On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 2:43 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discuss...@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 11:38 -0800, nix wrote: > > I was testing keyword matches, but mostly I was also testing an > > unrelated thing and needed a message to go to list. > > I think you normally get messages along the lines of "this is a test" > for this, to which the customary answer nonetheless seems to be "I > object." (Strangely, I vaguely remember that that custom *predated* > Apathy being added to the rules.) > > More recently, I've taken to using normal game actions for this sort of > test, e.g. voting, to reduce the risk that people suspect that I'm up > to something. (When I am up to something, I typically prefer other > people to not realise it, in case they work out what I'm up to and stop > it somehow. When I'm not up to something, I again don't want to raise > suspicions about what I might be up to, in case people end up making > life difficult for me trying to stop the nonexistent scam.) > > -- > ais523 > I object. >
