Re: [s-d] =?iso8859-7?q?Initial_ruleset_for_=C3?=

[Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 20:43 -0700, Sean Hunt wrote:
> > Are there any suggestions for an initial ruleset? Some Suber variant
> > that can't be abused right from the start?
>
> I'd rather have something that /can/ be abused right from the start.
>
> OK, how about we start with this and amend?

{
Law 1: This document is a list of laws, each of which is identified by a
number and has a body of text.

Law 2: This document has a notional existence, independent of any of its
instances or copies. Modifying these therefore has no effect on this
document.

Law 3: Laws specify ways, which are the only ways, in which this document
may be modified.

Law 4: All references to words or text strings, in this document, refer to
the text between and excluding the next consecutive quotation marks, and are
case-insensitive.

Law 5: Emails received by spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx may contain proposed
modifications to this document. The following are the only text strings
which count as proposed modifications. All other text strings are ignored.
- "Remove law #", where "#" is an integer, is a proposal to remove the law
with this number from this document.
- "Insert law {STRING}", where "STRING" is a text string, are proposals to
append a new law to the bottom of this document, with the "STRING" as its
body and the next integer, greater than 0, not currently assigned to an
existing law, as its number.

Law 6: If more humans send emails containing the word "yes" than containing
the word "no" to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx during the 72 hours following the
receipt of a proposed modification, then this document is modified as
proposed at the end of that 72 hour period. A maximum of one "yes" and one
"no" from each human apply to a given proposed modification.

Law 7: The following actions are either possible according to other laws, or
impossible but difficult for other humans to distinguish from possible
actions. They are to be severely frowned upon, and optionally ignored,
because they are considered universally boring:
- Sending emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx from multiple accounts,
pretending to be more than one human.
- Enlisting non-humans or humans who show no particular interest in this
document to send emails to spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx on one's behalf.
}

Well now that I've written this out, I declare the inception of the unnamed
nomic with the above ruleset. You are free to play it, ignore it, or
willfully destroy it!

Jamie
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