Let me try again, I hereby ratify the following document without objection:
{{Votes on any attempt to initiate a Victory Election are votes on the most
recent successful attempt.}}
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Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
> On Jun 19, 2017, at 3:34 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 18:30 -0400, omd wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 6:12 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
>> <p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I hereby ratify the following document without objection: {{Votes
>>> on any attempt to initiate a Victory Election shall be counted as
>>> votes on the most recent successful attempt.}}
>>
>> I object, and I'm pretty sure this wouldn't do anything if ratified
>> (the statement could only be made true through a rule change, yet the
>> document doesn't specify the exact change). :p
>
> Just a reminder for everyone, as there have been several mistakes with
> this recently: ratification isn't a method of making rulings on "what
> should have happened", and can't "see" history; it's a method of
> changing the current gamestate to match the results of what a
> retroactive change would have been. In particular, the ratification
> mechanism mostly assumes that you're ratifying a true statement, and if
> you want to ratify a /false/ statement, that statement mustn't in of
> itself have any awareness that it's false.
>
> --
> ais523
