On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 15:44 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:10 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk > > wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 00:02 -0700, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > I submit the affixed proposal. > > > > > > Create a new power 3.1 rule entitled "Regulations", with the flowing text: > > > > [...] > > > > > A regulation must be authorized by at least one rule in order for > > > it to exist. > > > > [...] > > > > > A regulation (or set of regulations) may generally be enacted or > > > modified > > > without 2 objections, or with Agoran consent. A notice pursuant to the > > > previous sentence is known as a "recommendation", and the regulation(s) > > > are said to be "recommended" to Agora. > > > > As far as I can tell, this makes it possible to construct a power 3.1 > > object with 1 Agoran Consent (which is somewhat easier than passing an > > AI 1 proposal). I'm not sure I like the general idea of Regulations > > anyway (we normally just mandate officers to attempt to pass proposals > > – give them a free pend if you like). Come to think of it, I'm vaguely > > curious as to whether there's an intentional scam buried in that > > proposal; it's long enough and has a dangerous enough subject matter to > > make that plausible. > > I'll hold it for more comment then, which means it won't pass in time > for the Birthday Tournament. *sigh* Yes, it would allow you to > construct a power 3.1 instrument with 1 Agoran Consent, but only if > doing so was allowed by a power 3.1 rule. However, a power 3.1 rule > can already do that, so I'm not seeing how this introduces any new > problems, other than that it might make it easier to convince people > to do that. You will note that the only rules granted the power to > make regulations are those concerning Tournaments, and both of those > rules are Power 1. For the record, this proposal does not contain any > intentional scams.
Look at my second excerpt. The rule's granting the ability itself; it provides a mechanism for creating a regulation that doesn't rely on any other rule. It's probably not intended to, but it is. -- ais523
