Capicse Kiddos? : For
> > >> This doesn't break the game because it doesn't permit anything that
> > >> isn't
> > >> already permitted. It could be said to "permit" calvinball, inasmuch
> > >> as anything
> > >> else that doesn't forbid it is implicitly permitting it; this doesn't
> > >> change the
> > >> game at all. Go ahead, slap me with a herring. See if I care.
> > >
> > > Ok so I ge that it doesn't break the game but I am still unable to
> > > grasp the usefulness of this prop.
> >
> > One could argue that if only actions permitted by the rules are legal,
> > then we can't use the wiki, because nothing in the ruleset mentions the
> > wiki. One could also argue that I shouldn't be able to write this
> > message - after all, where in the rules does it permit us to discuss?
> >
> > This rule just makes it abundantly clear that if the rules don't talk
> > about something at all, then the game doesn't care about it.
> >
> > > Also why do we have people posting the party stance instead of of the
> > > members of a party subscribing to the party page to be emailed the new
> > > info? Why would I want to know what a differen't party supports?
> >
> > The rules say " [[It is requested but not required that Party Chairs
> > post their Party Line in a public forum.]]"
> >
> > I took that as a sign that people wanted to know.
> >
> > --
> > Wonko
> >
> > If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing
> > you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
> > -- Douglas Adams
> >
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