No, never mind, I don't think it does. I can make it work.

-Aris

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Aris Merchant
<thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If no one objects, I'm going to make it support, object, or resolve,
> on the basis that it's a bit easier to write and has a similar effect.
>
>
> -Aris
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Actually, on reflection I think zombies are locked out of *all* dependent
>> action steps (intent, support, or object).  Even if my legal theory doesn't
>> hold water, it's a good nerf in any case so I'd likely vote for that, most
>> things that are really sensitive are locked behind dependent action (and
>> that would also make the deregister w/3consent a genuine check on power,
>> if the zombies became concentrated in too few hands).
>>
>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>>> > On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 4:27 PM Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> wrote:
>>> > > I don't think there's anything preventing the Zombie from stating the
>>> > > intent and the master supporting.  Which e would have had to do anyway,
>>> > > since you can only appoint _another_ player to Speaker by this 
>>> > > mechanism.
>>>
>>> That depends.  Intent is only defined after-the-fact (did someone announce
>>> intent earlier?) which implies that it's simply a message.  That matters
>>> because of this (R2466):
>>> >             in particular, a person CANNOT act on behalf of another
>>> >      person to send a message, only to perform specific actions that
>>> >      might be taken within a message.
>>>
>>> Is announcing intent a message, or an action taken within a message?
>>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Apr 2018, Aris Merchant wrote:
>>> > Okay, I've had enough of this. Zombies break too much of the ruleset.
>>>
>>> These issues with act-on-behalf are the only thing that make the whole
>>> mess of useless contract-language currently in the rules have any
>>> interest - I'd appreciate being able to see how these work (issues like
>>> the above) using the zombie testbed.
>>>
>>> > They most definitely should not be appointing people Speaker.
>>>
>>> Being able to appoint a Speaker w/1 support is an awfully low bar -
>>> maybe that's the real problem here.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

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