Re: [s-d] Administrator's Report 8E.1.4

["Peter Cooper Jr." <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 12, 2015, at 4:48 AM, Alex Smith <ais523@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On that reasoning, quoting someone else's request to become a Player
> also makes you a Player. (Which, given new nomic ruleset craziness, may
> actually be the case.)

Yes, it may actually be the case. For teucer’s first attempt [1] (where he replied to Wooble’s join request), I ruled that it didn’t count, as if we start looking at text quoted in replies as real content we may run into a bunch of madness, but there’s a good argument to be made that it should have worked per the current rules. I’ve accepted teucer’s later request [2], as well as Wild Card’s very recent request (though I haven’t officially said so to the Public Forum yet), where they each forwarded a message that they’d sent in the past requesting to be a player. Your message looked to me to contain a request to become a Player, and it contained a name for yourself, so it looks to me like it counts.

It’s really amazing to me how much trouble our Rule 1-4 has been this time around, whereas a rule very much like it was a part of the game for a really long time while I was playing years ago without too much difficulty. My attempt at fixing it is Prop 1-4, but it likely itself has some holes. I do begin to wonder if just defining as a Player anybody who’s posted to a Public Forum within the last 45 days or somesuch may work better, and not even bother with this registration business.


[1] http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-business/spoon-business-201505/msg00006.html
[2] http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/spoon-business/spoon-business-201505/msg00014.html

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Peter C.
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