On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:53 AM Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 16:00 +0000, Quazie wrote: > > Wow, that's broken - any public document proporting to be a report > > self-ratifies? > > It's not broken, it's intentional: > > a) Public documents puporting to be reports are fairly obvious, so if > someone makes one incorrectly or maliciously, we can just CoE it; > b) It means that reports continue to self-ratify even if, for some > reason, Agora as a whole is mistaken as to who holds the office. This > means that uncertainty about the identity of officers doesn't have any > serious long-term effects. (Without this, if we got confused as to who > held an office, it might mean that nothing self-ratified from that > point onwards due to a snowball effect of mistakes about the gamestate, > which could be very hard to recover from.) > > -- > ais523 > So, G. just published something that will self-ratify if we don't CoE it? It seems like I could embed public documents purporting to be a report in any long message in hopes of scamming to success.
