ehird wrote:
> {{
> <ehird> Without objection I intend to ratify the following report
> (scope=FLR): {There is a rule titled "IRC Ratification" with the
> number 9999, the power 3, and the text {An intent to ratify can be
> made & resolved in the IRC channel ##nomic on irc.freenode.net, and
> an intent to ratify posted there can be resolved within one second of
> the posting of the intent.}}
> <ehird> Without objection I ratify that report.
> <ehird> Without objection I intend to ratify the following report
> (scope=FLR): {There is a rule titled "Foobarbaz" with the number
> 9998, the power 3, and the text {ehird can add rules by announcement.}}
> <ehird> I ratify that report.
> }}
>
> I add a rule titled "blah", power=3, number=9997: {Upon the adoption
> of this rule rule 9999 is hereby repealed, then this rule is hereby
> repealed.}
Either you sent that to IRC recently (in which case it can't bootstrap
the terms of its own without-objection like that), or you sent it while
#really-a-cow was a Public Forum (in which case a blanket objection may
have blocked it; note that Rule 2124 allows pre-emptive objection).