On 08/01/2011 11:46 AM, ais523 wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 11:21 -0500, Pavitra wrote: >> [Preamble: contracts used to be able to impose SHALL requirements. I >> believe the following will in effect enable the same for Promises, >> without most of the problems that the old system had.] >> >> I submit the following proposal, "SHALL Promises", AI=1: >> { >> Create a rule with the title "Naughtiness" and the following text: >> A person CAN taunt the police by announcement specifying an >> integer from 1 to 14 inclusive. Doing so is the Class-N Crime >> of Naughtiness, where N is the specified integer. >> } > > I seem to remember adding a similar rule in relation to Rests, for > similar reasons. However, if you want to put a limit on it, you also > need to rate-limit the action, to prevent people being forced to spam > Taunts.
As with high-Class infractions, high-rate infractions are potentially useful for some legitimate applications, and therefore should be prevented contract-side.