Re: [s-d] [s-b] Scam theft

[Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 11:53 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote:
> ais523 wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 18:40 +0000, Alex Smith wrote:
> >> I also repeal any rule with the title "Lol", if possible.
> > ...and in true metarules style, I promise not to abuse this dictatorship
> > (or even exploit it) except in order to correct the gamestate and solve
> > the problem (if indeed my dictatorship exists). Any suggestions as to
> > what precisely to do, by the way? (I've explicitly tried to make sure
> > Emergencies aren't broken.)
> 
> What exactly do you think is broken?  Proposals can explicitly be
> submitted, voted on, and take effect (5E32 and 5E33).
> 
Arguably, "To perform a Game Action, an Outsider must post a message to
a Public Forum specifying that they are taking that action." from rule
5e10 implies that it's impossible to perform a Game Action unless it's
an Outsider posting a message to a Public Forum, and the rest of the
same rule implies that changing the rules is a game action (although I
think that this second part fails, and therefore ehird's dictatorship
failed, because arbitrary changes to the rules are not "specified by the
rules"). I don't think it's actually a problem, except possibly if a
proposal tries to do exactly something specified in the rules; however,
I didn't want to take the risk.

The nice thing about this attempted dictatorship is that it failed iff
the bug it was trying to patch didn't exist.
-- 
ais523

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