On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Aris Merchant wrote: >> The ambiguity as to the caller is far more disturbing. However, I see nothing >> in the rules that requires this information to be clear. > > This has caused big problems in the past. If someone uses an unknown > email address and says "I claim I'm an current player and do X" there's > no clear way to resolve the ambiguity or fix things. I argued once that > in Rule 478: > a person performs that action by unambiguously and > clearly specifying the action and announcing that e performs it. > > that "announcing that e performs it" fails if the "e" is ambiguous. Others > didn't buy that argument (and what if it's unclear retroactively like what > Alexis did last year with Ribbons?) - maybe R478 is a place to put a fix.
How about this alternate definition of by announcement: "Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by announcement", a person performs that action by (a) unambiguously and clearly specifying the action; (b) making available any additional information, such as eir identity, which is necessary to understand the effects of the action and not generally available to Agorans; and (c) announcing that e performs it." -Aris
