On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 11:33 -0400, Benjamin Schultz wrote: > What is the ambiguousness and current mess, ais? Maybe this > non-Player can help.
Basically, the proposal that enacted the Province had multiple bugs, to the extent of multiple attempted dictatorship scams. One bug, that's irrelevant to the dictatorship scams but rather relevant to the attempts to use the Province for its intended purpose, is that half the proposal wasn't enacted due to ambiguity, so that all attempts to do anything in the Province by anyone other than the DM fail. You could preserve the spirit of the Province via using DM fiat to substitute for everyone else's attempted actions; however, DM fiat is very much relevant to the dictatorship scams, and in particular, both of them attempted to repeal the DM fiat rule to close the loophole behind them. Thus, there were two intended ways to change the Province. Actions by players are (uncontroversially?) broken. Actions by the DM, which could substitute, are controversially broken, in that at least two scam attempts claim to have repealed the rule in question, but there is at least a reasonable viewpoint (e.g. Eritivus') that they both failed. If both scam attempts did fail, there is still a nonzero chance that the rule exists and is exploitable, in which case I want to hold onto the office to prevent anyone else exploiting it (and to exploit the remaining loopholes myself). -- ais523
