ziproot wrote:
FALSE: One section of "Performing Tabled Actions" says "A rule purporting to allow a person to perform a tabled action allows em to do so by announcement, if, considering only intents for that action/method combination." Purporting is not defined anywhere, so a common sense definition is "whose purpose is." The purpose of "The Election Cycle"
According to the Global Overmind, the primary definition of "purport" as a verb is "appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely; profess". Due to Cretans, The Election Cycle does not purport to allow starting a Registrar election while another one is still ongoing. I think "purport" came into common Agoran usage in the context of "A document purporting to be X constitutes a self-ratifying Y". An early example was X = "<some office>'s report", which may self-ratify even if it turns out that the author didn't hold that office at the time (which I'm pretty actually happened at least once, prompting the legislation of the general pre-emptive approach).
