> On May 22, 2017, at 9:30 PM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: > > I don’t think the Pink Slip is valid. > > Rule 2476/0: "A Pink Slip is a type of Card that is appropriate for abuses of > official power for personal gain. A Pink Slip CANNOT be issued unless the > reason indicates the specific office or offices whose power was abused.” > > The only reason being Rulekeepor aided me in this attempt at victory is that > I had an excuse to publish a huge message; the ability to publish huge > amounts of text is not a power given to the Rulekeepor by the rules. I could > have, for example, hidden the attempt to win by Apathy in a written-out > version of my Agency scam. There was no abuse of a specific power exclusive > to the Rulekeepor.
The power so misused is, in fact, the power to publish that specific report. First, long documents that are not reports are regularly scrutinized in detail for exactly this sort of hidden gotcha. Long non-report documents are exceptions, and they make people take notice. It had to be a long document whose presence would be unsurprising, and the only such documents that happen with any regularity are reports. Those pass with much less scrutiny, under most circumstances. (Perhaps we should be more skeptical of reports, but that’s a separate discussion.) Second, a short report would have shown up your attempt fairly easily. So would a less prose-heavy report. There aren’t many long, prose-structured reports in the game[0], and the FLR is longer than any other report by a very large factor. Both its length and its prose-heavy structure are uniquely suited to hiding mid-report actions and announcements. Third, only the Rulekeepor can publish that report without arousing suspicion. Had any other player published the Full Logical Ruleset to a public forum, it would not be a report. Furthermore, it would be an action so obviously suspicious that I doubt you would have believed you could pull it off. Because your attempt likely could not have worked even as well as it did with any other report, I believe that you were specifically abusing the Rulekeepor’s power to publish the Full Logical Ruleset. Now, you’re not on trial, and this (intentionally) wasn’t part of my investigation. I’m very interested in the outcome of the CFJ on this subject, because I can absolutely see your point of view, as well. I’ll happily acknowledge that my argument is weakened by the fact that your intent was discovered the same day that you published it. By Agoran standards, that’s already quite fast; you could well argue that you simply used a report you had the ability to publish, and that there isn’t anything special about that report or that office. -o [0] The Secretary’s monthly report, the Superintendent’s report, and, soon, the Surveyor’s report are the only other prose-heavy reports I can think of.
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