On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 6:01 PM ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk < ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:57 -0400, Jason Cobb wrote: > > I'm new, and I've just started reading the rules, so please forgive me if > > this is has an obvious answer. > > > > Can the Rulekeepor assign any ID numbers to rules that e wishes? I ask > > because I noticed that the ID numbers of rules affect conflict > resolution, > > and there doesn't seem to be a way of assigning ID numbers specified in > the > > rules, thus giving the Rulekeepor some (small) amount of say in the > > application of the rules. > > There used to be a rule enforcing a particular ID number allocation > algorithm. It got repealed, though, so right now it's fully up to the > Rulekeepor. > > I think that at the time, we were in an "office perk era" where > officers were paid via giving them advantages like that one, because > there wasn't a functioning economy, so the discretion didn't seem out > of place. Some of the perk economy still survives, and I don't think > it's doing any real damage. > > -- > ais523 > Was that really a deliberate perk? It seems incredibly trivial, as perks go. I was under the impression the old rule was repealed as part of a simplification effort; lots of stuff was being repealed around then. -Aris > >