[s-d] Massive Gamestate Recalculation 2, the Loose Interpretation version

[Geoffrey Spear <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rule 5E33 and its predecessors going back to the start of the 2nd Era
say something to the effect of:

{{
When a new proposal is submitted, it is assigned the Proposal Number
null. The Chairman is obligated to assign a new Proposal Number that
is greater than all previously used Proposal Numbers to each proposal
with a number of null.

/* Note that this doesn't include other things called Proposal Numbers
from the distant past; the fact that five years ago there were
proposals numbered in the thousands is irrelevant. */
}}

The comment text has, by Rule 5E7 and its predecessors, no effect on
the game at all.  It can be read, but doesn't make those old proposals
irrelevant to numbering.  Thus, every vote cast since the start of the
second era has been for a long-closed proposal, not the proposal for
which it was purportedly voting, and the ruleset is quite different
from what we think it is.
-- 
Wooble
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